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getFrisky! Germany 2008

getFrisky! Germany 2008


Saturday, June 28, 2008 by Ingo

Things some don’t know about DJing

DJing might look like an easy job. Sometimes I hear stuff like:

Hey, what’s so difficult about playing some music out?

Here’s why it’s a bit more than hitting a venue and playing music like average Joe could do:

  • Finding the right music: I receive around 400 to 600 promos from all kinds of labels and genres each month. I need to listen to them ALL to find MY music. 80% of it is crap, 10% supercrap, 5% good, 5% very good. I only play the 5% that I find very good. But there’s not only the work to listen to ALL the promos, there is also the browsing through the stores and it’s (mostly) crappy samples. BTW, I recommend Resonant Vibes and audiojelly. Beatport just in cases when I can’t find track XYZ elsewhere. Finding the right music is the most time eating thing of the job.
  • Sorting the right music: I label my tracks after genre, NOT by tagging but file name adding like Peter Parker - Spiderman Song (Vogelmann Remix) - PROG. Each and every genre has its own folder on my HD’s, both the studio system and the gig notebook, always in sync.
  • Touching the music: Each and every track gets slighty sound optimized by myself, like loudness correction or a bit of equalizing, I have my own scripts or batches for that processes. Each and every track gets key detected for harmonic mixing.

The above is the hidden part of my DJ job, not many people have an idea what that means. To be exact: it’s the most important part of the job because THIS IS WHAT MAKES YOU AN ARTIST under millions of DJ’s. Compare it to a painter, his colours, his brushes, his canvas and all that stuff. Then there’s his way of painting and this is the part when I’m going live.

Vogelmann Live

Let’s be honest: Beatmixing is not the hardest part of playing live. You have a bit of a rhythmic feeling? Okay, I’ll teach you in less than 2 weeks. But do you have the right ears, the right feeling for ‘what comes next’? Can you feel the audience? Is your sound right, EQing and all that stuff? When should you change the style a bit or the tempo? And what about your ‘acting role’ whilst DJing, do you have a charismatic aura or do you behave or look like an idiot? Don’t get me wrong, I find it very important to be authentic, but LIVE you’re not bedroom DJing.

A good DJ needs to be reliable with playing times and dates, needs to take care about his technical equipment and all that stuff, needs to find HIS style and satisfy HIS fans everytime he’s playing … I could write an endless list of other aspects of successful DJing. Just wanted to give you a glimpse of the background of things.

Saturday, June 28, 2008 by Ingo

Arte in High-Definition

Arte in High-Definition

Zu den wenigen TV-Sendern, die hier zu Lande High-Definition-Qualität anbieten, gesellt sich ein weiterer: Der öffentlich-rechtliche Sender Arte sendet ab 1. Juli in HD.

Nennt mich langweilig, aber das ist mein Lieblingssender. Mit großem Abstand.

Saturday, June 28, 2008 by Ingo

Free vTunes #3

Here’s the third edition of free vTunes. Notice that this links work for 24 hours. After this the links don’t work anymore! You can download each link 3 times within that 24 hours:

Ingo Vogelmann - Deep Understanding (Album)

Cover

1. Album

Usage Rules

1. Your use of the music is conditioned upon your prior acceptance of the terms of this agreement.

2. Play and listen to this music wherever, whenever you want, as long as its a non-commercial affair. If you want to use it for film, TV or advertising, you have to ask L2 Music Ltd. for the permission (license) to do so!

3. Burn or copy it the way you think it’s okay.

4. Don’t sell it. Then it’s better to share it on P2P.

Saturday, June 28, 2008 by Ingo

Bundeswehr: Drei-Tonnen-Kampfroboter

Militärtechnik: Bundeswehr bekommt Drei-Tonnen-Kampfroboter - Nachrichten Wissenschaft - WELT ONLINE

Bei der US-Armee sind Roboter im Kriegseinsatz schon Routine: Allein im Irak werden rund 3000 solcher High-Tech-Maschinen eingesetzt. Dagegen steckt diese Technik bei der Bundeswehr noch in den Kinderschuhen. Doch das könnte sich bald ändern – durch einen Drei-Tonnen-Roboter, der in Bayern entwickelt wurde.

Genau! Die Welt hat ja noch nicht genug Kampfmaschinen und -technologien, IHR ARSCHLÖCHER! Siehe einen Beitrag vor diesem …

Ich habe momentan nur noch einen Hals wegen so einer Shyce. :evil: Wer erklärt sich dazu bereit, mit mir zusammen eine Petition im Bundestag einzureichen? Gegen Uranmunition und Kampfroboter. Meine ich ernst. Wir hängen das an die große Glocke, so weit es eben geht.

Saturday, June 28, 2008 by Ingo

Der Arzt und die verstrahlten Kinder von Basra

Sehr lange Reportage auf Google Video. Bitte ansehen:

Der Arzt und die verstrahlten Kinder von Basra

Vielleicht habt ihr über’s Wochenende mal eine dreiviertel Stunde Zeit. Ich halte das darin enthaltene Wissen für unverzichtbar. Es geht um Uranmunition, die mindestens seit dem ersten Golfkrieg - bis heute - von Amerika und Großbritannien im Krieg eingesetzt wird. Sowohl Soldaten auf beiden Seiten als auch Zivilisten (und natürlich auch deren Kinder) leiden unter Strahlungsschäden.

Radioaktives Uran(1) hat eine Halbwertzeit(2) von 4,468 Milliarden Jahren.

Deadliest Roadside Bombing
Creative Commons License photo credit: nukeit1

Man sollte die Verantwortlichen (Bush und Komplizen) - natürlich nicht nur deshalb - SOFORT vor ein internationales Kriegtribunal(3) stellen. Mir ist absolut schleierhaft, wie diese Verbrecher immer noch frei umherwandeln und weiteres Unrecht in der Welt verbreiten können.

Update

Thomas Nolte hat mal wieder hervorragend recherchiert (siehe Kommentare). Natürlich ist es mal wieder DIE LINKE, die diese Umstände im Bundestag thematisiert. Hier ein sehr interessantes PDF dazu.

  1. Uran ist IMMER radioaktiv. (back)
  2. Die Halbwertszeit (Abkürzung HWZ) ist die Zeit, in der sich ein exponentiell mit der Zeit abnehmender Wert halbiert hat. Quelle: WIKIPEDIA (back)
  3. Wie mit Milosevic. (back)
Saturday, June 28, 2008 by Ingo

Tab Mix Plus for FF3

I recently had a problem with Javascript windows (onclick … window.open) in Firefox 3. I googled around a bit and discovered that beautiful plugin:

Tab Mix Plus Dev-Build 0.3.6.X-Tab Mix Plus
Tab Mix Plus Dev-Build 0.3.6.1.080406 Released (Older builds)

* Fixed: Muilt-row not working on Mac [FF3.0b5].
* Fixed: Mouse clicking options in TMP options not show the right settings.
* Added: Option to convert the sessions data from TMP format to use in Session Manager extension.

Endless setting options - which can be a nightmare, but in this case highly appreciated!