Archive for October, 2005

Review: M.I.A. - Arular

Published by dekay on October 16, 2005 in album reviews. 0 Comments
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M.I.A. - Arular
My rating: 3 out of 5

The title above is a very good description of MIA’s music by Matthew Cooke. I had heard about M.I.A. first at a special show of austria’s FM4 radio station about this year’s Sonar Festival (Link to pics at flickr) in Barcelona, Spain; where she was one of the hyped newcomer acts or so. And she is - hyped but not overhyped. Her stuff is cool, new, fresh and refreshing. But then I am not so much in favor of the whole album… it hasn’t grown on me yet. But nevertheless: if you ever considered doing something good for your musical horizon, if you like tribal folk ‘lectro hip hop. Check her out.

Groovy & pink -

Published by dekay on October 16, 2005 in album reviews. 0 Comments
Product Image: Pink - Can't Take Me Home
Pink - Can’t Take Me Home
My rating: 4 out of 5

Pink’s new album has me hooked. It is full of good tracks with awesome beats, great words and other than that: a huge temptation to just start dancing. Even the slower songs have great rhythm - groovy. I suppose my neighbors and whoever is watching into my windows is wondering what cool music I am dancing to ;)

Narcotango in Munich

Published by dekay on October 15, 2005 in tango. 0 Comments
When: Sunday, October 16 2005 08:00 PM
Where: Metropolis, Kultfabrik, München
My Role: Attendee
narcotango Narcotango (Carlos Libedinsky & band) is performing his last concert for this year’s tour of germany here in Munich. Afterwards Sona Armisen has a TangoFusion party planned - a perfect match! Pictures can be found at flickr. I was not totally impressed by Narcotango’s performance in general. Basically I was missing a lot of interactivity and feedback between dancers and the band, but then there were not too many people present, the mood was a bit sleepy most of the time; except for thos very rhytmic drum parts where the crowd was partying and dancing - just no tango no more. My summary: not enough tango, not enough non-tango. The mix was nice for listening, but something was missing. But then it could also be just because I have a foot injury and could not dance all the time. One highlight: watch out for their next CD coming out in March 2006.

Flickr - Sets are great, but not complete

Published by dekay on October 14, 2005 in dance, links and photography. 0 Comments

I love flickr. But it is far from complete yet.

I suppose what I like really well is the way sets are displayed. I like it so much that I would love to have this kind of view (many pictures, square, no text, no subtitles) everywhere - when looking at photostreams, group pools, search results, tag clusters… anywhere.

… and another nice set is here:

sudoku screenshot

rebekka’s “less traditional self portraits”

Published by dekay on October 10, 2005 in links and photography. 0 Comments

less traditional self portraits