lördag, mars 29, 2008

Summer Sun

Soon: sun. Spring is around the corner.

Day sun.


The high noon sun.


Ballroom disco sun


Singalong sun!

torsdag, mars 27, 2008

Live

Black life


Red life


Two microphones. THE CHOIR SINGER


Burt


If all this got a little bit too much sulk for you:

onsdag, mars 26, 2008

Peak


The peak of performance videos:


The peak of man:


The peak of battling piracy:


The peak of old money:


The peak of opera:


The peak of plastic:


The peak of Ken lee

söndag, mars 23, 2008

No country for old beach babys




Seriously, they gotta be related.

I was lucky

Krazy Fiesta, Kalle J, 50% of HYBRIS CEOs. All exports from Västerås. A swedish town that got a short and small, but magnificent, pop tradition. Västerås is a hard and unforgiving working class town where sport and ABB counts and culture is rarely highlighted. It's no wonder Krazy fiesta, Kalle J and Hybris is so focused on dancing to keep from cryin.
The Västerås dance pop scene has always been about dancing.

It all started here:


So What - year zero, patient X. The dance moves, the song, the interview. Perfection and now finally available on youtube again.

lördag, mars 15, 2008

Boy/Girl Girl/Boy

He's a runner


Song to the siren

Popular culture

Two suggestions of topics to talk about:

Belinda Carlisle are young, in a kick-ass band


She gets older, for some reason feels the need to do a fold out in playboy in the 90s.


Charles Manson:


Killed Sharon Tate:


Now go ahead. Think about it.

Beach

Life is a beach baby.

16 Years later

1992:


2008

16 Years later, two politicians fill the void Birgit Friggebo left us with. Ah, to see such success-stories in real time. It's a thriller! Because of course this is gonna be a huge success story.
Fast recap for non-swedes: The Government in Sweden gathers around a proposal where content owners - also known as 'record labels', or 'artists' - can proceed directly to court with a filesharers Ip-address asking for their home address wich the court then provides them with from the filesharers ISP. Thereafter the content owner simply bill the filesharer a proper amount. The whole process dismantles basic stuff like having to involve the police and protecting peoples integrity. Everyones a Vigilante now! What a fun place to live in! Just like the wild west in the good old days.

Anywaaaayyys, this is gonna be a success story, for sure! It is now only a matter of days, maybe hours!, until we are back in 1992 - the whole 90s ahead of us. Remember it? Oasis, Blur, CDs sold tonnage! Money was not an issue. Menswear! The group, that is. Oh, how sweet it will be.

This is so sweet. We have already started popping champagne bottles. Cristal of course, we took a couple of fast SMS-loans. Hey! We are a record label, the swedish government has fixed everythihg for us now. Soon EVERYTHING will be just peachy!

Thank you, thank you, THANK YOU Beatrice Ask and Lena Adelsohn Liljeroth!



In another part of the world: tens of thousands of illegal immigrants are making and packing cheap clothes and copies of expensive clothes and other stuff in the ports in Italy, especially Naples. Mafia and cartels keep every dime and the paychecks are at a minimum, far below minimum actually. A real issue. Real piracy, in many ways.
In another part of the world: The IT-industry is the worst industry in regards to be prepared to respect human rights, according to Amnesty. 100% of the enterprises says it's no risk they will break human rights but only 20% has made an analysis. Desperate to mine the web in Russia and China. That is a real issue.
In another part of the world: Someone still is in jail for writing something on the www about what happened at Tiananmen square during a couple of hot days and nights 1989. It's still happening, thanks to large systems of surveillance.

All these things connect. The physical products produced in piracy manner with no respect for peoples lives, the IT-business and the race for the money, the surveillance of peoples thoughts. They all connect, and they connect all too well with the goal and purpose of the lobbyists working for the major labels: to make Internet a controlled system of information. A system where every word and file are located, logged and looked at. This is where it's going, and it's not going to do anyone any good. Only a few lobbyists will profit from it. And we will all loose focus from what really matters. Loose focus of what really is piracy, what evil looks like.

There are serious things at stake, but all focus is on one thing: how to keep the record and movie business in Status quo until they have 'sorted' things out. As if they ever played ball in the first time! Nothings gonna change for music/movie biz whatever laws are enforced!

This madness has to stop. All things regarding copyright needs to reform. The word itself is almost absurd set in the context of Internet. Perhaps the Internet wasn't made for copying, but it sure is used for it now. It would have been better if they just would have called the Internet for "Copyright" instead so people would have understood what it was. Like: Hello sir, here is your Right to copy - the Copyright. Read your mail, send your files. That's what you do here at your Copyright! And of course we wont spy on you, but no sir, that wouldn't be respectable sir. That's not how we do it here in the free world.

Ah, what a world it could have been.

Instead: Brave new world, Kallocain, Aniara Osv. etc. m m

torsdag, mars 13, 2008

Dreamgirl



Lyudmila Mikhailovna Pavlichenko. 309 officially confirmed kills (including 36 German snipers). 187 from those - defending Odessa. The most efficient female sniper in history.

Dreamgirl number two:
Lidiya Gudovantseva
Killed 76 german soldiers in world war two and won the Lenin Order Medal.

onsdag, mars 12, 2008

2007-2008

The 2007-2008ies also delivers though. Imagine MTV cancelled this program. Hard to believe. I guess that "relevance" is not part of MTVs business idea. Nothing bad in that I suppose. If you want to produce shit, you produce shit. Shit still sells. Just a shame that good shit cant find a place at MTV nowadays.

Good shit:

Deliverance

In some strange way the 80s just keeps on delivering. This is just love:

tisdag, mars 11, 2008

Vive la France!

Oi garcon! Hand me them french fries!
France entry in the ESC:


Below you can behold what will probably be Swedens entry in the ESC.
FYI we don't call swedish meatballs swedish anymore. We have renamed them to Freedom meatballs.

onsdag, mars 05, 2008

HYBRIS



...thats what we are. Just a reminder.

Juvelen - Don't mess - New single



Juvelen is here to burn the world’s discos out again.
Juvelens new single is brimming with pulsing bass and drums.
Don't mess is made to make you feel good and dance, for inspiration. This is just pure uncut dance music. Remixes by Krazy fiesta and Team Skidoo takes care of the song as well in two killer remixes.

Listen to it!

This is a digital release only. The album "1" will be out in April.

Buy the single!

tisdag, mars 04, 2008

Big day coming



Do the right thing.



Just do it



Ok?

måndag, mars 03, 2008

Biker boy - March song - free download!


Why twist and bend communication, here it is straight from mr BB himself:

Subject: March song

Enjoy the new floorfiller "March song"!
Download for free during the first week of March.
The song is also remixed by the genius Kalle J!
Dance, dance, dance.

Links for download:

March song


March song remix by Kalle J


/The boy with the bike