from Ander for your ears
As you might have noticed, the page of my show on audioasyl.net has been hacked by somebody called Alabdli. She put a picture of herself on the page. I enjoy it very much, but I would rather have my old page back (should be back soon) (it is back already). Any of you know what the Arabic actually means? The internet is a dangerous place.
While Sven Väth will be rocking the crowd downstairs in Palais X-TRA, I will be playing a live set upstairs in the bar at the exclusive X TRA TEC together with KW32, Lukas Kleesattel and Snur. You need to register in advance, so please do. My friend Jestics is also playing on the second floor of the main event, so don’t miss it.
The last two weeks I spent without music, cycling from Bilbao to Avignon. Very nice. Now it’s time to think about music again. I just found this interview with Karlheinz Stockhausen (via Waveformless) where Karlheinz is obviously dissatisfied with the music he was made to hear from Aphex Twin, Richie Hawtin, Scanner, and Daniel Pemberton. It reminds me of a quote from Thomas Meinecke which I found some time ago in the Swiss Tagesanzeiger Magazin:
“Der heute 53-jährige deutsche Schriftsteller und Musiker Thomas Meinecke hat mir vor fünf Jahren zu Protokoll gegeben: «Sowas wie Techno aus Detroit versteht man erst nach mindestens 100 Stunden Hören, wovon 80 vielleicht nicht einmal sehr erfreulich waren. Doch dann bemerkt man die feinsten Unterschiede, man lernt sie zu lesen – und gerät sofort in die Nähe der Esoterik. Mir ist klar, dass hier Glaubensdinge ins Spiel kommen.»”Essentially, Meinecke says that his first 80 hours of listening to Detroit Techno were rather unpleasant and that you start appreciating it only after that. Maybe Karlheinz should have listened some more. I will now.
