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Lunatic Scale – [2011] VII

The Clinical Archives is one of the major netlabels out there. While most of their releases are too experimental for my taste, over 400 releases allowed me nevertheless to find some good ones. VII by Lunatic Scale is fresh, melodic alternative (or mainstream) Rock from Russia. Three sweet tracks, short and good.

Wed, 30th Nov 2011

Alternative, CCBYNCND, Rock
WSHtpc04 – new HTPC fullscreen panel for foobar2000 released

Download and instructions

Wed, 23rd Nov 2011
Various Artists – [2008] The Silent Ballet: Volume 9

The netlabel Lost Children specialises in Progressive Rock and related music genres. They offer a magnificent collection of free music compilations called The Silent Ballet. Here I present my favourite release of this series, being on the quiet and ambient side of the musical spectrum it offers. Volumes 1, 5 and 6 are my next…

Tue, 15th Nov 2011

CCBYNCND, Compilation, Post Rock, Rock
Berlin wallpapers

Tue, 25th Oct 2011
Colida – [2006] Eyes Shut and Ears Wide Open

Colida is a hard alternative rock band. And pretty good at it. This release at the German netlabel analog und ehrlich was recorded in 2005 in Oldenburg and is Colida’s third album. It only has four tracks, but those are worth the download. Fast, driving riffs, dry drums and a great voice — what else…

Sun, 2nd Oct 2011

Alternative, CCBYNCND, Rock
Derek Clegg – [2011] Beautiful World

This album is so conventional that it’s almost boring. It has the default Pop-Rock instrumentation, that familiar singer-songwriter sound and unsurprising song structures. But hey, that does not have to be bad. Especially when it sounds as good as on this release by DIY Musicians. Like always, two commented preview tracks await you below, together…

Sat, 17th Sep 2011

CCBYNCND, Folk, World
Carlo Serafini – [2011] Gammatar

Why always stick to the boring, twelve-halftones-per-octave, well-tempered diatonic scale? That’s what Wendy Carlos (creator of the soundtrack for Stanley Kubrick’s masterpiece Clockwork Orange) might have thought when inventing his muscic scales Alpha, Beta, Gamma and Delta. Carlo Serafini took the Gamma scale, tune his guitar and recorded nine songs with this tuning. The sound…

Sat, 17th Sep 2011

CCBYNCND, Experimental, World
Coloured desktop wallpapers

Just a new batch of colourful desktop wallpapers in the usual (1920×1080 pixels) resolution. The blue waves were photographed in a shop window in Prinzregentenstraße, Munich. The green leaves are from Frankfurt, behind the Museum für Angewandte Kunst. The yellow lamp is the decoration in a small restaurant in Barcelona. The red picture is a…

Mon, 15th Aug 2011
Zillertal mountain hike

Last weekend, I went on a mountain hike with my camera. Fortunately it didn’t rain, so I could take many photos of rocks, mountains and the sky. We started Friday evening, walking for three hours before arriving at the hut Alpenrose where we stayed for the night. The next day we had big plans: climbing…

Mon, 15th Aug 2011
Pretty Lights

Usually I only write reviews of music that is hosted on the Internet Archive, from time to time I have to make an exception to this self-imposed rule. Remix artist Pretty Lights from Colarado, USA, has distilled a glitchy style of sampled instrumental hip hop with disco attitude. Fortunately, I found two of his tracks…

Wed, 6th Jul 2011
ojdb – a free music streaming site

Edit (2013-07-09): freemusi.cc got news! is the successor to ojdb, which is deprecated and will – at some point – go offline. After weeks of beta-testing, I finally publish the link to my new project ojdb. It is an in-browser music player like deezer, spotify or grooveshark, except for two differences: First, it contains only…

Tue, 24th May 2011
More white desktop wallpapers

You would not guess which search terms bring most visitors to my page: all combinations of the word white and wallpaper. Unsurprisngly, my post on white desktop wallpapers is the most visited page of my blog. So I thought I better publish more pictures like that… The first two images are from Munich (Allianz Arena,…

Tue, 17th May 2011
Barcelona by night

While the harbour looks great in the night, the valuable coastline next to the city is occupied by concrete, cranes and industry. The first two photos show both freight and passenger docks. The city itself is quite photogenic, thanks to bright lighting and organically grown buildings. The Plaça d’Espanya is one of Barcelona’s traffic nodes…

Wed, 4th May 2011
Barcelona university

Barcelona’s university building in the city centre is quite impressive. The entrance hall reminds me of a gothic church, up the stairs it resemble a classic art gallery. Behind the main building lies a small park, which is crowded by cats. My impression: it must be inspiring to work there!

Wed, 27th Apr 2011
Frankfurt

Some weeks ago I was in Frankfurt for two day. Luckily, the weather was already good enough to enjoy the evening outside — with my camera. The view from Main Tower is great, but I prefer the atmosphere next the river.

Wed, 20th Apr 2011