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ok corral live @ daimon concert lounge 3rd of september 2008

2008-09-25T22:28:00.006+03:00

as promised, this is where you can download their set from fwd showcase vol 2, 3rd of september 2008

http://www.nights.ro/counter/click.php?id=546

groove++ rhythm night is back!

2008-09-25T22:20:00.005+03:00

groove++ rhythm night is back in business!

every month, ok corral has their own night @ club posh for the after hours events. this friday, saturday morning actually, in club posh, starting 5 am, OK Corral will be playing along side The Model at after hours. in room 2 d.roots will rock you with raggae and latin.

also, every thursday, groove++ rhythm night will take place in mash up club. ok corral awaits you there with very very groovy stuff.

OK Corral @ Daimon Concert Lounge

2008-09-06T02:12:00.002+03:00

Now this is just a glimpse of what happened at daimon on 3rd of september. best party ever with ok corral. i'll upload their set sooooon!
until then, viva youtube!

OK Corral & Gojira @ Daimon Concert Lounge

2008-08-30T20:05:00.003+03:00

OK Corral & Gojira / 3rd of September 2008 @ Daimon Concert Lounge

FWD Showcase Vol. 2

I had so much fun making this poster! HAHA! Happy Cowboy Day!

13 versus Victor

2008-08-11T16:50:00.001+03:00

Today was the weirdest day of my life so far, and it’s not over yet!

As I was saying in my previous posts, I love animals and that’s why I have at home 2 hamsters and 1 cat. Ebola, the oldest hamster, lives in a perfectly safe cage, while Victor lives in a small bowl, that resembles an aquarium, the one Americans use for their golden fish. The cat, 13, lives everywhere it wants.
Until today, 13 always attempted to catch Ebola, since the cage is very big and transparent and sees the hamster very often. It completely ignored Victor. Today, something happened J.
While I was sleeping, I noticed that the cat was much more active than usual and kept running back and forth hysterically. I thought it was its regular morning gymnastics, and I ignored it. After a while, the cat became more and more hysterical and agitated and I got scared because now it focused on the cables and I decided to put an end to whatever 13 was doing. When I got close to the place 13 was, I was shocked! 13 was chasing Victor, my hamster, for the past hour. The poor guy was under shock, stressed like hell and trembling its ears out! At that point I didn’t know what to do: stop the cat from killing the hamster, stop the hamster from chewing the cables… well, I stopped Victor, I managed to catch him and I placed him back to his bowl. I’ve hidden the bowl to a safe place and then I checked the other hamster. Ebola was doing just fine, sleeping like a baby.
13, in return, was in a terrible condition. It was exhausted, I have never seen a cat so tired in my life. He probably chased Victor for more than 1 hour without stopping and now he just couldn’t stay on his feet, his heart was beating incredibly fast, I was quite scared. I fed him, give him some water and he fell asleep right away. Did that with Victor too and now I will definitely buy a new cage for Victor. If I kill another hamster i don’t think I could take it…
The funniest thing was Tibi’s reactions. He asked me: “oh c’mon, haven’t you ever watched cartoons? Don’t you know that cats and hamsters don’t get along?”
Well, apparently I have to be special and I have to have them both. One thing is for sure: you can never be bored in our house J)

antistar

2008-08-06T02:07:00.001+03:00

It happened, i met him, i met the voice that drove me insane when i was a child, the voice i can recognise in a 1000. That voice.

We talked about cats, milan, football, cocaine, italy, comunism and traveling. He made me feel like i was important to him, and maybe i was, even if only for that night.

As time goes by, the magic vanishes, i come back on earth, i remember the smile and i can still feel the warmth in his hug.

I’m usually so afraid of not making a fool out of myself in front of people i appreciate that i rather shut up for hours than say something stupid. This time i talked without worring. I didn’t care. At this time, he already forgot about me, so how can i feel embarrasses if i did nothing, if i don’t exist?

Now, when all became clear, i went back to my crazy, and yet so boring life, thinking... that’s as much as i can get. Can’t complain, i don’t need more, I met THAT voice.

Kinda depressing, right? Well, i’ve always said that i’m a simple girl, all i needed was a voice :)

Act like a cat!

2008-07-13T03:05:00.004+03:00

Oh my god these videos are so funny!!! "MIAU" :))))

You should watch this one first:

and then this one :))

Massive Attack issues

2008-07-08T03:44:00.005+03:00

I found out a few days ago that massive attack will be playing in Romania on 2nd of august. I've been waiting for this moment since i was 13 or 14 years old. Back then i thought i was able to make music and i was part of a band. I was the main vocal. HAHAHA. Picture that. Obviously, my singing sucks and eventually i had to leave that band. But during that experience the guy that i use to work with was a huge massive attack fan. He was the first man to show me this band. The first single I’ve listened from massive attack was angel. I still remember the album cover, a very simple and black one, with a huge and weird bug on it. Even if i was pretty much intro electronic music back then, i wasn't so familiar with down tempo, trip hop or dub, just because the only music i had access to was very hard techno, trance, goa and lots of junk music. All of my friends were listening to very depressing rock and they used to laugh at my musical “likenesses”. I needed just a second from angel to realize that it will be the track that will change my musical style and my hole perception of music. This song leaded the way intro music. Once you listen to angel and you do understand it and you do like it, then it's no turning back. After angel i discovered mezzanine. I was madly in love with dissolved girl, teardrop and especially inertia creeps. I don't really know why i love this song so much, i still don't know, and i'm happy not knowing.Massive attack actually changed my life, change me as a human being. My hole childhood is based on these aggressive guitars and rhythms sinths and especially those deep and powerful voices. Not to mention the lyrics. I haven't listened to massive attack in more than 3 years and yet i remember every single lyric from mezzanine album.After massive attack followed portishead, the chemical brothers, daft punk, fatboy slim, in that particular order, but nothing can ever compare to these British geniuses.I can't say that i have too many friends in this life. If i think well, i have none, except my boyfriends' friends. I still wonder how i managed to have a boyfriend since I’m the nr. One sociopath in the world and yes, I am way over the emo-age. the only man that reminds me of my massive attack times, of my techno and rave times is now a brilliant photographer which i see once every 6 months and yet, all i have to do is look at him and he knows what i'm thinking. All i have to say is angel, and he knows. I guess that music, but only good music, really brings people together.

OK Corral - Planetarium EP [Craft Music - Craft 034] is now available on beatport

2008-06-26T02:30:00.004+03:00

OK Corral was born in Bucharest in the year 2259. We present you Planetarium, some of their early work from 2261. Craft Music is giving you a glimpse of the future with this three-track release. The IDMD (International Dance Music Department) rated these tracks as VGT (Very Groovy Tracks). For proper listening experiences and successfully training your ears we recommend using only state of the art ear updates approved at the Accoustics Convention of 2274.

When 13 meets Ebola :)

2008-06-25T00:02:00.005+03:00

All i can say is: hihihihi!!!!

Laurent Garnier played OK Corral – Sandscape

2008-06-19T13:07:00.006+03:00

Laurent Garnier included in his latest mix made for Resident Advisor on 16th of June 2008 one of Ok Corral’s tracks, called Sandscape. This track was released a few months ago on groove ++ recordings and is available on ww.djdownload.com. Sandscape fits perfectly the F Com style but since it’s very difficult to release something with them, we released it on groove ++.
Today Planetarium EP will be released on Craft Music – Great Stuff Recordings, the latest OK Corral EP.

You can download Laurent Garnier’s mix from here:
http://www.residentadvisor.net/xml/podcast.xml

Sandscape starts at 19:oo, after marco bailey’s track.
Way to go!

13

2008-06-14T19:06:00.005+03:00

I found this kitten on the street three days ago. It was very hurt so i taken it to a doctor. The poor guy was either hit by a car of fell of the roof of the house. After three days of treatment he is doing just fine. It has three broken legs, but since it only has two months it will heal by them selves. I can’t keep it because I already have a dog and 2 hamsters and.. as much as I’d love to keep it, it’s impossible. If i won’t find somebody i can trust with 13 (that's how i named the kitten) than I’ll keep it in my office. I love it too much :)

Enjoy 13!

23

2008-05-27T12:45:00.001+03:00

Hehehe, take a wild guess what happened 23 years ago at 17:00 :D

Pets pets pets

2008-05-26T12:37:00.002+03:00

As I was saying when I first started to write on this blog, I love everything that moves and has a fur: cats, dogs, hamsters, squirrels and much more. I even love fishes, hippos (which I still think they are peaceful animals), big cats (they fit the small/furry category anyhow J), and so on.
My fest real pet was Lisa, a very white, evil and fun cat. I still have it and it’s still my number one pet. But, a few more pets have made room into my life. My boyfriend’s dog, Jimmy, for example, it’s amazing. Jimmy is one of the funniest dogs I have ever seen. He is very afraid of cats and tiny dogs but he loves chasing and barking at very, very, big dogs. The fun part is the when he is struggling to bark and annoy the big dog, the poor guy looks kind of weird at him, almost thinking: man, this little guy here is as big as my tail, what does he expect? So, everybody is ok, Jimmy barks, other dogs ignore it, some start chasing him and cats will always make him very scared. That’s why I had to live Lisa at my parents. And, because I felt so very sorry that I don’t have a pet of my own at V’s place, I bought some.. pets. J
A few months ago, in October – November if I’m not wrong, after I saw a nice show on pets on tv I said I had to gave a guinea pig. I went to the pet shop to get one, but unfortunately all that they had we’re two tiny hamsters – Roborovski. I was so desperate in buying something alive, I didn’t think much and I just bought them.
I uploaded some pictures of them on the blog, a few posts behind.
The sad part of the hamsters live is… the death of Lola, one of the hamsters. When I clean their cage, I usually place them in a small aquarium, but this time it was special because one of them was already living in the aquarium because they had a huge fight a week ago. I had to place one in the aquarium and one in the bathtub. The one in the bathtub… Lola that is, after I finished cleaning the cage I lifted it and Lola climbed on it, but on the bottom of the cage. I did not see it climbing and hanging of the bottom of the cage and I believed that it simply escaped from the bathtub inside the house. I left the cage down and I started searching for it. After a few minutes of searching I lifted the cage again and I saw it. It was dead. I killed it with its cage. It was a very depressing and terrifying moment. I cried for two days. It was a very cold windy winter night. All the streets were covered in snow and I just wanted to bury her, I couldn’t throw it away just like that. I made a small coffin out of a box where Tibi’s father kept his transistors, spelled Lola’s name on it and a few best wishes and we went to the park to bury it. At the park we asked the guardian to allow us to bury it, and he was kind enough to do it. While we were burying Lola some other guardian started screaming at us because we were destroying the park. My hamster is 4 cm long and he was very drunk. He wanted to give us a ticket but eventually Tibi and Adi convinced him that my 4 cm hamster had couldn’t possibly destroy the park.
Since tomorrow is my birthday, my best friend from childhood, Mirela, thought it was more that ok to get me a nice gift. She got me another hamster. I named him Victor, don’t really know why, his face seems like a Victor one. He is the smallest hamster I have ever seen in my life. Is not even half of Ebola, my other hamster.
I think they are getting along very well, they’ve socialized in the bathtub, they even shared the same wooden house and they didn’t start a fight. They were fooling around a little bit but nothing too suspicious. I’m still a bit afraid that they will kill each other and I’m not keeping them in the same cage if I’m not home to separate them in case they do start a fight.
So, I can’t wait to go home and put them together again and look at them playing for hours J.
I’m really happy with my new hamster! He rules! J - Pictures soon! J

Future dreams

2008-05-23T15:35:00.002+03:00

While I was having a conversation with a friend I realized that we live in 2008. Nothing unusual so far. When we started talking about the future and 2010 came into the conversation I got very confused.
When I was young, only nine or ten years old, I watched Star Trek like a maniac. I was fascinated. I loved their outfits, Data was incredibly funny – and he still is – and the fact that they could teleport was amazing. Growing up with Gene Roddenberry’s movies can have a huge impact on your life as a child, no doubt about it. Star Trek, as Star Wars, teaches you, as a child, in a very subtle way, what are the real priorities in life. They teach you how to separate the good things and a good judgment from a bad one. Star Trek has a very powerful view on the future, a very optimistic one. The future, in Gene’s eyes, is how it actually should be. I’m not talking about the flying cars, and the space ships and traveling with the speed of light, I’m referring to the mentality that people should have in 200 years from now. The sad part is that we are approaching very fast those years Gene dreamt about in Star Trek and unfortunately things aren’t like that at all. I remember one episode from the first series, the one with Kirk (I think so, It was long ago). They found a strange vessel in space with three or four people trapped inside that vessel. They were very ill during life time and decided to get frozen and be thrown into space, so they could be discovered after hundreds of years, when they could have a chance of healing their diseases. That eventually happened and when they were found, they couldn’t believe that they were alive after hundreds of years. They were cured by the wonderful doctor on board, the funnies doctor alive, J and apparently everything was ok. BUT… they did not understand that they were now living in a world where cancer was eradicated, AIDS as well, hunger, wars and money were not the major problems of the earth. Earth was now a place where everybody lived in peace, without thinking about financial issues and about diseases. Some of them understood, or at least were enough open-minded to try to understand the new world they live in, except one. After the doctor healed his terrible illness, all he could think about was his bank account and his clients. Even if everybody tried to explain to him that every single person he knew was dead he couldn’t believe it. So, eventually he was beamed down to Earth and that was the end of it. We still don’t know how that guy managed with his new… life, but the idea is that the Earth is not at all heading into that king of life. Unfortunately, we still lie in a world controlled by guns, wars, irresponsible leaders (Bush), money and most of all, hunger and extremely complicated diseases. Not to mention that we are actually killing out planet by using cars and cars and cars and polluting it.
I wish I could be born somewhere in 2400 year, so I could see the next technological revolution. I wish I’ll see flying cars, no gas emissions, suspended buildings, clean oceans and especial, space ships. I’d love to travel in space. I heard that Americans are trying to built some elevators in space, so people could travel into space by elevators. I hope I won’t die before I get to see that finished.

Sorry for writing so much nonsense and for my spelling/grammar. That’s why I made this blog in the first place, to improve my English, so feel free to correct me at anytime.

Sebastien Tellier is competing for Eurovision

2008-05-23T14:46:00.003+03:00

Techno artists are strange, very strange. Some of them wear weird outfits and perform live acts using only a PSP (Jori Hulkkonen). Some make demented videos that involved Indian people (Laurent Garnier). Meanwhile, even if their actions are… let’s say, unusual, their music remains the same and people still dance on it and everything is cool. BUT, when we talk about French weirdos like Mr. Oizo or Sebastien Tellier, things change. I’ve just discovered a track he made soon after Flat Beat, and I thought it was made in 2008. His sound is unique and simply insane. The main idea is that in this track, at a certain point, the rhythm changes completely, and from a very classic 4/4 techno it becomes …hip hop. He is one of the most inspired artists in dance music and I may say that he is one of my favorite producers ever. Sebastien Tellier is, also, freaky. He released not long ago a track called Divine. It’s not techno, it’s not house, it’s not.. anything. It’s more close to pop that to electronic music, but since we live in a time when everything is electronic, he fits the profile. The thing it that he made this track for Eurovision, a very lame European competition. Romania always tried to win this contest but ofcourse that our lame composers have no chance. They simply suck. Except Moga and a few more that have talent and try to make something special, the rest of them are incredibly stupid and boring. I just don’t understand how this extraordinaty producer wants to participate at Eurovision. I just don’t get it. Laurent Garnier was asked by a magazine what he feels on this matter, and he said that he hopes Sebastien will win the competition.

So, here we are, in 2008, with Sebastien Tellier, one of the most talented electronic music producers competing for Eurovision. Hell must have frozen.

I hope he wins!

You can listen to Sebastien Tellier's track here: www.myspace.com/telliersebastien

23rd of May - Robert Moog's birthday

2008-05-23T13:54:00.002+03:00

On 23rd of May 1934 Robert Mood was born. He died in 2005, unfortunately. This guy invented the greatest synthesizer in the world: Moog.

In 1953 at age 19, Robert Moog founded his first company, R.A. Moog Co., to manufacture theremin kits. During the 1960s, the company was employed to build modular synthesizers based on Moog's designs.
In 1972 Moog changed the company's name to Moog Music. Throughout the 1970s, Moog Music went through various changes of ownership, eventually being bought out by musical instrument manufacturer Norlin. Poor management and marketing led to Moog's departure from his own company in 1977.
In 1978 after leaving his namesake firm, Moog started making electronic musical instruments again with a new company, Big Briar. Their first specialty was theremins, but by 1999 the company expanded to produce a line of analog effects pedals called moogerfoogers. In 1999, Moog partnered with Bomb Factory to co-develop the first digital effects based on Moog technology in the form of plugins for Pro Tools software.
Despite Moog Music's closing in 1993, Robert Moog did not have the rights to market products using his own name throughout the 1990s. Big Briar acquired the rights to use the Moog Music name in 2002 after a legal battle with Don Martin who had previously bought the rights to the name Moog Music. At the same time, Moog designed a new version of the Minimoog called the Minimoog Voyager. The Voyager includes nearly all of the features of the original Model D in addition to numerous modern features
Source: http://http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Moog -> click to find more information on Robert Moog.

10 reasons why you should listen to Radio Gguerrilla

2008-05-23T11:46:00.002+03:00

1. They are the only ones promoting Portishead's latest album – Third
2. It’s the ONLY Romanian station that played Jamie Lidell (Multiply if you want to know which track exactly)
3. They are not afraid to play U2 – One at 10:30 in the morning
4. They care about the environment.
5. They brought back on air Zona Libera – the weirdest radio show ever made in Romania
6. They had a campaign where the guys from the management of radio guerrilla were dressed only in a pink fur coat, as shepherds. The catchword was: radio cu …oaie (if you don't speak romanian you can't really understand. e-mail me for explanation - raluca@fwdagency.ro :).
7. I found out on Radio Guerrilla that Curb Your Enthusiasm is on HBO on Saturdays.
8. Radio Guerrilla is the only radio station that resembles Pig Radio – Italy.
9. Eliberadio has the best website in Romania.
10. Almost nobody listens to it.
http://www.radioguerrilla.ro/ / http://www.eliberadio.ro/

Or, to be more exact, they play the coolest music, and that's what a radio is suppose to do in the first place.

Enjoy!

OK Corral tonight @ Next Level

2008-05-22T16:26:00.002+03:00

Tonight, starting from 23h, DJ Optick's show on Radio21 will have a special guest: OK Corral.
OK Corral wil play live from 23h 'till 00h. You can listen to Radio21 online at www.radio21.ro

Stay tuned and listen to ok corral!

ok corral - planetarium ep

2008-05-18T23:42:00.006+03:00

Because i saw on extreme tracking that i have new visitors on the blog, visitors that checked out my blog because they searched on the internet ok corral, i have to say a few things about this project.

OK Corral is a Romanian based project made by Vania and Thornado, two DJs from Romania which are currently listed in the dj rooster of the booking agency I work for – Forward Agency. They also manage their own record label, groove ++, and their first release was on groove++, called Anakin ep. The second one will be out on 4th of June @ Great Stuff Recordings – Craft Music – Craft 034. Planetarium EP contains three tracks: Concerto, Planetarium and Eartrain. This is their first release on vinyl, as groove ++ releases digital only.

Also, one of their tracks will be included on a great stuff compilation that will come out very soon. It’s a huge surprise and i can’t say anything at this time, but i will very very soon.

If you want to listen to their tracks, see photos or for any other informartion check out http://www.myspace.com/ookcorral!

VOTE FOR OK CORRAL!

2008-05-16T15:35:00.003+03:00

Because I noticed that very few of the people I know actually voted in the Heineken competition as I asked them, I find myself in the situation where I have to post again and again with the same entreaty. Please, vote for OK Corral in the Heineken thirst competition 2008. Prove that you do like good music and show OK Corral that they still have a reason to stay in this competition. I feel that heineken thirst is more about who has more friends, not about who makes better tracks or who is a better dj. I feel deeply sad because you people don’t find a bit of free time to create an account and vote for them. It only takes you two minutes to place you vote.

So, I’ll say it again: if you like ok corral and their track yellow fever, please vote here: http://www.heinekenmusic.ro/thirst2008/consumer/dj/2

We need your support and yes, every vote counts.

One deep sincere thank you to all the voters.

Whitest Boy Alive

2008-05-14T11:41:00.003+03:00

One day, when I was sick and tired of all the shitty music I listen to at work, I remembered about Whitest Boy Alive. So, the natural reaction was to listen to their latest album. Burned and Done with you are absolute genius tracks.
Also, I’m listening to Kings of Convenience. I don’t know what I can save you from, I’d rather dance with you and The Passenger are great. This last track is more than weird. The melodic line is freaky, he sings very low, and the last part reminds me of Sepultura. Very nice guitars on this track.

Don't ever make V mad!

2008-04-25T01:38:00.006+03:00

This is what happens when you try to do some cleaning around the house, and your boyfriend gets really annoyed because instead of talking to him, you just... clean. Some say that ignorance is bliss, but when it comes to ignoring your mad, insane, hysterical and most likely brain damaged boyfriend, the consequences could be similar to this:

It's still a mess around the house since we've just got back from our so called holyday and now all our clothes just lye around the house, in a complete disaster. I didn’t have time to clean cause this week I’ve got home from work very late and I just crashed in front of the TV, falling asleep in 10 seconds, which I never do. Insomnia was my best friend until now. I’m getting old I guess.

This is how our loft looked like after two hours of cleaning. :)

Stories from the city, stories from the sea

2008-04-24T00:50:00.003+03:00

I have to say that I’m done with publishing photos of myself. Those were the first and last ones. That’s it! / So, let’s get back to our business!

I remember a very nice part of a movie I’ve seen a few years ago, a very popular one, Kill Bill Vol. II. At the end of the movie, when she finally meets Bill, he tells her a little story about super heroes. For a long period of time I thought that Spiderman was way better than Superman, and Batman is the lamest of them all. BUT, after I heard that story in Tarantino’s movie, I rethought the whole concept of Superman, and that’s how he is now my biggest superhero.
Billy said that Superman was born with superpowers, he was not a human transformed into superhero. Unlike Spiderman, who had to change his costume into the Spiderman one, and hide his real identity, Superman had to change his outfit just to hide the fact that he is, indeed, Superman. That was the proof that Superman is the natural hero, and Spiderman was just a man with strange powers. This is somehow obvious, but the way he said it made me understand who Superman really is. And while I was watching the movie, I remembered one episode of Superman, when he actually turned back time to save Louis from dying.
So, he can fly, he has a very nice sense of humor, he doesn’t need weapons and cars to travel and, the most important part, he can see trough clothes! I still don’t know how the bad guys always manage to find kryptonite, but then again, we need a main plot in the movie.

OK Corral @ Heineken Music Thirst 2008

2008-04-23T22:05:00.002+03:00

OK Corral is one of the finalists in Heineken Thirst 2008 competition. Please support them by voting here: http://www.heinekenmusic.ro/thirst2008/consumer/
You will need to create an acount and validate it through your email. Every vote counts and if you like the track and OK Corral in general, please vote for them!

Thank you!

2008-04-23T13:28:00.001+03:00

cats and flex

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Vienna

2008-04-23T13:12:00.001+03:00

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me bored in vienna part III

2008-04-23T12:58:00.001+03:00

boring vienna part II

Vienna Part I

2008-04-23T12:51:00.001+03:00

boring vienna!

Goodbye Bucharest!

2008-04-17T18:16:00.002+03:00

So, this is my last post on the blog for a couple of days, since tomorrow at this time I’ll be rocking in Vienna with V. I wanted so much to find a cool party in this weekend and thank god I found the perfect one. Gregor Tresher @ Club Flex, on Saturday. This is a great opportunity for us since OK Corral signed with Great Stuff Recordings. So, not just pleasure, but business too. Also, we are thinking of going to Munich too, only if we have the time.
Except that, this is the first time when I’ll visit a country that’s not in the desert. I hope the plane won’t crash :)) I’ll have some Xanax before the plane takes off and I’ll probably be ok, maybe a glass of wine too. :))
So far, today has been a great day and I hope this weekend will be a fun one, I need a vacation, and a good one!

I'm all in

2008-04-17T00:19:00.000+03:00

I like many things in life, I hate even more, but there's only one thing that I love and hate at the same time: Poker - Texas Hold'em. I started playing poker a few months ago, when I was still working for Gandul, the newspaper. At the beginning of September, I bought chips and poker table and I started playing with my friends. Obviously, since I stink at math and my logic just doesn't exist, I’m the worst poker player alive. That's why I hate it. Initially we were playing tournament, and it was fun, but I was pretty hysterical and frustrated because I couldn’t play so well. Me and seven other friends met at v's place (and mine) and played for hours. But... everything changed when we discovered cash game. First of all, I learnt how to play and I started winning money, not too much, but something!
The most memorable poker night was a couple of weeks ago. We played for almost 7 hours and it was the first time when I actually gambled and did tricks. I left the table at 6 am with double the money I started. One of our friends was the master of bluffs and kept on winning with worst hands, like 2 / 7, 3 /8 and stuff like that. It was hardcore.
The most important thing in poker is patience. If you’re not patient, you will lose, no matter what cards you have and how well you know how to calculate your chances of winning a hand. Even though you may win a couple of pots being lucky, overall you will lose, and if you don’t know how and when to stop, you can lose a lot, even your mind. :)
As a conclusion, I learnt that poked is, really, art. Since I have a total lack of talent in poker, I’ll keep on losing money and entertaining my friends with my stupid decisions.

Here you can see some videos from High Stakes Poker – Las Vegas. Daniel Negreanu rules!

High Stakes Poker Season 1 - Ep. 1

High Stakes Poker - Season 1, Ep 2.

Final Fantasy I

2008-04-15T20:36:00.001+03:00

I must admit that i really feel sorry for myself. I started playing Final Fantasy I in january, when V bought his PSP, and i still haven't finished it. I killed almost all the monsters, discovered every secret, even the ones very well hidden, and when i got to the last chapter, i quit playing because i couldn't see anything aymore. I almost got blind from all that playing. Final Fantasy I is not a game suitable for PS, especially it you're half blind like i was :). Now, since i'm back in business and i can see with my own eyes, using eye drops every 10 minutes, but that doesn't matter, i have to kill the last monster. I tried killing him day after day but it was way to powerful for me. I think i have to level up a bit more. Anywayz, i'll kill that guy eventually, but it's not that important. The reall problem is that in some secret levels i discovered some nasty monsters. 2 in each level. Every level has like 20 floors and it's a killer. The main idea is that when you reach the 20th floor, you are allowed to kill only one monster, and after you kill it, you are automatically sent back at the beggining of the first level. You cannot kill all monster at the same time. And, guess what: once you've killed one and you are transported back to the surface, when you return, both monsters are alive!!!!! And this is the easy one, the second level had 40 floors and i almost broke my PSP trying to reach the 3rd floor. Especially because you cannot escape these level unless you kill one moster. If you die the game is not finished, you're just sent back to the beggining. The only way to get out without killing yourself is using Exit spell, that if you have it. Obviously i didn't buy exit, because you are allowed only 3 spells / level and at level 6 i both something else, can't remember really what, something like cure i believe. I met Omega, the coolest monster in the game, he was nice to me, really nice, killed me in 2 seconds. 9999 damage. I had 999 points of life. Now... don't ever start playing a game you know you don't have the time for it, and especially if you don't want to ruin your brains out :).
Thios site was very useful concidering that i discovered the combination of buttons that showed me the world map when i was level 30 already: http://www.ffrepublic.com/final-fantasy-1.

Now.. really?

2008-04-15T19:25:00.000+03:00

After a really horrible day i decided that it's time to go home, at last. I spend the last hours in front of the computer, smoking my ass off and writing press releases, biographies and stuff like that. I need a break. I'm looking forward into going to vienna this weekend, i would've liked to go back to egypt, just to chill out, relax, listen to some nice music, take sun baths on that empty beach and most of all, being away from all this. I wish o could just get away for a while, and be in a place where i don't have to talk to anybody. Maybe Alaska. Less people, less stress. :) Being PR is a hard thing, you know. First of all, you need to be a very social person, which i'm absolutly 100% NOT! I could live with just 3 - 4 humas around me for the rest of my life and i wouldn't miss anybody else.

Eh, until that lucky day comes, when i can stay on that beach, MY beach, that empty space, i have to do, guess what: write some more!

Good damnit my brains will blow up!

This is what i'm talking about:

Podcast 27

2008-04-15T18:04:00.000+03:00

While i was researching for something, i ran into this website: http://www.sidlovesturbo.com/. Here you cand find mixes from artists like Jori Hulkkonen, Tiga and much more. It's obvious that i was impressed with Jori's mixes, there are two actually, because they include a lot of tracks from the 80z, and also new tracks he made.

As i listen i realise that there's something strange about him. Too much good music in one man, that's alomost impossible in our era.

En fin, nice tunes, you should give it a listen!

You can download the lasted mix, podcast 27, created on 27/03/2008 here.

The first one, podcast 19, published on 19/11/2007 is avalibale here.

Lisa, the queen of all queens

2008-04-14T20:54:00.000+03:00

So, it's no surprise to anyone that i love almost anything that moves and has furr. A few days ago i presented Ebola, my hamster, now it's time to make Lisa famous!

Back to the roots

2008-04-14T14:44:00.000+03:00

When i grow up i wanna be a rock band

The Arcade Fire - Rebellion (Lies)

I can`t really say that i`m too impressed by their live performance with this song, but i still like it a lot.

Still, i can`t wait to see Kaiser Chiefs live, this summer, at Bestfest.

Kaiser Chiefs - Ruby - WIIIIII! :))

The Mist

2008-04-14T00:08:00.000+03:00

I`ve just came back from the cinema. I saw The Mist, a film by Stephen King. SF in all ways, but very human and emotional, pretty violent too. I recomend it. It`s not a typical USA movie and it has the weirdest ending i`ve even seen (after the others). It`s sad and it gives you the creeps.

Roland TB-303 - Aceeeed for life!

2008-04-13T20:33:00.000+03:00

Roland TB-303 Bass Line este un sintetizator cu sequencer încorporat, produs de compania Roland în 1982, care a avut un rol determinant în dezvoltarea muzicii electronice contemporane.
TB-303-ul a fost vândut iniţial chitariştilor care vroiau să exerseze singuri şi aveau nevoie de acompaniament la bas, 303-ul fiind instumentul ideal pentru acest lucru. Sintetizatorul s-a produs timp de 18 luni, rezultatul fiind de 10.000 de unităţi. În zilele noastre, aparatul este considerat a fi piesă de colecţie, vânzându-se la preţuri între 800 şi 1000 de dolari.

Spre sfârşitul anilor `80, producătorii de muzică electronică din Chicago i-au descoperit utiliatea în contextul dezvoltării acestui gen de muzică, urmând ca la începutul anilor `90, să se dezvolte noul curent numit Acid, în care 303-ul era utilizat cu preponderenţă. Acel sunet specific acid-ului se producea prin repetarea unui pattern de note în cadrul TB-303-ului în timp ce se modifica filtrul CutOff, resonance sau envelope modulation. Accentul 303-ului controla modificările amplitudinii notei, filter resonance-ul şi envelope modulation, permiţând variaţiuni în timbru. Pentru a-i da TB 303-ului un timbru mai dens, mai zgomotos, este adesea folosit un efect de distors, fie cu ajutorul unei pedale, fie supraîncărcând intrarea audio a unui mixer. Rezultatul este un sunet mult mai bogat din punct de vedere armonic.

TB-303 are un singur oscilator audio care poate fi configurat pentru a produce fie un sawtooth wave, fie unul square, un envelope generator cu un controler de decay, un lowpass filter cu o reducere de -18 dB pe octavă şi controlere pentru cutoff frequency, resonance şi parametri de envelope modulation.

Pe la mijlocul anilor `90, cererea de unităţi TB-303 a coincis cu dezvoltarea muzicii electronice de dans şi tocmai de aceea majoritatea producătorilor de echipamente de acest gen au început producerea de multe instrumente similare TB-303-ului, numite "clone". Primii care au produs acest gen de clone au fost Novation Electronic Music Systems care a lansat primul echipament portabil generator de linii de bas în 1994, urmând TeeBee-ul produs de Syntecno, MS-404 şi Freebass FB-383.

Pentru că popularitatea acestor clone creştea necontrolabil, Roland a hotărât să lanseze propria lui clona de 303, producând MC-303 Groovebox. În ciuda eforturilor de a păstra aceaşi linie ca pentru TB, MC-ul era un produs complet diferit de original. Diferenţa majoră era în includerea unui sintetizator digital în schimbul circuitului analog inclus în primul.

În 1997, sintetizatoarele în versiunea software au început să câştige tot mai multe teren, unul dintre cele mai populare fiind emolatorul ReBirth produs de Propellerhead Software, cei care au produs şi soft-ul Reason. Pentru cine nu ştie, Proppellerheads a fost o trupă extrem de populară care ne-a vizitat ţara în urmă cu câţiva ani, cântând în deschiderea concertului Moby.

Printre artiştii care au folosit acest Roland TB-303 se numară: Aphex Twin, The Future Sound Of London, Massive Attack, Air, Moby, Underworld, The Prodigy, The Chemical Brothers, Fatboy Slim, Pet Shop Boys, Orbital şi chiar Daft Punk. La toate aceste nume il adugam si pe Jori Hulkkonen, artistul F Com., responsabil si pentru So Run The Tears As Wine" Acid Symphony.

Clipurile concertului la care a participat si Jesper Dahlback sunt ceva mai jos in blog.
Pentru ca vazand acele clipuri mi-am amintit ca am facut si eu o prezentare a 303-ului in defuncta clubbing mag, am decis sa urc materialul aici.

Hope it helps!

My first Korg

2008-04-13T20:27:00.001+03:00

This is my (and V.) first Korg.

I wish i had more time for it. :(

More to come... :D

Thaddeus Cahill's "Dynamophone/Telharmonium" (1897)

2008-04-13T20:13:00.000+03:00

Let me introduce you the first synthetiser ever built.

Dynamophone/Telharmonium - 1897

In 1897 Thaddeus Cahill patented (pat no 580,035) what was to become the "Telharmonium" or "Dynamophone" which can be considered the first significant electronic musical instrument . The first fully completed model was presented to the public in 1906 in Holyoke, Mass.

The Telharmonium was essentially a collection of 145 modified dynamos employing a number of specially geared shafts and associated inductors to produce alternating currents of different audio frequencies. These signals were controlled by a multiple set of polyphonic velocity sensitive keyboards ( of seven octaves, 36 notes per octave tuneable to frequencies between 40-4000Hz) and associated banks of controls.
The resulting sound was audible via acoustic horns built from piano soundboards in the early models, later models were linked directly to the telephone network or to a series of telephone receivers fitted with special acoustic horns - this was the only way to amplify the sound in this preamplifier era (Cahill's invention had predated the invention of amplifiers by 20 years). The Telharmonium supplied 1 amp of power to each telephone receiver on the network this was much more than the telephone itself but was enough to be able to hear the music without lifting the receiver speaker to the ear however this also masked and disrupted any other signal on the line. The instrument was usually played by two musicians (4 hands) and reproduced "respectable" music of the time: Bach, Chopin, Grieg, Rossinni etc.

Go here for more details: http://www.obsolete.com/120_years/machines/telharmonium/

A couple of years ago, when i was wrinting for an electronic music magazine, Clubbing Mag, i had to write the technical page, so i decided to start with the first electronic music instrument ever built. I was extremply happy to find out about the Telharmonium. It is a wonderful piece of art.

Unfortunatly, they stoped manufacturing this instrument because the wireless technology evolved and it was obvious that people would rather use that than this way of transmiting music.

This is how it looked:

Thornado Live

2008-04-13T20:11:00.000+03:00

Thornado Freedom of Music Open Air 2007 @ Suncuius Cluj

Vania @ Sala Polivalenta, warm up for Paul Van Dyk

2008-04-13T20:10:00.000+03:00

Part 1

Part 2

Jori Hulkkonen - Future Helo (Live)

2008-04-13T15:32:00.000+03:00

Jori, my latest passion in music, is exceptional. You can`t see him performing live acts too often, so this is indeed something special.

Jori Hulkkonen - Future Help (live)

Jori Hulkkonen - You're My Excuse For Being Me (live)

So Run The Tears As Wine by Jori Hulkkonen

2008-04-12T17:09:00.000+03:00

"So Run The Tears As Wine" Acid Symphony Part One

"So Run The Tears Like Wine" Acid Symphony Part Two

"So Run The Tears Like Wine" Acid Symphony Part Three

Clipuri din tineretile zbuciumate

2008-04-10T15:29:00.000+03:00

Muzici de crescut copii:

Future Sound of London - My Kingdom

Aphex Twin - Come to Daddy

DJ Krust & Saul Williams - Coded Language

Laurent Garnier - The Sound of The Big Babou

And... the one and only, Laurent Garnier - The Man With The Red Face

va urma...

2008-04-10T15:18:00.001+03:00

Poate cea mai smechera voce ever. Zero 7 rulez. Enjoy

OK Corral la Great Stuff Recordings

2008-04-09T13:34:00.000+03:00

Finally!

Craft 034, adica OK Corral - Planetarium EP, este disponibil pentru preascultare pe siteul labelului Great Stuff.

Adica aici: http://www.greatstuffrecords.de/greatstuff/label.htm

Doritorii pot achizitiona si tricouri cu Great Stuff. Noi vrem doar sa achizitionati EP-ul, tricouri va dam noi, cu noi, daca vrem. :)

Meet Ebola, the coolest hamster alive

2008-04-08T16:09:00.000+03:00

This is Ebola, my hamster. He does nothing all day long, but during the nights he goes insane, and starts chewing evertything he finds, including his own cage.

Enjoy!

ps: he had a little brother, but he was brutally murderd.

OK Corral deschide petrecerea cu Gregor Tresher de la Club Kado

2008-04-04T21:02:00.001+03:00

Vania, Thornado si Midy au lansat noul proiect OK Corral cu ocazia lui Anakin EP, la groove++ recordings. Intre timp, proiectul OK Corral a intrat in familia Great Stuff Recordings/Craft Music/Kling Klong. Primul EP, Planetarium, va aparea pe 4 iunie la Craft Music. Mai multe informatii cat de curand pe pagina lor de myspace www.myspace.com/ookcorral si pe viitorul website.Formula de live-act/dj set OK Corral ii are ca membri doar pe Vania si Thornado. Cu ocazia venirii lui Gregor Tresher in Romania, cei doi au onoarea de a face un prim dj set OK Corral sub noua titulatura pentru foarte cunoscutul dj si producator german. Gregor Tresher este, de asemenea, in familia Great Stuff Recordings, cat si la Cocoon, fiind unul dintre principalii artistii produsi de Germania ultimilor ani. Piese ca noul remix pentru Saint Paul a lui Marco Bailey & Tom Hades sau A Thousand Nights, care da si numele petrecerii de pe 25 aprilie, i-au adus un renume mondial.Va asteptam, deci, la petrecere si va promitem cat de curand si un live-act OK Corral.