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Audioscrobbler

Yesterday I discovered Audioscrobbler, a really cool program which tracks down what you play on your mp3-program and makes stats out of it. It also works as a community and after a while you get musical neighbours, that is people whose playlists are most similar to your own. Feels a bit like being watched by a musical Big Brother.

Dizzee + oo-e

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tonight :

Dizzee Rascal(!!!) at Vega, Copenhagen

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tomorrow :

oo-e at Panora, Malmö

Me and Neo-Toyota will spin Japanese hits in the domains of j-club, pico-pico, shibuya-kei, elepop, j-indie and j-electronica. If you are in southern Sweden, please stop by for some fine Asahi beer, Japanese food, Japanese films in the cinema and 4hrs of nonstop j-hits. This time around there will also be a contest where you can win a manga, plus my exhibition of more than 100 photos from Tokyo. Yoroshiku onegaishimasu!

Xmas Osusume

So the time has come for Escalator Records to present their annual "X'MAS AND NEW YEAR SPECIAL BOX". It includes two t-shirts, an exclusive 12" featuring Escalator artists covering two Royksopp songs and a cd containing a movie with some questionable footage. The most interesting and most well-described itmes are however :

4.MUFFLER
You shall need a cute muffler only with T-shirts...
5.CANDY
Maybe you'll get a sore throat with light wear. Just have some candy.

If you have 12,600JPY to spare...

Weekend in

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...sound :

Chromeo
Snoop Dogg
Pet Shop Boys

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...dream :

Natasha Bedingfield

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...TV :

Gilmore Girls
T-Rex

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...art :

Galleri G, St Tomegatan 39 B, Lund

Kastrup's Lufthavne

Today I ended up at the Danish airport Kastrup together with Yuko from Apila and Kitagawa from Round Table to see them off after their Scandinavia+Scotland tour. After their flight SK983 for Narita took off I went for a stroll in the nearby town with the same name as the airport. Resting on a bench by the sea, watching plane after plane descending from the sky towards the airport I once again set my mind on how lovely poetic this word actually is. Its beauty is most visible right where I was, sitting in Denmark, glancing at Sweden and comparing the Swedish and the Danish. Flygplats vs lufthavne.

Flygplats, literary: flightplace, is hard, abrupt and leaves no room for imaginary thinking.

Lufthavne, literary: airport, is on the contrary a warm and inviting word. Only putting it in your mouth sets you off on a voyage not feasible in this world. Imagine weighing anchor and just drifting off into the open air. It's something one will only experience in dreams, or in a fairy tale. Just like Alice in the Wonderland. Or was it Lucy in the Sky?

Anyways, Kastrup is a good symbol for this linguistic difference, as it's placed right by the bridge connecting Denmark with Sweden. Further more, the descent towards Kastrup is all over water, and the pilot isn't casting his anchor until the very moment when water as well as, in his case, air turns into land.

So is an airport merely a place from where we fly?
Supposedly yes, but I'd rather continue to see it as our port towards the sky.

IQ in the US

A confirmative list

Music On TV

Watching the Maher Shalal Hash Baz-episode of This Is Our Music made me think about how many great humans there still are out there. The biggest mystery is however how an extraordinarily pure man like Tori Kudo could end up on MTV.

Watching the Günther/Samantha Fox promotion video made me think: What was that all about? In a better world, the biggest mystery would be how such a tasteless and calculating composition could end up as Hitvarning on ZTV.

These things also made me listen to :
Efterklang - Tripper
Songs: Ohia - Ghost Tropic
Tujiko Noriko - Make Me Hard
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ZTV is the Swedish equivalent of MTV.
Hitvarning is ZTV's equivalent of MTV's Pick of the Week.

Thursday's...

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...dance :

Marly - You Never Know
Markus Gardeweg - 25 Years
Narcotic Thrust - I Like It
Tonka feat. Lara McAllen - Get Back
Byron Stingly - You Make Me Feel

The five-letter-word starts with C

After Gakuji Matsuda, aka Cubismo Grafico aka Foga, got his two shots at compiling Escalator Records best songs, the mission has now come to another Escalator veteran, Yukari Fresh.

As usual when it comes to compilations from this label it tends to end up slightly uneven. And naturally for the We Are Escalator Records-series, after all a best-of series, it tends to end up with close to a dozen songs already familiar to the regular Escalator listener. Vol.3 is no exception, but two for me new songs following each other on the latter half catch my immediate attention.

Crusz's I'm A Wasp sounds very inspired of la nouvelle vague de french electro house, and it would certainly not sound strange on the Kitsuné Midnight compilation. As expected, a little googling tells me that the man behind Crusz after all is of French flesh and blood. His debut album Redemption was out already in April this year and will hopefully have my ears soon.

I'm A Wasp is followed by another electronic beauty. Clear's Nu-Teks is probably from his album Duel also released earlier this year. It has some Pet Shop Boys, some Neil&Iraiza and some auto-tuned french pop in it. And over that, a whispering voice singing "Hold me now/Stay tonight".

Yesterday's...

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...single listening :

Björk - Who Is It
Coco Rosie - By Your Side
The Go! Team - Ladyflash

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...eating :

A curry casserole featuring chickpeas, carrots, onions, tomatos, garlic, an apple and a banana.