Very Smooth

I promised to explain the origin of the tag "Christian Brothers" on Friday.
Well, there you go... (although personally I usually stick with Mr.Jack. You know, Mr.J.D. was no saint, but he did start something of a religion)




And don't forget: It's better with brandy !

The Rorschach Inkblot

On Friday night our Radio came once again to life. Few were there to enjoy a really remarkable set by Sr. Cartmanez. A show, which I think will be a measure to the next dark (and loud) acoustic sets to come. I'm sure many will follow.
For those of you who missed it, it is there (in our podcast directory) for you to listen on demand. When the time is right, when the weather is shitty, when your inner self rebels again and needs to express itself.
In the last months these radio shows have suddenly become the first priority of the blog. I guess it's the best output for the present time for your two favorite bloggers. And it is in this last show, that a visualisation of our musical nature as a duo came to mind... We are a Rorschach Inkblot.
We invite you to get lost. When the ink transforms into notes, when the notes get amplified, when the amplifiers challenge our neurons.
The trip continues...

Dr. Mephesto

Announcement and a thank you note...

In about an hour, All About The Sun Radio will once again be on the air. It's the first time a follow-up show is too soon, but you should get used to it, since we have a lot of ideas for the near future.
Posts will appear again in a regular basis and the announced BEST OF 2008 will also be ready soon. Keep coming back.

We want to thank all of you who were with us on Sunday. Hopefully we'll be playing together again soon. The technical difficulties were (as usual) present. An apology for the abrupt ending, but everything went suddenly down.
The recorded show will be in the podcast directory sometime today. Probably during or after Sr. Cartmanez's set. You can find all of them if you click on the respective picture on the right.

See you later...

Modeselektor - Happy Birthday RMX (1-3)

So after yesterday's philosophical treatise on bad mood has finally been washed away in a torrent of water, aspirin and Café Crema I decided to elevate your hearts and minds with a weekend-friendly selection of music from our beloved Modeselektor.
Yes, the same bass-crazed electronica crew that opened for Radiohead on their last tour and makes music that is almost criminally danceable.
These guys helped me realize how awesome the woofers are on my new desktop speaker-set, so I recommend that you blast this stuff all day long before you go out.

The 3 ep's lined up here represent remixes of a cool album by them, made by many artists of fame and glory and listening to it enough will absolutely melt your brain and get you pumped up and ready to face the challenges of any nightclub.

Keep kids dancing

A prince amongst the castaways

Bear with me through this.
Give me some patience.
I have no idea right now where I am going to take this post, but coming home this evening I felt the strong urge to scream out all the pain and frustration that this ordinary life has beset upon me.
Reasons? Why, oh why, should you want to ask for reasons?
Have you never had the feeling that certain days smother you, that the air seems too thin to inhale..
That you were nothing but a poor paisano who is denied even the small mercy of a fruit jar filled with bad wine to help you battle the hardships of reality?
This day I felt every moment of my life bearing down upon me like a heavy brick.
I was out, at a birthday party. Merry people all around me, girls dancing, the spirits were flowing.. and yet the remorse of the pen seemingly is all the confrontation with myself that I can take right now. So I will return to my original statement:
Bear with me this evening. For I may not appeal to your senses right at this point when you are reading this, but a day will befall you when you will be in my skin, appaled at the joy of each breathing soul, unable to connect to anything in your surroundings. Disgusted. Dissociative.

Anti-Zen.

So I returned and found comfort in my music and the description of my sentiments.
It seems that there is music to cover each sentiment, and woe to the person who has discovered the tunes that speak to the deepest fibres of seclusion within his or her twisted soul. It may well be that each person finds serenity in a different piece of music. But if you find it, wherever that may be, beware of the small hours when doubt enters your mind and eats away at your conscience.
Why does the human soul have mechanisms like this?
Why are we not able to simply go with the flow, enjoy the limited ride we have earned with our precious ticket to the park called life?
Why does man have to yearn for shapeless, nameless, undefined ghosts within himself?

I am grateful for this yearning. It makes me feel alive. I hurt, so I am.
How dreadfully mundane would it be to only laugh when told a joke, to only cry when being wronged, to only react accordingly to each and every input. It is a sign of slight victory over harsh reality that sometimes the human mind rises above each material thing and defying all logic produces unpredictable results.
The tarnished mood in a seemingly perfect day could well be the seed of wonder and beauty within the obliterating gloom of other, darker times. The human mind, through these lapses of reasons, through these leaps of faith, is able to overcome the factual truth, while reaching out for what lies beyond.
We dream, so we are. I thus welcome each such nightmare as today, as it walks hand in hand with the subtle promise of light.

I wish you all a good night, may you feel as relieved as I do after writing this.

These are sungod days, my friends. Gifts we sometimes cannot appreciate when given, yet unique in how they burn their way eternally into our memories.

I respectfully raise my glass to Danny, the demon from Monterey.

All About The Sun Radio thanks you...

Last night's radio show went pretty well. A big THANK YOU to all of you who listened. More music and more surprises will follow. Keep coming back!
Another battle was won yesterday. We successfully recorded both parts of the show and they are available for you to download. Click on the podcast icon on the right to go to the directory.

Radio Update

Due to unforeseen technical diffculties owing to the acute lack of grey matter that has befallen the german telecommunication companies the starting point of the upcoming show will have to be postponed for a little while, until our leprechauns -who are working frantically just for you- will have our hamsters up and running to fire up the backup systems. Bear with us a few more minutes and don't spoil your evening by listening to The Killers or so.

Patience is a virtue and you won't need much of it until you will be able to once more enjoy one of our trademark evenings filled with vices of the alcoholic sort and good music.

Don't forget:
Self-improvement is masturbation, self-destruction on the other hand...


in Tyler we trust.

Sr.C.