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 March 2010 | /span

Flying Sparks 2009 Review, Part 1: Culture & Politics

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Let us pay our last respects to Eartha Kitt († 25.12.2008), Blossom Dearie († 07.02.2009), Ali Akbar Khan († 19.06.2009), Michael Jackson († 25.06.2009), Margot Ebert († 26.06.2009), Patrick Swayze († 14.09.2009), Eduard Zimmermann († 19.09.2009) and Mercedes Sosa († 04.10.2009). Rest in peace! In the end of 2008, the Berlin radio station radiomultikulti from the public broadcaster RBB was closed. Instead of this programme, the Cologne station Funkhaus Europa is transmitted in Berlin. But, some of the former crew of radiomultikulti has started the internet spin-off “Multicult”, Version 2.0. In 2009 we could relisten to DT64, the GDR youth radio from before, during and after the [...]

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