crucial

timeblind, sick girls @ golden gate, berlin FRIDAY 7TH April 2006

berlin dubstep

If you are in Berlin then don't forget tonight :

CA$HMONEY
Deep Shit !



Timeblind
Sick Girls http://www.terrible.org/mt-web/sickgirls/
Fuck Hugo
Your Body

Golden Gate
Dircksenstr. 77/78
Jannowitzbrücke 
5 euro
FRIDAY 7TH April 2006

Contrary to popular rumor I'm not really playing live, but rather DJ-ing with Ableton—layering, fixing, re-mastering, stealing the good bits, mash it up. Genre : erm ... Urban. Mostly Garage: not Grime even but proper "you missed it the first time" old Garage from Pay as You Go, Roll Deep. With high hats like perky breasts. Plus new UKG, dance hall, dubstep, baille, and some dub to wash it down.

Sorry but I'm not actually Dubstep TM, not by religion. Dubstep is one ingredient for good cooking of the mix, but you need all the food groups for healthy meal. Kode 9 last night was great though—dubstep is roping in more stylistic territory now. Not enough bass at Raumklang (I swear those are fucking car speakers! and the back pair is blatantly out of phase !) but some of those tracks spit such a clear puff of bass, it shoots the mind out there into clear space. And then just as I was wondering what my new record would sound like in that mix, he played it on test pressing ! I didn't even know it was pressed yet.

The Sick Girls are also a healthy balanced meal, and they've been totally rocking it every time I've seen them. I keep recommending them to people. Guys will sit there contemplating each record to decide if it makes them seem cool or not. Or if it will get them kicked out of their genre. Sick Girls just do it.

Links and things

I am timeblind on myspace. thanks for the add.

I am crucialfelix on del.icio.us which is where I link to all the interesting shit I come across.

I put my photos up on flickr

NYC events iCal : anything that looks good.

Berlin events (parties, shows, vernissage, films): subscribe to google calendar / iCal

When I listen to music at home it all gets echoed onto here and on my Last.fm page. Most of the time I don't use that cause I don't want you to see me obsessively listening to my own mixes, really bad working titles.

You can read some posts I thought were interesting from various feeds.

I've been doing the Dance Music Business Resource since 1995, back when it was on hyperreal.org. Articles and info for artists and small labels. Recently I've been posting interesting industry news items and adding some new content about downloads etc.