Most blogs alert you to interesting information on other pages by blogging about it. It's an easy way to generate content and cross linked pages bump up results in google. At Die Mensch-Maschine we're going to do things differently. On one dedicated page, you'll find links to all the best related articles found across the web. They'll all be related to, in some way, the philosophy, art and science of record collecting, DJing or music.
Simpson, The Guardian - Siouxsie and the Banshees: 10 of the best (2014)
Unlike anything that had gone before, the Banshees hitched haunting music to mysterious, apocalyptic lyrics – and all but invented goth. Here are 10 of their finest tracks.
O'Shaughnessy, Resident Advisor - The Esoteric Art Of The Opening DJ (22/09/2009)
The signature of a great opener is defined by a devotion to the music he or she is playing...The biggest reward an opener receives is the opportunity to explore musical territory a headliner often cannot."
Samuels, Electronic Beats - Through That Darkness You’ll Find the Light (12/03/2013)
Derrick May was kind of a hipster at the time in the early dance-electronic-techno scene...There were just our records—12-inch remixes and extended versions, which we did from the very beginning."
Goldmann, Little White Earbuds - Everything popular is wrong: Making it in electronic music, despite democratization (13/03/2013)
"What should I download when there are five billion files to choose from? Whom should I bless with my attention? Do I have any attention to spare?...A frustrated DJ plays lame tunes in front of people bored to tears. That’s the average event out there. Alternatively, a collective nostalgia for some era of “old days” prevails."
Stylus - England Fades Away: Stylus Magazine's Guide To Goth (07/08/2006)
"Iron Lady Thatcher ruled the roost, punk rock had proven a ideological dead-end, the Cold War kept on shivering and AIDS only helped to seal the state of frigidity. Luckily, drum machines were cheap and dry ice plentiful, amphetamine sulfate abounded and black still went with anything."
Clash - Dave Clarke On Digital DJing (31/10/2012)
"The point of a live DJ set is that it is happening there and then. It should feel on the edge and if there’s no risk then what’s the point?...If you have infinite choices and musical possibilities, then why do so many of these people play the same set lists at each gig?"
Reynolds, S. The Guardian - How rave music conquered America (02/08/2012)
"After 20 years, electronic dance music has made it big in the US... But the phenomenon isn't so much deja vu as a rebranding coup. What were once called "raves" are now termed "festivals"; EDM is what we used to know by the name of techno."
Hann, M. The Guardian - Do you still collect physical music? (07/11/2012)
"The notion of a physical music collection seems increasingly antiquated these days, though among people I know of around my age it has tended to be those who don't care that much about music who have embraced streaming and downloading with the greatest vigour."
Wolfston, S. The Guardian - Annie Mac: 'Skream & Benga are like the Sex Pistols!' (20/10/2012)
"The first few times I played out," she recalls, "I had to write a list of exactly what songs I was gonna play and leave it in front of the mixer."
Kane & Paphides, The Guardian - Is it good that music downloads now outsell CDs? (2012)
"Reckoning with the disruptive power of the net might be a more important issue than keeping the Glastonbury main stage fresh with anthemic talent."
Fitzpatrick, The Guardian - When bands fall off cliffs (2011)
"Admitting a failure is tantamount in the eyes of the music industry to condemning yourself for ever."
Wakefield, BBC News - I bequeath my iTunes credits to... (2011)
"And to my beloved niece, I leave access to my online poker and bingo account and to my great-nephew Frankie, all my iTunes credits."
The Guardian - A history of dance music (2011)
"A history of dance music in 50 key moments, as chosen by Guardian and Observer writers."
Aitken, The Guardian - Charanjit Singh on how he invented acid house ... by mistake (2011)
"Cast your mind to the acid house scene and your immediate thought probably doesn't involve an ageing Bollywood session musician...As we talk over the music I become increasingly aware of the oddness of the situation – listening to loud acid house at 12.30 on a Sunday afternoon in a suburban house in Acton with a couple of genial 60-year-olds visiting from Mumbai is indeed a strange scenario."
Kappala-Ramsamy, The Guardian - Pete Tong: Soundtrack of my life (2011)
"But we didn't really understand the gravity of what was about to happen, it was just about getting on the hottest music of the day...It gives you this warm feeling. Like legal ecstasy."
Davis, The Guardian - 10 Years of the iPod (2011)
"The iPod is 10 this year...Today, the iPhone has effectively replaced the iPod. The day it launched Apple quietly dropped "Computer" from its corporate moniker."
Burton, BBC News - Ministry of Sound keeps on dancing after 20 years (2011)
"In 1991, the UK's thirst for dance music was getting stronger by the day. In the rural areas in the South and in reclaimed industrial sites in the North, illegal raves woke up a generation with fast, repetitive beats...So how did the Ministry of Sound transform itself from an underground club to a multi-million pound brand?"
Ranta, Pop Matters - The Extinction of Electronic Music Giants (2011)
"The year 2010 saw two iconic music medium figures go out of production...In their day, both the SL-1200 and Walkman tape player were remarkable feats of engineering."
Sillito, BBC News - Are record clubs the new book clubs? (2011)
"The rules are strict. No talking. No texting. You must listen to every song on the album...The seats were soft, someone had lit some incense. Some people closed their eyes, others nodded in rhythmic appreciation. There was a sense of being collectively submerged in Bowie's music."
Jones, BBC News - Five Treasured Record Shops (2011)
"When I started my career, the UK had more than 2,000 independent record shops. Today only 269 remain...I started off thinking I was writing the obituary of the record shop."
Manzoor, BBC News - How Record Shops Changed My Life (2011)
"Nothing is especially hard to find and so nothing is especially rare...The sad truth seems be that while there is now more music available than ever its value to us has diminished."
Lynskey, The Guardian - Forgive us our synths: how 80s pop found favour again (2010)
"The Musicians Union ('Keep Music Live') was so panicked by synthesisers that it attempted to impose restrictions on their use. "We used to have a plastic skull on the mixing console which said 'Keep Music Dead'," grins Ware."
Lewes, NME - Release The Bats - It's The 20 Greatest Goth Tracks (2009)
"If there's an instinctive cringe when the term goth is invoked, that's because too many people have a narrow and reductive idea of what it represents...the genre is a far broader church, an overarching set of aesthetic impulses."
Harrison - Video explains the world's most important 6-sec drum loop (2006)
"A meditation on the ownership of culture, the nature of art and creativity, and the history of a remarkable music clip."
Ishkur - Guide To Electronic Music v2.5 (Sine Anno)
"Trance...now it's quite difficult to get entranced due mostly to the fact that the genre has devolved into such trite, derivative junk that even the biggest culprits of it are having trouble lying about how interesting it is."
Simpson, The Guardian - Siouxsie and the Banshees: 10 of the best (2014)
Unlike anything that had gone before, the Banshees hitched haunting music to mysterious, apocalyptic lyrics – and all but invented goth. Here are 10 of their finest tracks.
O'Shaughnessy, Resident Advisor - The Esoteric Art Of The Opening DJ (22/09/2009)
The signature of a great opener is defined by a devotion to the music he or she is playing...The biggest reward an opener receives is the opportunity to explore musical territory a headliner often cannot."
Samuels, Electronic Beats - Through That Darkness You’ll Find the Light (12/03/2013)
Derrick May was kind of a hipster at the time in the early dance-electronic-techno scene...There were just our records—12-inch remixes and extended versions, which we did from the very beginning."
Goldmann, Little White Earbuds - Everything popular is wrong: Making it in electronic music, despite democratization (13/03/2013)
"What should I download when there are five billion files to choose from? Whom should I bless with my attention? Do I have any attention to spare?...A frustrated DJ plays lame tunes in front of people bored to tears. That’s the average event out there. Alternatively, a collective nostalgia for some era of “old days” prevails."
Stylus - England Fades Away: Stylus Magazine's Guide To Goth (07/08/2006)
"Iron Lady Thatcher ruled the roost, punk rock had proven a ideological dead-end, the Cold War kept on shivering and AIDS only helped to seal the state of frigidity. Luckily, drum machines were cheap and dry ice plentiful, amphetamine sulfate abounded and black still went with anything."
Clash - Dave Clarke On Digital DJing (31/10/2012)
"The point of a live DJ set is that it is happening there and then. It should feel on the edge and if there’s no risk then what’s the point?...If you have infinite choices and musical possibilities, then why do so many of these people play the same set lists at each gig?"
Reynolds, S. The Guardian - How rave music conquered America (02/08/2012)
"After 20 years, electronic dance music has made it big in the US... But the phenomenon isn't so much deja vu as a rebranding coup. What were once called "raves" are now termed "festivals"; EDM is what we used to know by the name of techno."
Hann, M. The Guardian - Do you still collect physical music? (07/11/2012)
"The notion of a physical music collection seems increasingly antiquated these days, though among people I know of around my age it has tended to be those who don't care that much about music who have embraced streaming and downloading with the greatest vigour."
Wolfston, S. The Guardian - Annie Mac: 'Skream & Benga are like the Sex Pistols!' (20/10/2012)
"The first few times I played out," she recalls, "I had to write a list of exactly what songs I was gonna play and leave it in front of the mixer."
Kane & Paphides, The Guardian - Is it good that music downloads now outsell CDs? (2012)
"Reckoning with the disruptive power of the net might be a more important issue than keeping the Glastonbury main stage fresh with anthemic talent."
Fitzpatrick, The Guardian - When bands fall off cliffs (2011)
"Admitting a failure is tantamount in the eyes of the music industry to condemning yourself for ever."
Wakefield, BBC News - I bequeath my iTunes credits to... (2011)
"And to my beloved niece, I leave access to my online poker and bingo account and to my great-nephew Frankie, all my iTunes credits."
The Guardian - A history of dance music (2011)
"A history of dance music in 50 key moments, as chosen by Guardian and Observer writers."
Aitken, The Guardian - Charanjit Singh on how he invented acid house ... by mistake (2011)
"Cast your mind to the acid house scene and your immediate thought probably doesn't involve an ageing Bollywood session musician...As we talk over the music I become increasingly aware of the oddness of the situation – listening to loud acid house at 12.30 on a Sunday afternoon in a suburban house in Acton with a couple of genial 60-year-olds visiting from Mumbai is indeed a strange scenario."
Kappala-Ramsamy, The Guardian - Pete Tong: Soundtrack of my life (2011)
"But we didn't really understand the gravity of what was about to happen, it was just about getting on the hottest music of the day...It gives you this warm feeling. Like legal ecstasy."
Davis, The Guardian - 10 Years of the iPod (2011)
"The iPod is 10 this year...Today, the iPhone has effectively replaced the iPod. The day it launched Apple quietly dropped "Computer" from its corporate moniker."
Burton, BBC News - Ministry of Sound keeps on dancing after 20 years (2011)
"In 1991, the UK's thirst for dance music was getting stronger by the day. In the rural areas in the South and in reclaimed industrial sites in the North, illegal raves woke up a generation with fast, repetitive beats...So how did the Ministry of Sound transform itself from an underground club to a multi-million pound brand?"
Ranta, Pop Matters - The Extinction of Electronic Music Giants (2011)
"The year 2010 saw two iconic music medium figures go out of production...In their day, both the SL-1200 and Walkman tape player were remarkable feats of engineering."
Sillito, BBC News - Are record clubs the new book clubs? (2011)
"The rules are strict. No talking. No texting. You must listen to every song on the album...The seats were soft, someone had lit some incense. Some people closed their eyes, others nodded in rhythmic appreciation. There was a sense of being collectively submerged in Bowie's music."
Jones, BBC News - Five Treasured Record Shops (2011)
"When I started my career, the UK had more than 2,000 independent record shops. Today only 269 remain...I started off thinking I was writing the obituary of the record shop."
Manzoor, BBC News - How Record Shops Changed My Life (2011)
"Nothing is especially hard to find and so nothing is especially rare...The sad truth seems be that while there is now more music available than ever its value to us has diminished."
Lynskey, The Guardian - Forgive us our synths: how 80s pop found favour again (2010)
"The Musicians Union ('Keep Music Live') was so panicked by synthesisers that it attempted to impose restrictions on their use. "We used to have a plastic skull on the mixing console which said 'Keep Music Dead'," grins Ware."
Lewes, NME - Release The Bats - It's The 20 Greatest Goth Tracks (2009)
"If there's an instinctive cringe when the term goth is invoked, that's because too many people have a narrow and reductive idea of what it represents...the genre is a far broader church, an overarching set of aesthetic impulses."
Harrison - Video explains the world's most important 6-sec drum loop (2006)
"A meditation on the ownership of culture, the nature of art and creativity, and the history of a remarkable music clip."
Ishkur - Guide To Electronic Music v2.5 (Sine Anno)
"Trance...now it's quite difficult to get entranced due mostly to the fact that the genre has devolved into such trite, derivative junk that even the biggest culprits of it are having trouble lying about how interesting it is."
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