gpberlin's Last.fm Journal

just few words...

Tue, 6 Jan 2009 01:54:49 +0000

The new entries here are Carbon Based Lifeforms (ambient, downtempo) and Pan-Pot (minimal)!

the same and the new

Fri, 3 Oct 2008 00:11:13 +0000

Uh I cannot control my tastes. I said, uhm I should get up with psy and recover my interests with other music. I should listen less shpongle too: recently for example I listened too much to Sasha and I need a pause with him: i do not like to give a pause to an artists, this mean there's nothing new for me with him right now, and that I've gathered too much and simply get bored. Well Sasha was the most hyped artist in my charts for three months :)

There are some artists I will never get bored with :) How could I listen less shpongle, Ott, hallucinogen and co. since there's always something new I can find into them? Artists from Twisted float around me every moment of my day. Friends think about me as the shpongled-guy, and this is something I do not like too much - and sadly I still have to meet here in Berlin someone so "twisted" like me (now nobody understand me jejeje :)

By the way i found an escape from this hallucinated way: music from arabian countries :) ehehe... I was in gayhane - a monthly übersexuell party in Berlin very known by the turkish and arabic community living here - and I was very happy to dance so good music and to feel a little this wonderful culture. I met people that suggested me Ehab Tawfic, Amr Diab, Nancy Ajram or Mustafa Amar... so try theirs radio on last.fm, you may also discover something interesting.

So by listening to my favorit artists I've opened my mind a lot, I should say it, and they increased my love for music that is not good just for technical reason, but because it say something important for my life on the earth :) Is this perhaps the reason I've lost my interest for techno or for the mainstream electronic music?

ua-assalama :)

...geschtonkenflapped

Thu, 28 Aug 2008 02:57:44 +0000

The latest months I grew a lot politically, spiritually, metaphysically and musically :)

To celebrate all those events that made my life so great, I was at O.Z.O.R.A. Festival, Hungary (discovered thanx last.fm), were I signed definitely my soul with goa and psytrance :) It is so far the music of my mind and it will always follow my memories about this great time as it is going to push my future ahead.

At the festival I've seen live a lot of artist I love, and I was very happy to share my passion with the other people there. But dancing with Younger Brother, Ott, Total Eclipse, etc. or becoming crazy with the tribal sound of Juno Reactor cannot be an exceptional experience just for the music. Worn the t-shirt I've bought there - with my alter ego stamped on it, that is right now my avatar here - what I've felt in Hungary made me more geschtonkenflapped than before! 8)

Some days ago I felt me so Simon Posford-addicted and I should suggest my friends to listen deep to his projects! Hallucinogen, Shpongle, Younger Brother über alles, because it's something that makes you another person (maybe better :).

Those who love Posford & Co. should not miss New Emissions of Light and Sound album by Sasha, because you will find there other ways to see a light and to hear a sound ;) Sasha is so far my bigger discovery this year, though I already known his Airdrawndagger...

Oh and Twisted Records UK has opened its shop to download high quality mp3 (DRM free :). Do not go there if you do not want to empty your (little) bank account :)
So there I've downloaded the album I've always dreamt to listen: Eclipse: A Journey of Permanence & Impermanence. The only track streamable by last.fm è Spirals by Nomads of Dub, but the best one are those from Walter Ego (british humor? eheh :), Nakano Gost by Total Eclipse, Invocation (Anubis) and ...And the Day Turned to Night by Shpongle... and yep it is the whole album...

The other notably entry is Sacred Spirit: I love Sacred Spirit, since its ancient feeling, but I find it a too much german than indian. with some injections I found in Schiller and written just to accomplish a bigger public. By the way you can listen it for hours :)

Musicalistische

Sat, 12 Apr 2008 00:23:22 +0000

Cool! My flatmate listen to the same music I´m used to, with a lot of new incredible suggestion for me: Funkadelic, Propellerheads, Led Zeppelin, Art of Noise, Celtic Cross, Space Buddha, Insomnia, and many other I would suggest you to try :). It's wonderful to share libraries via iTunes, yep!

I'm just exploring a lot of new artists and genres that I love every day more. Where I'm going from here I still do not know!

Psy up

Wed, 6 Feb 2008 01:34:59 +0000

It's the time to see what's happening here. According to last.fm I've totally forgot techno and elektro and i'm listening only psytrance. Artists that are in my GODS list (on the left :) like Booka Shade, Richie Hawtin, Ellen Allien... are totally missing my last played list since months. I'm not more in the scene of labels like Bpitch Control or Kompakt, but I'm following Twisted (ehy I got a t-shirt!! cool) or Ultimae records or so on...
mmm and I've started to search radio with music tagged goa! I never loved GOA, its conceptions and the philosophy about being music. But as I started to ask me something more, in my real life like in my musical research, I found a lot of things expressed by the psytrance tag here, that are not far from what are my personal thoughts. So I put the Shpongle-similar-artists radio and the player plays Abakus, Total Eclipse, Antix, Ott, Hallucinogen, Electric Universe... and so many ... I love them all =) A big thanx to Younger Brother with the Last Days Of Gravity: it's something that has a lot of things to teach us :)
This music is improving itself thanks to the contribution of a lot of artists - expressing their concepts about the life, the cosmo, the future, the reality, etc.. While listening we are sharing our ideas, so friendly and positive ideas. The result can be only pure energy - I will keep this way to see how is going the next two months. I mean, as this music is my soundtrack now, you could then imagine how is going my time here in Berlin :)

BTW: how is that as I switched to Apple I'm listening only psytrance? Maybe that colorful screensaver... ehehe...

Wonderful moments

Tue, 22 Jan 2008 03:38:50 +0000

The music by Asura is really worth listening, if you are searching for some moment of pure inner experience :) 3D music, talking about worlds and sweet feelings, a rhythmic sense of peace and contemplation... the universe of Asura is dark and bright, positive and solitary, and it needs to be explored like a cosmo.

Shpongle videos

Sun, 23 Dec 2007 03:17:20 +0000

WOW I never realized that I can search for Shpongle on You Tube!

They are so cool! I love Shpongle!

Musical taste updated!

Thu, 22 Nov 2007 02:46:55 +0000

Ok, last months I have too much Shpongled my mind. I think I should take a pause. That last.fm chart warns me: ehy, there are a lot of other music right there! But it's very hard to find something like Shpongle. Their music is a shelter for me, or - better: it is the waiting room of my mind. I'm a bit astonished for this and I'm also wondering which will be the next, what will be after Shpongle. Meanwhile, my musical tastes are roaming and I hope the techno scene in Berlin will help me to listen a bit more of techno :)

Tips for music:
Asura: a deep deep listening
Hallucinogen: an extravagant crazy of psytrance
Younger Brother: between Pink Floyd und Orbital, through Simon Posford
Cosma: his music will have always something important to say
Lee Burridge mixing Balance 012, an amazing choice of artists.
Agoria, At the controls 2007

Events:
Panorama Bar: has a very good choice in December :)
Berlin at night: dozens of artists and djs that make any little and unknown club an amazing place =)

Shpongle lyrics

Mon, 1 Oct 2007 00:17:43 +0000

I have found the texts of Shpongle. What should I say more? :)

(yep they need a little help there)

Enjoying Last.fm with Foobar2000!

Sat, 29 Sep 2007 01:36:01 +0000

I'm an old user of Foobar2000 and the last summer I found foo_discogs, a wonderful plug-in for tagging my MP3 library. It retrieves data directly from discogs.com, so I don't have to tag manually my files :)

Discogs is a wonderful website with a lot of information about artists, labels and albums: tagging using foo_discogs is a must, since it adds a lot of useful data like styles, labels, countries, etc. This plug-in downloads also albums covers! I'm happy because now I don't misspell more the names of the artists ;), making my last.fm charts more realistic (and perhaps this is a little contribute for the last.fm database too).
(If I had foo_discogs before, I wouldn't have mispelled Trentemøller, splitted in my charts now...)

Another wonderful plug-in is foo_scrobblecharts, that "downloads charts from last.fm and creates a playlist according to them".

What I will do without foobar2000? I'm switching to a Mac the next month! I'm really in panic for this: I don't want to use that crappy iTunes :(

BTW, anybody out there knows if there are other plugins last-fm oriented I'm missing? The hydrogenaudio forum is really a mess.