Category: music

  • Fake Kraftwerk songs ? 9 years already !

    I(Chris) have been a Kraftwerk fan from when their music was played on the radio  in the 70’s. I have posted a German version of their 1977 international hit – “The Model” and Coldplay’s “Talk” which sampled it, here. Kraftwerk is usually translated as “power plant,” but  one of the founders Ralf  Hütter said the band’s name can

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  • Rough Trade’s East End Flagship Store

    I(Chris) have not visited London for many years, and while visiting during the Olympics, we heard a lot about the Spitalfields markets. So one morning we decided to check it out. This area of East London felt quite different from what I was expecting. The Spitalfields markets contain a new and an old section. We

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  • Electron Festival 2012, Geneva

    Electron is a four-day festival that ran from April 5 to April 8, spanning the Easter weekend of 2012. Below is this year’s poster – the city in the background is Geneva. It is an annual electronic cultures festival that included workshops, contemporary art exhibits, concerts, conferences and parties. These events took place at various

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  • Memories of blue – Vangelis

    [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xcYcPvnZRMQ&w=510&h=412] Another piece by Vangelis which is much warmer than and very mainstream when compared to the earlier posted Memories of Green – the piece that was used in the movie Blade Runner.  Other than the “Memories” in the titles, I do not know the connection between these two pieces, if any. It could have been

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