art in its most original form: permanent con- and destruction. all you’ve got in the end is a handful of sand. ..and some experience in imagination.

ps: sand is neither available as mp3 nor as vinyl or compact disc.

From: Mixotic (contact@mixotic.net)
Date: Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 10:33 PM
Subject: Re: [Contact Form] mixotic mix application
To: Max Marlow

hi max,

vielen dank für dein interesse. leider muss ich dich aber enttäuschen, ich werde das set nicht releasen. ich finde teile davon sehr gut, aber insgesamt fehlt mir eine art flow, der sich durch das set zieht, ich finde es etwas zu fragmenthaft.

bitte sei nicht traurig, musik ist immer geschmackssache.

cheers
Q-Man

hallo! das wichtigste zuerst:

ftp://ftp.untergrund.net/users/maxmarlow/max_marlow_-_the_mix.mp3

playlist:

01. Norman Fairbanks - welcome to the machine (normanfairbanks.com)
02. Cubus - bell tower part 6 (Metropublik)
03. Lucid Rhythms - slow (Project168)
04. Molgam - kitzinger (23seconds)
05. Russian Linesman - mouth (Roland Klinkenberg remix) (Archipel)
06. Social System - green eyes (by Jason Corder) (Thinner)
07. Dataman - plock (Stadtgruen)
08. sngl_fltr - thrust 8 (Stadtgruen)
09. J.R.Taylor - life (mosca-music)
10. Thierry Massard - what what (unreleased)
11. Thierry Massard - jungle wires (Metropublik)
12. Mosca - up town with the krafty casuals (Project168)
13. Sul.a - soundscape (Archipel)
14. Keinzweiter - beats (Archipel)
15. Thierry Massard - what what (unreleased)
16. Die Minimalistin - rauschbild, abriss (Clinical Archives)
17. Norman Fairbanks - corporate lies (normanfairbanks.com)
18. Max Marlow - obstacles in the waves (Metropublik)
19. Encephala - the color of your socks (Earstroke)
20. Daniel Maze - waiting for the bubles to disappear (EKO)
21. Max Marlow - king for a day (MOOV, kreislauf, youtube)
22. Paul Keeley - ohcen (Thinner)
23. Moog Control - molching (Idealtechno)
24. Rico Puestel - chatpoint (Archipel)
25. Dataman - mr. fly (-N)
26. Michel Lloyd - abbrechen (Archipel)
27. Max Marlow - keep on trying (Dr. Nojoke mix) (Idealtechno)
28. Fieldtriqp - all that see (archive.org)
29. Thierry Massard - the staircase of 1982 (unreleased)

das unwichtigste zuletzt:

1979, geb. berlin friedrichshain, metropublik, moov, idealtechno, kreislauf, u.v.a

bei rückfragen, rück fragen!

Das kommende Wochenende ist das traditionelle “Loveparade” Wochenende und die internationale (elektronische) Party-Elite findet sich entlang der Spree ein. Die Stadt der meisten Brücken wird bereits nachmittags mit Partybooten bereist und dann wird die ganze Nacht über zwischen Yaam und Maria/Bar25 die Spree entlang gefeiert und ich fordere euch hiermit auf, das gleiche zu tun!

In den Veranstalterlisten befinden sich mehr und auch weniger unterstützenswerte Projekte, aber alle haben mit der Zukunft Berlins zu tun. Solltet ihr irgendwann mal aus bestimmten Gründen nach Berlin gezogen sein, dann kann ich euch versichern, dass an diesem Wochenende die Partys stattfinden, die den Herzschlag dieses Geistes ausmachen - egal ob ihr persönlich jetzt am Rande Berlins an den sonstigen Wochenenden über entspannen und eure melierten Haare pflegen wollt oder nicht.

Die Preise dieser Veranstaltungen bestehen aus einem Unkostenbeitrag für BSR, die Standorte und der Rest geht nicht (wie bspw. an die diesjährig endgültig ausfallende popkomm) zum Großteil an ein (mehr oder weniger politisches oder lobbyistisches) Veranstalterkonsortium (welches die Piraterie dafür beschuldigt, dass ihre Lichter ausgehn), sondern vergleichsweise direkt an (eingebildete, aber auch geniale) Künstler von hier und überall.
Ja, es wird eine Strecke genehmigt, die auch Werbung für universal (und ganz in der nähe befindliche Tanzmuseen in modernen bewag-Kraftwerken) sein wird - aber das sieht besser aus, als rosa T’s neben der Goldelse, auf der die Party nackte Körper in einem ganz anderen Takt bewegt.

um Gottes Willen,
schaltet die Fernsehgeräte und Computer ab, logt euch aus den restlichen Realitäten der virtuellen Welt aus
und bewegt euren Arsch in die Sonne

die kommenden Wochen werden ohnehin heiß - und ihr wollt euch sicher nicht blöd rausreden wollen, für den Sommer, der Eure Zukunft hätte sein können!

Recently, i had a good talk to an old friend and he made a point with saying that understanding someone else’s opinion works better once you know where he’s coming from. As a more precise introduction into the things i’m talking about, here’s a chart of songs that might be called my all-time-favorites.

1966 - The Beatles - tomorrow never knows
1967 - Jimi Hendrix - third stone from the sun
1972 - Ton Steine Scherben - menschenjäger
1977 - John Williams - main title (star wars)
1978 - Kraftwerk - das modell
1979 - The Clash - london calling
1980 - Abwärts - computerstaat
1981 - Kraftwerk - computerwelt
1983 - Yello - you gotta say yes to another excess
1984 - Frankie Goes To Hollywood - relax
1985 - Depeche Mode - master and servant
1986 - Marshall Jefferson - move your body
1987 - John Rocca - i want it to be real
1988 - Westbam - music
1989 - Technotronic - pump up the jam
1990 - Snap! - the power
1991 - Robert Armani - ambulance
1992 - Die Fantastischen Vier - es wird regen geben
1993 - Aphex Twin - xtal
1994 - Westbam - celebration generation
1995 - Cari Lekebusch - the jazz maze
1996 - Beroshima - electronic discussion
1997 - Drexciya - you don’t know
1998 - I-F - i do because i couldn’t care less
1999 - Ricardo Villalobos - 808 the bass queen (queen of bass mix)
2000 - Gas - untitled 6 (pop)
2001 - Paul Kalkbrenner - sie liebt mich
2002 - Wuz - without you
2003 - Agoria - all i need
2004 - Justin Berkovi - mount zero
2005 - Richie Hawtin - we (all) search
2006 - PeterLicht - das absolute glück
2007 - Beroshima - horizon
2008 - Minilogue - in a distance

This chart is created with the help of iTunes and the statistics generated with it in the past 3 years. Like i made an intelligent playlist with “Year IS 1997″ and “Rating IS *****” and got Drexciya by sorting after playcount. It’s impossible to include the bias of personal experimentation i made before using iTunes (i’m glad about the iPod’s synchronisation). In addition to that i’ve not yet been able to import (or even re-listen) all of my music collection into iTunes (it’s a host of tracks already though). Nevertheless it is an excellent comprehension of my listening habits and shows which things i took off certain ‘musical eras’.

Quite electronic, huh ?

As a sidenote: This is also some sort of contribution to the recent stream of conservative thinking in our society. Instead of jumping on their bandwagon and dancing to the popular art they danced to in the past (and i didnt) i’m willing to save some of the stuff that made their pop possible.

hehe

not too much time today either. spend the last hours to listen to the track in a loop. i think it’s a great theme, but i want to shape it the right way. i’ve stretched it to close to 4 minutes added some minor background chords and it all feels well as of now. i hope to finish it tomorrow so i can move on to the next.

- did not do any music today.
- fortunately i spend additional time in the last night after posting about the first day. the second track is very promising and will most definately find it’s way into the release. i’m very happy with the basic scheme of it so far, because it’s very close to drexciya. something i’ve been trying to (and never finished) in the last 2 years hopefully it won’t break with another days feeling.
- second track fits one of the two themes i’ve been scratching out yesterday.

- shaped 3 concepts that are pinned at the scratchboard.
- had a good start with one of them
- ended up with something interesting that doesn’t fit any of those themes

Netbeat auto-radio (flashplayer on the top right) features 4 hours of music (Creative Commons & Copyleft) as of now. Recently added evergreen candidates of the independent netaudio scene:

Androne - human consciousness
Ambitronic - masquera, kreislauf
Encephala - the color of your socks, earstroke
Encephala - i just, earstroke
EOD - hardface, eap
EOD - double trouble, eap
IJO - terra det (multiplex remix), sutemos
Maps And Diagrams - panama!, sutemos
Moog Control - molching, idealtechno
Moog Control - lenning, idealtechno
Niteffect - ghost of a chance, kreislauf
rRine - mulch, sutemos
Sense - idk, sutemos
Sleepy Town Manufacture - tokyo doesn’t love us anymore, sutemos
Wisp - z twig (6040 mix)
Wisp - laff, earstroke
Wisp - shep shaep sheep, earstroke

Netbeat is consistently upgraded to stay a cutting edge of airplay solutions in the area of independent artists and labels outside the major music copyright monopoly label industry.

Support your local heros!

If you appreciate the existence of Ogg-Vorbis or FLAC or Theora because of it’s audio quality, the flexibility of it’s tagging system or just the free licensing approach and open source character you’ll probably be glad to hear that there’s exiting news that will (definitely) gain new life to it.
On 21st february Chris Blizzard of Mozilla demonstrated highly discussed changes for the upcoming Firefox 3.1 that include HTML 5 video element. Ogg Vorbis and Theora will therefor be supported built-in.

- no more external components
- no more plugins

Blizzard stated that Mozilla “aims to encourage an explosion of creativity around video that will mirror the kind of uninhibited innovation that has flourished in the Web’s inclusive standards-base ecosystem.”

Mozilla is an active fund contributor to Ogg development.
Theora, used by Wikipedia, may potentially equal the quality of MPEG4

Hopefully you’re exited as me. I’ve been looking forward to this since my experiments with the early stages of Fluendo.