ein neues Jahr: 2009

and a Mark Fiore flash animation to bring you back to reality.

Sirenia:: At Sixes and Sevens && Nine Destinies and a Downfall

Sirenia myspace
Genre: Metal (gothic, symphonic)
Album: At Sixes and Sevens
Release Date: 13.Aug.2002
Label: Napalm
Rating: SEHR GUT. Buy.

Download: rapidshare .rar -pw: g0@tz or rapidshare .rar

SIRENIA plays a mixture of gothic metal with classical influences, as well as black and death metal nuances. These musical creations have solid foundation in the powerful drums and bass and are accompanied by driving rhythm guitars, coupled with lilting keyboards, melancholic violins and 12-string guitars. The divergence of vocals utilized are numerous, with the use of growls, screams, female vocals, (3 different) clean male vocals, choirs, whispers and samples. The songs are very intense and the atmosphere changes frequently. The lyrics are based on reflections on life, death, love, hate, mental decline in general and celibacy (joke). —excerpt from an Amazon review

1. Meridian
2. Sister Nightfall
3. On the Wane
4. In a Manic
5. At Sixes and Sevens
6. Lethargica
7. Manic Aeon
8. Shadow of Your Own Self
9. In Sumerian Haze
dl links credit: hangmeasmp3 and persiadownloads

Sirenia (wiki) is a band from Stavenger, Norway started by Morten Veland who parted from Tristania. Looks like Sirenia went through 3 female vocalists. xD gawsh that's kinda a lot. Fabienne Gondamin sang in this 2002 album. Now their new singer is Ailyn from Spain. Go to their myspace and listen to 'The Path to Decay'. Zahhs it's good!

Nine Destinies and a Downfall
Release Date: 06.March.2007
Label: Nuclear Blast
Rating: FAVOURITE, buy!

rapidshare .rar -pw: www.kittyshare.blogspot.com

01. The Last Call
02. My Mind’s Eye
03. One by One
04. Sundown
05. Absent without Leave
06. The Other Side
07. Seven Keys and Nine Doors
08. Downfall
09. Glades of Summer

Okay, maybe some people don't think this album's that great, like that guy who wrote that review on amazon. I would have to agree with a few of the things he pointed out though.

When I first listened to this album, I felt very frustrated with the vocals. I thought/think that the vocals could be a lot stronger and louder. (This is after I started listening to Nightwish and Epica.) But then after a few listens and really liking the songs a lot, I decided to just chillout about the vocals. Maybe the female vocalist, Monika Pederson from Denmark this time, just isn't an operatic singer, and definitely not all metal has operatic vocals. So maybe I shouldn't compare Sirenia to Nightwish.

This album is so good, though! Too short though, I always end up listening to it twice each time. I think the lyrics are quite good, too. Not too vague, ambiguous, symbolic metal lyrics. Haha.

e-tards, p-tots

taking a break from uploading music and stuffs,
and I found this pic in a 50 pg long thread on BR.

PSY TRANCE rips

I ripped these psy trance tracks some time ago from DI.fm internet radio's psy trance channel using Streamripper for Winamp. It's just too difficult to find psy trance singles anywhere, or maybe I just haven't found some neat psy trance downloads forum. But I'm not that into psy trance anyways, so ripping was the easy way to go to load my iPod with some new goa.

Psy trance 1 (.rar 53mb)
Cosmosis - The First Step
ESXS - Mechanic Day Dream
Fatali - Hyper Love
Neuromotor - Electrofuck
Nissimyani - Start Up
Silent Scream - Twist'n'Turns
Space Buddha - Full Circle
Tegma - No Time
Visual Paradox - Thunder (Rmx)
Zen Mechanics - Dolly Dots

Psy trance 2 (.rar 85mb)
Glassball - Lethal Injection (March 2007)
Headroom - Sweet Like A Lemon
Human Blue - Rollercoaster
Impact - Presented by Talamasca (December 2006) with guest DJ Lotus
Redax Mental - Brain Crusher Vol. 9 (August 2006) with guest FractalGee
Space Buddha - White Widow
System Nipel - Afronomical
Tsunami Spotlight USA Presents - Lauryn [Peak Recs, 28th day] (January 2007)

Psy trance 3 (.rar 98mb)
Dj Shoom - Tweakers and Phreakers [31 min. rip of a mix]
Morlack and Shiva Joerg - Frequency Patterns (August 2005) [1hr53m rip of a mix)

And for the many of you who have never heard of psy trance,..
"psy" for psychedelic. "trance" because it is similar to trance in..the song pattern like into-climax-kinda, I guess.. It's also called "goa", after the coast city in India. I think psy trance spread from there, maybe. Read the WIKI article. Psy trance is very fast, 150bpm+, usually, as fast or can be faster than drum & bass.

You see, trance is basically ecstasy without the pill.
And psy/goa trance, is acid.
So if you're listening to psy trance for the first time, you might get a headache. It takes some time to get used to. I remember when I was first getting into psy trance, and I was listening to it while doing math hw, and my head just hurt. I advise you to not listen to psy trance while doing homework that requires a significant amount of thinking.

One more thing:
There's this one BEAUTIFUL instrument used in psy trance. The PSYTAR.
Danggg. The psytar? Doesn't that sound so freakin' cool?
Yepp, electric guitar tuned really crazily.
Or just the electric guitar used in really good full-on psy.

And for those who are unwilling to download,
stream P H I L O S O M A T I K A. I would say it's better than di.fm's psy/goa channel.
I only found out about philosomatika a couple months ago, but it's really good. I was listening to psy trance like for more than a hour straight on several nights while doing hw. Yahh.

some K-Pop!

I just started cleaning out this HP laptop that I used over the summer that belongs to a family friend. I'm just going to .rar lots of the files together so it'll be easier for me to upload, than one by one. Comment a "thanks" if you dl? =]

mp3s K-Pop 1: (.rar 58mb mediafire)
Solbi & Kim Jong Kook - Geudaeege Baraeyo
Wheesung- Love Seat (ft. Humming Urban Stereo) [album-smile project vol2]
1TYM - It's Over [from album- Once N 4 All]
1TYM - 1TYM
SM Town - Let's Go On a Trip ['07 summer vacation]
Big Bang - VIP
M-Flo - Loop In My Heart
M-Flo - One Day
Bright - Brightest Star (Cubismo Grafico Remix)
KARA -Secret World
Clazziquai Project - Beauty and the Beast
Se7en - I Know [album - 24/7]

K-Pop 2 (.rar 39mb)

Big Bang - Lies

Big Bang - Last Farewell

G-Dragon (of Big Bang?) - Naman Barabwa (pt2)

Lee Hyori - 10 Minutes

Jinusean - A Yo

Leo Soo Young - Final Fantasy X Theme Song

Tei - Love Leaves a Scent

Wheesung - Love is Delicious

mp4s good quality for iPod/iPhone
Son DamBi: Cry Eye performance & Bad Boy perf.-05.04.08 (87mb .rar mediafire)
Kara - Secret World perf & SHINee - Noona is so pretty (KBS Musicbank 30.05.08) total 88mb
Baby VOX - Ecstacy perf & CSJH - My Everything perf total 70mb
BoA - My Name perf 07.03.04 & Epik High ft. JiSun - One perf 24.05.08 80mb
TaeYeon and Joo - If & Because of a Man perf 14.03.08
Koda Kumi ft Tohoshinki (DBSK) - Last Angel MV
Wonder Girls & Seo JiYoung - Irony & Hey Boy perf 11.03.07 99mb

Head-Fi

Head-Fi
for the headphones geeks.

Read through this review of a portable headphone amp. Like wtf?! Did you even know there are headphone amps??!

But I think I do want some Caffeine..

Quite unnecessary, yes I know. I probably listen to music too loudly already, or mostly I just listen to music for prolonged periods of time. Good thing it's sold out, though. Else I might actually buy it.

Ehh I am kinda getting in-the-know about headphones/earbuds. The right side of my V-Modas starting going off a week ago already. Gyahh! and I've only had them since early November! Blahh! Darnit I really should have listened to the reviews, but I just couldn't resist since they look so effing bomb. Plus I was getting too irritated with my roommates so I need a good pair of noise-isolating earbuds. (I was using the crap apple earbuds that came with my iPod, though when I'm in my room I usu. use my Sony MDR-V6, but that doesn't drown out my Korean roommate LOLing and clapping and stomping her feet in dumbass hilarity while watching Korean shows. ) Gyahhk so now I have to send those back to get a new pair. But the packaging's in my dorm room, so will only be able to do that when I get back to school. I KNOW I will NOT survive without sound-isolating earbuds at school for 2 weeks. o m g I would die. So what have I decided on?

Skullcandy Full Metal Jacket.
I don't think I'm getting pink, though.

But gyahhk! I spent 70$ on V-Modas, and then I'll spend $40 on these, made me wonder if I should have gotten Shures first-off. But NO. Not Shures. They look weird. And the bass isn't so good. I LOVE the bass on the V-Modas. When I first listened to music on my V-Modas, it was like "WOW. i HEAR and feel the bass." Wonderful. And definitely quite good mids and highs. (70$ earbuds wtf do you think?!) And so now on my MDR-V6 or anything else, I have to really try to hear the bass in some music. Oh, plus, I really like the slanted plug/jack whatever you call it on the V-Modas, instead of having a straight vert or horizontal one and having to bend it. From the reviews, looks like the FMJs should suffice well for me.

I've seen some Skullcandys in the UCSD bookstore. I hope they have these, and at a bit lower price.

Aahk my standards for things keep going up, but my money's not increasing much.
(Also because I bought a mixer and a CDJ. >___<;;
and I should be practicing right now instead of blogging.)

Sunlounger aka DJ SHAH: Sunny Tales

Sunlounger: Catwalk // Mediterranean Flower
Rating: EXCELLENT

I went to Skills the other day and listened to this, was totally about to buy it, but the cover sleeve was creased on a corner and it was the only one left. Ahah.

So happy I found this online.

2 tracks > .rar

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Sunlounger aka DJ Shah myspace
AHAA.. I just found out that Sunlounger is an alias of DJ Shah's. No wonder I've been liking Sunlounger's tracks so much, the Mediterranean feel that DJ Shah produces wonderfully well. gawwwsh. —SUNLOUNGER ft Zara: LOST. Choon of the freakin' year!

Gawwsh I should really try to keep up with music more. If I wasn't blogging this, I wouldn't have found out. http://supra.armadamusic.nl/news/2008/07/1770/
http://musicisforrichpeople.blogspot.com/2008/08/sunlounger-sunny-tales.html

ASOT 383 Top 20 of 2008! *CHOONAGE!!!*

Armin van Buuren presents A State of Trance Episode 383 (Top 20 of 2008)
18.12.2008

"Back In Time" - Warmup:
00. Intro
02. Above & Beyond feat. Zoe Johnston - No One On Earth (Gabriel & Dresden Remix) [Anjunabeats] [Tune of The Year of 2004]
03. Above & Beyond vs. Andy Moor - Air For Life [Anjunabeats] [Tune of The Year of 2005]
04. Above & Beyond feat. Zoe Johnston - Good For Me [Anjunabeats] [Tune of The Year of 2006]
05. John O'Callaghan feat. Audrey Gallagher - Big Sky [Armind] [Tune of The Year of 2007]

"TOP 20 Countdown" - Mainshow:
20. Armin van Buuren feat. Susana - If You Should Go (Aly & Fila Dub) [Armind]
19. Leon Bolier - Ocean Drive Boulevard [2Play]
18. Akesson - Perfect Blue [A State Of Trance]
17. Andy Duguid feat. Leah - Wasted [Black Hole]
16. Armin van Buuren feat. Jaren - Unforgivable (First State Smooth Remix) [Armind]
15. Mr. Sam feat. clAud9 - Cygnes [Appia]
14. DJ Shah feat. Adrina Thorpe - Back To You (Aly & Fila Remix) [Magic Island] DJ Shah's Balearic style is so beautiful.
13. The Doppler Effect - Beauty Hides In The Deep (The Blizzard Remix) [A State Of Trance]
12. The Killers - Human (Armin van Buuren Remix) [Universal]
10. Oceanlab - Sirens Of The Sea (Above & Beyond Club Mix) [Anjunabeats] Another remix to another favourite. =)
09. Alex M.O.R.P.H. - Walk The Edge (Alex M.O.R.P.H. B2B Woody van Eyden Remix) [High Contrast]
08. Lange feat. Sarah Howells - Out Of The Sky (Kyau & Albert Remix) [Maelstrom]omg I love this song! ^____^~
07. Oceanlab - Miracle (Above & Beyond Club Mix) [Anjunabeats]Another one of my favourites!
06. Cerf, Mitiska & Jaren - You Never Said (Dash Berlin Remix) [Soundpiercing]
05. Ferry Corsten feat. Betsie Larkin - Made Of Love [Flashover]
04. Oceanlab - Breaking Ties (Above & Beyond Analogue Haven Mix) [Anjunabeats] ZOMG top20 mix is an orgasm.
03. Orjan Nilsen - La Guitarra [Armind]
02. Armin van Buuren feat. Sharon den Adel - In & Out Of Love [Armind] This a getting a little bit more cheesy each time I listen to it, plus from watching the MV, lol, but still, yeah choon.
01. Sunlounger feat. Zara - Lost (Club Mix) [TUNE OF THE YEAR] ZOMGfershurre!!!

If you've never listened to trance before, or have only heard a little bit, zomggg
download this.

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found@tranceaddictt

Aaron Jae, Retroid - Breaks mix

Aaron Jae: Hoe Down (live @ Burning Man 2007)
70mb

Retroid: 6th & Fairfax Radio Show (March 2008)
80mb

more info later

fierstein

Nice piece there, I kinda like that style, though I can never figure out the letters of pieces in that sort of style.
(That girl did not bomb that. She's just posing.)

Cal Pwned UW to go on to Emerald Bowl

Washington fans didn't see a season-ending miracle at Memorial Stadium as their Huskies became the first Pac-10 team to finish with a 0-12 record.

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Ok, real music post after this week, FINALs week! Two of my hardest finals (Japanese and Microeconomics) on Thursday one right after the other, and then packing and leaving for home! Jag är exalterad!

Note: JzL — Diatonic Chromatica 030
Quite good trance mix with new mash-ups(!) on AH.fm.

GIVE THANKS!!! **note—sort of blog/ranting +BEAT UNIVERITY@ SUPPER CLUB, SF

holy crap am I so excited to go to another rave.
I just listened to Armin van Buuren's episode 378 of his weekly radio show 'A State of Trance' 2-hr mix the whole way through. OMG such a great episode. And then I go online and tune into AH.fm and that's playing quite a good mix right now, too. Right when I tuned in it was playing Oceanlab (Above & Beyond) - Breaking Ties (some remix). ZOMG, the above & beyond analogue heaven remix of that track is my favourite tune right now. It's HUGE.
Now some of my serotonin has been releasing and I feel sort of energetic, though it's 3:30am right now. Yeee~



Holy crap do you see that trance line-up??
zahhhs!
omg am I quite the trance-addict.
Today I woke up around noon. And there's nothing to on campus or off-campus here, so I sat diligently at my desk and read stuff for class most of the day. Like til 11. Then I walked around listening to asot378. And now I feel really awake. Haha who needs to pop ecstasy when there's obscenely orgasmic trance? Definitely not me! lollls I sound so lame.

Oh man I'm almost on a trance high right now. And I should be sleeping so I can wake up and have breakfast in time for church tomorrow. But I also want to do some econ homework. Haha.

Oh yeah, about the rave:
I guess this Craneway Pavilion in Richmond got renovated or something, and a number of raves already booked the venue. It's right next to the water, from the pics it looks pretty nice.
And this is Midnite Event's 3rd Thanksgiving Rave. The first one was 'Be Thankful' followed by 'Be Thankful 2'. But it was at the Regency Center in SF last year, and I wasn't 18 yet, so I did not attend. I think Solarstone headlined.

But:
COSMIC GATE (Black Hole Recordings, Germany)
SEAN TYAS (Armada / Discover, Switzerland)
SUPER8 & TAB (Anjunabeats, Finland)
DEEP VOICES Dyloot (Skills, San Francisco)

Aaaah!!! *_____*
And the rest of the lineup though I don't listen to those genres should be quite good as well.

Who wants to go with me??
=D

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edittt

Holy crap this sucks I am going to miss Beat University. I don't care much about the DJs/line-up, the non-profit this is cool, but... it's...
At the SUPPERCLUB. Dannnng does that place look hot or what. I've read an article about that place in a magazine or somewhere some time ago when it first opened, but it was mainly a restaurant review, about always different kinds of food, and lounging on the beds(???!) Here's a review I just found: SFstation.

Okay I'm done for tonight. Ahah it's 4am now. But tonight, both my roommates are still up. xD

Bloc Party: A Weekend in the City; Silent Alarm;; Intimacy

Bloc Party
Genre: Post-Punk, Rock, Electronic
Silent Alarm (2005) —4shared .rar
Label: Wichita
StylusMag Review: A+
Rating: Very Good


1. Like Eating Glass
2. Helicopter
3. Positive Tension
4. Banquet
5. Blue Light
6. She's Hearing Voices
7. This Modern Love
8. Pioneers
9. Price Of Gas
10. Little Thoughts (bonus track)
11. So Here We Are
12. Luno
13. Plans
14. Compliments

A Weekend In The City (2007) —4shared .rar
Label: Vice
StylusMag Review: C+, Pitchfork: 7.5
Rating: Alright, Pretty Good
I saw Bloc Party at Live105's BFD in 2007. But they played last, and Social Distortion played before them, and played too many darn songs, so they only got to play like 5 songs or something. Mehh, social d. xP
1. Song For Clay (Disappear Here)
2. Hunting For Witches —First 35 seconds suck. Leave that to psy trance. But the rest I like.
3. Waiting For The 7:18
4. The Prayer — I hate this song. So horrible-sounding. How did it ever get approved for radio play?
5. Uniform
6. On
7. Where Is Home?
8. Kreuzberg
9. I Still Remember ★
10. Sunday
11. SRXT

Intimacy —4shared .rar 256kbps
Release Date: 27.Okt.2008
Label: Atlantic
Rating: N/A. I haven't listened to this yet, actually. Found this album just now.
Reviews: Popmatters, DrownedInSound—7/10


01. Ares
02. Mercury
03. Halo
04. Biko
05. Trojan Horse
06. Signs
07. One Month Off
08. Zephyrus
09. Talons
10. Better Than Heaven
11. Ion Square

WISHLIST! + more morford.

2 CDJ's. (Pioneer)
—ebay CDJ-1000, 2 CDJ-800MK2+mixer !dyahh $$$!
Mixer (Vestax or Pioneer)

Summer2009: Study abroad in Sweden

DSLR! (digital manual camera) Canon Rebel or Nikon? Panasonic Lumix is alright, not so heavy.

expensive.. Ich brache Gelt. =[

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On another note, Morford's writing is still ++++.

You might disagree. You might say, hey wait a minute, not all American cars are as dreadful and ill-equipped as Sarah Palin at a science fair.

Detroit must die
American cars are still uniformly god-awful. Why save them?

Get on with it, America. Clean Diesel.
Stuff like this makes me want to go to Europe even more.

The 65 mpg Ford the U.S. Can't Have
Ford's Fiesta ECOnetic gets an astonishing 65 mpg, but the carmaker can't afford to sell it in the U.S.

Back to Morford:

oh my God don't you know this here life is a veritable liquid madhouse of unhappiness? A giant smoldering smoothie of misery and angst and vague feelings of inadequacy and spiritual barrenness? It's the American way.

Misery loves TV
Unhappy people watch lots more toob. But it doesn't stop there.

Happy people usually only want a long walk, some sunshine, maybe a margarita and a good book and messy oral sex every hour or two. That's easy. It's unhappy people who really drive the economy. Unhappy people make capitalism go. This is why we like to create so many of them.

As liberal as Mark Morford is, I still love his writing. He speaketh the truth.

talk about awesome

I think this was during ATB's set? Or Armin? Ich habe vergessen. at sflovefest08afterparty in Oktober.

Lots of homework and a project coming up. Currently week 8. Week 10 finals. W00t!
More infrequent music posts.

And here's Above & Beyond playing their club remix of their track Oceanlab-Miracle.

Jaa mata.

All The News We Hope To Print

Dangit I want a copy of that.

Mixing! &Trance Sampling 01!

Trance Sampling01! 195mb .zip megaupload (mediafire isn't working?)

Pablo Acenso - Happy Anguish (Alex Hentze Remix)
Absolute - Winter Time
Absolute - Skyhigh
Abbott & Chambers - Where Are You (Karl G Remix)
Abstract Vision - Feels Like Heaven (Dmitry Bessonov Remix)
Algarve vs Cold Blue - Sakura (Arctic Moon Remix)
Andy Moor feat. Carrie Skipper - So Much More (Myon and Shane54 Remix)
Deep Voices - Surrender Morning (Steve Baltes' Remix)
Fischer & Miethig - God Inside You (Alexander Xendzov Remix)
Mystery Islands & Stefan Cambridge Pres. Chapter G8 - Final Destination (Original Mix)
Noah Neiman and MST (feat. Catherine) - Run With Me (MST Remix)
Talla 2XLC vs Carl B feat. Katie Marne - Keep The Fire Burning (Sean Tyas Mix)
Talla 2XLC vs Carl B feat. Katie Marne - Giving Up Giving In (Talla 2xlc & Ace Da Brain Mix)

Fresh new trance! =D
I should totally mix these tracks. But, haha, I need blank cds. lol. I'll go buy some when I go home for Thanksgiving. But almost all these tracks are pretty uplifting, climactic, beautiful.
So yeah, until I mix with my own cds, just download and enjoy!

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Okay, I'm getting behind on my blogging.

But today, after 2 DJing lessons, I practiced mixing. =D
Like a straight mix, but of course not so much focus on track selection. I screwed up a couple times, but yeah, was told it was pretty good, just need to practice practice practice. =) I just used a couple cds from the guy who's teaching me. I must say I love CDJ's, as cooler as vinyl is, CDJ's show the BPM of the track that's playing. And wow how much easier that is. Vinyl—awesome, the original way, but expensive. 11.99$ for a record, like a track and a remix, or maybe a track or 2 or 3. There's a box of vinyl in the DJ club office, but I don't know a lot of those records and it would take so long trying to find two records of close BPM to mix with.
Ahh, mp3s and CDJ's.

Added to my wishlist:
2 CDJ's and a mixer.

So the guy who's teaching me told me I should start downloading hella (okay he didn't say 'hella', he's from socal) trance singles, and linked me to a couple sites.
and zomg. Soon, my still quite new macbook will be full of trance. Hahaha =D

Anyways, I just downoaded 900mbs of trance singles. I will sample them, select a track and maybe a remix from each single, rar/zip it, and upload it here so ya'll can chill to some fresh trance. Aight?

Alright yeah since I'm behind on my blogging, or at least I feel like it, (I've been trying to study/read more/ahead in homework, and leave online time for past-midnight), I'm gonna draft up a list of blogposts so I won't get lazy on this.

Next up:
silversun pickups, wild sweet oranges, smashing pumpkins, bloc party,
haven't been on ongoingmelody for a while, so no new asianpop, though I want to post ELLEGARDEN's discography.

auf wiedersehen! jaa mata!

New Flicks that I really want to see.

Repo! The Genetic Opera


Plus:

Let The Right One In.
Swedish vampire film like no other.

historic day

Obama totally won the electoral votes: 338 of the needed 270, while McCain only got 129. I just watched a bit of McCain's concession speech on CNN. Yeee Obama. Helgeln Sie und Glückwünsche zu unsere neuen Präsident! Don't screw us up, though. That's why I don't own any Obama shirts. Counting's still going to be going on for a while, we'll see how close the popular votes turn out. Plus all the sehr wichtige California props.

I'll leave you with this photo taken earlier today, while I return to writing and revising my CAT (culture, art & technology) paper. Zurück zu Musik morgen!


Obama wins the election
Debra Savitz of North Lauderdale, Fla., campaigns for Republican presidential candidate Sen. John McCain in front of the polling place at the Fred Lippman Center in Hollywood. Fla. Savitz was giving away "anti-Obama Kool-Aid," attempting to sway voters to the McCain ticket.

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Nice victory speech, President-Elect Obama.

What's going down tonight in SF?


Tuesday
November 4th
Mighty (119 Utah @ 15th)
9pm-2am
$5 (free before 11 w/ "I Voted" sticker)

THREADLESS tees!

oh man is this shirt the cutest!
Infamous Mishaps Throughout History
by Aled Lewis and Mitch Ansara

Buy THREADLESS here!

Okay, I know I have too many t-shirts already, and 3 black ones at that, but only one of those are from Threadless. On my wishlist: Heaven and Earth.
Please? girly medium. =D

CAL Football

Sports photos are great.


Making a splash / Cal's defense rises to occasion in limiting high-scoring Oregon
Jeremy Ross is upended by Oregon cornerback Walter Thurmond after a 16-yard reception. (Kurt Rogers / The Chronicle)

CAL 26-16 UO

Oh how I miss Berkeley and Cal and all the excitement.
UCSD ist ereignislos und langweilig.

It rained in the Bay Area this weekend, and today here in lovely La Jolla, it was in the 80's during after/noontime. Zu warm für mich..

The Bravery:: The Sun and The Moon (Complete!)

The Bravery myspace
The Sun and the Moon—Complete

Release date: 18.03.2008
Label: Island
Genre: Alternative
Rating: VERY VERY GOOD!!!/my new favourite!

CD1:The Sun//CD2:The Moon

1. Intro
2. Believe
3. This Is Not the End
4. Every Word Is a Knife in My Ear
5. Bad Sun
6. Time Won't Let Me Go
7. Tragedy Bound
8. Fistful of Sand
9. Angelina
10. Split Me Wide Open ★★★★★ my new favourite track
11. Above and Below
12. The Ocean

The first disc has the version of 'Believe' and 'Time Won't Let Me Go' that you've heard on the radio. The second disc, The Moon, as I've skimmed over in the amazon reviews is the lead singer and songwriter's versions. Same lyrics and tracks on The Moon, but they're sort of electronic-y, with the addition of bass-synths. Really, you need to listen to both albums. So good (I've listened to it on repeat like 3 times already). Highly recommended, GET THIS ALBUM!

mediafire link credit: iMalias

Yeah Yeah Yeahs: Show Your Bones

Yeah Yeah Yeahs myspace
Show Your Bones (mediafire .rar)

Release Date: 28.03.2006
Label: Interscope
Genre: Indie
Rating: Quite Good. Buy.
Read Rolling Stone Review or NME review: 4/5


1. Gold Lion ★
2. Way Out
3. Fancy
4. Phenomena ★
5. Honey Bear
6. Cheated Hearts ★
7. Dudley
8. Mysteries
9. Sweets
10. Warrior
11. Turn Into
12. Deja Vu ★

Yeah, just skim through the reviews that I linked to. I like Fever To Tell a bit better, (that's one of my favourite albums) but I agree with the reviews, this is a solid sophomore album though not as Karen-O—crazy.

Hope you guys had a spooky Halloween!
Things were uneventful here on campus, though I've seen a few okay/good costumes. I miss trick-or-treating on Russell when I was a little kid, and all the uber-cool house decorations and festivities and friendly people in the lovely Elmwood neighborhood.

DJ Wicked Wes:: The BREAKdown

DJ Wicked Wes myspace (<-he has a breaks remix of 'Whatever You Like' up)
The Breakdown (2006)
Genre: Breaks
Rating: Pretty Good, okay. I think one of his "Wicked Breaks" mixes is better.

download mediafire .zip
AAC (mp4) 66.7mb, split tracks. 1.2hrs
I converted it from the extra-high quality .wav. The whole thing was 744.4mb in .wav format (1411 kbps)! And I finally got an ethernet cable because the wireless here sucks. This only took like a minute to upload! Whee~

01. BreakZhead - It's A Dream
02. Vessel - Automatic
03. The Breakfastaz - The Pressure
04. Dave London - Black Disc
05. Agent K & Deuce - Rock To The Rhythm
06. Hydraulix - Hydroz Have Landed
07. DJ Sandy - LLCOOLDJS
08. Reworked - Raindrops
09. Nate Roulsin - In The House
10. DJ Brad Smith - Don’t Fall Asleep
11. Hydraulix - 2XL
12. Dave London - 326
13. Dj Wicked Wes - The Unknown
14. BreakZhead - Drums Performance
15. Shawn Davis & Kim Stein - When You Take Me Down
16. Johnny Louis - Popcicles Hidden In The Cellar
17. DJ B, Terry Thurston - Storted
18. BreakZhead - Traffik

The Cribs: Mens's Needs, Women's Needs, Whatever

The Cribs (UK) myspace
Men's Needs, Women's Needs, Whatever

Genre: Indie/Punk
Released: 21. Mai.2007
Label: Warner Bros/Wea
Rating: Alright, Pretty Good
metacritic
rapidshare .rar

★I'm a Realist - remix by The Postal Service (zshare)
1. Our Bovine Public
2. Girls Like Mystery
★3. Men's needs
4. Moving Pictures
★5. I'm a Realist —my favourite song off this album
6. Major's Titling Victory
7. Women's Needs
8. I've Tried Everything
9. My Life Flashed Before My Eyes
★10. Be Safe —good song, if you're feeling kinda down, or want to be
11. Ancient History
12. Shoot the Poets

Thanks to worsttasteinmusic for uploading the remix of "I'm a Realist"!

Armin van Buuren:: IMAGINE

Armin van Buuren myspace
Imagine (artist album)
Genre: Trance—vocal. melodic, euphoric
Release Date: 22.April.2008
Rating: EXCELLENT. omg. BUY!!!
blogcritics review

.rar (rapidshare—sucks, I know, but it's what I found)
also, the titles aren't capitalized, and don't have the parentheticals. you can rename them yourself, but you're going to buy the album, so it doesn't really matter, right?
01. Imagine
02. Going Wrong (with Dj Shah feat. Chris Jones) ★★★★★
03. Unforgiveable (feat. Jaren)★★★★
04. Face To Face
05. Hold On To Me (feat. Audrey Gallagher) ★★★★★
06. In and Out of Love (Feat. Sharon den Adel)★★★★
07. Never Say Never (feat. Jacqueline Govaert)
08. Rain (feat. Cathy Burton)
09. What If (feat. Vera Ostrova)
10. Fine Without You (feat. Jennifer Rene) ★★★★★
11. Intricacy ★★★★★

credit: All4music

Sytrix: Refluxxxd [Breaks Mix]

DJ: Sytrix (,don't worry, I hadn't heard of him either.)
Genre: Breaks
Rating: SUPERB!
I guarantee you will at least be chairdancing.
And then there's one song in the mix with samples (anyone know where from?) that tell you to "GET A LIFE". omgosh hella good samples. I love edm (electronic dance music).

First streamed on DI.FM 01.Okt.2007
»download (right-click as link as)//132mb//57:40//320kbps!

tracklist
Hidden Forces - Not Your Slave
Ctrl Z v Ken Mac - Shotgun Ridin
Ed209 v Dappa Dan - Ting Dem
Jade - Made Of Steel
Dj Quest - Gravel Muncha (Distortionz Remix)
Dj Quest & Odissi - Loser (Rogue Element Remix)
Far Too Loud v Specimen A - Headcase
Sensei Allstars v Ctrl Z - Big Ridin
Dj Rocca & 5th Suite - Get Naked (Madox Remix)
Aquasky v Masterblaster - Boom (Breakfastaz Remix)
Influenza - Feel It
Aquasky & Autobots - Dreamland

Aly & Fila:: Middle East in the Mix 004

Aly & Fila:: Middle East in the Mix 004 [29.07.2008] on AH.FM

From: Cairos, Egypt (myspace)
Genre: Trance—melodic, euphoric, progressive
download 3:00:29 (247,9 MB)
Rating: EXCELLENT!

01. ID - ID
02. Andain vs. Fragma - Toca's Beautiful Things
03. Mungo - Under The Sea (Original Mix)
04. Michael Tsukerman & Robert Gitelman - Bolivia (Oceania Remix)
05. Serenade - Most Beautiful Happened (Original Mix)
06. Mike Wind & Ron Malakai - Sunday After Monday (David Newsum Remix)
07. Paul Miller & Hensha - ID
08. ID - ID
09. Rene Ablaze - Stealin' Love (Dima Krasnik Remix)
10. Inertia - The System (Original Mix)
11. Lange feat. Sarah Howells - Out Of The Sky (Aly & Fila Remix)
12. Nitrous Oxide pres. Redmoon - Slide (Original Mix)
13. Tarja Turunen - The Reign (Aly & Fila Remix)
14. Majera - Velvet Sun (Aly & Fila Remix)
15. Oceania - Never Forget (Original Mix)
16. Astuni & Manuel Le Saux - Faith (2008 Rework)
17. Miguel Sassot - Empty (Aly & Fila Remix)
18. The Thrillseekers feat. Fisher - The Last Time (Simon Bostock Remix)
19. Activa - End of Summer (Original Mix)
20. ID - ID
21. Philippe El Sisi - Never After (Original Mix)
22. Aly & Fila - Dynasty
23. DJ Shah feat. Adrina Thorpe - Back To You (Aly & Fila Remix)
24. ID - ID
25. Akesson - Perfect Blue (Original Mix)
26. Aly & Fila - Lost Language
27. Temple One - Aurora
28. ID - ID
29. Kiholm - Fragile (Daniel Kandi's Fragile Mix)
30. Deems - Tears Of Hope (Aly & Fila Remix)

UKTranceAlliance

THIS is one of those really good trance mixes that I think are so good that I haven't listened past the first track. I mean, just look at the tracklist! If I start listening for more than 5 minutes, I'll have to listen to the whole 3-hour mix! Zomg Aly& Fila are so pwnage. They play great trance tracks consistently, as in they don't play any of that crap pounding-electro after climax that a lot of well-known trance djs do. AND they always play quite a few of their own remixes, which is ++.

VOTE for them on the djlist. (DJmag's top 100 poll ended.)


Aly & Fila with Armin van Buuren

ketchup mania - PLEASE! MARRY ME!!

zomgwtf– cute/annoying/high japanese female voice with punk rock??
yessir.

ketchup mania – PLEASE! MARRY ME!!

Release Date: 21.Mai.2008
Genre: Punk (happy) Rock, Japanese
Quality: Very High [320kbps]
Download: Full Single .rar
Rating: Pretty Good, I guess, not totally sure, you listen for yourself.

o1. PLEASE! MARRY ME!! [watch MV]
o2. PARANOIA
★o3. PING-PONG

I haven't looked any further into this band, but if you're liking them,
[ALBUM] ketchup mania; L.O.V.E
[ALBUM] ketchup mania; U.R.G.E

credit: ongoingmelody
and please follow ongoingmelody's sampling terms– delete files after 24 uhrs. Danke!

Secret Machines:: Ten Silver Drops

Secret Machines
Ten Silver Drops
myspace
From: New York
Genre: Indie
Label: Reprise
Release Date: April 25, 2006
Rating: Good/Pretty Nice
8.0 Rating on Prefixmag Review

4shared .zip
1. Alone, Jealous and Stoned
2. All at Once (It's Not Important)
3. Lightning Blue Eyes ★★★★★ —This is the first song I heard from them, on live105's Soundcheck a while back. Such an excellent song, one of my favourites. In your playlist, put it right after Silversun Pickups' "Lazy Eye".
4. Daddy's in the Doldrums
5. I Hate Pretending
6. Faded Lines
7. I Want To Know If It's Still Possible
8. 1,000 Seconds

They have a new album just released on the 14th of this month, if you want to go on iTunes or their website and check that out.

Fleet Week

The Navy Blue Angels surround the Transamerica Building as they practice for Fleet Week activities, Thursday, Oct. 9, 2008, in San Francisco.


Now that is some pwning photography.
Blue Angels Roar Into SF

LOVEFEST WEEKEND!!!!! (incl. Sigur Rós)

zomg the best weekend evarrr.

Starting with Sigur Rós at the Greek Theatre in Berkeley.

Opening band: Parachutes (myspace). Related to a member of Sigur Rós. Their music was similar to Sigur Ros, but I guess a bit pop-y-ish or not, I'm don't quite know how to describe it. But they were okay, on song, the girl there playing the violin and a guy played a xylophone duet. Haha it was cute.

SIGUR ROS! I'm not quite a fan of their music (I couldn't even get through listening to their whole album), and after their performance, am still not, but yeah they are quite uber cool.

Bow on electric guitar? Craaazy. And for one song the bassist used a drumstick.









SF LOVEFEST 2008!
I missed the parade, and didn't hang around the festival grounds for too long, because..I went to Official Afterparty this year!!!! =DDD

Deep Voices (SF) started off, good set (from the few minutes that I heard), I wish I hadn't missed almost all of it but I was trying to get my friends into the party.

Kyau vs. Albert (Germany) spun next. I think their mix was pretty decent, they played some of their classic tracks, but I don't totally remember.

Next, ATB(Germany)! I honestly haven't listened to any of his mixes or anything prior to this, except maybe that 'Ecstasy' song or something, but yeah, nothing. I would say his set was definitely the best of the whole night's. And then a girl gave me candy (kandi? kandy? candi?) that was beaded with 'ATB ROX'. Haha =)

Following ATB, Above & Beyond (UK)! Those guys are so nice! Or, well, I don't really know, of course, but one of them crowdsurfed and the other was smiling/crazy happy the whole during the set. =) Really good set, too. Oceanlab (one of their aliases, a project)- Satellite, Miracle ("are you hoping for a miracle? as the icebergs melt away") A&B- Can't Sleep, Home. Ahh those guys are great. Lovely trance.

And finally, ARMIN VAN BUUREN (Netherlands)!!! Zomg!
Definitely not one of his best sets, but still, Armin! Hahaha I'm such an avb fan. He posed quite a number of times for us. haha. He played his new track with Jennifer Rene (?)- Unforgivable, and ended the night with Going Wrong (-avb & DJ Shah ft. Chris Jones). =)

Okay, the best tracks of the night that I'm really glad the djs played and made my night, before I forget:
andain: beautiful things (Gabriel & Dresden remix? don't remember)
dash berlin: 'til the sky falls down (remix?)
imogen heap: hide and seek (remix? not Tiesto's ISOS remix, though)
sunlounger ft zara: lost ("let your fears go, you might find your way back home...")[LOVELY TRACK!!!]
john o'callahan ft audrey gallergher: big sky (remix?)
dj shah ft adrina thorpe: who will find me (remix?) [one of my faaavourite tracks, but not this remix)
and of course, ATB rockin' the crowd with Nirvana.
I'm sure there were at least a couple of other tracks that were really good, but I can't recall them at the moment.

Okay, pictures of lovefest & afterparty later. =]

MGMT: Oracular Spectacular &&

MGMT
myspace
From: Brooklyn, New York
Label: Columbia
Genre: Indie-Electro-Pop-Rock, Psy Rock
Rating: Okay, Pretty Good

'Oracular Spectacular' album
Release Date: January 22, 2008
credit: MP3maniaco
mediafire .zip :

★Time to Pretend
★Indie Rokkers
★Kids
The Handshake
Electric Feel
The Youth
Weekend Wars

They've been getting pretty big recently. A month or so ago they played a sold-out show in SF.
'Electric Feel' is one of their new songs, and I don't like it. But you might.

Stolke

Patrick Stolke
B-high '08
Berkeley '12

---
err not a musican, I don't think. He rows crew.
I just like this portrait.
Okay, really, my next post will be on some band or dj.

Bay Bridge Eastern Span

'juswannagethome'
9/23/2008 7:34:28 PM

I can't believe what a hippie comment I'm about to make but... Do folks realize that this entire massive and crucial public project could be funded by 2.5 days of what is spent in Iraq? What a wonderful place we could have made this country...

New Bay Bridge span on road to being icon

This is such a nice picture.


//musik:::Nightwish [] Live to Tell the Tale [] Once\\
okay, my next post will be on some band.

Academy of Sciences REBUILT

Science Academy's Dazzling Rebirth -John King

Rebuilding Academy of Sciences no walk in park

I want to go visit.

//listening to:::Markus Schulz+Without You Near__my fav Coldharbour track\\

\\etn.FM:::Agnelli & Nelson+Solaris Int'l 122__ahh classic trance choons! =D//

R3N2

R3N2

from: Arizona

genre: electronica

8-bit drum&bass!

How cool is that?

Ich mag.

Cloud Cult

Cloud Cult myspace

from: Minneapolis, US

Label: Earthology Records/Rebel Group

Genre: Indie, Acoustic

Rating (from only the songs I've heard): okay

I hadn't heard of this band before, but once a few weeks ago when I was a bit bored online I decided to just pick a band from one of my friend's music list on her fbook and dl some of their songs.

mediafire .rar :

Happy Hippo

Lucky Today

Chemicals Collide

Car Crash

Living on the Outside of Your Skin

Santogold && - My Drive Thru

My Drive Thru - "My Drive Thru" (feat. Santogold, Julian Casablancas, N.E.R.D.) (YT link)

Santogold's pretty cool. I hear she's getting compared to M.I.A.
M.I.A.'s been on that drank too much, though, recently. But maybe she stopped. dunno. I don't follow artists closely at all.

But yeah, pretty cool vid?

mp3s!

I'm starting the process of cleaning out this laptop to return to its original owner. I got a macbook a couple weeks ago. 

I dunno how to save the iTunes library playlist into a nice single file, so I prt scrn'd.

If you would like any of the music I have here, leave me a comment with your e-mail or AIM sn and I will send them to you. And my aim is d7yk0. I don't have much good stuff on this computer though. Most of it is a ton of j-pop stuffs that I sampled for my music for my aunt's japanese restaurant, so I skipped those.

September beginnt!

Yes I got a pair of Onitsuka Tigers!

Score!

It was between this pair and another of almost the same style and different colours. There isn't a pic of the other pair on the Bows & Arrows site, but it's white and the asics lines are this nice brightish blue that I like, but with hot pink accents, and then a few parts of the shoe are black, and the white part (the green on this pair) is mesh. The mesh I like, the blue and pink okay, but with the black is kinda weird. Like too many colours. But would kind of go with anything. I'm happy with my purchase though. The grey asics lines aren't very stand-out-ish, but it's smooth and I like the laces colours. =D 

Aaaah the most expensive shoes I've bought.

AND:

I uploaded Mystre's Blue mix, for my last last last post. DL it! on mediafire.

Oakland Art & Soul Fest 2008

Okay so a few weeks ago I did notice on the live105 soundcheck page that Carolina Liar was no longer on the line-up. Hmm. =[
And that Darker My Love (myspace) was going to play instead. Hmm. I think I've only heard one of their songs before on soundcheck, and it was okay, nothing notable, indie-shit, you know. Haha jk I'll give them a listen.

But THEN, like a day before the show I checked the Art & Soul website, and Darkermylove was cancelled due to a family emergency, and SF's Trophy Fire (myspace) (above) was going to play instead.

w00t. =) haha

The Action Design

The Wombats

Ah posting pictures takes too long. So that's it for now. =)