Karlheinz Stockhausen passes away.

Karlheinz Stockhausen – born: 8/22/28 died: 12/5/07

http://www.stockhausen.org/

Stockhausen on youtube.

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I have returned.

After a far-too-long hiatus from the internet, I have returned as of 2 hours ago. I may be in a different location and time zone, but I am glad to say the transitional period has been completed. I will be starting to write in NFS on a daily basis again.

So, for all your electronic music tastes, please begin looking here at NFS once more. Thanks for your patience.

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Please, venture over to my personal blog.

I am fully aware of the power of “out of sight, out of mind” so I may have lost a ton of my readers by now. It stinks because I was just getting going on this NFS idea. Grrrr.

But if you are still checking in on this blog, please venture over to my personal blog at www.szeilenga.wordpress.com and read over there. Because I don’t have internet at home currently, I go over to the Employment office down the street and use their computers, but since I am supposed to be looking for a job, my personal site looks more like a resume than NFS. So, I can get away with working on that blog as opposed to messing around with music at the NFS blog.

So, if you want to get a little more info on what Scott Zeilenga is up to and how the October sounds Lovely album is coming, just go to szeilenga.wordpress.com.

Thanks.

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What happens when you don’t pay up…

Hey all. Sorry for the lack of posting. I live with 3 roommates and when the others don’t have the money to pay the bill, my third of the payment doesn’t satisfy the ISP.

So, I got my home internet shut off. GRrrrr…

I will be posting as often as I can get to the internet. If you want to help me out (hint hint) I will give you free music. Plus, you will be helping maintain the writing and research of this blog. I have a paypal account and you can just email me for the info. That would rock, donations are definately accepted.

Ok, well, I will post soon.

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The strange history of electronica.

Ahem.

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October sounds Lovely.

Yes it does, doesn’t it…

You will notice a new tab at the top of this blog page. If you click on it you will see some information on my next album. I will be selling it here and at myspace and a few other places. This will not be something you want to miss, even if you don’t like ambient. There are a ton of cool extras and I think it is probalby my best compositions to date. It will be perfect music for this tall-tale called reality – whether it is the month of October or not.

Check back in a few weeks for the release date. And if you want to plan an adventure (roadtrip?) around the music, now might be a good time to start planning. heh.

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Nigel Mack, Dagas and things you should be informed of.

I was chatting with my friend, Dagas, today. I have used his music in a few of my DJ mixes, and have been a fan of his style. It is kind of a psy-chillout trance hybrid that makes every song he creates have a drop-dead gorgeous sound.

He just released a track called Hyabusa, which ended up on the Hilfiger Denim Sessions CD mixed by Nigel Mack for Clubtronika. You can get the radio (with a bit of talking over it) release version here. Keep an eye out for more posts on Dagas in the future. I think his Icarus track deserves to be a RWAT soon.

And in case you are new to Nigel Mack, let me give you a quick run down. Actually, for the sake of time, let me allow the net to give you a run down.

Nigel Mack A.K.A. Van Lazarux began his career as a DJ in 2001 at the age of 15, in his country Panama, in the city of Panama. Since then he has participated in national and international events in the scene in Panama related to the electronic music. His start began with Hard Trance and House, then in 2002 he changed his style totally to Progressive and Techno, giving him more life to the electronic scene next to other DJs nationally. At Deep Room, he was a resident for 6 months. He has shared the decks with international DJs such as: Marcello Castelli, Willy Sanjuan, Dj Kenda of Chile, DJ Gabriel Sordo, Aaron Wells, Boris Terrazon, Dj Jako of Colombia, Dr Leo, Melissa O., Felix Del Barco, Nanny Gu of Italy, Marks Pappas, Patrick M., DJ Ebar of Central Park Records, Jerry Bouhan, Rod Carrillo, Eric Prestinary, Robbie Rivera, Willy Morales, Granvil Kincaid of Acid Productions, Oscar G from Space Club Miami, Benny Benassi, and Paul Van Dyk in the largest club of central America called NEXT Club. He also is dedicated to the production at same time as a DJ, by which he is to dedicated to Tech House and Techno.

Nigel produces under the moniker of Van Lazarux, and has been throwing us some amazing tech tracks for awhile now. One of those tracks is a remix for tech-house producer Dave Richards of a song called Hear the Drums.

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Cyantific : Coolest drum&bass mix ever?

It could possibly be! I have yet to find one that has as much style and grace and groove and fun as this mix.

The boys of Cyantific not only take my award for coolest name, but this mix called Journeys Through Innerspace is probably the greatest DJ-led excursion ever. I have had this mix playing in my iTunes for quite a few months now, and I have never really tired of it.

From the rock and roll, jump-up groove, jazzy mayhem of the tracklist (which includes a track by Matrix & Futurebound) to the great sci-fi sampling from ?, this mix set sits as easily the most creative effort I have heard from a DJ in a long, long time.

Download it today. And if you are like me, you will probably listen to it non-stop for the next six weeks.

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October Sounds Lovely.

Yes, it does, doesn’t it.

And it is coming… in a few weeks. (The album, not the month. That would just be silly.)

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Daft Punk illegalities and film.

It is amazing what you can find by poking around the internet for an hour.

Daft Punk, those crazy tech house minimal dance guys, have been the masters of sampling for years now. They take rock riffs, headbob basslines, a nice dose of acid and those wonderful electronic robot vox parts and mash them all together. Well, Palms Out Sounds has done a bit of research on songs that different DP tracks have sampled. Only electronic music can take the grit and gumption of a good rock song and style it for a dance floor.
Of course, like the post says, “as you hear these tracks you’ll either decide Daft Punk isn’t as genius as you thought they were or that they’re twice as amazing”, which is undoubtably true.

And after you are done with that, you will notice the bottom has a last little link to a great video trailer for a movie that Daft Punk is doing. A movie? Cool.

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