motel de moka

Image: Bart Pogoda

Late night drive on an empty city with nothing but a pair of cigars and decadent thoughts.

Delia Gonzales & Gavin Russom - Rise (DFA remix)
Italian #1 (Italians do it better, 2007)
Panthers - Goblin city (Holy Ghost! Extended disco dub)
Goblin city 12″ (Permanent Vacation, 2008)
Prototypes - Synthetique
Synthetique (Minty Fresh, 2008)
Glass Candy - Beatific
Beat Box (Italians do it better, 2007)
Agoria feat. Scalde - Baboul Hair Cuttin
Baboul Hair Cuttin (Different, 2006)

Over the past century, the world burned through a trillion barrels of oil. Another 1.2 trillion barrels of known conventional oil reserves wait to tapped, according to BP, one of the world’s biggest oil companies. It sounds like a lot. But given the current rate of growth in demand, a trillion of those barrels will be used up in less than 30 years.

What then? Many analysts estimate another trillion barrels of yet-to-be-found oil remains, but in remote places like the Arctic Ocean where it will be expensive to extract, or in countries that might restrict access.

The big oil companies have been in a global dash to find and pump more oil. But it takes time, sometimes a decade, before the first barrels from a newly discovered oil field are pumped and sold.

- The future of Oil. Jad Mouawad for the New York Times.

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It was a time when technology was king, status was determined by your high score, and videogames were blitzing the world…From Pong to Pac-Man, Asteroids to Zaxxon–more than fifty million people around the world have come of age within the electronic flux of videogames, their subconscious forever etched with images projected from arcade and home videogame systems.From the first interactive blips of electronic light at Brookhaven National Labs and the creation of Spacewar!

Van Burnham - Supercade

01. New Balance - Role Model
(A New Fragrance / 2005)
02. Trash 80 - Icarus
(unreleased)
03. Bruna - Lost And Found (not found rmx by MAT64)
(Milky Disco / 2007)
04. Trash 80 - Sodium Sonet
(Unreleased)
05. Crystal Castles - Alice Practice
(Crystal Castles / 2008)

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Image: EnzoDavide

Dave Bowman: Hello, HAL do you read me, HAL?
HAL 9000: Affirmative, Dave, I read you.
Dave Bowman: Open the pod bay doors, HAL.
HAL 9000: I’m sorry Dave, I’m afraid I can’t do that.
Dave Bowman: What’s the problem?
HAL 9000: I think you know what the problem is just as well as I do.
Dave Bowman: What are you talking about, HAL?
HAL 9000: This mission is too important for me to allow you to jeopardize it.
Dave Bowman: I don’t know what you’re talking about, HAL?
HAL 9000: I know you and Frank were planning to disconnect me, and I’m afraid that’s something I cannot allow to happen.
Dave Bowman: Where the hell’d you get that idea, HAL?
HAL 9000: Dave, although you took thorough precautions in the pod against my hearing you, I could see your lips move.

Quote from “2001: A Space Odyssey”

01. Growing - Lateral
(Lateral / 2008)

02. Lindstrom - I Feel Space
(It’s a Feedelity Affair / 2006)

03. Jersey Devil Social Club - Child 13
(Milky Disco / 2007)

04. Cloudland Canyon - Dambala
(Silver Tongued Sisyphus / 2007)

05. Eluvium - As I Drift Off
(When I Live by the Garden and the Sea / 2006)

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Photo: Corbis

The hotel Adlon became our club. In the Adlon lobby we met and gossiped and exchanged news. In the Adlon bar we rolled dice for drinks… When I was first in Berlin, I recall, Dorothy Thompson and Sigrid Shultz wouldn’t come into the Adlon bar; they stayed in lady-like aloofness, in the lobby or restaurant. Later they relented; but Sigrid never ordered anything but a Shultz cocktail. She wouldn’t tell me what it was. I asked Fred, the barman. “Das ist ein Geheimnis!” he answered. I asked Franz, another barman. “Dat iss a secret!” he replied. Finaly Sigrid herself told me. A Shultz cocktail is composed of equal parts of orange juice, orange juice, and orange juice.

T. R. Ybarra - Young man of the world

01. Yoav - Club Thing
(Charmed & Strange / 2008)

02. James Pants - Were Through
(Welcome / 2008)

03. Liquid Liquid - Cavern
(The Perfect Beats, Vol. 2 / 1998)

04. Boat Club - Warmer Climes
(Caught the Breeze / 2007)

05. Poni Hoax - Antibodies
(Images of Sigrid / 2008)

Note: the excerpt and the name of Pony Hoax’s album mix perfectly… this was not wanted, it’s a pure coincidence: I can’t believe it.

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It begins to tell,
’round midnight, midnight.
I do pretty well, till after sundown,
Suppertime I’m feelin’ sad;
But it really gets bad,
’round midnight.
Memories always start ’round midnight
Haven’t got the heart to stand those memories,
- ’round midnight, Ella Fitzgerald

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” Night Minimalism ”

01. Bjork - Desired Constellation
Medúlla (2004)
02. Mel Thorme - Round Midnight
Jazz ‘Round Midnight: Mel Tormé (1994)
03. Harold Budd / Brian Eno - the Plateaux of Mirror
Ambient 2: The Plateaux Of Mir (1980)
04. The Static Silence - Candles (myspace)
Found (distant noise (UK), 2008)
05. Mitchell Akiyama - But Promise Me
Small Explosions That Are Yours To Keep (Sub Rosa, 2005)
06. The Nels Cline Singers - The Ballad of Devin Hoff
The Giant Pin (Cryptogramaphone, 2004)
07. Manual - Nova
Until Tomorrow (Morr Music, 2001)
08. Stan Getz - Summertime
West Coast Jazz (1955)

note: It’s a soft night list. Almost a feeling but not quite, mostly minimalism from various music style. I like Stan Getz closing btw.

PS. anybody seen angeles around? (hey are you still alive?)

image: marmota

Image: Phil Douglis

On May 18, we gave you some ideas on where to shop for a vibrator. Now it’s the time to talk about how. Here’s a checklist you may want copy and carry in your purse next time you go shopping.
- Purpose. What do you want to stimulate? Your clitoris? Vagina? G-spot? Anus? All of the above? Will you use your vibe with a partner, or alone?
- Portability. Is your vibrator going to stay in your bedroom, or will it accompany you on the road? If it’s the latter, look the smaller, battery-operated or rechargable electric vibes.
- Noise. Do you care if your neighbors hear? If so, your best bets are virtually silent coil-operated electric vibes. Battery-operated and wand vibrators tend to be louder.
- Intensity. Do you want gentle or strong vibrations? A general Rule: the smaller the battery, the less the vibration.
- Price. A vibrator will run you anywhere from $10 to $80 or more, but think of it as an investment, and remember that you get what you pay for. An electric vibrator from a brand-name manufactirer will last you for years.
- Shape. Vibrators these days come in a truly mind-boggling assortment of shapes and styles. Do you want something realistic or smooth?
- Color. Yes, color. Do you prefer flash tones? Or do you want to get more festive with metallic, glow-in-the-dark, or jewel-toned toys?

Cynthia Gentry - The Bedside Orgasm Book: 365 Days of Sexual Ecstasy

01. Damero - Things Gone(feat. Headkit)
(Happy In Gray / 2007)

02. Modeselektor - Deboutonner
(Happy Birthday! / 2007)

03. Female Future - Barbara Morgenstern Robert Lippok
(Transatlantic / 2006 )

04. John Tejada - The end of it all
(Cleaning Sounds Is a Filthy Business / 2006)

05. Paluka - Urban echos version2
(Unreleased / 2007)

Note: without headphones or without a lot of volume you’ll have not any vibe. When you swim into the waves of sound - on a slightly small dancefloor - you do the last mix shaking your head between the speakers, so creating your own vibes.

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“It’s what you all been waitin’ for ain’t it? They can’t stand it, they want something new. So let’s get re-acquainted.”

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Mid-Air Tape Loop Dance Party
(Tape Loop EP/ 2008)
Prefuse 73 Pagina Dos
(Prefuse 73 Reads the Books E.P./ 2005)
Mid-Air Complex Admittance
(Mid-Air/ 2007)
RJD2 Chicken-Bone Circuit
(Dead Ringer/ 2002)
Mid-Air Mirror Mirror
(Mid-Air/ 2007)
Daedelus Pursed Lips Reply
(Invention/ 2002)
Mid-Air A Thousand Atomic Fireballs
(Unreleased)

Note(s): So there’s been some feigning for new, fresh tracks. Jungle is a tough MdM beat to make work, but with enough tenacity the rewards outweigh the struggle. Mid-Air takes jungle back to the roots and doesn’t let the “electronic” aspect of the genre overshadow the organic foundational focus of the sub-genre. Chris Harbach’s contribution to the greater jungle is a product that finds its roots in an urban experimental sound, works its way up through a solid trunk of jazz/hip-hop/funk, and branches off touching upon ambient, acid, trip-hop, and “electronica”, the fruits of which are best savored chilled and — even in the midst of the gritty and grainy samples — fresh. Essentially, as one put it, Mid-Air is “Too fast, too slow, too noisy, too melodic, too old skool, and way too ahead of his time,” (in all the right ways); that, as always, is for you to decide. So, intertwined with the linchpin artist’s works are a few third-party complementary sounds to guide you through the sonic landscape. Enjoi.

Photo Credit: Eugenio Recuenco
Mid-Air: MySpace, Official Site