1 January 2012 | /span

Flying Sparks 2012-01-01: Happy New Year!

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Some music for 2012, collected in 2011. Happy new year! [...]

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30 December 2010 | /span

Flying Sparks 2010-12-26: Explorations

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Usually, it’s time for a review in the last days of a year. However, the last Flying Sparks set of 2010 is not really a typical review because I selected too much new stuff as well as some more classic tracks. Anyway, the set represents the year from my point of view: musically, personally and professionally, somehow. Almost everything has been enclosed: Sweet sounds and brute bass storms. Slow and fast beats. Music for sunny days on the beach as well as for dark nights in the club. Mainstream and underground stuff. Downtempo, electro, breakbeat, dubstep, drum’n’bass, house, minimal. [...]

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23 May 2010 | /span

Flying Sparks 2010-05-13: Ascension

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Ascension. The trip starts in Argentina, we stay over in Damascus, make a detour to Berlin, then we travel along the Eastern highway. The journey ends on a strawberry field where we together with Zoe meet very closely the levitating president. The music on our trip? Cumbia, Arabic and Indian sounds between jazz and electronics, German pop, bass-driven music between drum’n’bass and dubstep as well as Beatles sounds from Mumbai, Istanbul and Washington. Remark: I ran riot during the Headhunter & Djunya vs. Indigo‘s tracks. As already mentionend in the Flying Sparks post before, here now both the Milanese [...]

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16 May 2010 | /span

Flying Sparks 2010-05-02: On a Sunday Night in May

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On a Sunday night in May I listened to some new (mostly) Dubstep stuff. In the following some information about this. Last week, Balkan Beat Box were again in Berlin to present their third album Blue Eyed Black Boy. My first impression was that the predecessors had more catchy tracks. Anyway, I like their fusion of different cultures and music styles because it represents the more innovative approach of Balkan music in my opinion. Same place (Festsaal Kreuzberg) two days later, there was the record release party of the Berlin band Jahcoozi‘s third album Barefoot Wanderer. My current favourite [...]

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