Archive for the ‘General’ Category

Time goes by quickly, but at least I was able to deliver my tracks (and albums) of the month before it ends. Well, you can go to the charts section and check it out. My definite album of the month must be Aaron Jerome’s “Time To Rearrange” (which I already mentioned earlier on this blog post). There are some really nice gems on there. Despite I’m actually a house dj (at least that’s what i would call myself) it is rather non-housy, to be honest, there’s not a single house track on there…

The other stuff though is mostly straight 4-to-the-floor. I think i don’t have to emphasize the Carl Craig release, self-explanatory. Unlike the Kelly Polar album, which might be rather unfamiliar to the scene yet, judging from the media presence I’ve recognized so far. There’s however a good reviews at Pitchfork.

Another one I’d like to point out is Modern Walker’s release on recently launched Sensual Touch Recordings. Bouquet Of Stars, which was already featured on Essen City’s Supercity compilation, is now beeing accompanied by another fluffy deep groover called First Touch, which is also the name of the EP. Great stuff! Last but not least if you’re into deep, mellow kind of stuff, Joe Rizla’s “Jost One Night” will do it for you. A perfect smooth, ambient vocal track for the (hopefully soon) upcoming spring days.

Sometimes it’s useful to read bulletins at Myspace. Yesterday i came across a post by Tortured Soul where they announce their new album. Yes, and they even added three new tracks to their player. For those who don’t know: Tortured Soul are a wicked Live-House / Nu-Jazz-Band based in New York City, having released one great album in 2006 called “Introducing Tortured Soul”, one of my favourite albums when it comes to soulful house music. Well, the “In Transit - Advance EP” and a single of their new song “Your Dream Is My Dream” including a Jon Cutler mix will probably drop very soon on Coco Soul Records. And hopefully, the album will shortly follow. I can’ wait…

www.myspace.com/torturedsoul

Yes, and that means you can now get in contact with me anytime and anywhere via this webpage. Nice, eh? I have to admit it was really annoying to make this form work in any modern browser, but as far as i tested it does now work in IE, Firefox and Opera. Most of the trouble was of course caused by Mr. “non-standard-compliant” IE and i really hope that with the new version of IE 8 Microsoft gets on the road to interpreting XHTML & CSS correctly.

Anyway, while i was looking for a decent contact form plugin for wordpress i found a really nice site about cooking. Cooking? Yes, this guy seems to be a professional web designer as well as a passionate cook. He created this awesome wordpress plugin and offers many interesting recipes and recommendations. Check out his website, it’s definitely worth a look. I was impressed by both the good design as well as the quality of content. So, here’s my recommendation of the day:

www.deliciousdays.com/munich

Cheers at all. I’m just celebrating my first post on this blog with a glas of wine while listening to a very smooth jazz- chillout- fusion track (B2 on Paper Recordings 024). It’s even the last track of the mix i just finished and I’m gonna post it right after this one.

Beside my very own stuff I’m also gonna post some other things here, for instance music related stuff (who would have guessed) but as the headline reveals it’s not only about house music, but everything related to it and yes, also non-musical stuff (that’s what i wanted to indicate with the word “culture”). That maybe everything lifestyle, internet- oder media-related. We’ll see… Hope you enjoy!