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What's the best strategy of dealing with neighbours that listen to awful local pop at top volume? Being a vindictive bastard, I chose to move the speakers to the kitchen, turn them towards the window and play Aphex Twin's Ventolin. It's perfect: its sound is rough, aggressive, unpleasant, hard to listen to. Combine it with a powerful amplifier and the willingness to make coffee wearing earplugs, and your neighbours will hate you as much as you hate them.

After several tracks, I lowered the volume just to find out that yet another person added classical Arabic music to the cacophony. Bliss.

The music. The production (as far as I can hear through YouTube). The visuals. The lyrics. The message. Everything is just perfect about this work. It also shows how much innovation you can introduce while strictly adhering to the canons of the genre.

I don't know what else I can say, except that you absolutely MUST watch the debut video by a rising star from Permь.

Look here.

(Others, too, may find it interesting.)

PawSense begets art.

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Википеддя - вольготна всезнайка, в котору кожной людь могьот писать розны статти.

Vicipaedia (Anglice: Wikipedia) est farrago sententiarum electronice dispositarum, quae omnem hominum disciplinam vel scientiam in se continere petit, quae digna esse fide cupit, qua omnibus frui licet.

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A small techno event at Yankee's.

Leipzig


Berlin

A little minimal techno tomorrow at Fine (the black door to the left of Barood). Mail <discount at egotrip.org.il> for discounts (free entrances are limited, so don't count on them).

And there'll be some afternoon DJing at Bezalel's central café from 13:00 today.

Leipzig:


Berlin:

( The only cat I've seen in Europe )

Alice and Bob
So Much Drama

(via Schneier)

And then, in a few hours, less Banksy.

Playlist:

PCULT004: Diss0nance - WMD (Phonocult 2005) B1. WMD (Barem Remix)
Kahlwild 02: A. Vivanco - Las Velas EP (Kahlwild 2005) A. Las Velas No Arden
PCULT004: Diss0nance - WMD (Phonocult 2005) A2. Bleep Bloop
VA 006.2: Alex Smoke - Shminimal EP (Vakant 2005) A. Titti
ELSTER 00: Peter Schumann - Delicate Issue EP (Elster Records 2005) B2. S.T.A.Y.
MINUS 31: Heartthrob - Time For Ensor (M_nus 2005) B2. Grounded
PCULT004: Diss0nance - WMD (Phonocult 2005) A1: WMD
MINUS 35: Magda - Stop (M_nus 2005) B2. Oblivicleas [not mine]
REV 0001: Algorithm - 0001 (Revolver Recordings 1999) B1. Secant
found04: Ultrakurt - En Short EP (Foundsound 2005) A. Carnadada
Kahlwild 02: A. Vivanco - Las Velas EP (Kahlwild 2005) B. Input Zero
VA 006.2: Alex Smoke - Shminimal EP (Vakant 2005) B1. TV Is Pish

Favourites: Kahlwild 02, PCULT004, REV 0001.

2006-02-19 edit: Playlist

I really, desperately need new music.

Subject: [Bug 12345] Security improvments
Date: Thu,  1 Dec 2005 15:03:32 +0200 (IST)
From: bugzilla-daemon@foo.bar
To: onekosama@foo.bar

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Security is overrated.

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If you're even slightly interested in Techno, this is for you. The party on Friday the 20th of May looks really promising. Not a once-in-a-lifetime event, but at the very least a once-in-a-year one. You have been warned.

Happy Eleventh of September. Today I want to tell you about a party that was. In bullet points.

• Long and slow queues. We got there at two past opening midnight, and saw about 30 people waiting while the screeners were letting them in in small groups whenever they felt like it (which was quite rare). But it wasn't so bad: within fifteen minutes we were screened, searched and stamped (and paid for it as well).


• Annoying guards. The fuckers were actually patting people down and asking them to remove things from their pockets. They asked to see my keys and stared intensely at the box of earplugs, dammit. Without that the security of the club would suffer greatly. The good thing about underground parties is that even when they have a guard, he's a fellow raver saying hello in a friendly manner to everyone who enters. The greatest harassment I ever got from a rave guard was a polite request to take our conversation inside when we were talking somewhat loudly outside a s00per s1kr1t location in the city centre. Much better than an average club guard.


• High drink prices. 17 shekels for a 330ml bottle of Tuborg or Carlsberg is not just overpriced, it's robbery.


• Too much neon.


• Setting: average. The main dancefloor was a big crowded room with Not Nearly Enough Sofas, a bar and a balcony above it. The secondary dancefloor was a much smaller and somewhat less crowded room with More But Still Not Enough Sofas, a bar and constantly busy toilets behind it. Towards the end it also included a guy with an unhealthy fascination about pressing the smoke machine button. I hate smoke machines.


• Loud volume. I was right to bring earplugs. Playing music loud enough to damage the listeners' ears is just unethical, but many clubs do it.


• Drum and Bass. While this style of music can be very good, it's unclear how one is supposed to dance to it. It's usually around 180 BPM, which is insanely fast compared to Techno's 140. So you can either treat it as such and dance like crazy and crawl away in search of a sofa in fifteen minutes, or you can treat it as 90 BPM and dance really slowly. And it doesn't have the dance music's usual constant low-frequency beat that induces trance state so nicely; instead it has bass lines in lower frequencies and drums in upper middles and trebles. DNB followed by Techno would be better.


• Main floor. The DJs who played in the main hall in the beginning were not too interesting. The MC was quite pointless, but, thankfully, we haven't heard much of him, having arrived relatively late. The DJ in the end was better, and it was him who induced my fifteen minutes of proper 180 BPM insane jumping and waving of limbs (which was not as easy to do on a crowded dancefloor as it sounds).


• Upper sound. In the beginning the music in the small room was more interesting, but the DJ had an annoying Trance approach of building up the tension and releasing it every two minutes. The build-ups were too short and the breaks were too long for the music to be intense enough. Still, the tracks was quite interesting at times. The guy in the end played fucking pop.


• Overall impression: a DNB party for the masses. It was OK. Let's hope that Breakbeat/Techno parties will be better.

Or rather, "Give me your ID".

Why is it that having stressful eleven hour workdays (no paid overtime, mind you, we're Hi Tech™) is legal, but having stress relievers isn't (unless it's something highly addictive and harmful like Diazepam, better known as Valium)?

Why is it normal that one can be randomly searched in front of passers-by, watching the last bus home leave? Why is it accepted that the cops wouldn't even give the victim a ride home (or pay $7 for the taxi, for that matter)? Why is it such a fucking everyday matter that a person is subjected to such treatment only because he is suspected of committing a minor crime (i.e., looks funny)? "What do you say, will we find anything?" Yes, you will find lots of things, all of them legal, nothing more than a printed out thought crime. And anyway, don't they have serial rapists to catch or Techno parties to break up or something?

I hate this fucking police state. I hate these stupid laws and the cops who use them to stop strangers they don't like (I can only guess why anybody would want to do something like that, but, apparently, our noble policemen enjoy this sort of activity). And if you think the police should have this power in order to "protect" us, I'll let the cop who never broke a law throw the first stone.

Now you will excuse me, I have a government to overthrow.

Children playing.