Author: sedge808

I Love techno music

I’m almost 60 years old and I still love techno. Not commercial techno but underground techno, the kind of music you may hear at Berghain (dance club) in Berlin. This post is for content catnip.

I grew up with Jeff Mills, Riche Hawtin and Laurent Garnier, but today I’m much more into:

Ø [Phase]

Ashley Burchett. Ø [Phase] has been a driving force in techno for over two decades, leading the movement with his prototypical, stripped-back sound. Since cutting his teeth at Sony Music London as a mastering engineer in the late ’90s, he’s paved his way unapologetically, often challenging audiences in his relentless pursuit of pure artistry…

Ø [Phase]

His older albums are OK but his EPs are brilliant. I can listen to him for hours at a time.

DVS1

Zak Khutoretsky, also known as DVS1 is an American DJ and techno producer based out of Minneapolis. I particularly like his remixes of other Techno artists rather than his own albums.

Heiko Laux

German DJ and producer based in Berlin. Once again, I like his EPs and remixes more than his albums. Very listenable music. You can have a cocktail and sink into his music. The German/Berlin influence is strong here too.

Ness

Andrea Deplano. Italian DJ and electronic music producer (deep techno/ambient soundscapes). Yet again I like his EPs and remixes more than his albums. (Although I have also just bought his latest album).

I can get really lost in this music…and I love to get lost 😀

There are SO many more that I could list: Psyk, Norman Nodge, Radio Slave, Sandwell District, Setaoc Mass, Shed, Silent Servant and Substance. So many amazing musicians. G

Summertime Love

Summer is my favorite time of the year. It’s time for shorts, flipflops and singlets.

The majority of people who live here don’t like Summer because it can get very hot here. But I would prefer that to Winter any day.

Flip-flops

I suffer from hyperhidrosis so I’m constantly wet all year round. So Summer is very nice because I’m wet but not cold.

Winter I’m retracted and in Summer I’m relaxed. G

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Empowering Male Survivors of Sexual Abuse

if you get the time this is a very good video about males who are sexually abused as children.

for me it was very confusing because I didn’t know what was happening to me. The effect has been lifechanging for the bad. There was also a lot of shame (because I was male) that it happened to me, so I ended up hating myself. Therapy has helped. Also hearing from other men about their experiences has also helped. Gavin.

the art of ECM record covers (part two)

The independent record label ECM – Edition of Contemporary Music – was founded by producer Manfred Eicher in 1969, and to date has issued more than 1700 albums spanning many idioms.

ECM’s distinctive cover art is a collaborative effort, but prominent artists include Barbara Wojirsch and her late husband Burkhart Wojirsch, who handled much of the early design, and Dieter Rehm, who contributed significant photography and design work from 1978 onward. Other photographers like Lajos Keresztes and Max Franosch have also contributed. 

The wonderful thing about ECM Jazz is they record their music in high quality, just like classical music is recorded. So you get brilliant jazz music at a high quality. Gavin.

the clutter family murders

For me this is one of the worst crimes of all time. I remember seeing ‘In Cold Blood’ for the first time in the 90s and I was shocked to my core.

In the early morning of November 15, 1959, four members of the Clutter family – Herb Clutter, his wife, Bonnie, and their teenage children Nancy and Kenyon – were murdered in their rural home just outside the small farming community of Holcomb, Kansas.