During my musical (web)explorations I (luckily) stumble upon some great tracks which in my opinion do deserve some promo. I’ll call those series ‘Gems’. So here’s the first Gem.

The artist is Mike Dehnert and the EP is named Colombage EP, released on the man’s own label Fachwerk records. The track you can hear is Brauchbar. That minimal techno beat nicely layered with those Detroit techno chords is just perfect.

• http://www.myspace.com/fachwerkrecords
• http://www.myspace.com/mikedehnert

I’m a big fan of Robert Hencke. If you don’t know the name, you might maybe know him as Monolake. The guy is an excellent electronic music producer. His music is often described with the words: spacious, complex, minimalistic, techno, dub, ambient. He’s an active developer of Ableton Live and collaborates with Cycling 74 to integrate MAX for Live. I find his work and approach towards music creation very inspirational. I never have used MAX, but hearing how he talks about it and the sonic possibilities it seems to offer I’m surely willing to give it a try.

Check out the complete interview here

Electronic Groove is a podcast website. They just released their podcast #107, featuring Omar Salgado. My first thoughts when listening to the set was: “wow, pounding grooves”. These are the kind of beats that make me go lalala all the way. Though, when I see the track listing I must admit I’m not acquainted with most of the names. I do now some of them but not a lot. Anyway this is good, more good music and artists to discover.

Omar Salgado is also a very talented producer with releases on labels like (un)foundsound, miniscule,….

Tracklisting:

01. Dyed Soundorom and Boris Horel – jendayi (original mix)
02. Boris Horel – Meline
03. David Jabeij – Aha (original mix)
04. Io – Cabaret
05. Lissat & Voltaxx – Nikki Beach Diaries (dj madskillz remix)
06. Jon Gurd – Break Through
07. Martinez & Matthias Tanzmann – ohh i don’t know
08. Catz and Dogz feat Pol on – lolek and bolek
09. Cesar Merveille & Pablo Cahn – speyer – tribute

Grab the set directly from the Electronic Groove website.

Here is an interview of Pheek, the label owner of Archipel. It was made at the netaudio festival in berlin by netwaves.org. Pheek talks about the future of his netlabel, the difficulties to run it and the importance of support from the community. Along the interview you can enjoy music released on Archipel.

Tracklisting:

1 Un peu d’espoir - Pheek
2 New strut - Dafluke
3 Ger›ur - Russian Linesman
4 4.44.444 - Gyges
5 Rêve Analogue - Michel Lloyd
6 We Didn’t Want To But We Did It Just The Same - Jesse Somfay
7 This Machine is just for you - Inkwell

Percussion Lab released a DJ set from Dj Stefny also known as Stefny Winter.
They introduce themselves as follows:

Percussion is a collective of like-minded artists, DJs, record labels and selectors. Since 2002 we’ve been curating an exclusive collection of live and DJ sets from our favorite artists, DJs and record labels which we hope will give you a taste of the Percussion Lab community.

DJ Stefny is one of my favourite DJ’s. I discovered her trough Archipel, pheek’s label. Every set she plays features a lot of excellent techno, deep-house influenced beats and minimal with a freaky Stefny touch. Next to be an excellent DJ she also makes some of the best techno music you might find nowadays. Be sure to check out her releases on Contexterrior and Archipel

Tracklisting

• Patrick Graeser – Squalid – Tom Dicicco Rmx/Nights In Gale
• Patrick Graeser/Squalid/Nights In Gale
• Patrick Graeser – Squalid – David Harrow Rmx/Nights In Gale
• Alland Byallo/War Zero/Nightlight Music
• Luis Flores/The Call/Droid
• Mike MInd/Resonate/Turbo
• Luis Flores/Dain Bramage/Droid
• Perro Magnetico/El Bala/Mean
• Seuil/No Time For Love/Moon Harbour Recordings
• Lee Van Dowski/The Variable Man/Leena
• Burnski/Species/Poker Flat
• Lump/U Need Me/Contexterrior
• Lump/U Need Me – sub version dub – Contexterrior
• Stefny/Echinodon/Archipel

You can grab her set at Percussion Lab

I was wondering how to calculate the average of a series of times for a project I’m working on. In fact, it’s quiet simple.

Here’s how I did it.

Imagine you have 4 times you want to know the average of.

08:30:56 – 08:45:12 – 09:32:28 – 10:20:07

You can calculate an average by adding the different values and divide those by the amount of added values. In this case, since we’re working with times, simply adding the values won’t work. To do this I first convert each time into seconds:

08 * 3600 + 30 * 60 + 56 = 28800 + 1800 + 56 = 30656 seconds

08 *3600 + 45 * 60 + 12 = 28800 + 2700 + 12 = 31512 seconds

09*3600 + 32*60 + 28 = 32400 + 1920 + 28 = 34348 seconds

10*3600 + 20*60 + 07 = 36000 + 1200 + 7 = 37207 seconds

Now we add those results together and divide it by the amount of times, 4 in this case.

(30656 + 31512 + 34348 + 37207) / 4 = 33430,75 seconds

Now we convert this result back to hours, minutes and seconds

First the hours

33430,75 / 3600 = 9.286 (9 hours + 0.286 hours)

Then the minutes

0.286h * 3600 = 1029.6 seconds

1029.6/60 = 17.16 (17 minutes + 0,16 minutes)

And finally the seconds

0.16 * 60 = 9.6 seconds or ~10 seconds

So, the result is 9:17:10. I thinks it’s right, nevertheless, if I made mistakes or if you know a better solution thanks to let me know.

J’ai découvert il y peu. Ca date de l’an de grâce 2000 et produit par Matthew Stuartman (de Sade). C’est influencé R&B, trip-hop et un peu de dub et c’est du bon. Je vous mets la vidéo du clip “Eyes On You”. Bonne écoute à tous.

Quelqu’un m’a posé cette question sur le net. Question évidente au première abord, mais finalement pas si simple que ça à répondre. Comment donner une réponse complète sans écrire un bouquin et tout de même y intégrer les éléments qui à mes yeux sont importants ? Soit, voici ma réponse en anglais avec surement quelques fautes d’orthographe et de grammaire (j’ai déjà du mal en français, faut pas demander en anglais). C’est n’est certainement pas la meilleure réponse mais elle à le mérite d’être la mienne. :-)

“It’s a very small country between France and the Netherlands. It’s like twenty times smaller than France. We’re kind of a mixture of the french and the dutch (and a little bit of the germans too). People here are mostly either speaking dutch or french (some speak both). Each side has its own culture, and most of the people enjoy it to live together as Belgians(except for some dumb and useless extremists who still don’t understand that one of the most beautifull aspects of life is diversity).
Living in Belgium is nice, we have a good educational system, social security, many work opportunity’s, and minority’s have (most of the time) their word to say. This social organisation comes at a price tho; we pay a lot of taxes (I think we are one of the country’s with the highest tax rate).
The weather in Belgium is was ok. It’s like freaking out the last years, summer is not hot enough, winter is not cold enough and in between it’s raining too much in my opinion.
Next to that Belgium has some very great artists, and the musical scene is very developped over here with Internationally well-known artists like Jacques Brel, Deus, 2 Many Dj’s, Toots Thielemans, Front242, Hooverphonic, Soulwax, Vaya Con Dios, Das Pop,…”

Pour ceux que ça dit, vous pouvez toujours laisser votre version de réponse à cette question en commentaire (pas forcément en anglais bien sûr). Sans écrire un bouquin si possible :-)

Le Dunk! festival est un festival indoor organisé à Zottegem (près de Gand) ce vendredi 11 et samedi 12. C’est la première fois que je m’y rends. Les festival met surtout en avant des groupes de la scène post-rock, style qui s’est très fortement démarqué ces dernières années avec des groupes tel que Sigur Rós, 65 days of static et tant d’autres, voyez plus tôt cette liste.

Le line-up:

• Vendredi
  • EF (23.45-01.00 uur)
  • Transit (22.15-23.15 uur)
  • Pentark (21.00-21.45 uur)
  • Art!Itch (19.45-20.30 uur)
• Samedi
  • God is an Astronaut (23.45-01.00 uur)
  • Doí (22.15-23.15 uur)
  • Guernica (21.00-21.45 uur)
  • Cecilia::Eyes (19.45-20.30 uur)
  • Tuxedo (18.45-19.30 uur)

• Le site officiel

Je viens de découvrir. C’est plus ou moins le énième clone de MySpace & co à la différence qu’il est soit disant axé uniquement sur Radiohead et se veut donc de regrouper les fans du groupe. Je ne sais quoi trop en penser. Bon j’avoue, je suis inscrit sur Facebook et sur MySpace (et sur w.a.s.t.e central maintenant; faut bien tester avant de donner son avis…) mais pour être honnête je n’ai jamais été très fan de ce genre concepts. Ici on retrouve dans les grandes lignes les mêmes fonctions que sur facebook et autres. Page perso modifiable, possibilité d’ajouter des amis, faire de commentaire, ajouter de videos et de la musique sur sa page perso, etc etc. Je vous laisse juger par vous même.

C’est ici que ça se passe.