Modeselektor – Groove Podcast 25

Kryptic Minds, Killawatts, Pearson Sound, Objekt, Jon Hopkins, Darkside, Martyn… the tracklist of this mix includes an extremely high percentage of some of my favourite artists at the moment. Plus it has been forged by the Modeselektor guys, yet another outstanding project. I don’t have any idea how that flew under my radar until now……

N.O.W. Is The Time Documentary

It was 19 years ago when Nightmares On Wax dropped Smokers Delight, an album I can listen to again and again and again, a timeless masterpiece of laid-back music that is among my all-time favourites. However, the musical history of George Evelyn aka DJ E.A.S.E goes back even further, and this documentary tells about it. Interesting…

Mixed by Frikstailers

South American folklore on fluorescent steroids: Meet the Frikstailers. As a core member of the ZZK Records family the duo stands for the blooming and booming Nu LatAm sound. This mixtape is  journey from traditional Cumbia rhythms and deep tropical grooves to Trap and Bass Music infused dance floor bangers, including tracks from Chancha Via…

Sebastian Mullaert – WYS Mix 2014

The latest DJ mix by Sebastian Mullaert is utterly unsurprising. Shortly after declaring the split with his Minilogue companion the Swedish producer delivers exactly what I expected him to do: A deeply hallucinogenic melange of hypnotic beats, subliminal harmonies, heady noise cascades and shifting sound structures. I like where this is going.

Douglas Rushkoff About the Retaking of Now

In this 45-minute TV show Douglas Rushkoff reflects on a world where everybody is in an always-on state, about how modern communication technology does not aim at connecting people, but at keeping the marketplace alive, about eyeball hours and the colonization of human attention, and how a zombie apocalypse might even become a more desirable…