2007-12-31 2007 is over, flint is doing bubbles | entry by sven
 

one big bubble might be the best summary i can give you. flint has been doing bubbles on a party, it is a lot more difficult than it seems.
2007: long, much, good, successful and desperate.
this was a year to remember.
what´s next?.

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2007-12-22 merry christmas season / my christmas tree | entry by sven
 

yes, it has been a long year, no this is not my personal summary. well, a lot of things went into the false direction, others into the right one. i can´t really say if i´m into christmas or not, but, it is always time to calm down, to close a chapter and go over to the next.
i just wanted to show my tiny christmas tree, it is small and simple and it looks a lot better than the one i had in 2005, remember:

well, all in all i whith you a merry christmas, i´m looking forward to spend the days with family and friends, which fills me with jy and happyness. forget about the gifts, be thankful for the time you can spend together - and eat as much as you can!!!
p.s.: chistmas on the v.e.n.u.s. tonight

REMEMBER:

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28.12.2007 EU @ RADIO UNTERGRUND
factor-4´s alex terztakis will teach you a lot about electric unity and he is going to play some AESTATE tracks you might not know...

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2007-12-11 no video for "actually", last works for 2007 | entry by sven
 

after tying to find a date, after this planning and putting ideas into storyboards i have to give in. unfortunately, there will be no video for "actually". well, usually i like to work alone as much as possible, it is hard to find space for larger projects. you know, whenever i direct videos for my own work or aestate it is more playing around with shapes and visual effects. i don´t like to act myself, i don´t consider myself as a great actor, but this time i was up for a more classic video with acting (no, not myself) and a short animated sequence. the video i have in mind is inspired by sinéad o'connor´s "nothing compares 2 u" as dircted by john maybury. well, we don´t find the time to shoot, we don´t have the time for postproduction and rehearsals anymore. i´m not angry about it, because we all took it very seriously, but when it´s over, it´s over. we all are keen on the idea, we will probably shoot next year, but not for promotional reasons but for fun. i also had the idea for a compleately animated video (because i always knew there was not much time) but all my alternative ideas didn´t really convince myself.
so, we will do the video later, but you will have to enjoy the new single without video first of all. i hope, well, i guess the song is strong enough to reach you without visuals.

a path to the past, still on:
sven | svandinavian

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by the way, the new aestate video "dael gishel" will be on screens early 2008. for the meantime check the youtube site of alexander marcus, the elctrolore king, who gives the evidence that you can produce great videos without a big budget and/or big technical effort!


as there will be no video, but you are in need to see what i see, r i want you to see, or whatever, here are the last photographic tableaus for 2007. enjoy anddo not miss the REFERENCE show, scheduled for april 2008!

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make sure you tune in:
28.12.2007 EU @ RADIO UNTERGRUND
factor-4´s alex terztakis will teach you a lot about electric unity and he is going to play some AESTATE tracks you might not know...

watch the "peel aest" video



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2007-12-03 expect the unexpected, expect the expected | entry by sven
 

i feel like being in movie, i mean, things around arrange themselves in strange ways... i was up to tavel to hamburg this weekend to see some good friends, to find new ones, to join a party, to collect some visual material to create photo tableaus and videos (i have great ideas, my days are to short...) well, the car which was supposed to be used broke down at midnight. it was a fantastic evening and the car took me home, but it refused to take the others home. calling the adac was a challange and took some time, it was strage - a perfect night, which turned into a stressful situation in the end. thank god, we are cool and social people, no problem. tragedy plus time is comedy. (woody allen) yeah, expect the unexpected.
yes, we went to hamburg, and it was great, seeing the habour, the reperbahn (what is so special about it?) and meeting fantastic friends. being surrounded by the right people is the only way not to waste your lifetime.
actually, things turned out the way i expected them. yes, expect the expected. i know i see clearly, because people see clearly. i can´t be wrong, because you can´t be wrong. so what´s wrong about it?

ps: this made my day, this is something you have to wait for whole three years. i´ll quote:
"We are proud to announce that Autechre will release their new album 'Quaristice' on Warp Records in early 2008. More details to follow..."
from warprecords.com
uhm, early 2008 means 2008-03-03, innit?

for the meantime:

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factor-4´s alex tzertakis will teach you a lot about electric unity and he is going to play some AESTATE tracks you might not know...

watch the "peel aest" video



www.myspace.com/electricunity
www.electric-unity.com


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2007-11-21 no AESTATE interview in december | entry by sven
 

time, you know, it is all about time. it is funny, sometimes i find out about my future on the internet, i was scheduled for an interview with Radio Untergrund as one half of AESTATE and founding member of electric unity, but, well let´s start with the original news:

Friday, November 16, 2007
EU @ RADIO UNTERGRUND

Am 28.12.2007 gibt es ein Interview bei Radio Untergrund. In einem Interview mit Markus Van Klev Hier werden Alex Terzakis (Factor-4) und Sven Piayda (Aestate) alles wissenswerte über Electric-Unity erzählen, was die Message ist und was man damit bezwecken möchte. Die Musik an diesem Abend steht ganz im Zeichen der Electric-Unity Artists. Reinhören lohnt auf alle Fälle!!! Weitere Infos auf der Homepage von Radio Untergrund.
(from: ms/eu blog)

this is the original news posting, but i´m not able to join alex for this date. i´m telling you, because i want to make sure that this has nothing to do with AESTATE´s no interview policy. it is all because of schedule difficulties, i´m sorry for this allthough it´s not my fault, i hope you understand. fortunately i´ll meet alex before the interview will be done, so i can tell him all the stupid things i would have said on air!

make sure you tune in:
28.12.2007 EU @ RADIO UNTERGRUND
factor-4´s alex tzertakis will teach you a lot about electric unity and he is going to play some AESTATE tracks you might not know...

watch the "peel aest" video



www.myspace.com/electricunity
www.electric-unity.com


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2007-11-13 party safari - what´s the difference? starting with "Q" | entry by sven
 

it must have been a cold winter back in 1977, and probably the years later on. i have been to some birthday parties (among other meetings) and a party is a complex setting of - let´s call them - figures in a defined situation behaving in a special way. you lean back and take a look around. actually, people tell a lot about themselves without talking.
why do we feel comfortable in a situaltion which looks exactly like a situaltion you feel comfotable with? do you feel sick among people? how many friends do you have? (no, i´m not talking about myspace)
is quantity status, is quality old-fashioned? does life on mars exist? and if, will you ever feel familiar with martians?
do you feel sick among people? do you?
i want to find out what is the core of agreement of humans sharing their limited time together? too philosophically?
what if you feel there is no core? what is it then? what is it?
where is the line?

don´t get me wrong, i´m in a good mood, having a great time.
i´ve just spend a night with aliens.

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2007-11-05 dj general piayda kicks the beats | entry by sven
 

this is funny. i never considered myself as a dj, i was always irritated, when people asked me, whose records we are going to play, and i always thought it was called AESTATE LIVE!!!
hm, things getting tricky now...
i found myself djaying on some parties and even a wedding, and it is believed that i always call the upcoming track the "burner"!
i´m not sure about this, but some people keep their strong believes...
last saturday i was prepared and came up with a collection of some discs to create a conceptional set: faith no more and daft punk (plus reletives like alan braxe, jackson and his computer band, justice etc.) unbelievable, but it worked. maybe i should do it more seriously, hm, let´s do the AESTATE live stuff before...and enjoy the party.

ahh, by the way, there will be another AESTATE live snippet on the net soon..be aware!

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2007-10-25 RYAN by chris landreth: inside out | entry by sven
 

it must have been tuesday. i came home, i needed to relax a little, no big deal: a cup of coffee and tv. usually you will only find crap on tv, if you are lucky, you´ll find an old spongebob episode...
i was lucky, more than that. i was zapping through the channels, stopping at arte and i found myself in a short film which took my full attention, even more, my compleate self. i had to serach for it on the net, and, thank god, i found it on youtube, because i only saw the last five minutes on tv. yes, that made my day.
the movie i am talking about is called ryan, dircted by chris landreth in 2004, even winning an oscar. and i have to see it now???
while i was watching the images on tv i seemed to understand from the first second: director landreth links two things i appreciate and love in and about movies very much. first of all, he links fiction with non-fiction, he calls it "animated documentary", telling a real story with real characters with a fictional interpretation of the surface. there seems to be a friendly ironiy in it to shoot a documentry via animated images about a pioneer of annimation, who failed, who went through the reversed american dream. the second thing is the scary and seducing surface. shocked at first you realize that his surrealistic imagery actually is more a depressive impressioistic view on the chacacters. this gets even more emotive, as you realize that the chacters are dubbed by their real counterparts!!!
well, this piece has even won an oscar, although that doesn´t impress me, but it did, and there is no question why.
well, to be honest, my all time favourite music video is gantz graf by alexander rutterford and my all time favourite feature movie is adaptation by spike jonze, and, well, i never thought there would be a reason to say that, this is the perfect hybrid!!!
you know, i´m directin for fun and i do my best, i´ll never be that great, be aware: this is the holy grail!
i found it split into two pats on youtube.com,
there is no reason not to watch it, or to buy it, no excuses,
watch here!!!

i know that i can´t beat you
but it was worth to give it a try


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2007-10-23 yesterdays plans to be tomorrows strikes? | entry by sven
 

first of all, thank you for all your wishes, for the gifts and cakes. i will try to hide my age behind my childish creativity to appear as young as you actually are...
after bringing up the new website (and gaining a lot of positive feedback, thanks) you will be interested in new stuff.
well, recently, here is a big slot of emptyness, many things are on its way. you will be able to listen and download the new single soon, as well as you can listen to further tracks in the svennet|camp!
next to that, AESTATE will appear live in january, as well as, general piayda (damn, that was a joke, now you are using this name!!!) will fight factor-4 live again. new AESTATE album? hope so...
and: the exploring of hyperrealistic image production goes on. unfortunately i wasn´t able to finish the catalogue (it was mentioned to come in the svennet news in april!!!) but, it seems like there is going to be a tiny solo exhibition in 2008, i hope to come up with the catalogue then. i hope i will...i will.

there is a lot to come, trust me, this aren´t only good ideas and/or big plans...the process has begun!

p.s.: i managed to see sichtwerk2007. a fast run thru it, no time to watch art where it was, so i bought it to take it home.
i must be the most importand art collector in my street...
all is on it´s way.

SVEN #5 is getting closer.
features coming up.
for the meantime:
sven | euphoria
aestate | aestate


2007-10-02 last day of everything | entry by sven
 

yeah, finishing a record... these are the days i usually think about throwing it all away, doing something else, gardening for example. seems like i have found the right sound for the album, it turned out to be very heavy and...well, there are so many infulences in it, whenever you think "yes, i´ve got it!" there is a break and the song turns into a compleatly different direction. it is a lot more indie than "euphoria", less pop, more metal, rock, frence house, folk and industrial. and ouf course a lot of progarmming, bleeps and beats...
today i got up, i was not happy with one track, there was the need to kick it out. without having a coffee (was running out of coffee) i startet a new track called "u o me nothing" based on older programmings. so i started recording, writing and singing more or less at the same time...strange, but the result was more what i was looking for than the original track for the album. it adds a new style to it, and it it is already full of different styles...
i really hope that this is it, looks good right now, brilliant sound, everything ok, sounding different from what i have done before, but still coming up with all that is typical for me, i guess.
now lets go over to artwok and stuff.
i will tell more about the guests on this album, the tracklist and the date for the first single.

all is on it´s way.

SVEN #5 is getting closer.
features coming up.
for the meantime:
sven | euphoria


2007-09-17 freakatronic live aftermath | entry by sven
 

ok, looks like i´m doing nothing, just visiting other peoples gigs, but, yes, thats what it is. i watched freakatronic live last friday and it was fantastic, so strange, funny and seducing...wow.
they also appeared live at this years jucy beats, but unfortunately we didn´t met, i didn´t realize them the way i did last friday. there so much good stuff out there, so much to discover...
please have a look at www.myspace.com/freakatronic
the image above wasn´t taken last friday, it is from an older gig, shot by nathalie kurniczak.
this really reminds me of my own plans...
yeah, all new! we will come up wtih a new version of svennet hopefully and i will go on working on the new album. i´m collaborating with different producers and singers, the new audiovisual stuff will be familiar, of course, but also quite different.
i hope to come up with new features, videos, sounds and live dates, and yes, we are working on that.
be patient, there is a fixed time schedule, nothing will get lost!

STILL:

here are some plans:
new sven album / svennet
i am still working on the album, no more recording but editing and collaborating with different electronic producers. everything takes time, i hope to finish it around october. first single in january, album in spring 2008? hope so.
next to a new album i want a new version of svennet to come up. we need to bring in better technology concerning sound and text access as well as more appropriate screen space usage. maybe even this year, there are brilliant ideas in the orbit...it may take some time, but you can expect something.
A E S T A T E
we are working on a new album, we have great material, our version of pop. we hope to come up with the second release in summer 2008.
but you do not have to wait that long. we hope to come up live again in the near future and we are planning to do it different to what we did live before.
we will move away from perfoming a collection of certain tracks to a beat-monster from a meltdown of our tracks.
additionally, we are working on the new electric unity website, concept and parties. as i told you, be patient, all is on it´s way.

SVEN #5 is getting closer.
features coming up.
for the meantime:
sven | euphoria

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2007-09-03 rainbow, just a rainbow | entry by sven
 

these days are really annoying. yes, i have a great time, somtimes, i want to come up with new stuff, but so much to do. i loose myself between cities and dates. do i really define myself by a collection of memories and/or success in being on time?

i am looking for more directions, i can´t deny getting older, some things need to be taken more seriously. a new face, a new image like a new suit.
no idea what i´m talking about? i see, be patient, new directions, follow me, big plans.

it was stessful, like the last weeks...and the upcoming weeks. after a day with dates in many cities i found myself coming home...finally.
the sun was shining, the most beautiful day in september you can think of, and after all this running, driving, talking, there was a rainbow.
a moment of smiling, of hope, of beauty.

thank you for the rainbow.

STILL:

here are some plans:
new sven album / svennet
i am still working on the album, no more recording but editing and collaborating with different electronic producers. everything takes time, i hope to finish it around october. first single in january, album in spring 2008? hope so.
next to a new album i want a new version of svennet to come up. we need to bring in better technology concerning sound and text access as well as more appropriate screen space usage. maybe even this year, there are brilliant ideas in the orbit...it may take some time, but you can expect something.
A E S T A T E
we are working on a new album, we have great material, our version of pop. we hope to come up with the second release in summer 2008.
but you do not have to wait that long. we hope to come up live again in the near future and we are planning to do it different to what we did live before.
we will move away from perfoming a collection of certain tracks to a beat-monster from a meltdown of our tracks.
additionally, we are working on the new electric unity website, concept and parties. as i told you, be patient, all is on it´s way.

SVEN #5 is getting closer.
features coming up.
for the meantime:
sven | euphoria


questions? complaints?
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2007-08-26 loveparade...make a masterplan | entry by sven
 

well, there is a lot going on these days. i´m sorry, not commenting very much, no updates, but there isn´t too much to tell. i want to rework some things, some things are going to turn into something new...there is a big masterplan - but no results so far.

the loveparade in my hometown, ok. my only reason to go there was booka shade, see pic above. they were great, but there was a bad sound, not loud enough, muted frequences and ...no, that´s enough.

here are some plans:
new sven album / svennet
i am still working on the album, no more recording but editing and collaborating with different electronic producers. everything takes time, i hope to finish it around october. first single in january, album in spring 2008? hope so.
next to a new album i want a new version of svennet to come up. we need to bring in better technology concerning sound and text access as well as more appropriate screen space usage. maybe even this year, there are brilliant ideas in the orbit...it may take some time, but you can expect something.
A E S T A T E
we are working on a new album, we have great material, our version of pop. we hope to come up with the second release in summer 2008.
but you do not have to wait that long. we hope to come up live again in the near future and we are planning to do it different to what we did live before.
we will move away from perfoming a collection of certain tracks to a beat-monster from a meltdown of our tracks.
additionally, we are working on the new electric unity website, concept and parties. as i told you, be patient, all is on it´s way.

ok, still some work to do.
and, i guess the next album will change a lot. be exited.
for the meantime:
sven | euphoria


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2007-07-31 juicy beats 2007: on stage / backstage | entry by sven
  2007-07-28 - what a day. juicy beats was great fun for all of us. i was quite nervous before, being afraid of a thousand things that can go wrong. before i tell you more about the bands we watched on stage, i have to tell some stories which actually happened backstage.
well, we were hanging up backstage to get some food, free drings and stuff and to hang around with the big ones. you know, jb12 was headlined by deichkind and gus gus. after lunch i took a look around to see my heros from iceland, and bingo, there tey are. gus gus lead singer earth was quite busy surrounded by family and band mates, while gus gus chief electrician president bongo was up for some beer after dinner. i was going mad: "hey, they are over there, we need a photo, but i would not dare." alex of factor-4 said:"you are going to be angry about yourself, if you miss it!" i said: "yeah, i know, but i´m to shy." he replied: "ok, let´s do it!" we went over to bongo and asked nervously for a photo, he seemed to be quite surprised, but kind. he slided over, i sat next to him, feeling stupid like a 12-year-old girl next to robbie williams. alex took some pics of me grinning like hell next to bongo (he was also simling, unfortunately you cannot see it on this pic).
after photographing bongo asked: "are you in a band or what?" i tried to break down the complex background of my appearance into three sentences...he was going:"ahhh..i see" that was enough making a fool of us, so i left with "i´m looking forard to see you on stage" he said:"thank you", and he meant it, beacause backstage everyone seems to be the biggest fish, all these bands are systems which usually do not collide.
we didn´t meet deichkind backstage, but they played a mad gig. they were absolutly crazy and entertaining, no chance to stand still for two hours. alex and marcel watched the gig backstage at one site of the stage...
at the end of the performance, deichkind wanted to celebrate the 10th anniversary of their group by charing 1500 beer cans with the audience - not for drinking. the audience was instructed to shake and open the cans at the beginning beats of their hit "limit". and they did. the biggest beer shower i´ver ever seen, well for about 30 seconds there was nothing else to see!
after their gig we went backstage again to have a drink, and one of the deichkind members came out of their "headliner tent" to serve some chesse and dried tomatos, telling: "like some cheese? we have to much catering in there!" we said thanks...and best whishes!
some selected photos below, capturing importand scenes of the day:

some backstage impressions on the left, right marcel (factor-4) and me in front of the deichkind tent after dinner, enjoying the sun, which started shining after our gig!

driving around through the park with a black mercedes shuttle bus, tinted glass included. wow, we felt like eminem or madonna, extremly importand anyway!

the two acts after factor-4: miniroc making the gameboys explode and massiv seducing with perfect sound and show. why do these people don´t have a big deal?

turning to the main stage: klee in the early evening, the others loved it, i didnt really understand. anyway, nice show, cute warm up for the upcoming blast...

gus gus, finally! wow, me in the third row, i was not the only one. as you see: perfect clothing, perfect make-up, perfect show and unbelivable sound. see president bongo playing with the knobs in the middle..."germany has only one president today!"

nuklear blast at last: deichkind with useful "instruments" on stage: a bass guitar (okay), a bouncing castle, a trampoline, umbrellas, two dinghies, 1500 beer cans and whatever!!! okay, it wasn´t a real live concert, but the most (flat) entertaining show you can think of. by the way, i didn´t take the beer shower, i had an uneasy sense of it before...somehow. it´s deichkind, you must expect something like that!
  that´s it for the moment, more to come!

for the meantime:
sven | euphoria


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2007-07-26 white nights, brian may, juicy beats...ahhh | entry by sven
 

yeah, there are happening a thousand things at one time...well, i don´t find the time or the mood or whatever to write, you know i´m busy with the next album...and other things. so, brian may turned 60 years old, or better young. happy birthday, sorry for being late, thank you for inspiring. exited for the next 60 years.
also, we did another studio rehearsal for juicy beats next week with factor-4, i hope to offer some video material once again...well see.
there is so much going on, i didn´t find the time to join the white nights...just for some hours watching an arabian band, which was midblowing...maybe next week onece again? for sure. hope so. nothing´s safe. must be life?!

ok, still some work to do.
and, i guess the next album will change a lot. be exited.
we are even thinking about a new design...harder better faster stronger...
for the meantime:
sven | euphoria


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2007-07-10 bitchiness at the moppelstudioz? who is steffi12? | entry by sven
  hahaha, gotcha! no, no girly stories here. chat names? aw, come on. ok, let´s start at the beginning. as you might already know, i am working on a new album - next to other things. i do not want to tell to much, but actually, i don´t know if this is going to be my best work, but it is going to be the darkest and most strange one. when i was writing and arranging songs i thought of acoustic guitars. i develloped more into the wall of sound and electronica stuff section so i do not possess the right guitar. i mean, i have some acoustig guitars, but none with steel strings and a piezo pick-up. so i contacted some guitar playing friends...and it all ended up with stefan! he is a cool guy and, hm, you should know him, he was the bass player of my band apologies.
some of you are new, some cannot remember, i found a photo:

yeah, this is us, stefan on the left, jörg "jay" hammes in the middle (he joined me for record of tides and euphoria) and a long haired strage looking guy who is, uhm, me.
this picture was taken in 2001, we wanted it to look like an anton corbijn photo.
anyway, this is where i know stefan from, and you have the whole story.
all i want to tell is, i have stefan´s guitar and i´m going to use it. that´s it.
i´m in a bad mood sometimes, these days (have a look outside...), but stefan´s guitar, an acoustic 12-string-acoustic by fender makes me feel better, it sounds great.
i´m afrait of susie becoming jealous - i bought new strings for her today,
she knows that "REAL LOVE NEVER DIE"
i hope so. ten songs. scary stuff.
i feel like a bad bowie. or a good patton. something in between...
the photo of me an "steffi12" as i call her, was taken and contributed by ms d.
thanks for that. it helps me to remember and others to laugh.

zany music releases featuring jörg hammes and me:
sven | euphoria
record of tides | timber



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2007-06-30 Götter tragen doch Helme - daft punk alive 2007 | entry by flint
 

Am Freitag sollte sich unser sehnlichster Wunsch endlich erfüllen. Wir durften die sehen, auf die wir solange haben warten müssen: Daft Punk, die Götter aus Metall.
18:30 Uhr war einlass in der Phillipshalle in Düsseldorf und wir wollten pünktlich sein. Doch konnten wir dies überhaupt schaffen? Ein Mix aus Vorfreude und Nervosität machte sich in uns breit, wodurch wir etwas die zeit aus unserem Augen verloren. Doch dies sollte uns nicht hindern. Wie auf den Sonnenwagen von Helios flogen wir nach Düsseldorf und schafften es pünktlich. Wir waren da und mussten versuchen unsere Gefühle in Zaun zu halten und wie ginge das besser als mit einem kühlen Bier. Nachdem wir von mehreren doch manchmal etwas dubiosen Personen angesprochen wurden (wodurch ich allerdings ein schönes, neues Wallpaper für mein Handy abstauben konnte) sollte uns unser weg ins innere der Halle führen.
20 Uhr sollte es losgehen. Doch von Daft Punk noch keine Spur. Ein paar andere DJ`s sollten erst noch versuchen die Leute auf Daft Punk vorzubereiten. Was anfangs auch sehr gut klappte, doch kurz vor Schluss, als die Musik in eine Abart von Hip Hop mutierte, musste ich unweigerlich auf mein Ticket schauen um zu begreifen dass ich doch auf der richtigen Veranstaltung war. Sven nutze allerdings diese Chance, um des Öfteren seine doch biergefüllte Blase zu entleeren.

21 Uhr: es war endlich soweit, das Licht ging aus, langsam ertönten wohltuende Klänge. Die Halle war von Nebel umhüllt, keine Ahnung ob dies beabsichtigt war oder doch eher das Resultat der ganzen Raucher in der Halle war, aber das war jetzt auch vollkommen unwichtig. Vor meinen Augen standen sie, in ihrer Pyramide. Sie sahen wie Außerirdische aus, mit ihren Helmen und ihren roboterähnlichen Händen, die gekommen waren um uns die ultimative Musik zu präsentieren. Auf den riesigen Anzeigetafeln hinter ihnen standen abwechselnd die Worte: Human und Robot. Wenn dies eine Frage sein sollte, so konnte ich sie nur schwer beantworten. Können Daft Punk wirklich Menschen sein? Kann eine Menschenhand so mit Tönen und Klängen Handtieren oder ist es doch eher ein Resultat künstlicher Intelligenz? Oder war diese Frage eher anders zu interpretieren. Sollten wir noch Menschen sein, oder sind wir alle zu Robotern, oder eher zu Marionetten mutiert in der Gegenwart von ihnen? Genau dies schien nämlich zu passieren. Die Menschen konnten nichts mehr anderes tun, als zu tanzen.
Es war wie eine Massenhypnose. Rempler, schmerzende Füße, all dies schien nicht mehr interessant zu sein, es gab nur noch die Musik, denn Daft Punk wusste damit mehr als gekonnt umzugehen. Sie wussten wie man die Höhepunkte bis aufs letzte hinausschieben kann und taten dies auch mehr als einmal.
Nach etwas mehr als einer Stunde schien das Konzert vorüber, Daft Punk wurden einfach so ausgeblendet, aber sollte dies das Ende sein? Die Massen jubelten und wollten mehr und sie sollten nicht enttäuscht werden. Sie kamen wieder, die Silouetten ihrer Anzüge leuchteten rot, als hätten sie ihre Aura nach außen gekehrt. Es folgte wirklich ein unbeschreibliches Finale. Doch so wie Adam und Eva eines Tages das Paradies verlassen mussten, so mussten auch wir nach knapp 2 Stunden die Halle verlassen. Nach einer halben Stunde Stau stehen konnten wir endlich den Rückweg nach Essen antreten, allerdings nicht ohne einen besuch bei McDonalds, den unsere Kräfte waren mehr als verbraucht.
Es war ein wirklich ein wunderbarer Abend und hoffentlich kommen sie bald wieder, die Götter aus Metall.



recommended links on youtube:

DANGER, these videos are real spoilers!

video footage of Daft Punk live in Düsseldorf 29.06.2007 (feat. flint and sven)

misc video footage of better quality, similar to yesterdays set, alive tour 2007

the snippets below seem to be done for tv, great sound, get an idea:
Daft Punk @ Wireless Festival, 2007

 
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2007-06-15 blow up your video: 17. international video festival | entry by sven
  i´m very busy at the moment, still. anyway, i try to capture as much culture as possible, you know, i like the electric playground. by many happy circumstances and some help i was able to visit the 17th international video festival in bochum. i was late anyway, than drawn to a photo exhibition dealing with "forgotten concrete", see how nature takes back all the grey and cold concrete shapes. very beautiful, seducing and killing my schedule. so i could watch at least the screening of the last video about computer gamers...
you know, there´s a hip exhibition with new media, there must be a party afterwards, and again: visuals. i became a little bit melancholic, being reminded of the days with Sellafield. it wasn´t perfect, but i guess we were on the right track for some time, the sfd.site is still on, we will have to turn it into something different, sfd is over.
i will hopefully return to the festival, because i haven´t seen to much. manager ms bloom told me to return, and i told to give it a try, she said it is going to be perfect and i believe her based on the little stuff i´ve seen.
the festival will be on today and tomorrow, and you should not miss it.
if i´m not able to visit, you can tell me afterwards.
seriously, see you there, probably, hopefully.

the present | recommended links:

www.videofestival.org
www.sellafield-online.com

the past | recommended links:

www.aestate-online.com
www.libella-proof.de

the future | t.b.a.

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2007-06-02 checking in, checking out, it is great in...where? | entry by sven
  maybe you know, maybe you don´t, i´m recently very busy with different stuff...i am travelling a lot this year...there are many projects, which have to be done in a special place: everywhere but home, will get lost in my appartment one day? we´ll never know. being in hotels seems to be so romantic, but usally it is just frantic. when i hand back the key i´m telling everyone around that i am "checking out", like a global player business man would do. in the end it is just frantic...
no big business pretending...
many of my projects became vivid, i started them, often helped by others, sometimes helping others, always in a perfect networking sense.
i am so proud on the aestate thing, the album, the live stuff, the video stuff, the fans and helpers. don´t get me wrong, i do not say that it is perfect or the best thing you can think of, but i love it, and it is satisfiing to see it taking off, having created something very special...i guess.
the libella proof thing was also great - and it isn´t finished now, there are still some things to be fixed. doing the art direction for a project which differs compleately from what i would usually do is great. new paths in your brain for new thoughts.
and the future is wild:
i hope there is more time in the next weeks, i am thinking of recording new songs, i have enough songs for a whole album, we´ll see, maybe for spring 2008.
i also want to start working on a photograph retrospective catalogue, my tableaus from 2005 until now, the best ones in one tiny book. i like books with images.
additionally there are some rumours on a strange collaboration and live dates, you can already find some news on the net about that, i won´t comment it now, svennet will come up with these news within the next weeks.

the past | recommended links:
www.aestate-online.com
www.libella-proof.de

the future | t.b.a.

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2007-05-31 an eagle in your mind, a hedgehog in your garden | entry by sven
  so much going on, seriously, there is so much to tell, first of all, we are working on a summary of the fantastic AESTATE performance last friday and its aftermath. also, there is a lot of new music to come, but i dont want to tell more now, you´ll see.
everyone is busy at the moment, so am i, so this is just a short hello, and a promise for more to come.
last night i heard some strange noises in my garden, of couse i was afraid of alien encounters, but thank god, just a hedgehog. it appears from time ti time in my garden, whyever, but this time it was sitting in the middle of the meadow, totally unimpressed of my appearance. so there was enough time to return with a camera for some pictures. it didn´t move, like a professional model, but then it left slowly without saying goodbye. real superstar behavior.
well, there is an eagle in your mind and a hedgehog in your garden, i guess these are good surroundings for new borders. i just need some less stressful days, and hell, some summer weather. please.
a.s.a.p.: a tiny review: AESTATE / a little later: some plans for 2007, splendid!!!



please check electric-unity.com
for more info on AESTATE and releated artists


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2007-05-21 strange encounters - deep impact on your senses | entry by sven
  wow, that was a lot. you know, i´m heavily interested in live performances these days. yes, rock concerts often seem to be a little boring to me, i don´t know, there are just a couple of bands and artists, i am interested in to stand 60 minutes of their riffing. yeah, miniroc was great, i told you so, autechre were a divine blast and my own AESTATE...i like our stuff, thank god, i´m not the only one, so i am still sane...somehow. this saturday i joined a concert of four experimental musicians, brought together as strange encounters. three parts, two couples for 45 minutes, all togeteher in the end. wow, compared to their improvised rhythemless sound layers AESTATE appears like mainstream pop. heavy, i mean heavy heavy stuff. i was so impressed by the self-esteemness of the performers, following the straigt concept of their own idea of experimentalism, i can learn a lot of that.
a night to meet crusaders of my own kind: shake hands with jay age, we are interested in the other one´s projects, and we want to work together, hopefully.
i also had the chance to meet black ninfea face to face, i mean in real life. we are in contact via the internet and phone for months now, but we never managed to meet personally up to last saturday. you know, AESTATE made a remix of her song "need", which will be available in the future...one day...we´ll see - it will, i´ll care for it. black ninfea is a really nice person, it was strange to talk to her, because in the first minute of our chat she didn´t realize who i was. that was stange and funny. but she was happy, cute and surprised when she realized, it was meeting an old friend again - although we never met before.
hell yes, that was a night to remember, for all of us.
summary: live, electronica, friends you´ve never met before...
future: me, utku, graph, bleeps, bass, base, you?

__________AESTATE & GRAPH
__________May 25th, 2007 | 10.00 p.m.
__________Düsseldorf freitagsclub im fft
__________FFT Kammerspiele, Jahnstr. 3, 40215 Düsseldorf
__________tickets: €5


get more info here:
__________www.aestate-online.com
__________www.myspace.com/aestate
__________www.myspace.com/graph23
__________www.forum-freies-theater.de
__________kulturkurier.de
__________intro.de

after buying everithing from jay age and black ninfea
mack sure you have the album below...


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2007-05-06 words plus chords are songs | entry by sven
  when you write songs and you start to become happy with the result more or less, you get aware of a certain ability. when you are younger you are afraid of losing it, so you go on an on. then you try to come up with an evidence for yourself to make sure you cannot lose it...looking on your own backcatalogue. then you get older and shortly after calming down you do not become afraid of losing it, it is more becoming afraid of running out of blood. is ther still something to say? will i become an allegory of myself? the funny thing about it is that you can never realize if it is happening to you. writing songs is not only a job, it is falling out with yourself. believe me, it is going deep down into the burrow.
ok, so many words, so less sense.
i am writing songs again, i hope to record ne stuff this summer, nothing sure, nothing planned, i don´t know if this stuff is good enough, but i want to keep you in touch to let you know, i´m not only hanging around on art fairs, not only taking rediculous pics of flint and not only pushing snare samples.
after four albums, it is really getting harder and harder, i´m focussing on rock, recently.
well, my list to be updated, here are the working titles.

soothe
actually (you and i will meet someday)
wild is the wind
maria, i´m losing time

fire works fine with me
night falls
three fists

for the meantime;
the best i can offer:


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2007-04-23 es ist bunt und macht krach - art cologne sum up | entry by flint
  Diesen Samstag war es soweit: Wir haben zwar nicht den heiligen Gral gefunden, aber wenn er hier gelegen hätte, wer er wahrscheinlich super präsentiert worden. Sven und Flint waren auf der Art Cologne. Wir starteten von Svens Hauptquartier aus um die Welt der Kunst zu entdecken. Allerdings nicht ohne uns vorher zu stärken, im Tempel der Genüsse: McDonalds.
Gut gestärkt machten wir uns auf den holprigen Weg zur Köln Messe und dort erwartete uns 4 Stunden Kunst pur die kaum von vier Augen aufgenommen werden konnten. Die Hallen waren prall gefüllt und riesig, doch Gott sei dank hatte ich meinen Sven Sven 2.0 dabei, der in jeder Lage den Überblick behielt.
Es gab wirklich alles: von skurill bis seriös, von riesig bis wirklich winzig bis hin zu sehr atemberaubenden und auch leider wirklich langweiligen. Doch gerade die skurillen, mechanischen Kunstwerke die viel krach machten, zogen uns immer wieder in ihren Bann, egal in welcher Halle wir uns grad befanden.
Doch auch die größten Kunst-Krieger brauchen eine Sache genau so wie jeder Andere: Flüssigkeit! Nachdem unsere Evian-Vorräte zur neige gingen entschieden wir uns unseren Körpern Vitamine zu verpassen, teure Vitamine.
3,50 Euro für 0,2 Liter Orangensaft scheinen machen übertrieben, aber nicht uns. Nach Gefühlten 6 Stunden Bücher gucken mit Sven führte uns unser Weg zurück nach Essen, aber eins war uns die ganze Zeit bewusst: Wir werden an diesen Platz zurückkehren, nächstes Jahr um ein neues Kapitel zu beginnen auf der ewig wehrenden Suche etwas Schönes zu sehen.
we have collected and edited some footage by flint, sven and others.
have a look and get an idea:




  more art?!
click below:


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2007-04-12 easter with jean pierre - are we all eggs? | entry by sven
  i forgot to send out happy easter wishes, i was to buisy or to lazy, i forgot, anyway, it is over, hope you enjoyed it and you had fun. i was travelling a lot on easter for meating many beloved people in just a few easter hours. my camera was always ready to shoot, i´m a kind of artistic lucky luke, see? it ended up with flint transforming into his alter ego jean pierre. i was shooting, wondering what i was doing, did flint eat to many eggs - or did i? fact is, the pics are to funny to remain unseen. so have fun and contribute your own. you´ll end up mad anyway, so let´s get started.

and please remember:
"there is an elk at the end of the universe."
"what`s so scary about an elk?"
"it´s chewing peanuts."
"nooooooooooooo!!!"

get insane now!
click below:


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2007-03-26 federal paparazzi attack | entry by sven
  confessions of a dangerous mind. in the early morning hours of march 5th i was crusing with my 500 ps suv through the city, measuring 150 miles per hour. so the police took a picture. no, seriously, i was just 10 km/h to fast. if you are a happy owner of such a picture you find more and more people collecting these expensive low-quality artworks on their pinboards. so do i. this is my pinboard.
i´m an outlaw, baby.
i´ll promise to slow down during my future journeys. better 10 km/h to slow than to fast. sometimes you simply do not figure out how fast is allowed, but i´m aware of it now. rellay, i promise. don´t drive to fast, seriously, it can be expensive or even dangerous for you and others. if possible, stay at home.

check out my gangsta rap album euphoria
full of stories from da hood. uh, uh, oh yeah.


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2007-03-17 glimpse of happiness - new works by phoenix | entry by sven

  sometimes you simply have to wait for years. these times are full of hope surrounded by darkness. woman artist phonix comes up with new paintings. just another opportunity to feel better. phoenix is well kown for her childesque and cute art, totally naive and seducing. next to her huge number of paintings she has been working with me on the covers for diptych and trinity. her work panders between a strong conceptual approach and the flow of the working process as well as life itself.
anyway, this is just my point of view.
alina mori (who already did some interviews with me and wrote some record and live reviews) captured phoenix recent ex- and impressions.
read it here here.

by the way, have a look on phoenix covers for my albums,
click the covers for more info, lyrics and sound snippets.


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2007-03-06 morgan lariah on dissident(en) club´s "gift" | entry by webmaster
  three years after dc´s outstanding debut album "gift", the band is still searching for new borders. anyway, it is time to look back. american actress morgan lariah - fan after just a few notes - has her own story about becomming a dc-maniac. read her article here.

by the way, the album we are talking about is blow,
click the cover for more info, lyrics and sound snippets.


see the original cover an inset photographs by sven piayda:

see svenpiayda.com/photography for details.

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2007-02-27 new interview with herpes gugushi | entry by webmaster
  we have found a new interview with dissident(en) club singer herpes gugushi.
he talks about the work on the new dc album. you can read it here.
the the new herp portraits (see above, below) had been taken by sven piayda.
just to let you know:

see svenpiayda.com/photography for details.

so long, and thanks for the fish...
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2007-02-20 spectacular cities, some culture again | entry by sven

  yeah, some art again. it was really hard to find some interesting shows over the last months. spectacular cities was a must see - fo all of us. flint also became an art addict, after visiting a tiny show in the kunsthaus essen. he forced me to write something, he was just to shy or busy to contribute something on his own. spectacular cities was great, i mean, a good show, no real illumination or something, but entertaining actually and a starting piece for some shared thoughs about technique and living issues.
sunday was a very grey, cold and rainy day, we all were quite drowsy, so flint and i thought, we should have a party allthough being tired.
i was quite inspired, meaning trying to creat the image which was missing, in my opinion. ok, it ended up with fast food, cruising around and tv - and this is the image to the exhibition nobody asked me to take part:

see svenpiayda.com/photography for details.

so long, and thanks for the fish...
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2007-02-11 play, boy! susie, i´ll never leave you | entry by sven
  without telling too much i have to admit that after the advent of computers i do not parctise guitar as often as i did before...but i remember biran may who mentioned to have the best ideas on guitar after having not touched his red special for six weeks. i guess i know what he means.i do a lot of things recently. above you see me riffing on herpes´strat copy, after finishing a photo shootiong for him.
see svenpiayda.com/photography for details.
next to that i spent a lot of time in front af my macbook, surfing the net and searching for new rhythm patterns for aestate, so i´m not really playing too much guitar. but i still do, anyway. today i did something i didn´t do for years: i´ve recorded a demo!!! bad sound, just fixing the idea. i just want you to know, euphoria wasn´t the last chapter.
my lyrics aren´t really good, but, hey, they get better. just wantet to say i´m still working on solo stuff, have a chorus, scheduled for 2008. hell...

i loved you without a reason
now i hate you for a certain one
nothing will last forever like you used to say and you´re right
´cause wild is the wind


so long, and thanks for the fish...
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2007-01-31 flint´s salmon massacre deluxe | entry by sven
  so, what to do with 900 grams of finest salmon filet? right, invite some friends and have agreat evening. thank god i wasn´t the one with the fish gift, flint was. an this is good for different reasons. the most important one is: flint is the better cook, well, probably the best male kitchen master i know, so we had a great menu of omega 3 fat. tasty, exclusive, healthy.
the evening was framed in a collection of videos by wired al yankovic and an old invader zim episode. yeah and star wars III.
why i tell you? dunno. eating fish may be helpful to be a good musician.
no? i had enough fish anyway.
so long, and thanks for the fish...

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2007-01-26 kunsthaus tonight - some art again | entry by sven
  ahh, some art again. the kunsthaus in essen shows some new art, this time i´m exited, photographs again. i know i will be tired like hell, maybe a little burned out, but, hey, tomorrows pics for free, what else would you ask for??? seriously, you know i´m very much into photography, let´s have a look on what the others do. usually one hour is enough to see everything, come on, give me some good art again.
by the way, the SVENBLOG has been redesigned for 2007. hope you like it, you won´t need it if you check svennet and the journal frequently.
but some people need an extra page. hell yes. whatever.
at least i would like to give you a historic moment, ready???
aestate is getting closer.
okay, how do you feel?

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2007-01-22 tiny reminder: aestate video on myspace | entry by webmaster

  this is just a tiny reminder for those of you who miss everything, and those ones who have problems with watching videos in wmv format. aestate have published their first video on myspace, you can watch it above.
or you can go here www.myspace.com/aestate
don´t forget, the new video called bechcaes will be available via myspace in february. don´t forget.

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2007-01-13 the evolution of beauty / hello 2007 | entry by sven
  hi there! welcome to 2007. this is just a short hello, nothing about future projects now, be patient and be surprised.
without talking about any circumstances, i found these videos on the web, well, you know i am much into digital processing, but, well, think about your perception of reality.

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