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Manuel Bürger, Tracky Birthday, Konrad Kuhn and I teamed up to create “Best before - A Dsico Fanzine”.

The fanzine is a playful hommage but also a critical examination of Disco culture. It boasts of 52-pages, screenprinted by hand, limited to 250 copies, plus a poster inlay. The title “Best before” indicates that even if the validity of Disco music is long expired, it’s still around. Many people consider it dead - while there’s all kinds of ghosts that prove it’s stayin alive! Who will finally kill it?

To order your copy or download some fresh mixes visit the fanzine’s oldskool website (made by me): http://www.dsico-fanzine.com

“With his second album Roglok releases yet another insane masterpiece. It seems that the kid who designed our website has not only found his own sound (we call it hobby) but also brought it to perfection: gummy acid basslines over punchy dancefloor beats, that ridiculous melody you can’t get out of your head, some gabber and techno. His legendary set at Picknick in Berlin turned the place upside down and made the hipsters lose their aloofness. You just have to dance! Out Of Disorder finally puts an end to waiting for new Roglok stuff after Radetzky March 303 got us hungry last year. Hasi is not the only one who calls it a ‘Brett’ (ace), cause this is the freshest shit you can get anywhere!”

Download a zip file of this release and discover loads of other phresh and free music at Upitup Records.

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A rough TR-606 / TB-303 take on the popular march for free download. The track is part of the compilation Back from The Future. Stomp your feet to this!

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During my internship at 4RK Unstable Media I made the soundtrack for the official transmediale festival trailer, which can be viewed here.

This album is about teenagers who are watching TV all day long. Obviously they should rather spend their time composing romantic acid tracks! The whole album was composed with the highly recommended modular tracker software Jeskola Buzz which is now available as an open source clone under the name of Buzé. The cover was painstakingly made with a V-Tech Video Painter.

Download a zip file of this release and dicover loads of other phresh and free music at Upitup Records.

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These short recordings are part of a sound diary during a travel through southern mexico in 2003. I was using a minidisc redorder and a small stereo mic.
What is particularly interesting about urban mexican soundscapes, is how they relate to wildlife noise. The carhorn variations and police whistles seem to imitate the squeals of monkeys and the songs of tropical birds. In the zocalos of smaller towns they indeed diffuse, creating a beautiful cacophony of nature and civilization.