Schon mal zur Einstimmung. The Mixtape Club. Zehn Leute, zehn Tracks, zehn Albumcover mit einem Ziel: move to the groove. Läuft alles schön fluffig durch.
»A good compilation tape, like breaking up, is hard to do. You’ve got to kick off with a corker, to hold the attention and then you’ve got to up it a notch, or cool it a notch, and you can’t have white music and black music together, unless the white music sounds like black music, and you can’t have two tracks by the same artist side by side, unless you’ve done the whole thing in pairs and… oh, there are loads of rules.«
Jens Lekman über seine Arbeit an einem Remix zu Au Revoir Simone’s »Shadows« und wie daraus ein formidabler Sommermix wurde…
I got the opportunity to remix my favourite song from Au Revoir Simone’s beautiful album Still Night, Still Light. While listening to the song I realised how nice it’d be to transform their straight 4/4 time synthpop into a whirlwind waltz or maybe a barcarole if you will. It took a long time to chop up all the syllables and the tiny tiny samples, but I think the result got the song into a whole swirling new direction.
While making the remix, my mind started working in 3/4 and 6/8 time. I started looking around for tracks in that time signature to make a mix, I wasn’t intending to but I couldn’t help it. It was all a big swirl. After a while I heard it everywhere. In soul ballads, in polyrhythmical african pop, in old movies. In the ocean waves tumbling in against the shore, in the beat of a lovers heart. One two three, one two three…
Independently from our last curation we were also invited lately for doing another music selection for Creative Commons itself. Which is again a big honour for us! You can find the selection there at the Free Music Archive. This is a portal which started last year and which has grown tremendously in this short time. You really can get lost there for hours and will find a bunch of excellent music there.
I’ve decided to give a little overview over the last few years and to present some of the tracks which are still one of my favourites. Some true classics I still listen to on a regular basis. Could be a good start if the whole CC-thing is new to you – but even if you’re involved you could still find some nice discoveries out of my list.
We were invited by Fernando Fonseca (who is among other things co-head of the PublicSpaces Lab) to curate one episode of the excellent “Rebel Music” Series published in tradition of Music Monday on Bit Rebels. Its goal is to promote cc-licensed music which is worth a listening. If you don’t know Bit Rebels, it’s a fundamental site to get informed about the latest trends in the online world and I definitely recommend to put it to your feedreader if you haven’t already.
I’ve decided to select tracks mainly released in 2009 from different styles and genres to give an overview how rich and diversified the netaudio / netlabels scene is by now. And also most of it wasn’t ever played in our podcasts, so it should be still interesting for all our fellow listeners :) .
So please go to Bit Rebels by clicking the cover on the left or this link: Rebel Music Volume 4 – there you can listen to the single tracks and also download the whole thing (for free of course). Don’t forget to leave a comment there!
Die Machtdose äußert sich auf vielen Kanälen mit einem Programm - der Liebe zum Underground, zum Nicht-Konformen und dessen Begegnung mit der Alltagswelt. Im Dreieck zwischen Musik, Kunst und Medien. Alles, was für uns Bedeutung hat.
Wir stochern nicht, wir stöbern. Im Strandgut zwischen New York, Frankfurt und Tokyo. Mal frisch, mal abgehangen, aber nie durchgekaut. Immer subjektiv und damit auf der sicheren Seite.
Und neben dem Blog? Jeden zweiten, dritten, vierten und fünften Donnerstag senden wir von 19-20 Uhr auf Radio X (UKW-Frequenz 91,8 und Livestream) in Frankfurt/Main. Einmal im Monat gibt es unseren Podcast, in dem Netaudio-Tracks vorgestellt werden. Mehr über unseren Musikgeschmack erfahrt ihr natürlich auf last.fm und MySpace.
Wer wir im Einzelnen sind, könnt Ihr hier erfahren.
