Blue Hour is the moniker of Berlin-based British producer Luke Standing. Behind this alias Luke crafts energizing and smart techno, which wouldn’t be out of place at prime time in Berghain, yet at the same time could be enjoyed in more solitary settings. It’s an intelligent and catchy sound, fusing traces of 90’s influences, IDM/minimal atmospherics and some darker undertones.
Daily Archives: 18. November 2016
Chrysalis by Degraey
Degraey is a four-minded post metal act based in Barcelona. Their debut album, „Chrysalis“, was self-released in November 2016.
Singing from the Grave
Anna von Hausswolff´s début EP Track of Time was released in 2010 February by Kning Disk – magnificent avant-garde pop with its crosshairs trained on the heart.
‘Daft Science’: Beastie Boys meet Daft Punk in a suite of eight amazing remixes
For my part I’m not one to dance much, but he makes electronic music quite ably. He favors the thick, sproingy analog sounds of electro and classic Acid House, but what concerns us today is a project from two and a half years ago that just came to our attention via Metafilter: “Daft Science,” a Beastie Boys/Daft Punk mashup project that floats the Beasties’ a capella tracks over music beds made up entirely of Daft Punk samples.
LISTEN: New Autechre Live Recording
Their recent tour has attracted rave reviews from the Autechre faithful, and now you can hear just why as a live recording from the pair‘s set at Helsinki‘s Tavastia on Monday (November 14) has emerged online. You can check out the recording, which comes in at just over an hour in length, above.
RA.546 Esther Duijn
As a DJ and a producer, Esther Duijn pushes a sound whose understated elegance could only come from years of practice and refinement. Born in The Netherlands and now based in Berlin, she‘s flown under the radar for most of her career, playing headsy events like Freerotation, hosting a night at Tresor called New Faces and making records with her production partner Steady Douglas, all while keeping a relatively low profile.
Homecoming by Galactic Pegasus
Galactic Pegasus is a 5-piece ‚djent‘ influenced band from British Columbia, Canada.
Berlin gemeinsam gestalten. Solidarisch. Nachhaltig. Weltoffen
Koalitionsvereinbarung zwischen Sozialdemokratische Partei Deutschlands (SPD) Landesverband Berlin und DIE LINKE. Landesverband Berlin und BÜNDNIS 90/ Die Grünen Landesverband Berlin für die Legislaturperiode 2016-2021
(pdf; 177 Seiten, download)
I support secular Syria, who do you support? I hope it‘s not the #US backed #AQ terrorists holding Syrians hostages in East Aleppo?
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I look forward to rolling back this disastrous deal with the world’s largest state sponsor of terrorism.
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Rep. Mike Pompeo wants to revive mass surveillance program
(27.1.2016) U.S. Rep. Mike Pompeo, a Republican from Wichita, says that eventually he wants the National Security Agency to be able to restart its bulk collection of metadata and combine those records with even more information: financial and “lifestyle” details that would be accessible in a huge, searchable database.
NSA is doing ‘important work,’ Pompeo tells Wichita State students
(5.11.2013) “The NSA is not intentionally listening to your phone calls,” Pompeo said. “Feel free to talk to your friend. Tell him or her anything you’d like. Your government is not recording those phone calls.”
Likewise, “the government doesn’t care what’s in your e-mails,” he said.
Mike Pompeo Is Said to Be Trump’s Choice for C.I.A. Director
According to his congressional website, Mr. Pompeo, 52, graduated first in his class at West Point and “served as a cavalry officer patrolling the Iron Curtain before the fall of the Berlin Wall.” After leaving the military, Mr. Pompeo graduated from Harvard Law School and returned to Kansas, where he went into business and became president of Sentry International, which his website describes as an “equipment manufacturing, distribution and service company.”
Together @ninaturner @SenSanders @RoseAnnDeMoro at #N17 rally
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We don‘t want Howard Dean, Keith Ellison…we want Nina Turner…otherwise it‘s just business as usual.
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Why is it so hard for these self-congratulatory liberal pundits to simply say: „You know what, I was wrong. Hillary was a poor candidate.“
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Our massively corrupt, scandal-laden, hawkish, female candidate didn‘t win? Must be sexism. #McFeminism
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I agree, I want Nina Turner leading the DNC
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I‘m a Black Liberal Democrat….and I DO NOT want Keith Ellison as head of DNC. I want Nina Turner. @cenkuygur @keithellison
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@democracynow @JeffDSachs @BernieSanders @keithellison what!?!? You morons never learn. Ellison wants no fly zone in Syria! Not progressive!
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Ellison backs attack on Syria, others in Minnesota delegation begin weighing in on intervention
(1.9.2013) Only Keith Ellison has come out to fully back a strike on Syria, something pushed by Obama after an alleged chemical weapons attack there on Aug. 21. Sen. Al Franken has indicated he’ll support a strike, while a trio of House members—Democrats Betty McCollum and Rick Nolan and Republican Michele Bachmann—is strongly opposed. The rest are either neutral, noncommittal, vague or otherwise keeping quiet so far.
Neo-Liberal Keith Ellison: „I would‘ve done a no-fly zone in Syria way back. Assad is the heart of the problem“
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ELLISON: the intervention in Libya was good and successful. ALSO ELLISON: let me parrot HRC‘s nutjob NFZ idea for Syria. Yeah, no.
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US-Demokraten: Michelle Obama und Bernie Sanders werben für Clinton
(26.7.2016) „Wir haben das progressivste Parteiprogramm in der Geschichte“, sagte der demokratische Abgeordnete Keith Ellison in Philadelphia.
Hillary Clinton Goes All-In On Syria No-Fly Zone
(20.10.2016) “If you impose a no-fly zone, how do you respond to their concerns?” Wallace asked. “Secondly, if you impose a no-fly zone and a Russian plane violates that, does President Clinton shoot that plane down?”
Clinton stuck to an argument she has made many times: Creating an area where Syrian and Russian planes cannot fly would give the U.S. “leverage” over Syria and Russia to negotiate a political resolution.
Judicial Watch: Defense, State Department Documents Reveal Obama Administration Knew that al Qaeda Terrorists Had Planned Benghazi Attack 10 Days in Advance
(18.5.2015) Administration knew three months before the November 2012 presidential election of ISIS plans to establish a caliphate in Iraq – Administration knew of arms being shipped from Benghazi to Syria
Former DIA Chief Michael Flynn Says Rise of Islamic State was “a willful decision” and Defends Accuracy of 2012 Memo
(6.8.2015) In Al Jazeera’s latest Head to Head episode, former director of the Defense Intelligence Agency Michael Flynn confirms to Mehdi Hasan that not only had he studied the DIA memo predicting the West’s backing of an Islamic State in Syria when it came across his desk in 2012, but even asserts that the White House’s sponsoring of radical jihadists (that would emerge as ISIL and Nusra) against the Syrian regime was “a willful decision.”