Aaltopiiri

Chris Hobson on “Aaltopiiri” by Pan Sonic (2001).

Isn’t that powerful?

The first one got the job, the second one will be hired, too.

Brum, let us see your hands!

Druffmix 38 – The D.H.S. Rave Chronicles: Chicago

Welcome to the final chapter of the Druffalo Rave Chronicles. In sharp contrast to the usual brouhaha surrounding the city’s contributions to club music history there is no particular reason why we conclude the series with Chicago. It’s just the one we still had left for release, and we wanted to stop before we were even tempted to invent rave scenes that don’t really exist (given that all of it was a very subjective D*ruffalo take on the rave phenomenon anyway). So, as sad as it may be, we would like to kiss the rave goodbye with some real Windy City classics, and this is the way we jack the house:

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Hunch Mix

Hunee – Live At Lo.Cuts – 22.01.2010

Just a few more weeks to go, boy!

The Druffalo Weekend Theme Song

Revolution For A Change

Underground Resistance (Live) @ Dublin Electronic Arts Festival, April 2005

“If I can’t dance, I don’t want to be part of your revolution.” (Emma Goldman)

DJ Sprinkles – Mitte 10119 Blues

As mentioned earlier, Terre Thaemlitz was not only in town last week to sprinkle some wonderful music as a DJ. He was also talking about music (and other issues, of course).

For what he had to say, check here. For a complete version of what he had to say, please check here.

The Losers take it all

We are still not sure whether The Losers, the movie adaption of Andy Diggle’s funny and political espionage Vertigo comic, will be any good. It looks a bit like an A Team clone. But it has the wonderful DJ Idris in it. The guy who made watching the Wire such a joy. So we will give it a chance.

Great Unexpectations

As you may have noticed, D*ruffalo’s views on what is underground and what is not, is considerably different to other views on what is underground and what is not.

Our much beloved friend Patrick, a walking encyclopedia of all things house, promised us a Druffmix on this topic ages ago, and it takes him so long to get it done that the D.H.S. even did a Druffmix on its own ages ago, just to pass the time.

Now records on this topic lined up for future Druffmix excursions are piling up, waiting to be fired away. And they will be.

In the meantime, let us draw your your attention to Patrick’s list of recommended & unexpected house remixes of non-electronic artists, a work in progress that is a good starting point for liberating your taste in house of the rules and regulations imposed on you by undersexed and overtheoretizised  media taste makers with more media than taste.

As for the commerce vs. art debate, always keep in mind that “contrary to popular opinion, the hustle is not a new dance step – it is an old business procedure.” (Fran Lebowitz)

A Hazy Shade Of Winter

While listening to Neil singing about his balcony (or at least a romantic vision of a balcony, actually it is not his), we thought we should let you share the view from ours (or least from the balcony of one of our Berlin offices, actually not all of our offices have one).

As you can see, it’s getting dark. As you probably cannot see, it is also heavily snowing.

But we love winter.

It is the time to meet up with your best friends coming in from the cold into a cozy pub. It is the time to cuddle up with your loved one coming in from the cold, primarily in order to cuddle up, and to watch movies about spies coming in from the cold.

In fact, it is the time when whatever you do, and wherever you go, you are coming in from the cold, and what you will do and where you are heading for feels wonderfully comfortable and warm, because the place where you will end up doing things is not cold, while from wherever you were coming in from was.

At this moment we realized that we ran out of cigarettes, and will have to go outside to fetch some.

But when we are coming back in from the cold, all will be fine.