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Soniq Tunez - 28 11 2011

2011-11-29T13:49:00.001+02:00

Soniq Tunez - 28 11 2011 by Sonicziggy on Mixcloud

Von Thord - Wedding Night

2011-03-06T10:01:00.000+02:00

Clinic: Bubblegum

2011-01-11T18:57:00.002+02:00

Perfume Genius: Lookout, Lookout

2011-01-11T18:53:00.000+02:00

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14 - New Dawn

2011-01-05T07:37:00.001+02:00

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SoniQast_14_-_New_Dawn.mp3 (84810 KB)

01. She and Him - I Put A Spell On You
02. 1973 - Vegas
03. Of Monsters And Men - Little Talks
04. My First Earthquake - In the Forest with Frenemies
05. Beady Eye - Four Letter Word
06. The Fresh and Onlys - Waterfall
07. Smoke Fairies - Hotel Room
08. The Angels - 'tll09. Lissie - Bully
10. Tamaryn - Love Fade
11. Pikachunes-Nervous
12. Parenthetical Girls - Young Throats
13. Desire - Don't Call
14. Secret Sisters ft. Jack White - Big River (Johnny Cash Cover)
15. Mark Lanegan – Crawl Like A Dog (Creature With The Atom Brain)
16. Amy Klein - I Know
17. Perfume Genius - Look Out, Look Out

Language as a Prison

2011-01-03T21:48:00.000+02:00

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"The Philippines did have a written language before the Spanish colonists arrived, contrary to what many of those colonists subsequently claimed. However, it was a language that some theorists believe was mainly used as a mnemonic device for epic poems. There was simply no need for a European-style written language in a decentralized land of small seaside fishing villages that were largely self-sufficient.

One theory regarding language is that it is primarily a useful tool born out of a need for control. In this theory written language was needed once top-down administration of small towns and villages came into being. Once there were bosses there arose a need for written language. The rise of the great metropolises of Ur and Babylon made a common written language an absolute necessity—but it was only a tool for the administrators. Administrators and rulers needed to keep records and know names— who had rented which plot of land, how many crops did they sell, how many fish did they catch, how many children do they have, how many water buffalo? More important, how much then do they owe me? In this account of the rise of written language, naming and accounting seem to be language's primary "civilizing" function. Language and number are also handy for keeping track of the movement of heavenly bodies, crop yields, and flood cycles. Naturally, a version of local oral languages was eventually translated into symbols as well, and non-administrative words, the words of epic oral poets, sort of went along for the ride, according to this version.

What's amazing to me is that if we accept this idea, then what may have begun as an instrument of social and economic control has now been internalized by us as a mark of being civilized. As if being controlled were, by inference, seen as a good thing, and to proudly wear the badge of this agent of control—to be able to read and write—makes us better, superior, more advanced. We have turned an object of our own oppression into something we now think of as virtuous. Perfect! We accept written language as something so essential to how we live and get along in the world that we feel and recognize its presence as an exclusively positive thing, a sign of enlightenment. We've come to love the chains that bind us, that control us, for we believe that they are us."

David Burne, Bicycle Diaries

Smoke Fairies - Hotel Room

2010-10-03T14:54:00.000+03:00

13 - Dreaming

2010-10-03T13:46:00.002+03:00

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SoniQast_013_-_Dreaming.mp3 (48090 KB)

01. Luke Doucet and the White Falcon - Magpie
02. Okkervil River - Lost Coastlines
03. Young Liars - Marathon
04. Eternal Summers - Pogo
05. Ski Beatz - Go (feat. Jim Jones Curreny)
06. Computer Magic - About You
07. Les Savy Fav - Let's Get Out Of Here
08. The Hush Now - Vietnam_Giraffe
09. The Corin Tucker Band - Doubt
10. OMD - Sister Mary Says
11. Dale Earnhardt Jr. Jr. - Vocal Chords
12. Cults - Go Outside
13. Suckers - Martha
14. Breath Owl - Swimming
15. Mountain Man - Soft Skin

Gayngs - Eye In The Sky (Alan Parsons Project Cover)

2010-09-29T19:00:00.001+03:00

First Aid Kit - Ghost Town

2010-09-29T18:52:00.001+03:00

The Hundred in the Hands - Pigeons

2010-09-20T19:38:00.000+03:00

Get Well Soon - If this hat is missing I've gone hunting

2010-09-20T19:36:00.000+03:00

White Apple Tree - Youth

2010-09-19T21:05:00.000+03:00

Muse @ RF2010. Click here.

2010-09-05T19:24:00.001+03:00

SoniQast 10: Goodbye Summer... (click here to get)

2010-09-01T20:49:00.000+03:00

01. Kristin Hersh - Around Dusk

02. The Black Keys - Chop And Change

03. The Spooks - Sleepy Sleepy

04. Was She A Vampire - Distorted

05. Arcade Fire - Month Of May

06. Feldberg - You & Me

07. !!! - AMFM

08. Backyard Tire Fire - Good To Be

09. 22-20's - Heart On A String

10. Cassette Kids - Nothing On Tv

11. Black Mountain - Old Fangs

12. Sharon Jones & The Dap Kings - She Ain't A Child No More

13. Alejandro Escovedo - Tender Heart

14. Neon Plastix - On Fire

15. Uni Form - Shadows

16. Roundstone - Trouble

17. Metric - Eclipse (All Yours)

18. She & Him - In The Sun

19. Dark Dark Dark - Daydreaming

20. Richard Hawley - There's a Storm a Comin'

Fez - Chemicals

2010-08-29T14:29:00.000+03:00

Μαύρος καφές και βινύλιο

2010-08-02T13:39:00.000+03:00

Αρχές Ιουλίου, ηλιόλουστη βόλτα στην Κοπεγχάγη, λίγο πριν την αναχώρηση για το Φεστιβάλ. Σε μια γωνιά στα δυτικά του κέντρου, το "Kaffe og Vinyl" ζωντανεύει τα όνειρά μου: ένα μικροσκοπικό μαγαζάκι με χαρακτήρα και πάθη: τον καφέ και τα βινύλια.
Παίρνω ένα εσπρέσσο (το απόλυτο τεστ) και ψαχουλεύω τους δίσκους, ξαναζώντας στιγμές μιας άλλης ζωής, κάποτε, κάπου αλλού. Διαλέγω ένα διπλό LP, το Performing Parades των Efterklang - το είχα κατεβάσει αλλά δεν είναι το ίδιο. Δεν είναι η ιδέα μου: ο καφές είναι εξαιρετικός, η μουσική του μαγαζιού ανοίγει ορίζοντες στη φαντασία, ο ήλιος έξω καίει αλύπητα.
Δε ξέρω αν υπάρχει περίπτωση (σε αυτή τη ζωή τουλάχιστον) να υλοποιήσω κι εγώ κάτι αντίστοιχο - το έχω στο μυαλό μου εδώ και δεκαετίες. Δεν έχω καταλήξει ακόμα: είμαι απλά αναβλητικός, δεν το θέλω αρκετά, προτιμώ μόνο να το σκέφτομαι παρά να το κάνω ή κάτι έξω από μένα με έχει εμποδίσει; (η τελευταία εξήγηση είναι η πλέον απίθανη αλλά και η πιο βολική...).

Πέρασε σχεδόν ένας μήνας από τότε. Προχτές, τη στιγμή που έβγαζα το cd από το αυτοκίνητο, το ραδιόφωνο έπαιζε ένα παλιό τραγούδι - θυμήθηκα τη στιγμή που αγόραζα το συγκεκριμένο δίσκο από το αγαπημένο μου δισκάδικο, την ιεροτελεστία του ακούσματος. Ανέβηκα στο σπίτι, άνοιξα το πικάπ, παίρνω τους Efterklang, βγάζω τον πρώτο δίσκο από το χαρτί του. Η μυρωδιά του δίσκου με γυρίζει καμιά 20αριά χρόνια πίσω. Τίποτα δεν έχει αλλάξει. Ευτυχώς.

Βάζω το δίσκο να παίζει και τον κοιτάζω καθώς γυρίζει στις 33 1/3 στροφές. Χάνομαι στον ήχο των Efterklang, στις μνήμες των μυρωδάτων βινυλίων του μακρινού παρελθόντος, στο δανέζικο εσπρέσσο του περασμένου μήνα, στο κουτί των επιθυμιών και των ονείρων που άνοιξε και πάλι, με σκοπό να με βασανίσει ή να με ξυπνήσει.

Thinking loud...

2010-07-24T13:26:00.000+03:00

SoniQast 009: Holy Daze (click to get)

2010-07-14T22:44:00.000+03:00

01. Passion Pit - Tonight, Tonight
02. The Asteroids Galaxy Tour - Crazy
03. Thieves Like Us - Forget Me Not
04. School of Seven Bells - Windstorm
05. Born Anchors - Matter of Taste
06. Delta Spirit - Bushwick Blues
07. Kisses - People Can Do The Most Amazing Things
08. Typhoon - White Liars
09. Pallers - The Kiss
10. The Joy Formidable - The Greatest Light is the Greatest Shade
11. Aloe Blacc - I Need a Dollar (How to Make It in America)
12. The Streets On Fire - No One's Fucking to the Radio
13. The Beauties - Hearts Are Down
14. Friska Viljor - Wohlwill
15. Wolf Parade - What Did My Lover Say (It Always Had to Go This Way)
16. The Black Keys - I'm Not The One
17. Unbunny - Winning Streak
18. Blitzen Trapper - Heaven and Earth

Is the Pursuit of Happiness Making Us Miserable?

2010-05-15T12:35:00.003+03:00

SoniQast 8: Gare Du Nord - click to get

2010-03-01T22:56:00.002+02:00

01. Fever Ray: If I had a Heart

02. Zola Jesus: Night

03. Sambassadeur: Stranded

04. The Duke Spirit: Baby Doll

05. Them Crooked Vultures: New Fang

06. Blakroc: Done Dit It

07. Girls: Hellhole Ratrace

08. Taken By Trees: To Lose Someone

09. El Perro Del Mar: Change of Heart

10. Gil Scott-Heron: Me and the Devil

11. Dan Auerbach: I Want Some More

12. Black Rebel Motorcycle Band: Beat the Devil's Tattoo

13. Sharon Van Etten: For You

14. Quasi: Laisser Les Bon Temps Rouler

Dirty Three (ft. Nick Cave): Sea Above, Sky Below

2010-01-20T22:00:00.000+02:00

Radiohead/Morcheeba/Digitalism - Spirit World

2010-01-10T12:40:00.000+02:00

Hurts - Wonderful Life

2010-01-10T12:30:00.000+02:00

Oren Lavie

2009-12-17T23:38:00.000+02:00

Ólafur Arnalds

2009-12-17T23:27:00.001+02:00

Ólafur Arnalds - Ljósið (Official Music Video) from Erased Tapes on Vimeo.

SoniQast 7: Autumn Breeze - click to get

2009-10-31T22:56:00.002+02:00

01. Danzig: Thirteen

02. The Merry Thoughts: Pale Empress

03. Editors: Papillion

04. Sarah Fimm: Afraid

05. Ian Brown: Vanity Kills

06. Brother Ali: The Travelers

07. Ghost of Tom Joad: Into the Wild

08. Imaad Wasif: Priestess

09. Alberta Cross: ATX

10. Echo and the Bunnymen: Drivetime

11. Nick Perito: The Green Leaves of Summer

12. Mayer Hawthorne: Green Eyed Love

13. The Aggrolites: Firecracker

14. Flunk: Cigarette Burns

15. Missy Higgins: More Than This

16. The Duchess and the Duke: Hands

HOPENHAGEN

2009-10-28T09:10:00.002+02:00

On December 7, leaders from 192 countries will gather at the UN Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen to determine the fate of our planet. Let’s turn Copenhagen into Hopenhagen. Sign the Climate Petition and become a citizen at hopenhagen.org.

Zaza

2009-10-17T22:21:00.001+03:00

The Middle East - Blood

2009-10-17T22:05:00.000+03:00

SoniQast 6: Under the Moonlight - click here to get

2009-10-08T22:03:00.004+03:00

01. Amanda Palmer - Three Men Hanging

02. Julian Plenti - Girl On The Sporting News

03. The Prostitutes - Leave It Like It Is

04. Skunk Anansie - Because Of You

05. The Earaches - Not The Kind Of Man I Am

06. Naomi Shelton and The Gospel Queens - Trouble In My Way

07. Yo La Tengo - Periodically Double Or Triple

08. Mono In VCF - Escape City Scrapers

09. Olivia Ruiz - When The Night Comes

10. Portugal.The Man - The Sun

11. Soulsavers - Death Bells

12. Darker My Love - Blue Day

13. Metric - Sick Muse

14. M. Ward - Never Had Nobody Like You

15. Au Revoir Simone - All Or Nothing

16. Under Byen-Palads

17. Sam Lowry - Manhattan Took Us First

Antony (and the Jonhsons) and the Metropole Orchestra cover Beyonce: Crazy In Love

2009-08-15T08:49:00.001+03:00

RF09: Coldplay

2009-07-20T22:19:00.000+03:00

RF09: Skambankt

2009-07-20T22:04:00.000+03:00

RF09 - A bit of Coldplay

2009-07-20T07:03:00.001+03:00

Ετήσια Έκθεση της ΕΕ για το Περιβάλλον

2009-07-17T18:57:00.003+03:00

Πρίν δύο μέρες κυκλοφόρησε η ετήσια (2008) περιβαλλοντική ανάλυση της ΕΕ για κάθε χώρα.

Η Κύπρος είναι, μεταξύ άλλων:

Η 22η (από τους 27) της ΕΕ σε εκπομπές διοξειδίου του άνθρακα ανά κάτοικο
Η 18η σε εκπομπές ανά €1000 του εθνικού ακαθάριστου εισοδήματος (GDP)
Η χειρότερη σε ποσοστιαία αύξηση εκπομπών (αύξηση 66% σε σχέση με το 1990
Η 26η από τους 27 σε παραγωγή ηλεκτρισμού από ΑΠΕ. Έχουμε υπολογίσιμες ποσότητες αιολικού δυναμικού στο οποίο αντιτίθεται το κοινό
Η 16η χώρα σε σχέση της κατανάλωσης ενέργειας ανά €1000 του GDP
Η 23η όσον αφορά την έκταση καλλιεργειών με βιολογικά προϊόντα
Η χειρότερη όσον αφορά την εκμετάλλευση του νερού - Water Exploitation Index
Η 25η στην ΕΕ στην παραγωγή αποβλήτων με 754 κιλά οικιακά απόβλητα ανα κεφαλή από τα οποία στέλνουμε 87.3% σε χωματερές (ο μέσος όρος στην ΕΕ είναι 56.5% - είμαστε 25οι

Α, και σαν κυριότερο περιβαλλοντικό κίνδυνο για την δημόσια υγεία έχουμε τη μόλυνση από τα αυτοκίνητα στις πόλεις

Και εις ανώτερα...

Οι εκθέσεις για τους 27 ΕΔΩ
Η έκθεση για την Κύπρο ΕΔΩ

THAT close...

2009-07-03T20:19:00.001+03:00

Faith No More

2009-07-03T18:56:00.000+03:00

Mew

2009-07-03T00:06:00.000+03:00

The Gaslight Anthem

2009-07-02T22:33:00.001+03:00

Fucked Up

2009-07-02T21:39:00.000+03:00

Social Distortion

2009-07-02T19:14:00.000+03:00

Arena gate - now

2009-07-02T17:38:00.000+03:00

Gate 10 - Pavillion Stage

2009-07-01T23:34:00.000+03:00

True Color

2009-07-01T17:08:00.000+03:00

Copenhagen

2009-07-01T12:52:00.000+03:00

A quiet afternoon

2009-06-30T21:07:00.000+03:00

After a long day of 36+ hours, you have to wind down, relax and plan the days ahead...

Viking Ship Museum

2009-06-30T17:08:00.001+03:00

Pavillion Junior - now

2009-06-30T15:10:00.000+03:00

Get A Tent

2009-06-30T14:27:00.000+03:00

RF 2009

2009-06-30T13:49:00.000+03:00

Grounded in Prague

2009-06-30T09:44:00.000+03:00

Plane departed on time but returned after 10-15mins due to "technical reasons". Currently we are at the airport lounge, already 1:30hr late.

St.Vincent (RF'09)

2009-06-25T19:21:00.000+03:00

A Post in LIFO (click to link)

2009-06-25T18:54:00.004+03:00

Στα οκτώ μου, σε κάποια οικογενειακή επίσκεψη άκουσα το πρώτο τραγούδι που μου έκανε «κάτι». Την επόμενη φορά που το ξανάκουσα, ήταν τρία χρόνια μετά. Το αναγνώρισα μονομιάς. Κι από τότε, μπορεί να μη θυμάμαι ποιος ήρθε στο σπίτι προχτές, αλλά δεν έχω ξεχάσει ούτε ένα κομμάτι που έχω ακούσει μέχρι σήμερα...

Όλα ξεκίνησαν το 2003. Κουρασμένος από τις φεστιβαλικές ακροβασίες της πόλης, αποφάσισα να δοκιμάσω την τύχη μου εκτός συνόρων. Φύσει υπερβολικός, κατέληξα σχεδόν στην άλλη άκρη της Ευρώπης. Δανία. Οι αρχικές πληροφορίες ήταν άκρως ενθαρρυντικές: από τα πιο παλιά φεστιβάλ, με συνεχή παρουσία από το 1971, με εξαιρετικό lineup κάθε χρόνο, και με πολλές και άκρως ενδιαφέρουσες ιστορίες να το συνοδεύουν. Α, ξέχασα: είναι και μη κερδοσκοπικό. Όχι άσχημα για αρχή, ε;

The rest is history, που λένε και οι Άγγλοι. 2003 - η πρώτη επαφή. 2006 - η επιστροφή, μετά από μια αναγκαστική αποχή το 2004 και μια «απιστία» το 2005. 2007 - η χρονιά του κατακλυσμού: 120 χιλιοστά βροχής σε 24 ώρες - we survived («σκάσε και κολύμπα»). 2008 - τo πιο θερμό φεστιβάλ ever. Μας κάνει πλάκα ο πλανήτης ή μου φαίνεται;...

Σε τρεις μέρες πετάω για Κοπεγχάγη - το Roskilde Festival 2009, με 180 συγκροτήματα σε 7 σκηνές ανοίγει τις πόρτες του από 2-6 Ιουλίου, με warm-up από τις 28 του Ιουνίου. Σχεδόν 100 χιλιάδες οι επισκέπτες κάθε μέρα, 25.000 οι εθελοντές (τύφλα να 'χει το ολυμπιακό πνεύμα...), παράλληλες εκδηλώσεις που περιλαμβάνουν κινηματογράφο, art installations, διαγωνισμούς ποίησης και λογοτεχνίας, περιβαλλοντικές παρεμβάσεις, δωρεάν μαθήματα γιόγκα και μαγειρικής, γλυπτική, χορό... you name it!

Πέρσι, βραβεύτηκε με το πρώτο Green World Award για τις συνεχείς περιβαλλοντικές πρωτοβουλίες του, πρόπερσι πήρε το Green'n'Clean Award από τη Yourope. Για τα επόμενα δύο χρόνια θα έχει σαν κύριο focus τις κλιματικές αλλαγές στον πλανήτη. Βιολογικά και Fairtrade προϊόντα, το φεστιβάλ κινείται πλέον αποκλειστικά με αιολική ενέργεια, ανακύκλωση πάνω από 95%. Όπως δηλαδή κι εδώ, στα μέρη μας...

Όλα αυτά είναι υπέροχα, δε λέω - επί της ουσίας όμως; Μια «υποτονική» χρονιά όπως η φετινή (ας όψεται η κρίση) περιλαμβάνει από Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds και Νine Inch Nails, μέχρι Kanye West, Pet Shop Boys, Trentemøeller, Mark De Koijn, Fleet Foxes και Röyksopp. Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Micachu and The Shapes, Mew και Mars Volta, N.A.S.A. και Cancer Bats, Coldplay αλλά και Lil Wayne, I'm from Barcelona - και ο κατάλογος δεν έχει τελειωμό...

Σημειώνω πυρετωδώς τα ονόματα που θέλω να δω. Η σελίδα γεμίζει με χρώματα από το highlighter. Υπεραισιόδοξος; Απλά υπερβολικός; Θα δείξει. Το ταξίδι αρχίζει σε τρεις μέρες και θα είναι -όπως πάντα- υπέροχο...

These United States - Honor Amongst Thieves

2009-06-20T19:14:00.000+03:00

Shout Out Louds - Impossible

2009-06-20T18:42:00.000+03:00

Roskilde Festival Sampler Two - click to get

2009-06-11T21:19:00.003+03:00

Glasvegas - Geraldine
M. Ward - Never Had Nobody Like You (Featuring Zooey Deschanel)
Novalima - Coba Guarango
Slipknot - Psychosocial
Imam Baildi - Πόσο Λυπάμαι
Lily Allen feat. Mick Jones - Straight To Hell (The Clash cover)
The Gaslight Anthem - The '59 Sound
Deus - Everybody's Weird (2 many djs remix)
Coldplay - Clocks (Royksopp's Trembling Heart Remix)
Rokia Traore - Manian
Frightened Rabbit - Head Rolls Off
Babian - Ja Sja
Marissa Nadler - Rachel
Trentemoller - Moan (Trentemller Vocal Remix Radio Edit)
Deichkind - Limit
The Mars Volta - With Twilight As My Guide
Alamaailman Vasarat - Liskopallo
Faith No More - We Care A Lot
Kasai Allstars - Quick as White

Moby - Pale Horses

2009-06-11T14:12:00.003+03:00

Roskilde Festival Sampler One - click to get

2009-06-09T20:55:00.003+03:00

Jenny Wilson - Clattering Hooves
Friendly Fires - Skeleton Boy
Darkane - Leaving Existence
Wavves - So Bored
Lil' Wayne - Mr Carter
Nine Inch Nails - Closer
Paavoharju - Sumuvirsi
Lucy Love - No V.I.P.
Madness - Shame & Scandal
The Dodos - Fools
Amon Amarth - Twilight of the Thunder God
N.A.S.A. - Gifted (Feat. Kanye West, Santogold & Lykke Li)
Fever Ray - When I Grow Up
Social Distortion - Ball And Chain
Gojira - France, Bayonne, Clone
Grace Jones - Pull Up to the Bumper
The Whitest Boy Alive - 1517
Royksopp - Poor Leno (Ryksopp Remix)
Trail of Dead - Source tags and codes
Eagles Of Death Metal - Wannabe In LA

SoniQast 5: Access All Areas - click to get

2009-06-08T19:25:00.005+03:00

01. The Coward and The Pelican - The Peasants Lament

02. Astrid Williamson - Store

03. Chester French - She Loves Everybody

04. Matt and Kim - Lessons Learned

05. Harlem Shakes - Strictly Game

06. The Pains of Being Pure at Heart - Young Adult Fiction

07. Steve Earle - Mr.Mudd and Mr.Gold

08. Dave Matthews Band - Time Bomb

09. Conor Oberst - Roosevelt Room

10. Ros Sereysothea & Sinn Sisamouth - Marrison

11. Tor and Sufjan Stevens - Star of Wonder/None Shall Pass

12. Booker T. Jones - Pound It Out

13 Empire of the Sun - We Are the People

14. Thing One - Mop Yards

15. The Presets - If I Know You

16. Placebo - Julien

17. Archive - Bullets

18. Timber Timbre - Demon Host

Jarvis Cocker - Angela

2009-06-08T19:15:00.000+03:00

Dinosaur Jr. - Over it

2009-06-08T19:10:00.001+03:00

Florence & The Machine – Rabbit Heart (Raise It Up)

2009-06-08T19:00:00.000+03:00

SoniQast 4: Sweet Chillin' - click to get

2009-06-04T17:28:00.003+03:00

01. Monsters at Work - Magic Morning
02. The Upsetters - Cloak & Dagger
03. Au Pairs - Headache for Michelle
04. Iggy Pop - Spanish Coast
05. Manhattans - Kiss and Say Goodbye
06. Cassandra Wilson - Time After Time
07. Bob Dylan - Forgetful Heart
08. Gentleman Reg - We're in a Thunderstorm
09. Chairlift - Bruises
10. Astrid Williamson - How you Take my Breath Away
11. Kath Bloom - Come Here
12. Alela Diane - White as Diamonds
13. Elvis Perkins in Dearland - Shampoo
14. Piero Piccioni - Psychedelic Mood
15. Sundogs - So Close
16. Etta James - I'd Rather go Blind
17. Regina Spektor - Laughing With
18. Amanda Palmer - Three Men Hanging

SoniQast 3: Lights Out - click to get

2009-05-10T11:01:00.005+03:00

01. Marissa Nadler - Famous Blue Raincoat
02. Cherbourg - Horses
03. Sibrydion - Praying For Rain
04. Tilly and The Wall - Pot Kettle Black
05. Genius Mess Poets - Woke up Today and Found Myself in Your Bed
06. Defend Moscow - Manifesto
07. Mando Diao - Gloria
08. The September When - Don't Call the Cops
09. Ladyhawke - My Delirium
10. Manic Street Preachers - All Is Vanity
11. Great Lake Swimmers - Pulling On A Line
12. Joan As Police Woman - Honor Wishes
13. The Maccabees - No Kind Words
14. The Hot Melts - Edith
15. Silversun Pickups - Panic Switch

RF09: Fleet Foxes: Mykonos [Sub Pop]

2009-04-26T10:45:00.001+03:00

Antony and the Johnsons: Epilepsy is Dancing [Secretly Candadian]

2009-04-26T10:42:00.001+03:00

The Horrors: Sea Within a Sea [XL Recordings]

2009-04-26T10:35:00.001+03:00

Camera Obscura: French Navy [4AD]

2009-04-26T10:31:00.000+03:00

RF 2009 - At last!

2009-04-17T09:09:00.000+03:00

RF2009 Camping Area - Photo Now

2009-04-08T17:36:00.001+03:00

SoniQast 2: Coming Home - click to get

2009-03-25T13:56:00.003+02:00

01. Murder By Death - Comin' Home

02. Dan Auerbach - The Prowl

03. Why? - Hollows

04. Black Gold - Detroit

05. White Lies - To Lose My Life

06. David Dallas - Get Out The Way

07. Her Space Holiday - The World Will Deem Us Dangerous

08. Tom Morello: The Nightwatchman - The Lights Are On In Spidertown

09. Jace Everett - Bad Things

10. Holly Golightly and the Brokeoffs - Gettin' High For Jesus

11. Bo-Peep - B-Level Motion

12. A Place To Bury Strangers - My Weakness

13. Eagles of Death Metal - I'm Your Torpedo

14. Bomani Armah & Project Mayhem - Read a Book

15. Cafe Funque - Funqueitor

16. Blue King Brown - Moment Of Truth

17. Ladyhawke - My Derlirium

18. Bang Gang - Every Time I Look in Your Eyes

SoniQast 1: Brave New World - Click to get

2009-03-02T19:46:00.002+02:00

01. Matt Elliott - Lone Gunman Required
02. Death Cab For Cutie - Grapevine Fires
03. Marianne Faithfull - Hold On Hold On
04. Cajun Dance Party - Amylase
05. Morrissey - One Day Goodbye Will Be Farewell
06. Cage The Elephant - In One Ear
07. The Bronx - Knifeman
08. Lily Allen - Fuck You
09. The Script - Lose Yourself
10. Ryan Adams & The Cardinals - Fix It
11. Iran - Buddy
12. Laura Marling - The Captain and the Hourglass
13. The Asteroids Galaxy Tour - Around The Bend
14. Cat-A-Tac - All I Knew
15. David Byrne and Brian Eno - Life Is Long

Peter Bjorn and John - new song

2009-02-17T18:10:00.003+02:00

"Just the Past" - [original version from Living Thing; due 30.03.2009 in the UK on Wichita and 31.03.2009 in the U.S. on Almost Gold Recordings/StarTime International

The Band has a name and is on MySpace!

2009-02-04T17:38:00.000+02:00

Checkout http://www.myspace.com/gapptheband

17.10.2009

2009-01-19T21:38:00.003+02:00

10.01.2009

2009-01-19T21:34:00.003+02:00

Katatonia - Limassol Setlist

2009-01-04T12:46:00.002+02:00

Katatonia - Limassol 03.01.2009

2009-01-04T12:40:00.002+02:00

Jammin' on a Saturday afternoon

2008-12-28T09:50:00.001+02:00

Portugal.The Man

2008-11-24T19:18:00.003+02:00

Soniq Tunez 04 - Light Morning Rain (click to get)

2008-11-18T22:54:00.004+02:00

01. Tom McRae - Keep Your Picture Clear
02. Cheese People - Ua-a-a!
03. Murs - Can It Be (Half A Million Dollars and 18 Months Later)
04. The Smiths - There is a light that never goes out
05. Lesley Gore - You Don't Own Me
06. Portugal.The Man - Colors
07. The Rosebuds - Another Way In
08. Razorlight - North London Trash
09. The Cure - Only One
10. The Organ - Oh What A Feeling
11. Apple Jelly - Radio
12. Cajun Dance Party - The Hill, The View & The Lights
13. Calexico - Two Silver Trees
14. Voxtrot - Sway
15. Shirley Horn - And I Love Him

Like a rolling stone (click to get)

2008-11-05T17:12:00.004+02:00

Οι δύο τελευταίες ημέρες είχαν όλων των ειδών τα θαύματα: το 3-3 της Ανόρθωσης, το 3-0 του Παναθηναϊκού, έναν μαύρο (ποτέ δεν κατάλαβα το "Αφροαμερικανός" - δηλαδή οι λευκοί τι είναι; Ευρωαμερικανοί;) πρόεδρο στην απέναντι μεριά του Ατλαντικού, και μεγάλες προσδοκίες από όλους.

Α, και μια σπουδαία ταινία: "I'm not there". Με το πλέον κατάλληλο soundtrack για τις -ιστορικές- μέρες που ζούμε...

Bono Beats Vol.2 (click on title)

2008-10-09T09:38:00.003+03:00

01. Carla Bruni - Tu Es Ma Came

02. Teitur - Louis, Louis

03. Como Si Nada - Do You Do You Dig Destuction

04. She & Him - I Was Made For You

05. The Last Shadow Puppets - Standing Next To Me

06. Paul Heaton - Mermaids And Slaves

07. Martha Wainwright - Love Is A Stranger

08. CSS - Left Behind

09. Johnny Hallyday - 24000 Baisers

10. Mikael Delta feat. Etten - Kύματα

11. Django Reinhardt - Beyond The Sea (La Mer)

12. Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Jesus Of The Moon

13. Isobel Campbell And Mark Lanegan - Come On Over (Turn Me On)

14. Bowery Boy Blue - Come Closer, Sisters

15. Nossa Alma Canta - Should I Stay Or Should I Go

16. Lily Allen - Who'd Have Known

17. Willie Nelson & Calexico - Senor (Tales Of Yankee Power)

RF Day 4

2008-07-07T09:35:00.001+03:00

I Kyriaki einai sxedon panta i pio xalari imera tou Festival, alla kai i imera me tin perissoteri kinisi.
Idi apo to proi arketoi apo tous episkeptes exoun arxisei to taksidi tis epistrofis - i ergasimi Deftera einai pro ton pylon...
Epipleon, tis Kyriakes mporei kaneis na agorasei imerisio eisitirio. Afto exei san apotelesma, idios otan o kairos einai kalos, polys kosmos na erxetai sto Festival akrivos opos tha pigaine mia volta sto parko, mia iliolousti Kyriaki. Polla paidika karotsia, polloi papoudes kai giagiades, polys kosmos pou den 'einai' kat'anagki festivalikos (an mporei na pei kaneis kati tetoio), dinei enan akomi pio giortino xaraktira se afti tin teleftaia imera.
Epi tis ousias tora. I mera arxise me tous BABYLOVE & THE VAN DANGOS, ena krama reggae/dub/punk sta vimata ton Madness. Poly kefi, kali diathesi kai xoros apo ena enthousiasmeno koino.
Mia grigori matia stous PATH OF NO RETURN me to skliro metal/hardcore ixo tous kai epistrofi stin Orange gia tin TINA DICKOW. I daneza singer/songwriter (pote mou den katalava ton oro 'tragoudopoios' - prepei na vro enan dokino oro sta ellinika) kratise to dyskolo xoro tis portokali skinis epi ena dioro me xaraktiristiki anesi sti sxesi tis me to koino.
Logo tis xalarotitas tou set, oi eisodoi asfaleias sto mprostino meros tis skinis itan anoiktes kai etsi plisiasa arketa sti skini. I epivlitikotita tou tholou tis tentas se syndyasmo me tin entasi tou ixou de sou afinoun perithoria: Deos...
I synexeia anikei stous ENTER SHIKARI me to entelos diko tous mousiko yvridio pou pataei se mia seira idiomaton kai paei ton ixo ton Klaxons merika vimata pio mprosta.
Mia polyanamenomeni -gia pollous logous- parousia itna i CAT POWER. Se mia katamesti Odeon, edose ena kalo set an kai itan fanero oti prepei na antimetopize kapoio provlima (ygeias?). Ekleise me enan idiaitera sygkinitiko tropo, afinontas mas me tin aporia: an itan kala, ti perissotero tha eixame na perimenoume alitheia?
I mera teleionei - epilegoume na mi meinoume allo. Ta gnosta synaisthimata erxontai kai pali, gia mian akomi xronia.
Kathos apomakrynomaste, mia grigori -sxedon klefti- matia stin portokali skini: arage, tha ta kataferoume kai pali sto mellon? I xara tou na vriskesai ekei, o sygxrotismos me tis xiliades ton anthropon, tis diaforetikes mousikes kai prosopikes ekfraseis, i aisthisi oti zeis kai stirizeis kati poly megalytero apo afto pou fainetai me tin proti matia, kyrievei ti skepsi.
Nai, to RF einai kati poly perissotero apo ena megalo mousiko festival. Einai i endeiksi oti oi koinotites ton anthropon mporoun na xtisoun neous desmous, neous dromous epikoinonias kai ekfrasis, akomi kai mesa apo tous pleon antisymvatikous dromous.
To RF einai enas zontanos organismos pou ekselissetai astamatita, pou thetei erotimata, proteinei lyseis, protoporei kai anoigei to dromo ekei pou deixnei adieksodos.
To Roskilde Festival einai ena Rock Festival. Me tin alithini ennoia tou orou...

RF Day 3

2008-07-06T10:43:00.000+03:00

Meta apo ena vrady kai miso proino prospathontas na epanasyndeso to keyboard me to kinito, eimai kai pali edo.
I triti imera tou RF argise na ksekinisei. To proi pigame volta sti Christiania (kati gia to opoio prosopika metaniosa argotera)...
Oi entyposeis tis festivalikis imeras synopsizontai sta eksis:
O SOLOMON BURKE itan enas klassikos rock'n'soul typos, me mia poly kali mpanta kai ametrita kila ston throno (!) tou, oi JUDAS PRIEST kato tou metriou - dystyxos, oute gia xari tou endoksou parelthontos tous den anteksa na stamatiso. Oti akousa itan pernontas apo tin Orange...
Oi germanoi NOTWIST itan poly kaloi sto mikro kai apomonomeno xoro tis Astoria, eno o CADENCE WEAPON erixne to rap tou kata ripes sto ekstasiasmeno tou koino.
Mia grigori matia sto parelthon me tous MY BLOODY VALENTINE kai tis kithares sto megisto tis paramorfosis gia na kataliksoume sto megalo onoma tis vradyas.
NEIL YOUNG. An kai tha mporouse na einai papous pollon apo to akroatirio tou, kratise epi dyomisi ores psila ti simaia tis astreireftis dynamis tis mousikis tou. Mia aksexasti emfanisi apo enan apo tous teleftaious megalous...
To savatovrado ekleise me to party ton CHEMICAL BROTHERS. Energeia sto max, beats pou se sikonoun apo ti thesi sou eite to theleis eite oxi. Krima pou xreiastike na fygoume prin teleiosoun...
Mia iremi imera se genikes grammes me simatikes -prosopika- apoleies noris sto programma.

RF Updates

2008-07-05T22:41:00.002+03:00

Due to technical reasons, no more photos will be uploaded until 09.07.
Text updates will be continued normally every day.

the notwist. now.

2008-07-05T21:05:00.000+03:00

swollen members. now.

2008-07-05T20:42:00.000+03:00

judas priest. now.

2008-07-05T20:27:00.000+03:00

solomon burke. now.

2008-07-05T20:06:00.000+03:00

copenhagen station. now.

2008-07-05T18:16:00.000+03:00

christiania. now.

2008-07-05T14:40:00.000+03:00

RF day 2

2008-07-05T03:47:00.001+03:00

I defteri mera tou festival ksekinise noris. Anaxorisi stis 10:30, mia kai stis 12:00 eixame programmatismeni synantisi me to Roberto, Dano kypriakis katagogis dimosiografo, gia synentefksi.
Telika, mia mikri kathysterisi mas edose tin efkeria na doume tous rap imitelikous tou Roskillz, sta protypa tou Eight Mile, me filodoksous Danous 'Eminems'. Sympliromatika, apolafsame ton Beardyman, enan idiaitera endiaferonta beatboxer.
I synentefksi kylise grigora kai se poly filiko epipedo. Fysika, perielamvane kai fotografisi! Oi 9 ekdromeis apo tin alli akri tis Evropis mprosta stin portokali skini!
Sti synexeia dokimasame tous POLARKREIS 18, me mallon apogoiteftika symperasmata.
Eftyxos, oi BAND OF HORSES pou akolouthisan, itan pragmatika ekseretikoi. An kai emfanistikan se mia asfyktika gemati Arena me 30-40 xiliades kosmo, toso o ixos oso kai to paiksimo tous itan ypsilotatou epipedou kai dikaiosan ti fimi pou akolouthei to onoma tous.
Stous GNARLS BARKLEY pou itan oi epomenoi sti lista, i Orange metatrapike se ena xoreftiko parko. Xoris eksarseis alla me ton kosmo na antapokrinetai sto kalesma tou DangerMouse...
I mera kylaei pros tin koryfosi tis kai oi KINGS OF LEON dinoun ena klassiko orektiko. Demenos ixos, statheri poiotita, mesta tragoudia.
Exontas apotyxei na doume esto kai gia ligo ti SANTOGOLD giati argise ligo na vgei, oi MOGWAI apotelesan mia aprosmeni ananeosi. I mousiki tous dimiourgei eikones kinimatografikes, synaisthimata protognora...
Magemenoi katefthinomaste stous GRINDERMAN. O Nick Cave dinei kai pali resta, apodeiknyontas oti enas megalos kallitexnis den periorizetai apo ta stena oria tou xaraktirismou tisdouleias tou. Apla monadikos...
Anaxorontas, afierosame ligi ora sti GOLDFRAPP i opoia itan kali, xoris omos na einai tipote to idiaitero.
I mera eixe idi perasei gia mas kai, afinontas piso tis simeioseis gia ta metamesonyxtia sygkrotimata, katefthinthikame sto leoforeio.
Mia akomi yperoxi imera eftane sto telos tis...

christina + sudoku outside arena. NOW.

2008-07-05T01:18:00.000+03:00

goldfrapp. now.

2008-07-05T01:06:00.000+03:00

grinderman.now.

2008-07-04T23:35:00.000+03:00

mogwai. now.

2008-07-04T22:10:00.000+03:00

kings of leon. now.

2008-07-04T20:35:00.000+03:00

gnarls barkley. NOW.

2008-07-04T18:15:00.000+03:00