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New work vitamins found.. :) ive got a new hero in the music world, David West! He's got a great history in the dance world, but what I really love are the mixes he supplies on his site in the media section! Awesome almost non vocal progressive tunes, downloadable for free now 11 pieces each around 2 hours! Love this stuff, specially while working.. just really gets me going, and time flies and cant sit still...

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Couple of weeks ago I got this message from my mate Berend, that he got stuck into In Search Of Sunrise 6 - Ibiza from Tiësto (ps love the comments behind the tracks) and really liked it, now Berend is more of a progressive fan then plain Trance, and I have been a huge fan of the first ISOS, and kind of lost it later... so for him coming back saying this is great, I had to check it out..!!
pff what superb compilation, the vibe is back again, im into Tiësto and not afraid to admit :)... and why is it that im always a favour of CD2 of a multidisk release.

So Im back listening Tiësto again, thanks to Berend.. even tho cant find myself much in many radio releases tho, but thats prolly y they are radio releases.
Ive even add Tiësto to my hyves friends list lol

To get even more into Tiësto, ive subscribed to the Club Live radio program PodCast feed.. and been listening the last 5 episodes of his Radio to PodCast show, and I will keep it up for a long time.. the music he spins here is top quality Trance music, and Im very happy again to get updated on whats going on in the worlds dance scene through the eyes of this mega master!

Hope he comes to Sydney soon, in the mean time i'll spin the cd's another couple of times, and preach the gospel!


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This Sydney based band just rocks, and for a dance music group that comes out mainstream pushing song after song into the general top40, its a great pleasure having their tunes broadcasted on the default TV/Radio channels.

Ive seen them live also being warmup for Robbie Williams, and gee.. its great quality happy catchy dance tunes!
Would not be suprised if they rule the world in short time, as they win award after award.

The rapping parts of the songs doesnt really do it for me, but the vocals of Connie Mitchell are just fantastic.. what a great sound!
I believe they are hitting the UK charts now, so hopefully Europe will completely catch on too..

Sneaky Sound System - Live at Live Earth 07 - UFO



Info:
Sneaky Wiki
Sneaky Sound System Site
See more:
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I just crabbed myself a copy of Radioheads newest released album "In Rainbows".

The beauty of this release is that you can download the album, and you just pay what ever you want to give for it. Being tightass dutch, I just downloaded by filling in $ 0.00 so I didnt need to whip out my CC.

Really hope this is going to be the future for music, and just read on gizmodo.com that Oasis and U2 are going to follow this example... YAY.

Any ways.. im going in again and donate some dollars to this absofuckinlutely brilliant Radiohead Album!
I am in the mood for some tunes like this.. timing couldnt be any better!

Just walk through the process and
download legally from here: www.inrainbows.com
No restrictions - good quality - no DRM shizzle, no fuckin iTunes store shit.. wow!


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To utilize my new photoframe a bit more, a cd tip.. just chucked this one on my MP3 player! Soooooo gooooood !

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Ps I am a big fan of the whole HOUSEXY series tho!


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World Premiere on DUIJNUNDER.com, whoa.. !! Now thats exiting isn't it?? well to me it is, but also the story attached is as beautiful as the premiere. It shows how easy a massive distance can be overcome through not only the digital world but also some strong characters who made this all possible! Let me explain the full story.. for the bad and lazy readers download the songs at the end of this post, and buy the EP later!

In my previous post about May I explained how I looked Jacco and Tjalling up through google and found out they left the cover scene, and were doing there own thing now with a band called May.

I posted a small note on their guestbook, with greetings from Australia :), straight after that I got a message from Alex (bass guitar) on my weblog whom ive never had met but obviously didnt skip the opportunity to write something nice back (cheers m8), and a message from Tjalling my google hit haha, later I received an email from Jacco with a great update about this all!

That was all overwhelming on its own, but they were about to have a live gig on the Radio @ Schagen FM on the show Eldorado (monday evenings), and the host of the show his name is Peter had read the post from me on the Mayband.com guestbook... He mentioned in the radio show later about the fan from Australia.. hihihi.
After the show I got an email from Peter (Eldorado), not only saying about the event but also promising that I would get a copy of the show... w00000t! tadaa.. what do you think about that, fantastic hey!
Now here is a guy that I've never met, reads about my post on the website of Mayband.com and immediately starts helping out a far away person (me) so I can listen to my buddies on the radioshow... 3x wow and a w0000t + a h00yah!

Peter didnt had the resource available to host the files or send them to me over the net on the spot, and mailed me back saying "ive got the files ready but what should I do to get them to you".
Just before that I was on the website of SchagenFM the radio station Peter has his show at, and noticed it was hosted and made by Windkracht Internet.
Thats great, because one of the founders of Windkracht internet his name is Koen, ive been involved with in The Netherlands work wise but more so doing LANparties and lots of gaming.
Windkracht along with the other founder Maikel at that time was one of the major sponsors of the LANtasy parties i used to organize with Frank (ICTsense), and the website for LANtasy was created and sponsored by Windkracht.nl plus Koen was always available to attend the parties.. anyways moving on.. :)
So I said to Peter, drop the CD of at Windkracht cuz thats near your place and give it to Koen or Michael and it all be fine.
That week our firestarter Peter dropped the files of at Windkracht.nl head office, and not long after that I got an e-mail from Koen saying "Hey Per how are you doing... and here you can grab your files!!." wow again.. what a beautiful world hey ! :)

So this was all the amazing lead up that gave me the opportunity to listen to May being in Australia... to me this is already a fantastic cooperation of all parties involved, and started by Peter whom out of nowhere stood up and helped this Cloggie in Ozzie.. cheers mate!

I've downloaded the files and listen to them... they are obviously Live and very unplugged versions of May's repertoire so far, but boy o boy o boy are the guys nailing it... I had a little idea what Jacco's flavor was if he gets to do his own thing, but now with the group its soooo complete, I love it!
For a band that’s together now since May (tadaa.. now you know) 2006, very good stuff.

The thing that really stands out to me is their own sound to it, and that’s already very very special these days, so guys well done!
I could be wrong here but Jacco's voice sounds more crisp on these recordings, and he hits very nice notes.. so dunno if you did some training on this Jacco but pfieuw.. well done mate!
The music in complete form I still have to listen too as these recordings are with very limited backing, which make them unique in their own way, and cant wait to hear them in full force!

I dont have a straight favor so far, ive got at least 3 songs that I randomly pick to start with any time I want to listen, and end up listening to all 6 any way.

As im typing this, the band is recording their first ever EP, as they are winning prize after prize in da Lowlands, and pushed some gigs aside to make some time to put this superb material in some solid quality recordings.
So i am as you are not to far away of hearing them in complete sound, if you never seen them live.

According to the May-linglist, they should be finished by the end of this January and they have some different songs on the EP also then the ones Ive got here for you.

Now most of you prolly haven’t read a thing above and are already downloading, but thanks to Peter from Radio Eldorado on Schagen FM and the swift transport through Koen from Windkracht with approval from Jacco to share and Frank from ICTsense for hosting, here are the six songs send to me in this amazing way.

In no particular order:

May - Come to the Rhym - Live@Eldorado

May - Bone Mother - Live@Eldorado

May - Open your eyes - Live@Eldorado

May - Woven hand - Live@Eldorado

May - Sollitude - Live@Eldorado

May - All the way - Live@Eldorado

Hope you enjoyed the music pieces, and is seeing the potential this band has, and hope every1 is as fired up as I am and willing to support the soon to be released first EP of May so many more will follow, I will let you know!!

Thanks everyone, and feel free to share your opinion!

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A couple of days ago I had this idea "How is it going with.. Jacco and the crew!
FYI, Jacco and the crew is a group of friends in Holland, where Jacco was the lead singer of a band .. when I met them it was called "Riptide".
Anyways, I went to some gigs of the crew and we got to know eachother through mutual friends, also followed and went to the F1 with the crew, and see each other on birthday parties, we even tried to play tennis once in a while etc etc.. great times.. really, fantastic times.
Anyways, when I thought of the group, and wondered how they were doing... so I googled to see what the band was doing.
To be honest the hits came on the guitarist name "Tjalling", whom I also shared some LANparties with in those days, a big F1 fan too... But the band name was new to me that google came up with.. "MAY", if you please ! lol


Fantastic new site on MAYBAND.com, a band of four, as I only know Jacco and Tjalling (far left Jacco and far right Tjalling).. but the moment I was on the site, I thought hey.. they are doing their own work now!! as previous in the other bands, they did awesome covers from U2, Oasis, Madness.. etc etc.. great stuff.

Wow their own work.. thats superb, as I know that Jacco always wanted to do own work productions. They started the band May very recently I think as most dates on the site are very fresh.. but MAY already won the Big Prize of Access Live (dutch sorry) this september, as this is a prize awarded to new and upcomming LIVE bands.
As the agenda of May is getting fully booked, I just shared an e-mail with Jacco, as I posted in the guestbook on the site. They had a Radio broadcast recently where they played live in the studio from SchagenFM (funny this site is made and hosted by "Windkracht" - see my affiliates - go Koen en Michael).
!If all goes well, I get the broadcast of that session in mp3, and when i do I will share it.. as I got an e-mail from the host of the show "Eldorado" on SchagenFM Peter, that he wanted to tape it for me so I could listen to it too, after he read that somebody from Australia was cheering for the guys.. whoa how good is that! !!

Cant wait to hear the broadcast, I will share it like a PodCast guys., if youwant!? :)

If you want to listen to some recordings of May, you can listen on the site MAYBAND.com with the MayPlayer.
Or visit their MySpace: myspace.com/bandmay
Beware the recordings are a single mic take, so its very very raw.., but you'll get a general idea on the sound they produce anyway!

Go May.. and be well, I'll follow you guys.. as much as I can, hope to hear the recording from SchagenFM soon.


ps. I believe the concert photo's are made by Arjan Wonink! (well done Arjan :)



Ik begin al weer aardig op te knappen, pff deze bronchitus had me aardig te pakken zeg... !

Aangezien ik dagenlang in bed gelegen heb met de TV aan en eigenlijk niet eens kon registreren in mijn verlamde hersencelletjes wat er allemaal gaande was.. heb ik ik een helder moment toch een docu meegemaakt op het Ozzie cultuur kanaal ABC.. (i.e. Ned3), over de Ozzie band "The Cat Empire" die naar Cuba afgereisd waren om hun nieuwe album "Two Shoes" op te nemen.
De documentaire liet al zeer duidelijk zien dat deze uit zeer bijzondere characters bestaande groep, ook nog eens een bijzondere samensmelting van diverse happy vibes ten gehoren brengen..
Van Reggae met hiphop met jazz en latin gecombineerde hoofdmoten en alle invloeden die ze maar te pakken kunnen krijgen knallen ze door de speakers heen. Zo'n beetje Gorrilla'z meet Manu Choa ofzo.. anyways.. oordeel zelf aan de hand van deze voorbeeldjes:

The Cat Empire - Two Shoes 2005

Two Shoes

Editors choice: #1 - Sly

The Cat Empire - The Cat Empire 2003

The Cat Empire

ps ik ben geen cd's aan het verkopen ofzo.. vond dit zo goed, moest ut weer ffies kwijt.


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