Tuesday, December 29, 2009
Karl Marx says "Merry Christmas"!
Saturday, December 26, 2009
Saturday, December 19, 2009
Edges - 2010 trends
Sharp-edged blazers and jackets are amongst the newest trends for 2010. The design and the concept of the blazer are simple yet effective, giving you an overall futuristic look.
The Motel Contrast Shoulder JacketThe 5.16 Fringe Trim Jacket is available on www.asos.com
Sunday, November 01, 2009
I LOVE TECHNO 2009
I think I've finally recovered from the atrocities of an after party hang-over, a few days ago we courageously set of from Rotterdam Central Station and spent an hour and a bit sitting in packed trains and freezing train stations until we finally reached Gent in Belgium. When we got out of the Station we immediately knew we were at the right place; I Love Techno, Europe's leading dance festival featuring some of the best of the best in electronic music and some 40'000 guests!!!
The night held the following line up:
Blue Room:
Partyharders Squad
The Proxy
A-Trak
The Subs
Boys Noize
Zombie Nation
Tiga
Green Room:
Fader
Johnny D
Paul Kalkbrenner
Joris Voorn
Luke Slater's Planetary Assault
Adam Beyer
Deadmau5
Chris Leibing
Yellow Room:
Sound Pellegrino Thermal Team
Yuksek
Surkin
Laurent Garnier
Tocadisco
Simian Mobile Disco
Brodinski
Kr!z
Red Room:
Len Faki
Speedy J
Vitalic
Dave Clark
Carl Craig
Orange Room:
Sound of Stereo
Buraka Som Sistema
The Count and Sinden
Birdy Nam Nam
Crookers
The Bloody Beetroots
Fake Blood
Don Rimini
If the line-up hasn't got you sweating in regret then I have no idea what you are doing on my blog because this is what it's all about, the night was amazing, halls as big as a country, an atmosphere impossible to ignore; this is the type of party at which the loneliest nerd would feel obliged to let loose and scream out his satisfaction.
The night was highlighted by our 15 minute waits in line to get into each room, followed by another 45 minutes or so of senseless dancing before we went to check out someone else, another thing to keep in mind is, buy plenty of food and drink tickets when you get in, because there is nothing worse than going through 30 euro's of weed, alcohol and god knows what else, and discovering that the random crowd in the main hanger is in fact the cue for food and drinks.
Personally, I haven't had a rougher night in ages, Yuksek was awesome, playing pretty much everyone of his songs live, followed by the Proxy, who for anyone with a hint of what electro is about was totally outrageous, then we jogged eagerly to see A-Trak which for me was the highlight of the evening, we walked in to his remix of MSTRKRFT's Bounce, and we walked out to him feverishly scratching Daft Punks' Robot Rock into a new song, overall...mind-boggling!
Another highlight, is the recently super famous duo of The Bloody Beetroots; with a series of ultra-heavy electro tracks killing the dancefloor, we went absolutely mad, I wouldn't be surprised if a good part of my sanity was left behind in that room, but thanks to this awesome little chap that was filming the whole time you can check it out for yourselves:
The chillout lounge as a matter of fact is an amazing place to be as well, so many different things occured there, such as law abiding police officers walking totally past drug users (or since it was about 4 o'clock, drug abusers) and not even acknowledging their existance, and one very desperate man's attempt to pull his T-Shirt on, I don't know what he was on, but seriously; it took him almost an hour, like, a proper hour to get his head in that T-shirt.
Then again, I may have overdone it with the details, so why not take a listen yourselves and see what it was all about:
Friday, October 23, 2009
Wednesday, October 21, 2009
Friday, October 09, 2009
Kanye West Vs High Contrast?
Kanye West's Flashing Lights got remixed by the famous British DnB artist Lincoln Barett a.k.a. High Contrast. The final product of the song is amazing... LLove it!
Thursday, October 08, 2009
Wednesday, October 07, 2009
Yes We Want More!!!
It's finally hit the streets!!! The Aston Shuffle's releasing "Do You Want More" on Hussle Recordings with a bunch of delicious remixes from Alex Gopher the Subs and The Aston Shuffle, yes, they remixed their own song, seems to be popular like with Van She's Vemixes. Let's skip the bullocks and get right to the point, here's a taste of their new release, slightly disappointed, I expected more out of it, but your opinion is your own, so check it out!
And an all time favourite by The Aston for the road:
Tuesday, September 29, 2009
New Years Top Ten!!!
I recently went to this party in Rotterdam, club Watt, possibly the most depressing and disappointing party I've ever been to. It was supposed to be some kind of New Years party, on the 10th of September, don't bother asking me why, it was a sly attempt at humour by our host Eastpak and the highlights of the party were supposed to be Hot Chip, followed by Goose, who I expected nothing less than a night to remember. Hot Chip started up with "Ready for the Floor" remixed by Soulwax, I believe it was a special edit and it had my hopes high, following this amazing track came a continuous clamor of minimal music that sent me, disappointed, to the smoker's terrace hoping to smoke a joint while waiting for Goose... Around 3am, ther minimal still pumping, I decided to ask the Bouncer whether Goose had died or something, to which he replied that since there weren't enough people they weren't coming, so I left.
The point of all this is that it reminds me of posting a top ten, since Soulwax's remix of "Ready For The Floor" is definitely in there.
Here is what I consider a decent top ten, in no particular order:
And one for the road since we have some kind of blog love going about for the Aston Shuffle:
Sunday, September 20, 2009
Friday, August 07, 2009
Time for a Vacation
Hello everybody,
CookMyBrain will be cooking her brain on the seaside for a few weeks. When it is cooked well enough, she'll get back to you with lots of new music and ideas.
Stay healthy and dance!
iPod Dj Mixer?!
An iPod Dj Mixer ... cool isn't it?!
"Mix things up with this home mixer that lets you combine music from 2 iPods or mp3 players, or one of each. AC adapter; spin option; 2 effects programs with reverb, flange and filter and cross-fade slider; recording option and speaker system connection with a stereo audio cable with in-line jack;. Charges your iPod while it plays; compatible with a microphone. Folding headphones included. Imported. Wipe clean."
Kissy Sells Out!!!
I must admit that for the last several months I have been expectantly awaiting Kissy Sell Out's latest album ''Youth'' that was released halfway through last month, sadly I was a bitdisappointed by the results, I mean his finished version of Harriet really hits the spot! However he seems to have lost his rough and random dirty electro edge, and calmed down a bit. I hope he will come back to his previous style, as his "Kissy Klub" versions sound very different from what he was famous for.
Tuesday, August 04, 2009
Discobitch - C'est Beau La Bourgeoisie
Discobitch is an amazing french trio of Kylian Mash (on the left) is the producer of the hit "C'est Beau La Bourgeoisie" , that climbed up to the top of Europe's house charts last year. Laurent Konrad (on the right) is responsible for the dirty electro sound of the song, and the chick with the absolutely unnoticeable orange hair did some amazing work with the sexy-french-english dirty lyrics (check out the lyrics and the translation...so Uffie!).
I fell in love with this song, the first time I heard it in a friends' car. For the last 24 hours I've been nagging him (and spamming him with so many messages and calls :D ) to send it to me, when he finally did. So, enough with the bullcrap, I present you...
Monday, July 27, 2009
Back to the future - retro watchez!
13:51 h - CASIO Retro Digital Watch
11:44 h - ASOS Golden Digital Watch
3:26 h - Cal - Q - Tek 2000 Calculator Watch
00:00 h - CASIO Casual Watch
Monday, July 20, 2009
Round Table Knights - new amazing songs!
Round Table Knights... I don't know how they came up with this very random name, but it sounds good and I like it. The DJ duo comes all the way from Bern, Switzerland with some really nice tracks. It's strange that they don't belong to a particular style, they even say they like it "diverse", so they don't bother carrying whether their songs fit their style or not (haha cool!). They produce "all kinds of electronic / acoustic / futuristic / exciting / romantic / intense music". Cool! However, I fell in love with one of their songs called "Hold Me Back" - it has that cheerful, funky lyrics and melody that cheer you up whenever :) I also found a sweet remix by The Bulgarian, who is an upcoming Bulgarian electro DJ. Thank God, he gives me hope that the electro culture is finally going to hit there. There you go:
Sunday, July 19, 2009
Black Vs. White
(Click image to enlarge and see the sweet little designs on the t-shirts)
Black Vs White - the two opposites, that always go well together. Today I've made a rather casual combos with the always in fashion jeans and tee shirts.
1. Chick number one chose to wear a Neon Lines Oversized t-shirt, combined with Acid Black Vans jeans.
2. Number two chose one of my favourite Coloured Mirror Vest (I'm gonna kill her!) and Kate Vapour Leggings.
3. Number three was getting on my nerves, because she went mad, cos she said she was supposed to wear the Neon tee, but number One stole it from her in the changing room.. girls... Anyway, so the mad number three now is wearing a crazily designed Exploding tee by 55DSL with Ripped Denim Leggings.
4. Chick number four wasn't pretentious at all... so I chose for her a black Tiger tee by Free Gold Watch with my personal favourite Astara Wash Indigo Jeans.
Friday, July 03, 2009
Peaches - Talk To Me (produced by Soulwax) video
Merrill Beth Nisker, better known as the artist standing behind the name Peaches, is famous for her explicitly sexual and provoking lyrics. Back in 1995 in Canada, no-one would have guessed what was the drama teacher going to become... Now, her songs are played and known in the electronic culture, as well as they have been featured in many movies like Jack Ass Two, Lost in Translation, My Little Eye, Mean Girls etc.
"Talk To Me" was produced by Soulwax, (which immediately won my sympathies, as I have a passion for Soulwax's productions).. and is a part of her new upcoming album called "I Feel Cream". "Talk To Me" is an amazing result of the combination between the little taste of Justice with it's steady heavy beat and the simplicity of the melody, typical for Peaches. Love it.
From "I Feel Cream" album:
Some other tracks by Peaches you might like:
Nid and Sancy - Kidzz video
Nid and Sancy (actually Sid and Nancy) are the newest of my electro artists. They're from Belgium and they got some CRAZY music and especially videos. "Kidzz" (produced by Little Red Robot a.k.a. Seth Shukovsky, featuring Merlin Bronques' photography) completely blew me away... I immediately fell in love with the video...
Little Red Robot is a company that has done animations, clips, and advertisements for world-famous companies like Coca Cola, Nike, EA, Activision, Universal Studios... I think the Little Red Robot deserves our applause :)
I'm sorry I didn't write much about Nid and Sancy, but, I'm still in the process of research, and I can barely find any info about them. I will make another post soon , entirely about the duo, and hopefully will post some of their tracks.
Saturday, June 27, 2009
Wolfgang Gartner has gone electro too!
Woflgang Gartner - my newest of the artists I've discovered in the music branch. He's from the states, he's talented, and he's got originality. Joey Youngman, the name his parents gave him, made the alias Wolfgang Gartner as to put the beginning of his new self and his new style of performing. Youngman is describing his music style as club, although the tracks he has produced, according to me, are far from the boring old housish club music. “I was getting bored with house, with that whole sound,” he says. “I basically hadn’t evolved musically since the late 90's and had been rehashing the same ideas over and over. Something just snapped and I decided it was time for a complete change.” Well, he achieved what he was looking for. In an year he released 3 singles which hit the top 10's list at beatport.com. Here are some tracks I, personally, found sweet :)
Saturday, June 20, 2009
Too many dresses
Hello everyone! Today I felt like wearing a dress, but found out that the only one I have is super official boring @%^black #$ dress, which I've worn only twice - on my cousin's wedding, and at my father's birthday. So, typically me, I spent quite a lot of time browsing for a colourful, funky, cocktail dress, and again, I chose ASOS.com for that occasion.
The conception I chose is pretty simple. The dresses are asymmetrical, not too extravagant, and the most important - they got COLOURS!
1. Number One is wearing a loose, silk Kimono dress with some really sweet designs, that makes it stand out from the boring black dress crowd
2. Chick number Two is wearing a tight Quontum Multi Stripe Bandeau Dress which can be perfectly combined with accessories and/or shoes of any colour.
3. Number Three has chosen something rather more classical combination black and white asymmetrical outfit - perfect for both casual and official wearing. This is the ASOS Colour Block Jersey Drape Dress.
4. Hot chick number Four is feeling jealous of number Two and chose the same outfit, but different model of the Quontum Low Back Stripe Detail Mini Dress. The colourful and sexy back of the dress compensates the plainness from the front of the dress.
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Wednesday, June 17, 2009
N.A.S.A. Gifted (feat. Kanye West, Santogold, and Lykke Li) Video
One of the songs that is on my "Golden hits" list :D I'm never gonna be tired of it. So here's the video, which is as cool as the song itself. Kanye West have always been trying to stand out of the RnB crowd and all the music television's bullshit that's been flooding us since the television was invented. He's videos, his sounds, his outfit, and his lyrics have always been different. This clip is a perfect example of Kayne's sense for originality.
The combination of the artists Lykke Li, Kanye West and Santogold, was pretty unexpected, but very successful indeed. N.A.S.A. (North America/South America) is a project ran by the duo of Sam Spiegel (Squeak E. Clean) and Ze Gonzales (DJ Zegon). Those two guys are responsible for this cutting edge collaboration... and IT'S AMAZING! The video is a combination of bizarre-spacey-futuristic-innovative-transforming animation makes is absolutely unique, thanks to the enormous crew of top producers, designers, directors, animators, etc. P.S. I don't know why, but this reminds me of Karl Grandin and his wicked designs (check out previous post).
Note: listen to the lyrics :)
Check out The Aston Shuffle's remix!!
Monday, June 15, 2009
Digital Space Invaders Are Coming!
You have to throw balloons at the video wall to kill the space invaders. WEIRD!
This is a project by Multitouch Space Invaders XL.
Saturday, June 06, 2009
Sofia Design Week is in Sofia!!
Sofia Design Week is the first design festival to come to Bulgaria. The exhibition aims at transforming the city into a vibrant design capital. The event is organized and supported by Dutch and French embassies, along with the Bulgarian government, as well as lots of different brands; which indicates that the event itself is not just some random exhibition of ,what they call, "independent artists" (not that I don't like them ;) ), but rather shows us the best works of artists and desginers from a multitude of countries It's first aim was to welcome some of the most avangard designers from across the world. From 05-12 June 2009 there will be 25 exhibitions in 11 different places - from galleries to apartments. The artists are mainly from the Netherlands (I don't need to wonder why they have so much imagination after walking into a coffee shop) as well as from France, USA, UK, Bulgaria, Germany, Belgium, Greece, and Spain. The exhibitions vary in themes from innovative furniture, to weird typographical installations. Since the specific details on all the exhibitions are too many to describe, and I don't plan on sitting here all night, I'll forward you to a site where you can check out the ideas and info on each separate designers' creations.
Sofia Design Week includes workshops, lectures, and chill-out zones with free drinks and guest DJs, which makes it even more attractive for the people who esteem art, originality, and like having fun, of course. There's lots of neat stuff to learn during the expostions ranging from stuff like communication, product design to graphic design, and you can talk to the artists, and workshops, exchanging ideas, and find out some of the stuff that's in store for the future.
Sunday, May 31, 2009
Beachy
I don't know about you, but I'm not a nudist, even though I still haven't bought any swimwear for this summer, already having made my holiday plans. Anyway, it's through my search for some interesting swimwear that I fell upon the models displayed above. This summer, I'm betting the hype's gonna be on these one pieced swimsuits, with their various funky designs, since it seems most people've gotten bored of the single coloured two piece ones you see in nearly every shop you walk into, while truly be in the search for something like the above. The Miss Sixty's Kiss Swimming Suit was perfect for me, since it had exactly the design I was looking for. The model and shape is very original - it has stylish cutouts on the sides, and the back is actually in two pieces, along with it's original reflective pattern, and to me that just about sums up what I search for in swimwear. Another one I thought worth mentioning was the Insight's Supernatural Bathing Suit - a combination of the always fashionable contrast between black and white, and some illustrations (zoomed picture) by Natalie Wood (One of the Insight's designers). After all, you should wear whatever you feel comfortable in and have fun. Since I can't make up my mind about those two beach outfits, I think I'm gonna go nude this summer:) Hope my boyfriend doesn't mind :)
Tuesday, May 26, 2009
Timber! by Straight Line Designs
"We design and build what you can't find in stores. It's not what we've done; its what we're going to do next” this is the motto of a company I recently discovered called Straight Line Designs. Their innovative ideas are probably not something you'd see daily, and some of their products are really creative, and above all original, say, your, "furniture fantasies come true."
This imitation of a timber log, that is ecofriendly, serves the purpose of an iPod Dock, and is amongst the many recent novelties that Straight Line Designs have been coming up with. This amazing, but yet strange iPod Dock also acts as a set of speakers, sound is emitted from the sides through small holes and there are various buttons to control the functions on top, and I also think you get a really long warranty on this, since nobody is really going to think of stealing a log from your room, but you'd have to double check that...
Eric and Tami Soyring are a married couple, both into design, and their interest in the subject is what led them to create the Staight Line Designs company, with, as it's purpose, that of creating and design products that showed originality and creativity. The guy, who is actually a craftsman, is more into manufacturing and building your ideas, while Tami is the person that comes up with the ideas, looks like female domination in the family, sorry Eric.
So, if you find yourself sitting in the toilet, thinking about a system that could wipe, wash, dry and even perfume your buttocks in 30 seconds, and, on top of everything, looks awesome, then don't hesitate to contact Straight Line Designs, and the best bit is that they ship worldwide too :)
Monday, May 25, 2009
The Aston Shuffle's Gone Mental Slackers!!!
And it's the Aston Shuffle yet again delivering another remix that'll really rock your boat, it rocked mine, this time they went nuts on Full Mental Slackers' "Auto Riot", turning it into another of their signature remix, lots of pitch bends, nice synths, and those little vocal cuts that remind us of their remix of Nu-Coalition a while back.
Friday, May 22, 2009
Ableton Live 8 !
I suppose it's a bit late to write about Ableton Live 8, since it was released, according to your net calender, ages ago, but I still felt like it since I spent the last few weeks toying with it like mad, although this latest version of Ableton's long line of music production programs doesn't seem, at first glance to be much better than it's predecessor, Live 7, we soon see the difference.
Between it's huge repacked library, full of tons of everything, ranging from percs to really sweet bass synths, and renewed effects, including a vocoder, which really does the job :)
Which reminded me of an interview I watched which kind of shows us that, perhaps the Ableton crew is so secretive, it doesn't even keep it's staff up to date with stuff.
Apparently even Robert Henke didn't know what was going on, turns out he was wrong, lots of people need a vocoder, I mean think of Yuksek's stuff, I really couldn't believe he thought nobody needs it, there's barely anyone out there, that produces music that doesn't want to work with one, but before I get carried away, check out these vids with some tutorials and a look around at some of the latest features, enjoy :)
Wednesday, May 20, 2009
Another Macster?!
It was recently, when checking out the Hype Machine that I noticed their absence of stuff from Steve Mac, which stroke me as odd since it seems Pete Tong has recently played Paddy's Revenge, Steve's latest track in every mix he got the chance to.
Although, I must admit he slightly disappointed me with that track, as it's a bit too constant and housish, while still having that sweet little Irish feel and melody to it, and you must admit the ladies in the clip are more than enjoyable :) .
With production credits ranging through Kate Winslett, Kelly Clarkson and even Atomic Kitten, sadly not amongst my favourites, but he still hit top of the charts, I feel that I should post some of his stuff up here for you guys to check out.
Saturday, May 16, 2009
Etienne De Crecy
Etienne De Crecy - going under various aliases such as Superdiscount, EDC, Minos Pour Main Basse and Mooloodjee - is an innovative Dj and Producer known for his house features, and more recently his step into electro, setting off a whole new scene. He is amongst those that established Electro House, siding with people such as his fellow Frenchies; Daft Punk. Etienne evolved a really catchy electro style, that has many elements of house in it, and making his sound somewhat unique I should say his music is almost indespensable.
Etienne's style became a part of what we like to call the "French Touch" which has recently grown and still grows on the international music scene, by many his music is also recognized as fun, fresh and striking electro.
And his stage performance of his new track "Welcome" was amaaaazing, I haven't got the slightest idea how he pulled it
off, but the clip leaves you feeling rather stoned and confused for a while, it's probably the most
brilliant light show since Daft Punk's legendary Pyramid Show (youtube video) in 2006. !!!!!!WOW!!!!!!
ENJOY :)
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