Archive for October, 2005
If Mike Patton does it, we can do it as well:
We offer a PowerMacintosh G3 which was used to produce the Nitrada debut “0+”, a classic of electronic music! The hit single “Love Me” was written and recorded on this computer! This one is legendary! What a bad ass you would be if you had this on your desk!! Imagine what your friends would say!!! Maybe you will even find some original samples from “0+” in the depths of the hard drive. How kool is that?!
The computer works great and has a custom autograph from Mr. Nitrada himself. You can choose between these signatures:
• I don’t know why, but I’ve spent a fortune on an outdated computer
• Le Chien Qui Mange La Rue
• Thanks for letting me pet your fish
Starting bid: 1500 Euro
Buy it now price: 2000 Euro
Auction ends: Oct-25-05 19:35:24 CET
Please email your bids to info AT 2ndrec DOT com (only serious bidders please).
October 18th, 2005
I’ve just learned that an EP with new songs and remixes from Chessie will be finally released in January 2006 on the very fine label lok-musik (who already released records by Contriva, Masha Qrella, Noël and Komëit).
Jens from lok gave us a vinyl testpressing a while ago and let me tell you that this is a very, very fine record. There are new Chessie songs plus remixes from Sutekh and Dntel (I only have a whitelabel, but I’m quite sure that it was Dntel who did the other remix).
The remix of “Daylight”, originally released on Chessie’s amazing album “Overnight”, is also available on “Born Again”, a collection of remixes by Sutekh, which is rocking our stereo while I type.
Both releases, the Chessie EP and the Sutekh remix compilation, will be available from our online mailorder, as soon as they are released.
October 18th, 2005
I’ve never met Nitrada (better known as Christophe Stoll to family and friends), but if I did, I wouldn’t be surprised to discover a man infatuated with bleakness and admiration for seclusion. When listening to his first full-length album, We Don’t Know Why But We Do It, it’s hard to imagine a man who doesn’t spend hours alone in retreat from misty landscapes and dreary surroundings.
I just stumbled across this review again. How much would i love to meet “chadwicked”, the reviewer, to show him what a happy and open-minded person i am! :-)
October 17th, 2005
Some photos from Amanda’s recent concert in Frankfurt, Germany (Photos by eikman).
October 17th, 2005
Is anyone else tired of reading about iPods in almost every blog / magazine / newspaper? Everywhere I look it’s iPod this and iPod that. The music press, even those magazines who cover independent and underground music, report iPod sales figures and Apple’s quarterly profit. Music blogs link to porn websites because a girl is licking a Nano instead of cock, and everything remotely related to this product seems to be worth mentioning.
I don’t understand that all the hype is still fascinating four years after the first iPod was introduced. I would be really happy to see people writing and discussing more about the music itself rather than a device that plays back a recording.
And before i get bashed, let me say that I’m a (most of the time) avid Macintosh user, I check out Apple rumor websites quite often and sometimes I even watch Steve Jobs’ Keynote speeches. I don’t own an iPod (I’ve never had any mobile music player, no Walkman, Minidisc or other MP3-players), but I’ve already used it, I know how it works and feels and yes, the iPod is a great product, the Nano looks amazing and iTMS works like a gem.
October 17th, 2005
I’ve just read this in the newsletter from Norman Records and I totally agree:
There’s a John Peel ‘tribute’ CD coming out through Warner Brothers. It has loads of Peel faves on there - The Fall, Weddoes etc. It costs £16 or so for a double CD and according to the Warner Brothers spiel, a ‘portion’ of the profits will be given to charities close to Peel’s heart. A portion????????? Where will the rest of the profits be going? As as a result of this unsavoury profiteering we will not be stocking this CD so you’ll have to buy it from Tesco’s or somewhere if you want it. There seems to be quite a bit of this kind of thing surrounding the first anniversary of his death. It’s great that there’s a day of gigs going on across the country but I fear there’s also a bit of bandwagon jumping. I would advise though that to really commemorate a man that hated the cynical side of the music industry and believed in true independent/underground music you consider spending the equivalent value on records by bands on independent labels and/or give money direct to the charities - The Salvation Army, East Anglia’s Children’s Hospices and the Kariandusi School Trust.
A true tribute to the most important man in the history of radio is Shellac’s awesome song “The End of Radio”.
More about the “John Peel Day”.
October 16th, 2005
I was aimlessly browsing the internet when this banner popped in my eye. It was addressed to me (”Dear other record labels”), so kept watching it. “Our fans are better then your fans”, the text continued, “They mail us cookies.”
Which made me ponder if we have ever received any cookies from our fans. We’ve got megabytes of nice emails, we’ve got a box full of lovingly crafted postcards and letters starting with “hello my favourite label”, we’ve even got this:
But have we ever gotten home-made cookies? I can’t think of any… So if you want to prove those guys from Springman Records wrong, please send cookies to:
2nd rec
Laufgraben 27
20146 Hamburg
We believe in you. Please don’t disappoint us. You are the best, we know it.
(Of course you could also show us your love by ordering some of our records, that would help to feed our tummies as well.)
October 16th, 2005
While looking for some files on old backup CDs, I’ve found a MP3 of a short mix I’ve recorded almost 4 years ago. I am not a good DJ (actually I am not a DJ at all), so don’t expect anything fancy. It’s just half an hour of very beautiful, noisy, electronica/electro-acoustic tracks pieced together. I hope you’ll like it.
Anywhere (MP3, 192 kBit/sec, 38.5 MB)
October 15th, 2005
Once upon a time, when I was still living with my parents in a village somewhere in the middle of Germany, I was shopping in the nearby town. Proper record shops all went out of business and the only place that was selling CDs was a department store. So i was walking around all those shelves filled with crappy CDs and i was about to leave this musical wasteland, when i’ve heard these lines: “I might fall from a tall building, I might roll a brand new car. ‘Cause I’m the unknown stuntman that made Redford such a star.”
I was pretty much into hardcore/noise/punkrock at that time and couldn’t care less about country music, but this tune was so familiar to me, so deeply burned into my memory, that i brushed aside all my musical snobbishness and asked the guy at the counter where i could find that CD. I happily went home with a compilation of old TV theme songs…
Today I still get thrilled when I listen to the tunes from A-Team, Knight Rider or Miami Vice. I guess these songs are such an immanent part of my adolescence, that i will never forget them in my whole life.
If you feel the same, have a look at this archive of old TV theme songs. (and even more stuff over here). I’ve just wasted an hour digging through those files.
Which are your favourite TV theme songs?
October 15th, 2005
I’m going to see Alva Noto and Ryuichi Sakamoto in Berlin at Volksbühne tomorrow night (they’re on tour together). Very exciting, i’m really looking forward to it. Have you already heard their last record?
October 14th, 2005
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