miKi miKron

pudel dudel announcement

April 28, 2006 | 14:56 | miKi miKron
prinzessinnen-torte

dear fans, friends, partners,
ladies, gentlemen,
eastcoast, westcoast, dirty south,
dear readers/listeners!

due to release of this ish hot record: miKi miKron - "irgendwo nur nicht hier" there will be a big party taking place at the golden pudel klub this sunday, april 30th. as you might know, real popstars don’t play live concerts [except doing one song playback sets at fun fairs, shopping malls or in a new york discotheque], but for this special occasion i’ll make an exception. ;-) my concert will begin at midnight [on time(!)], so you can bring your kids.

here’s 6 more reasons why this will be a massive event:

earlier that day, i will perform live at the golden dudel funk hamburg fsk 93.0 fm between 6 and 10pm. the show is hosted by audiolith, the posse i’m a proud part of now. so, der tante renate, clickclickdecker, aosuke & manni fest will be there too.

thanks for your attention!
miKi

muallem - frankie splits

April 27, 2006 | 16:46 | tight tunes | style fancy
david muallem - compost records

this muallem tune with beans is rotating in my itunes for quite a while now and i read some good things about muallems recent album "frankie splits", so i thought, i’d give it a try. in case you never heard of muallem, here’s what i found by famous/dubious google-journalism: muallem, that’s david muallem, not yinon muallem. he’s signed to compost and his first releases were a 12′’ titled “sweat / down 2004″ (2004) and another 12′’ titled “new thunder / b about it” in 2005. all of the above mentioned tracks you can find on muallems debut album. he also seems to be dj-ing under the alias “dj force” but here i quit my google-ing due to an information dead-end :-).
the guest/feature list on “frankie splits” is huge (amazon, lyrics born, martine girault, beans, the droids, shawn lee, wordsworth, audrey & marc frank) and so the record is packed with different styles and moods. muallem took his old ballsy emu-drumcomputer and blended acid house, typical hip hop (no gimmicks, no tricks) and giorgio moroder drumbeats with upliftingness, melancholia and some prince-esque vocal performances. such a lot in such a short time - but muallem keeps track of all that. his basis is hip hop. but he doesn’t think of hip hop as an isolated genre - cause he knows where it’s coming from. at his party you don’t have to listen to EITHER house OR hip hop OR disco. that’s, yep, much like the spirit of hip house. muallem is looking after this connection and is trying to re-establish it with a 2006 view. however, muallem’s album ain’t inventing music from scratch - it simply sounds like everything else, but in its very own and unique way. and that’s what i like about pop music.

suggestions for listening at itunes:
muallem feat. amazon - are you ready (turn off the lights)
muallem feat. beans - new thunder
muallem - shanti dance
muallem - down 2004

does this work for anybody out there?

April 26, 2006 | 16:09 | pop life
this popjustice post points to a danish cd store where snippets of the new pet shop boys album tracks should be available. probably the store had to take the files offline due to legal trouble… anybody listened to them?

it’s coming, it’s coming, it’s coming… it’s here!

April 24, 2006 | 12:14 | miKi miKron | tight tunes
miKi miKron - irgendwo nur nicht hier cd (al020)

dear listeners,
i’m hella proud to tell you that the miKi miKron debut album "irgendwo nur nicht hier" is available in stores today. h.a.l.l.e.j.u.j.a.h.!

why it’s hot:

the cd is released by audiolith and distributed via broken silence in germany, austria & switzerland. in these countries you should be able to get it at your nearby record store. if you want to order online, go to the audiolith-shop, the stora-shop or amazon.de. in case you want to purchase the album as a download, check itunes, finetunes.net or juno.co.uk

for comments, questions and praise just drop a line in the comment field below.

apologies for the above hyperlink overkill. this is a special occasion you know. :-)

limited chromeo "mix"tape

April 21, 2006 | 09:13 | tight tunes
chromeo "mix"tape

while checking out what was going on in march [been busy then with organizing stuff], i came across this: a collection of chromeo-remixes including my long time favourite playgroup remix of "you’re so gangsta". it’s a cassette(!) limited to 50 copies & signed by the band. you can win it by emailing your address to vice - don’t know whether they are given away already since the post dates march 16th. but hurrah, it’s also downloadable at vice-recordings.com.

ah, before i forget…

April 20, 2006 | 11:13 | tight tunes
…check the recent mad decent podcast [#4 - easter basket jelly bean mix]!
in case the link shown above doesn’t work, go to the mad decent podcast page.

did you know? the small print reads "broadcast yourself"

April 19, 2006 | 09:44 | pop life
that’s what the tagline says: "broadcast yourself".
here’s the evidence - take a close look:

youtube.com logo  youtube.com tagline

and just in case you haven’t noticed it yet - it reads:

youtube.com tagline for the blind

keep that in mind when watching these:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pw8sNoodIDk
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-6923747437946610943
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QvUX3k0qbKc

glitch pop

April 18, 2006 | 12:00 | tight tunes | style fancy
pojmasta logo

go pojmasta.co.uk for some clever mixes with nice sense for pop. this 19 year old mash-up-wiz ain’t narcissistic and the mixes are not too hard to listen to [which is often not the case with such long mash-up-style-mixes]. i quite like it.

solving the banana problem

April 17, 2006 | 18:42 | pop life | geeky knowledge
"Dr. Bunsen Honeydew, here at Muppet labs where the future is being made today!"

inspired by my post on last thursday i wondered what other questions might be nearly unsolvable :-). google brought me to "the banana problem": a circumlocution used by computer experts and mathematicians for a thing that more normal people would call an unsolvable problem. this muppet labs episode came to my mind. needless to say that, when i was a child, i never understood the real joke behind this one.

e to the double g

April 14, 2006 | 10:19 | zoo
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