January 2011
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Sunday Music
My latest DJ-Mix with minimal and tropical Sunday vibes.
Trailer for the upcoming movie about the relationship between people and their bikes. Looks promising but hard to say after watching the trailer. Is this Berlin and fixed gear only? More info on the facebook page. (via Berlin Fixed)
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Conversion optimizing resources
Some links to websites and tools dealing with conversion optimizing of websites:
46 Conversion-Optimierung Blogs, die Sie kennen sollten (German site but many English links)
Ultimate list of conversion optimization tools
99 Free (and Low Cost) Tools to Improve Your Website
Ian Golden interviews Richie Hawtin On The Future... →
Richie Hawtin has been called by some the Bill Gates of techno. In this five minute video Ean Golden interview’s Hawtin at the recent NAMM 2011 show on the future of the digital DJ.
Baby Doc Gets Charged, but Duvalierism Remains... →
Haiti suffering from his politicians - did you also wonder about the background of former dictator Baby Docs return to Haiti? Is he crazy? Did he miscalculate the situation, or will we see a return of the Duvalierism in Haiti?
Review of Earl Lovelace: Is just a movie →
Review of the new book by Trinidadian author Earl Lovelace.
(via Repeating Islands)
Whitezine - inspire Create and Share →
New in my feed reader.
Whitezine is a web magazine about inspiration. It includes Digital Arts (photography, graphic-design, motions…) and Trends (Fashion, Design, Architecture, Arts…).
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Curry Bodi With Potato →
Yummm.. looks like a perfect dish for the weekend. I see some homemade pepper sauce on this.
Traverso audio editor →
I am pretty much happy with Audacity for simple audio editing stuff when you don’t want to fire up the full DAW. There’s is another freeware audio multi-track application called Traverso which looks pretty promising. Available for Mac, Linux, Windows. (via Schockwellenreiter)
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Trailer for the movie ““Wah do dem”.
In WAH DO DEM, young Brooklyn musician Max (Sean Bones) decides to go on a Caribbean cruise alone when his girlfriend Willow (Norah Jones) dumps him cold two days before the trip. Once in Jamaica, Max quickly escapes the tourist zone for more “authentic” surroundings and in the process...
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Pan tunes for 2011 Carnival
New release on Faluma: Showtime! - 2011 Calypso Compilation.
Every year the worldwide booming steeldrum (or pan as we would call it) scene is meeting for the annual Panorama in Port-of-Spain, Trinidad & Tobago, the most important competition for this beautiful instrument. The pan, invented in the Trinidadian Carnival during the 30s when there was a prohibition to play drums, is...
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Top of the Trops – Best of Tropical Bass 2010 →
Check my picks for the “Top of the Trops”.
Asmara All Stars: Dornröschen lernt tanzen →
Very nice article in Germany’s big weekly Die Zeit about the band Asmara All Stars from Eritrea. Latest CD is released on the Munich based Out Here Records.
Eritrea ist ein von der Welt vergessenes Land im Nordwesten Afrikas. Aber die Asmara All Stars sorgen dafür, dass sich auch dort etwas bewegt. Ein Besuch bei der wahrscheinlich unbekanntesten Big Band des Planeten.
The journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.
– Lao Tse
December 2010
9 posts