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.

————edit 21:34
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