RE: (313) mad mike interview
Selon Svagr, Jodie [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hey Dimitri, how've you been? Its been ages since my last email to you via myspace. I've been so busy, but now a few slow days has resulted in time to write endless hyperreal books... lol I'm fine, glad to see you writing 'hyperreal' books again ... he he Thanks for the info about who the makers of the video are, I will follow up. Yeah, I think their job desserves attention since it looks pointed on right things and freshly done. These kinds of things can only help the whole eletronic scene; As for the info about the meaning of high tech, its agreed and understood that high tech is associated with the music they create, but in the context of what he was referring to, I believe you have misunderstood his meaning. Hmm error from my side, I've explained the term ' High Tech ' from a pure records and dj point of view out of the context of the video. Thinking that 'somewhere' only 'those who know' could understand all the meaning behind. I think you are from those who know, no problem on this question, I've just replyed too quickly from the dj point of view. High tech has been used so often in association with records, that I can understand why you may have understood his statement differently than I. My understanding of it was that he used the term to describe a lifestyle that UR lives by. From my experiences with Mike, and as it said in the video, he's an avid supporter of his neighborhood, and he really makes an effort to work with the kids. Mike typically wont talk music without bringing the conversation to talk of contributing to the neighborhood. He finds the two, music and contribution, completely linked, which is probably why he uses the term high tech to describe both. At least that is my understanding of it. It is also and definitely my understanding of it, I just don't use it as a way to explain if a random electronic music lover I could meet anywhere during any event/moment ask me why I love so much UR/Detroit and all related artists music. I generally reply it's the vibe I feel and it's funky, free to them to discover more or not. It's their choice, not mine. I realise that talk of contributing to the neighborhoods is not necessarily a hyperreal list related topic. I was inspired by the UR video, figured I should respect the ethos Mike lives by and try to bring the conversation to talk of contributing to neighborhoods. Especially since so many people on this list are avid researchers and music enthusiasts of Detroit, I was wondering if anyone has ever found interesting ways to contribute to the cities neighborhoods. Sure, it's not very '313 list' as a subject, but imo it desserves to be discussing. A lot of peoples on this list, not the top actives ones, but a lot never visited Detoit. Some would be certainly happy to hear comments and opinions not writed by journalists who love to expand and re arrange things like they want them to be, to keep a correct amount of readers, to exite them I don't know, but to uninform them for sure. With sometimes too much words about the bad side of Detroit, they help it to stay in the ghetto picture, there is good things in Detroit,, Submerge being the most beautiful example at some points. A bit of an open-ended question, I know, and if someone asked me the same thing, I'm not sure how would I respond. Speaking of what I have done and am trying to do would contradict my humble beliefs for wanting to contribute. I personally prefer to be an unrecognized soldier in the mix of helping the movement. I have quite a few stories I'd love to share about interesting ways other people have contributed to the city, but since I've already written a book, I figure I'll leave the stories for another time. Unknown (or unrecognized) soldiers, it's what most of the supporters are. If anyone else has any interesting stories of ways people have contributed to the city, I'd love to hear, it may bring a bit of a smile to this dreary rainy holiday season. lol I guess you'll find easily. Out for now... Jodie Same here ;-) Peace -- Dimitri Pike http://wildtek.free.fr http://www.myspace.com/wildtek
RE: (313) Berlin - Lasting club nights
Possibilities being kept warm by a process of convection, perhaps ... -Original Message- From: António Alves Felizardo [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 15 December 2006 16:46 To: 313@hyperreal.org Cc: Toby Frith Subject: Re: (313) Berlin - Lasting club nights Sounds good! Any more european gigs planned? Antonio On Dec 15, 2006, at 1:29 PM, Toby Frith wrote: Having said that, I'll be at Berghain at the end of Feb for a certain Dallas-based dude.
Re: (313) mad mike interview
I realise that talk of contributing to the neighborhoods is not necessarily a hyperreal list related topic. Sure, it's not very '313 list' as a subject, but imo it desserves to be discussing. A lot of peoples on this list, not the top actives ones, but a lot never visited Detoit. Some would be certainly happy to hear comments and opinions not writed by journalists who love to expand and re arrange things like they want them to be, to keep a correct amount of readers, to exite them I don't know, but to uninform them for sure. With sometimes too much words about the bad side of Detroit, they help it to stay in the ghetto picture, there is good things in Detroit,, Submerge being the most beautiful example at some points. It's funny that both of you think this is a non-list topic. I think it's bang on topic for the list personally and would love to hear more about this side of things. Better than some of the topics we've had recently, ahem. robin...
Re: (313) mad mike interview
Word is Bornd. happy monday everyone! It's funny that both of you think this is a non-list topic. I think it's bang on topic for the list personally and would love to hear more about this side of things. Better than some of the topics we've had recently, ahem. robin...
Re: (313) mad mike interview
It's funny that both of you think this is a non-list topic. I think it's bang on topic for the list personally and would love to hear more about this side of things. Better than some of the topics we've had recently, ahem. robin... If we enter this topic, I take my best working keyboard, the one with multimedia options/accessories and little space at bottom to support our tired hands along a big coffee .. ;-) No seriously, it's interesting to discuss about what Detroit peoples are doing in and around Detroit to reach a better way of life, at least to change the most bad things related to the city. Happy with it or not, the city has put a lot of efforts to renovate Dowtown, ok, I already hear a lot of peoples coming to say yeah but they destructed the old Motown Building and few other historic ones, they invest only in Downtown, the SuperBall is the only reason, etc... True but in same time this have a dynamic and positive action on the Detoit 'view from visitors' who mostly don't care of the old motown building, who don't come to Detroit since years because it's still the murder capital in their mind. And there is some who care about the SuperBall, some of them being truely techno fans or simply who would love to know more about the city and don't do it just because of the bad reputation. Detroit was in the top ten of murder city in USA past years and today it's not anymore the first one... After years at top, it's something appreciable to see that Detroit is becoming maybe more 'cool'. Even if it's still very hard, I agree. there is still cops found dead in the back of supermarkets ... On a more precise point, about peoples living there, there is teams and associations of peoples who act right and move things like organising groups who goes during sunday morning to Cass Corridor ( well know area regarding drugs, guns, homeless peoples, it's history ...) and try to clean up as they can the area, sure it's not revolutionnary but they do it and it's already something better than staying behind tv, there is mountain Bike clubs, there is photography clubs and meetings, the fall down of the industry is definitely responsible of the decay, the lot of homeless peoples and criminal things we know, of course, no job = no money, no money = another way to eat each day. But in these sad things, a lot of artists and peoples found a benefit or something to use at their motor to growth and expand ... I think if UR today is strong, it's because they suffered of this environement, they found a way to extract the good things from the bad ones and today, they make a living out of it. It's all positive. I read/hear a lot of peoples saying it's stupid to create lofts in Downtown or in another area because there is no one to rent them at this price... Ok, but with the effort to renovate Detroit done by a lot, each one at his level, why not count on future moves to Detroit of business owners, even if they creates jobs for only 2/3 peoples, its again already something. And it's again a benefit for atists since in place of making music out of the decay, hardlife, they could work with business owners for their multimedia promo campaigns, with tv's, radio's, all sound design related jobs for the business side as well as producing for the art side... Of course, there is tons of other problems and toubles much more important but from my position, as I can hear and see from peoples I know, I 'm optimist regarding the future of this city. There is little actions there and there, an envy from a lot to live in a better environement, it's relatively fresh, I mean ten or twenty years ago, this positive thinking was out of question if we relate to all what we hear about Detroit from medias, artists themselves, various travellers experiences... Open to the discusion ! Dimitri -- Dimitri Pike http://wildtek.free.fr http://www.myspace.com/wildtek
FW: (313) Berlin - Lasting club nights
Never mind your obtuse prose we want DATES (and places). ;-P -Original Message- From: Odeluga, Ken [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Possibilities being kept warm by a process of convection, perhaps ... -Original Message- From: António Alves Felizardo [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sounds good! Any more european gigs planned? On Dec 15, 2006, at 1:29 PM, Toby Frith wrote: Having said that, I'll be at Berghain at the end of Feb for a certain Dallas-based dude.
(313) Belgium 20 - 29 December
I'll be in Belgium from the 20th-29th and I'm wondering if anyone could recommend some decent record shops in Antwerp, Brussels or Liege? Also if anyone could recommend any gigs during that time. Thanks! -- Marc Kremers -- http://tex-server.org http://as-found.net http://hi-res.net -- 20b Castlewood Road N16 6DW London UK -- +44 794 602 51 81 --
Re: (313) mad mike interview
Some would be certainly happy to hear comments and opinions not writed by journalists who love to expand and re arrange things like they want them to be, to keep a correct amount of readers, to exite them I don't know, but to uninform them for sure. I hear that a lot but I think it's a terrible generalisation. I think you only need to visit blogs and forums online by non media types to find a far bit of similar misinformation. It's a human trait. Many journalists do strive to be balanced and accurate. I've written for many papers and I've never been told to write things in such a way as to misrepresent them like that. Also music journalists are among the most underpaid in this industry - it's not something you do for glamour and power or whatever you may think. ;)
RE: (313) mad mike interview
It's funny that both of you think this is a non-list topic. I think it's bang on topic for the list personally and would love to hear more about this side of things. Better than some of the topics we've had recently, ahem. robin... If we enter this topic, I take my best working keyboard, the one with multimedia options/accessories and little space at bottom to support our tired hands along a big coffee .. ;-) No seriously, it's interesting to discuss about what Detroit peoples are doing in and around Detroit to reach a better way of life, at least to change the most bad things related to the city. I'm really happy to hear that people are taking note in the positive things that are happening, and I def agree Robin, this topic is more interesting than some of the I know more about this topic than you... posts people sometimes get carried away with, Ahem. I prefer topics like this, ones that will transfer new knowledge about the city whilst pairing it with historical references. Happy with it or not, the city has put a lot of efforts to renovate Dowtown, ok, I already hear a lot of peoples coming to say yeah but they destructed the old Motown Building and few other historic ones, they invest only in Downtown, the SuperBall is the only reason, etc... True This actually isnt completely true, even though it may seem so. The mayor has a rather interesting vision about the developments of the city. He's trying to change the entire status quo, the industry, the way people survive and make money, and most importantly, the way people view the city and its history. Its a massive movement he is pushing forward. Yes, he's put a lot of effort into the downtown area at the moment, the reason being, is that for years and years, the business people of downtown would drive their cars into the parking garages, park, walk in the overhead enclosed walkways into their pristine offices, work their 9-5, and then walk back to their cars via the overhead walkways, and then drive back to the suburbs, where they would spend the money they made in Detroit, on goods and restaurants in the suburbs. The mayor wants to change this, so at the 300th anniversary of Detroit, they launched the new park, Campus Martius, which is located up the street a bit from Hart Plaza. The entire purpose of this park is to be the catalyst for the renovations of the city. 7 days a week, 365 days a year, the park implements events that are designed to encourage people to form a community. Music, Movies, Art, Performances, Dancing, everything you could imagine. All of the programming done, as well, encorporates businesses from the outlying areas, trying to show people that lots of things happen in the city, even outside of the downtown area. In addition, the park is available for rentals, weddings, techno fest parties, and fashion shows. The first two years was a very slow time for this park, not a lot of people attended the events, unless it was a special occassion. But through this patience and programming, the park last summer went from having 1-3 bookings per month, to having more than 6-9per week. And as expected, the city is expanding this change outwards. They are redoing the walkways, building additional parks, and encouraging developments by working with the local restaurants and shops, even the very small ones, in order to get people, outsiders of the city, to know and understand how great a place it is to visit. As for the Super Bowl being the only reason, thats not true, many of these renovations had begun prior to the Super Bowl craze. Its just that the Super Bowl kicked into high gear and pushed Detroiter's to finish their renovations as quickly as possible. No wonder, because the city and its citizens made an absolute fortune during that time. Plus it was a chance to show people that Detroiter's really know how to put on great entertainment, and not just via record sales, but via massive arts events with performance art, and anything imaginable really. but in same time this have a dynamic and positive action on the Detoit 'view from visitors' who mostly don't care of the old motown building, who don't come to Detroit since years because it's still the murder capital in their mind. And there is some who care about the SuperBall, some of them being truely techno fans or simply who would love to know more about the city and don't do it just because of the bad reputation. Detroit was in the top ten of murder city in USA past years and today it's not anymore the first one... Last I heard, these numbers of murders are on the rise again. Our favourite president Bush implemented a fabulous new law regarding the schools and most of the music programmes across the country have been removed in favour of pushing the sciences and maths. Historically, Detroit had some of the strongest school music programmes in the country, and this removal has caused a lot of uneasy rest
RE: (313) mad mike interview
Well, since you ask Jodie, I can suggest that people look at the brilliant work of The Heidelberg Project. http://www.urban75.com/Mag/heidel.html This also neatly dovetails with the idea you mention Jodie, of 'Hi-Tech' being synonymous with both music *and* community work, seeing as we also have the music project below with the same name. Also, someone once explained to me that there was a link, although that escapes me now - still, I know the name is not just used because it's cool. It's also quite appropriate that the contribution of the music to the 'real' project is low-key http://www.discogs.com/artist/Heidelberg+Project -Original Message- From: Svagr, Jodie [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 17 December 2006 21:25 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: 313@hyperreal.org Subject: RE: (313) mad mike interview big snip to abridge that 'book', or maybe you really *did* write one!?!?! :). If so, no offence intended. *** If anyone else has any interesting stories of ways people have contributed to the city, I'd love to hear, it may bring a bit of a smile to this dreary rainy holiday season. lol Out for now... Jodie From: Wildtek Concept / DJ Dimitri Pike [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sun 17/12/2006 18:53 To: Svagr, Jodie Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; 313@hyperreal.org Subject: RE: (313) mad mike interview Makes me want to ask a curious question to all of the 313ers, has anyone from this list ever brought any of the high-tec that Mike's talking about to Detroit? Yes, this interview is definitely great, it's done by Slice DVD, correct me if I'm wrong ... http://www.eb-slices.net/ For 'High Tech' correct me again if I'm wrong but : High Tech is defining most of the UR and others Submerge distributions, a way to separate UR from the all techno/electro music available on the market. All Interstellar Fugitives tracks, a lot of Metroplex releases, I would say all tracks not 4/4 techno rythm are 'High Tech'. There is a 'High Tech Funk' logo on a lot of releases, if you own some cd's/vinyls from Submerge, there is a lot of chances that you'll find it somewhere on the packaging. Hope this help, Peace. -- Dimitri Pike http://wildtek.free.fr http://wildtek.free.fr/ http://www.myspace.com/wildtek
Re: FW: (313) Berlin - Lasting club nights
Convextion ( $tinkworx) Big Europe Midified Tour is going something like Feb 24th (Sat) - Berlin - Panorama Bar March 2nd (Fri) - Amsterdam tbc March 3rd (Sat) - Paris - Le Bataclan March 9th (Fri) - London tbc March 10th (Sat) - Glasgow there will probably be a couple smaller shows/cities added in as well -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Dec 18, 2006 5:58 AM To: 313@Hyperreal.Org 313@hyperreal.org Subject: FW: (313) Berlin - Lasting club nights Never mind your obtuse prose we want DATES (and places). ;-P -Original Message- From: Odeluga, Ken [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Possibilities being kept warm by a process of convection, perhaps ... -Original Message- From: António Alves Felizardo [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sounds good! Any more european gigs planned? On Dec 15, 2006, at 1:29 PM, Toby Frith wrote: Having said that, I'll be at Berghain at the end of Feb for a certain Dallas-based dude.
RE: (313) mad mike interview
Hey Ken, Tyree's contribution to the city is unmistakable. lol I did mention this in the 2nd book I wrote a few hours back, but I completely understand how the length may have caused you and others to miss that. Thanks for pulling him out especially for those readers who prefer short quips. lol The way you write makes it sound as tho you are part of Tyree's efforts..., true?!? If so, keep up the great work! FYI... no actual published books yet, but I do write a lot, so maybe one day.. :) lol From: Odeluga, Ken [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Mon 18/12/2006 15:18 To: Svagr, Jodie; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: 313@hyperreal.org Subject: RE: (313) mad mike interview Well, since you ask Jodie, I can suggest that people look at the brilliant work of The Heidelberg Project. http://www.urban75.com/Mag/heidel.html This also neatly dovetails with the idea you mention Jodie, of 'Hi-Tech' being synonymous with both music *and* community work, seeing as we also have the music project below with the same name. Also, someone once explained to me that there was a link, although that escapes me now - still, I know the name is not just used because it's cool. It's also quite appropriate that the contribution of the music to the 'real' project is low-key http://www.discogs.com/artist/Heidelberg+Project -Original Message- From: Svagr, Jodie [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 17 December 2006 21:25 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: 313@hyperreal.org Subject: RE: (313) mad mike interview big snip to abridge that 'book', or maybe you really *did* write one!?!?! :). If so, no offence intended. *** If anyone else has any interesting stories of ways people have contributed to the city, I'd love to hear, it may bring a bit of a smile to this dreary rainy holiday season. lol Out for now... Jodie From: Wildtek Concept / DJ Dimitri Pike [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sun 17/12/2006 18:53 To: Svagr, Jodie Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; 313@hyperreal.org Subject: RE: (313) mad mike interview Makes me want to ask a curious question to all of the 313ers, has anyone from this list ever brought any of the high-tec that Mike's talking about to Detroit? Yes, this interview is definitely great, it's done by Slice DVD, correct me if I'm wrong ... http://www.eb-slices.net/ For 'High Tech' correct me again if I'm wrong but : High Tech is defining most of the UR and others Submerge distributions, a way to separate UR from the all techno/electro music available on the market. All Interstellar Fugitives tracks, a lot of Metroplex releases, I would say all tracks not 4/4 techno rythm are 'High Tech'. There is a 'High Tech Funk' logo on a lot of releases, if you own some cd's/vinyls from Submerge, there is a lot of chances that you'll find it somewhere on the packaging. Hope this help, Peace. -- Dimitri Pike http://wildtek.free.fr http://wildtek.free.fr/ http://wildtek.free.fr/ http://www.myspace.com/wildtek
(313) 4 Deck Tape Action
Watch for beat matching on the second deck :) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DyP7R9RSV-o m
(313) delsin mix track ID
anyone know the track at 45 mins in the autumn mix 2006? very pretty. also i have some tracks i'd like mastered. can anyone reccommend someone who is down with 313 music, relatively inexpensive and can work with wav masters on CD and some reference tracks that are close to what i'm after? my masters are good, just need a bit of pro compression, eq balance tarting up a little. thanx! philski
Re: (313) 4 Deck Tape Action
Martin Dust wrote: Watch for beat matching on the second deck :) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DyP7R9RSV-o This clip was part of a full-length doco about the BBC Radiophonic Workshop, which is awesome and recommended viewing for anyone who vaguely cares about electronic music :-) -- Damian Stewart +64 27 305 4107 f r e y live music with machines http://www.frey.co.nz http://www.myspace.com/freyed
(313) announcing vague terrain 05: minimalism
announcing vague terrain 05: minimalism Vagueterrain.net the Toronto-based digital arts quarterly, has just launched its fifth issue: vague terrain 05: minimalism. This issue is dedicated to an exploration of minimalism and technology through various texts and multimedia projects which document and explore reductionism. This diverse body of work contains contributions spanning multiple mediums from: aidan baker, bleupulp, clinker, granny'ark, greg j. smith, gregory shakar, i8u, jan jelinek (interview by greg j. smith), martin john callanan, michaela schwentner, monolake (interview by corina macdonald), patrick lichty, steven read and tobias c. van veen. To view the journal please visit http://www.vagueterrain.net
Re: (313) 4 Deck Tape Action
oh, the doco's called 'Alchemists of Sound' -- Damian Stewart +64 27 305 4107 f r e y live music with machines http://www.frey.co.nz http://www.myspace.com/freyed
