Red Bull Music Academy interviews have been the bomb since they started and the new one with Moritz Von Oswald is highly recommended.
If you dig Basic Channel Records, Maurizio, and Rhythm & Sound, you need to watch the entire interview and learn. Moritz Von Oswald is not only half of the beforementioned phenomenons but also used to be the drummer of the german new wave and avantgarde band 'Palais Schaumburg' (check Gruenes Winkelkanu to get an idea about the level of weirdness - I love it).
{xtypo_dropcap}M{/xtypo_dropcap}onika Kruse together with producer Gregor Tresher has just (09/04/08) released her first solo album “Changes of Perception" on her record label Terminal M.
I remember Monika mainly as a Techno DJ and artist but with this album she opens her doors to different varieties of sounds which resulted in me dropping two of those album tracks in recent shows. MORGANA was played on Deeper Shades of House show #253 and got a lot of great feedback from listeners. To compliment the release of the album, you can now enjoy a video for MORGANA produced by Adam Cominskey.
A few of you might have already discovered the new link right underneath the LISTEN NOW button, suggesting iPhone users to click if they want to listen to the show.
When I finally got my iPhone a few weeks ago, I realized that with the missing flash player it was almost impossible to listen to the Deeper Shades of House show just by visiting www.deepershades.net.
Of course, you could subscribe to the DSoH podcast, have iTunes sync with your iPhone and then listen to the show using the iPod player, but I wanted something a bit more immediate and something which also allowed new visitors to the site to get a taste of the show right away.
For that reason, I created a simple, fast-loading page that allows anyone with an iPhone to listen to anyone of the listed shows and stream it using wi-fi, 3G and even the Edge network (the latter is quite slow as you might know, so I don't really suggest it). Point your iPhone to http://www.deepershades.net/iphone and click on the desired show.
I also created a phone number for you to call to leave comments, suggestions, and shout-outs. Click on the number and the iPhone will dial it for you. This phonenumber is naturally available for all of you to use, iPhone owner or not. Feel free to leave a message at +1 (419) 844-6217.
If you own another type of smartphone, please let me know if you can stream the show using the same page, or - if you can - provide me with some more information about how I could enable you to listen to the show on your phone.
This is the first batch of Deeper Shades of House wallpapers for your computer and / or your iPhone. 1024x768 | 1280x1024 | 1440x900 (Macbook Pro) | 320x480 (iPhone) <- select your size and save as.. It'd be boring to just post the links to the wallpapers so I give you a bit of background of how edition #1 came about.
Kathy - for those who still don't know, my wife and creative brain behind most artwork and images you see on deepershades.net and Deeper Shades Recordings - discovered wordle.net, a web app that creates pretty cool images based on text used in RSS feeds. After playing around with it a bit, I posted my first result via my Twitter and my buddy @mika73 suggested it'd make a pretty cool wallpaper. I didn't wanna blow it up in size because it would be quite blurry so he hinted that I should just create different size images with a black background and copy the wordle image in the center of it. Simple and easy and the first sizes (1280x1024 and 1024x768) were completed. Another Twitter buddy @we5 sent me 2 more sizes (320x480 for the iPhone and 1440x900 for Macbook Pro's) after I posted the previous ones and here we are.
The first Deeper Shades of House wallpaper generated out of the text included in the podcast RSS in four different resolutions. These are completely free downloads for you, so get 'em, put 'em on your machines and send 'em to your friends who dig Deeper Shades of House as much as you do. :) ..
ohhhh ..
what fun we had on Friday, July 18th 2008.
Tony Watson (Mekanic.com - Project Sandro) was the only guest I decided to have this year at my monthly party at Moonshadows in Malibu and hands down this was the best night I've had in the 4 years I've been doing it ..
It was a beautiful night and the full moon had just passed by one day. The setting was loungy as usual .. but then:
A lot of drinks were consumed, a lot of asses were shaking and I have no idea how I took my Traktor Scratch, computer and harddrive apart at the end of the night (and I'll spare you details about the pain I had on the drive home - luckily I was not the driver who had to pull over :)
The music (as far as I can remember) was off the hook. I started out, then let Tony play for a few hours and we went back to back for the last hour and a half, covering all grounds from midtempo deepness to disco to rock (I threw some Pink Floyd and Zappa in) to deep house and all the way back.
My next party (and possibly last for this summer) will be on September 19th .. .
I'm skipping August since I'm playing in Ecuador the weekend I would be at Moonshadows .. Hopefully I'll see you then. As always . .all details will be posted in the event section of this site.
{xtypo_dropcap}I{/xtypo_dropcap}n the last two weeks the second highest amount of vistitors to deepershades.net has come from South Africa. More and more people from Johannesburg, Auckland Park, Pretoria, Durban and 44 other cities stopped by to check out the show 'Deeper Shades of House' or the label 'Deeper Shades Recordings'. Thank you to those who have also written me emails and very nice messages on MySpace and Facebook and joined my Deeper Shades of House Facebook group.
I figured why not say "hello South Africa", welcome to deepershades.net and thank you for listening. The plan is to spotlight more countries like this in the next few months.
This image shows you the 'hot' parts of the country. The highest number of visitors ( 305 ) came from Johannesburg. If you feel like it, let me know what city / country / continent you represent in the comments.
{xtypo_dropcap}M{/xtypo_dropcap}onika Kruse together with producer Gregor Tresher has just (09/04/08) released her first solo album “Changes of Perception" on her record label Terminal M. 
A few of you might have already discovered the new link right underneath the LISTEN NOW button, suggesting iPhone users to click if they want to listen to the show.
