eric

CHRMIX001

2010-07-12T00:08:17Z

http://soundcloud.com/crown-hill-repeater/your-secret-smile

we love you

runehog @ 2010-04-21T18:26:00

2010-04-22T01:26:32Z

Too far away from the city
Some kids left on the road
They said we have a communist in the family
I had to wear a mask

Too far away from the city
We had to make this room
Fathers were football players, formal works, policemen
What the mothers did I didn't know

Music tonight
I just want your music tonight

I saw her body organ
She was laughing while pressing the keys
She said my favourite book was dirty and
'You shouldn't shout, you can read.'

Too far away from the city
We never heard its noise
We learned how to stay fit and things like
Green-tones hide the blush

Music tonight
I just want your music tonight
Music tonight
I just want your music tonight

Too far away from the city
We came to breathe clean air
Nature left a safe oasis
And the mothers walked towards the forest

Music tonight
I just want your music tonight
Music tonight
I just want your music tonight

berlin +352uhr

2010-02-19T03:12:55Z

signing off. it's been awesome.

berlin +338uhr

2010-02-18T13:12:57Z

He headed for the ATM in the back… he knew it was watching him as he walked up to it.
"Identify yourself, please." Lucky Dragon ATMs all had this same voice, a weird, uptight, strangled little castrato voice … probably kept people from standing around, [talking] with it… If you seriously tried to dick with one, drive a crowbar into the money slot, say, the thing would mist you and itself down with water and then electrify itself.

berlin +318uhr

2010-02-17T16:46:21Z

me:
man, I finally get a good fire going and it's almost time to leave

coal heat would be awesome if you had a housemate who was always home

(who didn't mind constantly blackened hands, or who was OCD)

berlin +265uhr

2010-02-15T14:46:25Z

Tiergarten, in winter, is both beautiful and monotonous, an endless maze of off-white paths on a white plane broken up by occasional sprays of dun foliage. Every now and then I'd come across a little splatter of bloody snow where I suppose some scurrying critter met its end. I'm pretty sure that shitty cameraphone pictures wouldn't have captured much of anything, so... tough.

berlin +243uhr

2010-02-14T14:19:20Z

untitledmx 14feb2010

Tracklist:
Boards of Canada - Trapped
Nitzer Ebb - Shame
Slowdive - Some Velvet Morning
Xasthur - Masquerade of Incisions
Dome - Because We Must
Wire - I Should Have Known Better
Arthur Russell - That's Us / Wild Combination
The Internal Tulips - Fixed Confidence
Autechre - Silverside
Fever Ray - I'm Not Done
Burial - Etched Headplate
Bola - Forcasa 3
DJ Sprinkles - House Music Is Controllable Desire You Can Own

berlin +103uhr

2010-02-08T18:18:31Z

The lame: I've got a bit of a cold. The good: I've more or less adapted to local time. Spent most of today lazing around at home, listening to a bunch of tunes Jon gave me for the trip and eating frozen pizza (classy!) I did leave the flat to go for a walk with Erika. Riding the U-Bahn home I saw an ad for Plus8 records (Speedy J! Ken Ishii!) and it didn't even seem particularly weird. One gets blasé quickly, here.

Now to make some soup and listen to the rest of this new autechre mix. Tschüs!

Update: partial tracklist for the above ae mix

berlin +57uhr

2010-02-06T20:14:47Z

Well, that was certainly a full day. Went shopping for an audio cable so I could rock the tunes at my flat (the guy who owns it, Keith, "doesn't know electronics"). Felt very proud of myself for finding a place to buy one (Conrad, which is alarmingly Fry's-esque) and navigating there on the U-Bahn without a hitch. I frittered away the rest of the afternoon making an omelette, drinking cheap Bordeaux, and listening to Xasthur.

Spent the early evening hanging out with a friend-of-a-friend who just moved here 3 weeks ago; we met up at an art gallery in Mitte and bar-hopped a bit. Around midnight we parted ways and I headed to Berghain to see Moodyman. The queue at the door was epic. I waited about an hour, very very very glad I was wearing wool socks. A group of drunken Scots in front of me provided entertainment until they bailed out about 40 minutes in.

Moodyman was fucking amazing; at the end of his 3-hour set he got on the mic and said (paraphrased) "If I weren't here in Berlin I'd have been doing exactly this in Detroit. This set was for all of you over 30 -- everything I played was recorded in the 80's." Normally the stuff played in Berghain is pounding, technically good but soul-lacking techno; this was pretty much the opposite (though he played some amazing early jack tracks that make modern minimal techno seem weak).

I staggered out a little after 6 and managed to navigate my way home. Then I slept for 12 hours. Now it's night, time to caffeinate, do some grocery shopping ('cuz you can't do that on Sunday), and then head to WMF for the Transmediale finale.

berlin +22uhr

2010-02-05T09:33:31Z

It's a sunny morning. Somehow I managed to sleep through the night (thanks, Diphenhydramine!) and prised my ass out of bed around 8 AM. I woke up fully clothed, not so much because I passed out unexpectedly as because it's freaking cold in this flat: the main heat sources are a few coal-fired stoves, and I'm only using the one in the living room so far. I may just drag the spare mattress into the living room and sleep there. There's something weirdly comforting about waking up and starting a fire: urban-camping-core.

Once I got my eyelids ungummed I went for a little walk to Viktoriapark and back. It's pretty! There's a pretty thick layer of ice everywhere -- I'm sure I'll wipe out eventually, but so far, so good.

Little else to report so far. My flights were uneventful, though one thing that struck me flying from Paris to Berlin was the density of jet contrails. Flying over the US, it being big and all, you hardly ever evidence of another plane until you get near an airport, but here there was a continuous web of white lines. Chemtrails! Netzwerk Europa!

it's na-BOH-kov, not NAH-ba-kov, as it turns out

2010-01-27T10:09:58Z

crown hill repeater winter hash

2009-12-15T05:33:59Z

serves 2 CHR cadre

ingredients:
- 4 eggs
- 5 red potatoes, diced pretty small
- 4 slices bacon, cut into lardons (which is incidentally my favorite word ever)
- 1 shallot, diced
- some mushrooms, hella diced
- 1/2 cup canned tuna, some minced green onions, and some minced fresh tarragon, mixed together (try to un-chunk the tuna)
- ~1 1/2 cups diced cabbage
- 1/4 cup whole milk
- some tapatio or better hot sauce (recommended: "lizard spit")
- red pepper flakes
- fresh pepper

steps:
1) get a couple quarts of water boiling in a big pot, and heat up a big skillet. make sure you have something big enough to at least partially cover the skillet
2a) get the bacon frying over pretty low heat. let it take its time but keep it moving now and then, and:
2b) also, dump the potatoes into the pot of water. you'll want them to stay there about 4 minutes after it comes back to a boil. when they're done (the bacon won't be, yet) drain them into a colander
3) when the bacon looks almost done, scoop it out onto a paper-towel-lined plate to drain
4) add the shallots and saute 'til almost translucent.
5) add the mushrooms, cabbage and some water, and cover for a while until the cabbage seems cooked-ish
6) uncover and dump in everything else but the eggs: bacon, tuna mix, potatoes. smush down in the skillet 'til it's kind of like a patty, then add the milk and tapatio sauce
7) cook for a while until the liquid's more or less reduced (~10 mins), then repeatedly flip w/ a spatula and keep cooking every 2 mins or so until it smells insanely good and both the potatoes and tuna are visibly browned
8) carve out 4 little divots radially around the pan. crack an egg into each divot, turn the heat down a bit, re-cover, and let the whole thing stew until the eggs are as done as you like

see below

2009-12-02T02:24:34Z

YOU ARE NOW CHATTING WITH THE MOTHERFUCKING CASCADIAN ANTi-PASSIVEAGGRESSIVENESS FRONT

(thx heyokay)

chillits 2009

2009-09-22T02:13:52Z

Chillits was a blast.

Here's a (recreation of) my set: Blood Music (It's Always Darkest Just Before Dawn)

Tracklist:

Skinny Puppy - The Center Bullet
Chris Zimbo - (field recording from Burning Man 2009)
Sparklehorse & Christian Fennesz - Music Box Full of Snakes
Alva Noto & Ryuichi Sakamoto - Plateaux 1
Olhon - (underwater field recording)
Crown Hill Repeater - Interlude 1
The Internal Tulips - Parasol
Felix Kubin - Schnitt Fur Schnitt
Future Sound of London - Futura
Bad Sector - Gruhiu
Diagram of Suburban Chaos - Siezeandreload
Fennesz - Perfum For Winter
Holger Zilske - Golden
Psi Performer - 1999
Jasper TX & Anduin - Like the Footprints of an Invisible Man
Savath & Savalas - Balcón Sin Flores
Mika Vainio - A measurement of excess antenna temperature at 4080 Ml/s
Seefeel - Charlotte's Mouth
Gescom - Sciew Spoc

runehog @ 2009-08-12T19:39:00

2009-08-13T02:40:24Z

Is Google News picking racy headlines on purpose?

2009-04-29T01:45:51Z

Both from today:

"Senator's switch strengthens Obama's hand"
"Analysis: Specter leaves a shrinking GOP tent"

oh hai here's another eclectomix

2009-04-06T13:00:24Z

Ghost Claws

The Soft Pink Truth - I Owe It To The Girls (Teddy & the Frat Girls)
Einsturzende Neubaten - Alles Wieder Offen
Schneider TM - The Light 3000
Sigur Rós - I Gaer
Autechre - Cichli
Seiche - Abspritzen 1
Mouse on Mars - Send Me Shivers
Seiche - (untitled)
Lindstrom & Prins Thomas - Gudene Vet & Snutt
Future Sound of London - Elaborate Burn
Fever Ray - I'm Not Done
Wire - Map Ref. 41°N 93°W
Seiche - Abspritzen 2
Elliott Smith - Independence Day

another rough mix

2009-04-03T14:20:22Z

seiche - hollow bones

suggested co-reading

this is a nice room to work on music in

2009-04-01T13:45:00Z

seiche - her3.2 (kreuzbergsunshinemx)
Recorded in Crown Hill, mixed/treated in Kreuzberg

google translate is boring

2009-03-13T02:40:49Z

Also, Tuesday night's ambient jam was fun. I dedicated anything I had to do w/ it to Rotor.

My practice session beforehand:
Gromberg.

Last 15 minutes:
SEAC Ambient Jam 10mar09 Excerpt I

runehog @ 2009-03-10T18:43:00

2009-03-11T01:43:43Z

runehog @ 2009-03-07T18:34:00

2009-03-08T02:44:37Z

cascadia40 : impulsion
http://glitchpop.net/em/Cascadia40%20episode%20two_%20Impulsion.mp3

diagram of suburban chaos - take it or break it
robert hood - master builder (sandman option)
morgan geist - lullaby
metamatics - repeater
anthony rother - sex with the machines
max mohr - sweet
kit clayton - aspoket
twerk - neurotika
caro - sea of hands
robert hood - who taught you math
strand - reflective
quenum - glasgow
john tejada - beautiful confusion
the silver locusts - a barren garden
mannequin lung - city lights (mr hazeltine rmx)
bruno pronsato & dario zenker - ability to change your mind
maus & stolie - remind me

runehog @ 2009-02-15T13:23:00

2009-02-15T21:28:44Z

Somehow we managed to throw a prom night for 30something techno nerds at the clubhouse last night. It was awesome and terrifying (Leo's tongue-fetish videos, for example? terrifying. DJ Red Pony? awesome.)

this one is for the goosehammer

2009-02-06T04:42:11Z

Uh, fine. Fine." Not my best comeback. "Park." I had been reduced to single syllable words, like a dog barking.

Off to Pong night, finally, to debrief the Schoppert unit on his SF reconnaissance tour.

rest in peace

2009-01-27T22:01:51Z

RIP John Updike
RIP Charlie Cooper of Telefon Tel Aviv
RIP the Designers Republic