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Post by pieter on May 10, 2017 16:07:16 GMT -7
The singer Lætitia Sadier (vocals/keyboards/guitar) is part of the band Stereolab.
For many young indie music fans making their way through the “alternative” section of their local record store in the mid-’90s, it was the music of Stereolab, and in particular the voice of chanteuse Lætitia Sadier, that provided a pre-Internet window into the worlds of French New Wave, German krautrock and a sprinkling of Marxist politics. With their combination of Farfisa, Vox and Moog-heavy arrangements and Lætitia’s enchanting vocals, the band mesmerized a generation. Although the Stereolab story is currently marked with “indefinite hiatus,” since 2010 Sadier has delivered two stellar solo albums and doesn’t shy away from collaborations with younger artists like Bradford Cox of Deerhunter and Tyler The Creator.
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Post by pieter on May 29, 2017 15:40:27 GMT -7
As a mild melancholic person I love this Melancholic German Techno music. It is deep, smooth, layered and gets into your mood, nerves and senses.
It brings back memories of driving in a car through Germany for an endless journey (for instance from the Netherlands to Poland, from Arnhem to Kassel, from Arnhem to the Belgian Ardennes mountainst through Germany) or one of the many train travels through Germany, Austria and Switzerland. Driving through a culture landscape of milleniums and centuries. Middle ages, the Romanesque and Gothic years, the Northern (Germanic) Renaissance, the Thirty year war in Germany, 500 years reformation (Martin Luther), all these German castles, villa's, monastries, abbeys, charming timber framing (Holzfachwerk ) small towns, Baroc and Rococo, German 19th century romanticism, Symbolism, Classicism, Jugendstil (l'art nouveau), Fin de Siecle, Surrealism (magic realism), German expressionism, Neue Sachlichkeit (Architektur; Bauahaus), Interbellum (Weimarer republik), roaring twenties, Third Reich, the DDR and the Bundesrepublik Deutschland.
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Post by pieter on May 29, 2017 17:19:04 GMT -7
Basic ChannelBasic Channel is a production team and record label, composed of Moritz Von Oswald and Mark Ernestus, that originated in Berlin, Germany in 1993.
The duo originally released a number of vinyl-only tracks under various aliases, the most well known being Basic Channel and Maurizio, each of which employed their signature style of minimal techno. The original nine releases under their Basic Channel name were each primarily identified as Basic Channel productions by their catalogue numbers, as the Basic Channel logo on the label became more distorted and unreadable with each subsequent release.
The duo set up a studio in Berlin on Paul-Lincke-Ufer, in a building which was eventually to house Mark Ernestus’ distributing company and shop Hard Wax, and the label's mastering studio Dubplates & Mastering, set up to ensure a desired dynamic quality for the vinyl.
The Basic Channel imprint ceased business in 1995 (apart from two releases almost a decade later that were originally issued on Carl Craig's Planet E label), but were followed by a string of similar labels. Main Street handled Chicago house-inspired releases; Chain Reaction released non-Von Oswald/Ernestus productions and helped launch the careers of dub techno producers such as Monolake and Porter Ricks.
Basic Channel has also shown a strong affinity for Jamaican music. The Rhythm & Sound label imprint saw the duo's sound move closer to dub reggae. Frequent Rhythm & Sound collaborator Paul St. Hilaire set up the subsidiary False Tuned in 2003.
Basic Channel occasionally reissues out-of-print music. Basic Replay specialises in dancehall reissues, while Wackies focuses on dub.DiscographyBasic ChannelCyrus – Enforcement 12" (BC-01, 1993) Phylyps – Trak 12" (BC-02, 1993) Vainqueur – Lyot (Reshape) 12" (BC-03, 1993) Quadrant – Q 1.1 12" (BC-04, 1993) Cyrus – Inversion 12" (BC-05, 1994) Quadrant – Dub 12" (BC-06, 1994) Basic Channel – Octagon / Octaedre 12" (BC-07, 1994) Radiance – I / II / III 12" (BC-08, 1994) Phylyps – Trak II 12" (BC-09, 1994) Basic Channel – BCD CD (BCD, 1995) Paperclip People – Basic Reshape 12" (BCBR, 2004) Quadrant – Infinition/Hyperism 12" (BCQD, 2004) Basic Channel – BCD-2 CD (BCD-2, 2008) Basic Channel – Q-Loop CD (BC-CD, 2014)Burial MixRhythm & Sound (w/Tikiman) [Paul St. Hilaire] - "Never Tell You/Version" 10" (BM-01, 1996) Rhythm & Sound (w/Tikiman) [Paul St. Hilaire] - "Spend Some Time/Version" 10" (BM-02,1996) Rhythm & Sound (with Paul St. Hilaire) – Showcase CD (BMD-1, 1996) Rhythm & Sound (w/Cornel Campbell) - "King In My Empire/Version" 10" (BM-06, 2001) Rhythm & Sound (w/Tikiman) [Paul St. Hilaire] - "Jah Rule/Version" 10" (BM-07, 2001) Rhythm & Sound (w/Shalom) - "We Been Troddin/Version" 10" (BM-08, 2001) Rhythm & Sound (with The Artists) – Rhythm & Sound w/ The Artists CD (BMD-2, 2003) Rhythm & Sound – The Versions CD (BMD-3, 2003) Rhythm & Sound – See Mi Ya 7" box set (BMD-14-20, 2005) Rhythm & Sound – See Mi Ya CD (BMD-4, 2005) Rhythm & Sound – See Mi Ya Remixes CD (BMXD-1, 2006)Maurizio Maurizio Ploy 12" (Maurizio, M1, 1992) Maurizio – Domina 12" (Maurizio, M3, 1993) Maurizio – M4 12" (Maurizio, M4, 1995) Maurizio – M4.5 12" (Maurizio, M4.5, 1995) Maurizio – M5 12" (Maurizio, M5, 1995) Maurizio – M6 12" (Maurizio, M6, 1996) Maurizio – M7 12" (Maurizio, M7, 1997) Maurizio – M Series CD (Maurizio, MCD, 1997)RelatedVarious – ...Compiled CD (Chain Reaction, CRD-06, 1998) Round One - Round Five – 1993-99 Main Street Records CD (Main Street Records, MSD-01, 1999) Scion – Scion Arrange And Process Basic Channel Tracks CD (Tresor, Tresor 200, 2002) Various – Basic Replay CD (Basic Replay, BR-1, 2007)
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Post by pieter on May 29, 2017 17:32:17 GMT -7
This is really old school nineties German techno. Crazy and radical, but I like it's energy and strictness.
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Post by pieter on May 29, 2017 17:41:17 GMT -7
I love this piece of music very much. Respect Carl Graig dearly. He collaborated with German techno pioneers.
This track has a magic start and again has that electronic melancholia of a roadmovie. You imagine driving through Berlin, New York or LA in a car with this music on a very good sound system in the car.
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Post by pieter on May 29, 2017 17:51:25 GMT -7
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Post by pieter on Sept 8, 2017 17:20:46 GMT -7
The Love Parade (German: Loveparade) was a popular electronic dance music festival and technoparade that originated in 1989 in West Berlin, Germany. It was held annually in Berlin from 1989 to 2003 and in 2006, then from 2007 to 2010 in the Ruhr region. Events scheduled for 2004 and 2005 in Berlin and for 2009 in Bochum were cancelled.
On 24 July 2010, a crowd crush at the Love Parade caused the death of 21 people, with at least 500 others injured. As a consequence, the organizer of the festival announced that no further Love Parades would be held and that the festival was permanently cancelled.
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Post by Jaga on Sept 8, 2017 22:27:52 GMT -7
Pieter,
interesting music. I did not know about this accident at the Love Parade, or maybe it was just lost in the background of other accidents or world news. Too bad.
Does also Love Parade has anything to do with gay or lesbian proud, or this is just strictly a technoparade?
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Post by pieter on Sept 9, 2017 7:06:25 GMT -7
Jaga,
In my opinion the Love Parade was a typical phenomenon of the freedom that came after the fall of the Berlin Wall in November 1989. Berlin is known for its numerous cultural institutions, many of which enjoy international reputation. The diversity and vivacity of the metropolis led to a trendsetting atmosphere. An innovative music, dance and art scene has developed in the 21st century. Young people, international artists and entrepreneurs continued to settle in the city during the nineties and made Berlin a popular entertainment center in the world. In the borderlands of West- and East-Berlin a new culture of electronic music, creativity, energy and free space developped in the late eighties and early nineties. In Eastern Berlin vacant former SED (Communist party), VEB (Volkseigener Betrieb) state companies and institution buildings became places where German (Berlin) artists, creative youth, musicians, and the new electronic music scene (German techno, House and other music genres) developed themselves. I know Dutch artists who already went to Berlin in the early eighties to the alternative, cultural branch of the Autonomen squaters movement, in neighborhoods like Kreuzberg for New Wave and Punk rock concerts and the lively altermative Avantgarde Underground scene. David Bowie, Brian Uno, U2, Nick Cave and other non-German European, American and Australian musicians, artists and creatives already were attracted to Berlin, a European center of fine art, music, cabaret, alternative scenes (the Roaring Twenties) and various alternative Leftwing political movements (Anarchists, Independent Marxists, leftwing Socialists, Feminists, leftwing student movements and the radical student rebellion and protests of the generation 1968. You have to see this radical leftwing Socialist, Marxist movement as a Third Way between the West and East of that time. Not Pro-East Germany [DDR] or SovjetUnion, nor Pro-America, UK and West-Germany. I think about their leaders Rudi Dutschke and Daniel Cohn Bendit - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudi_Dutschke / / en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Cohn-Bendit ). The climate Rudi Dutschke, Daniel Cohn Bendit and various Social-democratic and liberal West-Berlin city governments shaped the social-cultural, artistic, political and financial climate of West-Berlin. Next to that Communist East-Berlin was in the same time the cultural, musical, artistic, intellectual, literary (literature and poetry) and theatre center of East-Germany (the DDR) with it's cultural intelligentsia, universities, musicians, artists and creative young people. The culture of West- and East-Germany merged in the new emerging electronic music culture. Also people from other countries, like Americans (Detroit techno dj's who inspired the German techno, which has an American electronic music base), Russians (Russen disko), British people, Canadians, French people, Polish artists and Musicians and people from other European countries. The first Loveparade 1989 - Friede, Freude, Eierkuchen Berlin Germany 1500-2000 party peopleThe parade first occurred in July 1989, when 150 people took to the streets in Berlin. It was started by the Berlin underground at the initiative of Matthias Roeingh (also known as "Dr Motte") and his then girlfriend Danielle de Picciotto. It was conceived as a political demonstration for peace and international understanding through love and music. It was supposed to be a bigger birthday party for Roeingh, and the motto Friede, Freude, Eierkuchen (in English — Peace, Joy, Pancakes) stood for disarmament (peace), music (joy) and a fair food production/distribution (pancakes). Roeingh dissociated himself from the parade in 2006 because of the commercialization of the event.Danielle de Picciotto is an American born artist, musician and film maker. She was born in Tacoma, Washington, USA, but now lives and works in Berlin, Germany. In 1989 she founded, along with partner Dr. Motte, the first Berlin Love Parade.The parade was held on the Berlin Kurfürstendamm (avenue) until 1996. Because of overcrowding on the Kurfürstendamm, the festival moved to the Straße des 17. Juni in the Großer Tiergarten park in the center of Berlin. The festival became centered around the Siegessäule in the middle of the park; and the golden angel atop the column became the parade's emblem.
Many people from Germany and abroad traveled to Berlin to take part in the Parade — over a million attended in the years 1997 through 2000 and 800,000 in 2001. Attendance at the 2001 festival was significantly lower because the date of the parade was changed with little advance notice. 2002 and 2003 also saw lower figures, and in 2004 and 2005 the parade was cancelled because of funding difficulties. The parade had inspired opposition because of the damage to the Tiergarten by participants, who were provided with insufficient toilet facilities. Opponents allegedly complicated matters for organisers by booking their own events in Berlin and so to exclude the parade from being able to register with city police. In 2004, however, a scaled-down version took place which served more as a mini-protest and was promoted with the title Love Weekend. Dozens of clubs promoted the weekend-long event all over the city, with various clubs staying open for three days straight without closing. In 2006, the parade made a comeback with the help of German exercise studio McFit.
The Love Parade 2007 was planned for 7 July 2007 in Berlin. However, the Berlin event was cancelled in February because the Senate of Berlin did not issue the necessary permits at that time. After negotiations with several German cities, on 21 July, it was announced that the parade would move to the Ruhr Area for the next five years. The first event took place in Essen on 25 August. The parade in Essen saw 1.2 million visitors in comparison to the 500,000 who attended the 2006 parade in Berlin. In 2008, the festival took place in Dortmund on 19 July on the Bundesstraße 1 under the motto Highway of Love. The event was planned as a "Love Weekend", with parties throughout the region. For the first time the Turkish electronic scene was represented by its own float, called "Turkish Delights". The official estimate is that 1.6 million visitors attended, making it the largest parade to date.
The 2009 event, planned for Bochum, was cancelled; a year later, the deaths of 21 attendees at the Duisburg venue prompted the parade's organiser Rainer Schaller to declare an end to the festival. "The Love Parade has always been a peaceful party, but it will forever be overshadowed by the accident, so out of respect for the victims the Love Parade will never take place again," Schaller said. The parade was one of the oldest and largest festivals of electronic music, together with Zürich's Streetparade, Mayday and Nature One. The Love Parade returned on 18 July 2015, thanks to the new organiser Jens Hohmann.
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Post by pieter on Sept 9, 2017 7:18:55 GMT -7
Jaga,
In my opinion the Love Parade was just strictly a technoparade and did not have a gay or lesbian pride character. However due to the fact that Gays, Lesbians, Bi-sexuals, transgenders are part of the culture and music world and scenes, they are part of and shape or make the creative scene of Contemporary art (Fine art/Modern Art, Avantgarde), electronic music, theatre (the stages and performances at the Love Parade), Fashion, designs and audience of the Love Parade too. But I think the largest group of participants in the Love Parade are hetrosexual Germans and foreigners (Dutch people, Danes, Belgians, French people, British people, Americans, Polish people, Russian visitors, Israeli's, Greeks, Australians, Turks, African and Asian people and others) who like techno music. In advance the Love Parade had a progressive, liberal aim of Tolerance, Peace, healthy food and non-profit aims. As it grew larger and became a mass movement with commercial interests of certain artists, organisers, merchants who sold food and drinks to the audience, some initial organisers distantiated themselves from the Love Parade. People like Matthias Roeingh (also known as "Dr Motte") dissociated himself from the parade in 2006 because of the commercialization of the event.Matthias Roeing ("Dr Motte")Dr. Motte (właśc. Matthias Roeingh, ur. 9 lipca 1960 w Berlinie) – niemiecki DJ i muzyk; pomysłodawca oraz inicjator Love Parade.
Jego zawód wyuczony to robotnik budowlany (betoniarz). W latach 1981-1984 Roeingh był członkiem zespołu muzycznego Tote Piloten. Od 1985 roku występuje jako DJ. Pseudonimu Dr. Motte używa on od 1991 roku. Wraz z Westbamem tworzyli hymny na imprezy cyklu Love Parade w okresie 1997-2000.
Cheers, Pieter
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Post by pieter on Sept 9, 2017 7:48:56 GMT -7
Folks,
I would never have visisted the ove Parade, because I dislike masses and most of the music is not of my taste. To flat, to simplistic, to mainstream and to commercial. I agree on the latter with Matthias Roeingh ("Dr Motte"). Events like the Love Parade are nice in the beginning when they are still small, Underground, and centered around a small core group of ethousiastic and idealistic, dedicated music makers and people who are fond of their music (like me). I am selective, because these charming places with just a small audience, good music quality and a good atmosphere are nicer than these mass manifestations with thousands of people. I like music clubs, pubs or concerts with a few dozen or a few hundred people. Sometimes I go to a concert with thousands of people, like Massive Attack a few years back in Heineken Music Hall in Amsterdam. Or Bob Dylan in the same hall. I went to Tory Amos in Ahoy concert hall in Rotterdam in 2004 and to a Whitney Houston concert in the same hall in 1988. Electronic music must have to be sophisticated, multi-layered, have musicical quality, a certain melody, rythm, beat and development (development inside the track, mix or song). I don't like just on continues beat, repeating the same cord over and over again. In good techno music the latter is presence, but the music develops from a monothomous bas into waves of deep valleys, hills, mountaintops, and the bottom of streams, rivers, lakes, seas and oceans. In most of the video's which are just short recordings of moments of the Love parade you don't hear the best dj's nor the best sound systems on the music weagons.
The concept of the Love Parade expanded to abroad, today you have a Love Parade in Tel Aviv, Israel.
Cheers, Pieter
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Post by pieter on Sept 9, 2017 8:48:31 GMT -7
Dear Jaga,
This video shows an interview with the American born artist, musician and film maker Danielle de Picciotto, one of the founders of the first Berlin Love Parade in 1989, about Love Parade. About the free, anarchistic, creative, alternative (Underground) nature of the Love Parade inbetween 1989 and 1995.
Danielle de Picciotto Published on May 29 2009 2009
A short film commisssioned by the german foreign office.
All the drawings are by Danielle de Picciotto, the drawings are animated by Stephen Burns.
The music is by Alexander Hacke.
The movie introduces the 12 new EU countries of Europe and demonstrates how traditional dances are easily turned into modern club culture and how each country has its special heritage -making diversity interesting for youth cultural-creating a colorful dance in which all can present themselves.
Cheers, Pieter
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Post by Jaga on Sept 10, 2017 5:11:01 GMT -7
Pieter,
I think what you are trying to say is that the Love Parade was a phase of the process of fall of the old system and a building of the new on.
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Post by pieter on Sept 20, 2017 10:54:47 GMT -7
Heavy, dark, Nordic, German techno on the border between a North-European Autumn and Winter. Feeling heavy, cold, not having enough sunlight, feeling some tension inside, sinking in the dark atmosphere, in the border zone between melancholia and depression. Edvard Much, David Lynch Lost Highway and Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Tadeusz Borowski, Tadeusz Konwicki and Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz come into my mind.
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Post by pieter on Oct 5, 2017 15:48:15 GMT -7
This song could get a crowd start danging in the nineties. It was a favority track of many dj's in dance clubs (discotheques)
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