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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

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.

Whippet – DEVO

Crack that whip
Give the past a slip
Step on a crack
Break your mama’s back

When a problem comes along
You must whip it
Before the cream sits out too long
You must whip it
When something’s going wrong
You must whip it

Now whip it
Into shape
Shape it up
Get straight
Go forward
Move ahead
Try to detect it
It’s not too late
To whip it
Whip it good

When a good time turns around
You must whip it
You will never live it down
Unless you whip it
No one gets away
Until they whip it

I say whip it
Whip it good
I say whip it
Whip it good

Crack that whip
Give the past a slip
Step on a crack
Break your mama’s back

When a problem comes along
You must whip it
Before the cream sits out too long
You must whip it
When something’s going wrong
You must whip it

Now whip it
Into shape
Shape it up
Get straight
Go forward
Move ahead
Try to detect it
It’s not too late
To whip it
Into shape
Shape it up
Get straight
Go forward
Move ahead
Try to detect it

It’s not too late
To whip it
Whip it good

racism in an enlightened world?

I watched a DVD last night by PJ Harvey. A Dog Called Money.

The quote that she said as she was filming in Washinton USA…“when white people plant a tree, they imagine black people hanging from it”.

She was being ironic… But also pointing out the endemic racism in America. We have lots of it here too, but in the twenty-first century, how can racism still exist???

For me I find racism very odd. It’s so much like once you see something you can’t unsee it. People who have black skin can’t help it, so why would you want to be angry with them for having different color skin?

Here in Australia, I judge people on their behavior, not their skin color….so I see behavior not skin color.

I enjoyed the DVD. She is an amazing artist and singer.

the art of ECM record covers

Here are just a small collection of ECM covers. It’s not just the photos but the photos with the graphics to create the art.

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ECM (Edition of Contemporary Music) is an independent record label founded by Karl Egger, Manfred Eicher and Manfred Scheffner in Munich in 1969. While ECM is best known for jazz music, the label has released a variety of recordings, and ECM’s artists often refuse to acknowledge boundaries between genres. ECM’s motto is “the most beautiful sound next to silence”, taken from a 1971 review of ECM releases in Coda, a Canadian jazz magazine.[1]

ECM has been distributed in the U.S. by Warner Bros. Records, PolyGram Records, BMG, and, since 1999, Universal Music, the successor of PolyGram, worldwide. Its album covers were profiled in two books: Sleeves of Desire and Windfall Light, both published by Lars Müller.