Tech & Tim

Tose Proeski - an amazing voice that lives forever

2009-01-26T16:22:00.002+01:00

We don't just post about electronic music - we'll post anything that sounds amazing.
So here is the voiec of Tose Proeski, a promising Macedonian singer that tragically died in a car crash at the age of 27. Rest In Peace Tose, your voice will live forever in our memories.

Who is Mike Snow ?

2009-01-26T14:15:00.003+01:00

Over the last couple of weeks, two wicked and mellow tunes have popped up out of nowhere by a guy named Mike Snow. We don't know who he is, he doesnt' have a homepage or MySpace. But these tracks are wicked so check them out :

The first one is a DJ Mehdi remix :
Mike Snow - Burial (DJ Mehdi Remix)

The second is a Crookers remix :
Mike Snow - Animal (Crookers Remix)

Enjoy and let us know who this mystery man is.

Last party for 2008

2008-12-25T13:07:00.004+01:00

Tonight is our last party in the Cocuna for 2008. It's been a great 5 weeks so far but doing weekly sessions has taken its toll, so we'll see what happens in '09. January is already all booked with some really cool DJs like Paulo from Paris, Fucking Stupid Idiots, Reto Ardour and Adrian Flavour (see the flyer below).

So tonight, we rock it one more time for 2008 starting at 21:00 CET, live streaming as always over SoundCity.fm

Music today sucks

2008-12-24T20:09:00.003+01:00

well cause the late video was so good, here's another one close to our hearts

Sucky lyrics

2008-12-24T18:28:00.001+01:00

The Amazing Atheist is awesome, so we'll use any excuse to put one of his videos on our blog. In this case it's cause he also feels that a lot of lyrics these days totally suck...

Nice video : F What You Like !

2008-12-10T21:22:00.000+01:00

A.R.E. Weapons "F What You Like" from THE FEAR on Vimeo.

November show : Opening party at Cocuna bar

2008-12-03T21:00:00.003+01:00

CounterSound is now rocking weekly parties at the Cocuna bar on Longstreet. It's an awesome venue and we're gonna be bringing different DJs and mixing up the entire palette of electronic sound over the next months. Be sure to come on down whenever you have a Thursday night off and want to start the weekend early ;)

Here's the audio recording, courtesy of SoundCity, of the opening party, 28 Nov 2008.
DJs Boost, Reto Ardour and Knox

CounterSound Thursdays @ Cocuna - 27th Nov 08 (zShare)

All the shows are also streamed live on SoundCity starting 21:00 CET

Hurray for October

2008-12-03T19:46:00.004+01:00

It's now December. And we're posting our October show. What does that tell you ? You should have listened to it live back in October ;)
http://www.zshare.net/audio/521919242b85a91d/

October was pretty crazy and so reflecting that, this show is all upside down. We threw the rulebook out the window and for the first time ever, Tim gets on the decks and Tech shouts it out on the mic.

Enjoy the show because it's the last session we're recording at the casa for a while, all upcoming shows will be streamed from the Cocuna bar for the CounterSound Thursdays sessions.

Photo by : ferrous

Devaluation of music is a reality

2008-11-04T16:15:00.007+01:00

Over on New Music Strategies, Andrew asked the simple question "Has music been devalued?"

I immediately jumped in and argued that of course it had, you can see it by the fact that today it's a struggle to get someone to even listen to your music, let alone to actually buy it. Naturally I was referring to recorded music, not performances.

Then a whole bunch of people jumped in saying how 'oh no, music is just as valuable today as it was before', 'maybe even more valuable' some said because there is less good music around. Quite frankly i don't know what planet these people live on, certainly not on 'trying to sell music' world.
One guy called Rasmus from Efterklang even suggested that vinyl had in fact gotten more valuable since it was more rare. Well i hate to pop their dreamy bubble (not really :) but I just had to lay down the law, which is that vinyl and all other recorded music is fast becoming totally worthless. As my prime example i used the case of Paul Mawhinney, made famous by Sean Dunne's beautiful movie (i nearly cried :(, who owns the worlds largest vinyl archive that he has painstakingly collected over decades. Despite most of his collection being so rare that it was never even digitized to CD or MP3, and that its historical value was $50 million, today he can not sell it even for a paltry $3 million. If he doesn't find a buyer, he'll have to just give it away.

So what are we talking about here ? It's as clear as day - if nobody is willing to pay for something, to me that means it has lost in value i.e. music has be greatly devalued.
I guess if they are all talking about sentimental value - maybe that's something else...

Playing in Quito @ Club Blues - 11th Oct

2008-09-19T09:34:00.003+02:00

While Tim will be preparing for his TPR performance at SAMC on the 17th, Tech is gonna rock over to Quito early to befriend the locals by playing a sweet & dirty set at Club Blues on the 11th of October. If you're a Quito local there is no reason you should be partying anywhere else... see you there.

Australian electro rules!!

2008-09-15T22:14:00.001+02:00

A lot of talk about 'french electro' these days, but Australia is showing us that it's much more wide-spread than that. The great peeps over at Trashbags Kids have plenty of evidence of that including this wicked tune and clip by Syndey based duo Empire of the Sun

and the absolutely insane Redial

with tunes like Valve (zShare) - for ozzie electro mayhem.

A new record - posting a show the very next day !

2008-08-31T18:10:00.006+02:00

Since we made all you lovely people wait 2 months for the June show, we thought we'd give ourselves a kick up our own asses and post the August show right away.

So here it is, in all it's glory featuring Circumflux doing an awesome live set and DJ Nicolas bringing us gently back to level ground in the closing set.

Download the August show here.

And to top it all off, here's a little video of Circumflux rocking it:

July show now up!

2008-08-31T17:40:00.003+02:00

This show has been up for a while but for sake of continuity we waited with this blog post until we had the June show up first :) What makes this show unique is the mysterious tape appearance by Maximilian Schwarz - a obviously psychotic nutter who's last thoughts have been recorded in his "Rauchsauger Manifest". Never heard anything quite like it before...

Download the July show here.

June recording now up!

2008-08-31T17:26:00.003+02:00

As usual its taken us slightly longer than expected :P before receiving, cutting, converting and uploading our audio but now it's finally here, the June show from the Cabaret Voltaire featuring DJ Knox and broadcast live on 96.9 fm, Klotzfunk.fm.

Download the show here.

Special Show Tonight

2008-08-30T17:27:00.004+02:00

Tonight the Tech and Tim show will be broadcast from the Besame Mucho club in Zurich. Lots of guests tonight including DJ Knox (a last minute substitution for Selectro who is studiously doing the exam preparations thing), Circumflux from Bern rocking a live set and last but not least DJ Nicolas.

Show starts at 22:00 CET and you can hear it as usual on SoundCity.fm or just come on down and enjoy the real thing.

Tonight : We're live on SoundCity.fm

2008-07-24T18:51:00.003+02:00

"Alf Fotze", 2006

Tonight is our :
Leonard Cohen - Rauchsauger Manifest Special

Keep that browser locked on SoundCity tonight cause we're gonna be RIPPING up some mad poetry and tunes.

Audio from Cabaret Voltaire

2008-07-24T18:45:00.004+02:00

The live recording from 6th June '08 Cabaret Voltaire party, broadcast live on Klotzfunk FM, has now made it's way into our eagerly awaiting hands.

Check out this wicked set !

Tech and Tim on 96.9 FM

2008-06-25T14:02:00.005+02:00

This friday will be the first time that our Poetry and Music show is being broadcast live on 'real' radio, 96.9 FM (Klotzfunk.fm). Still can't believe they're allowing us to rinse the Zurich airwaves for a FULL 3 HOUR set !!

Huge respect to the Klotzfunk/SoundCity team who's been rocking it the whole of June streaming and broadcasting live from the legendary Cabaret Voltaire, home of the DADA movement.

All those in Zurich this friday, tune in to 96.9 fm or just pop on by the Cabaret for a drink and a groovy shake.

The entire Klotzfunk programming schedule can be found here.

Update

2008-06-25T14:01:00.003+02:00

For those of you wondering where the hell is May's show, we apologize but the recording had lots of crazy white noize all over it and we're still in the process of cleaning it up and saving the recording. So we'll post both May and June's upcoming show next week.

1 year anniversary show coming up

2008-05-28T14:41:00.001+02:00

11th Show feat. Mike Peters

2008-04-24T23:44:00.006+02:00

What an awesome show with some real Techtonic expressive dance action as you'll see real soon when we post the videos...
Mike 'cool cat' Peters really rocked his set, and yes, we did squeeze in Motors right at the end.
Here's the link for the full download.

Update : Here's the interview with Mike

11th Show Coming up - 23rd April

2008-04-21T19:25:00.003+02:00

We got a very serious show coming up with loads of hot tunes and guest DJ set by Mike Peters from Golden Hills. Look forward to seeing Mike in action on the ones and two's !

Motors by Sebastian

2008-04-13T19:49:00.002+02:00

Sebastian has a dirty new track out called Motors - check it out on Fairtilizer, it's totally kaputisch!
That cheeky little frenchy... we'll try to get our hands on this for the next show.

Dave Clark and Hardfloor in Belgrade

2008-04-13T03:46:00.003+02:00

4 am and just got back from checking Dave and Hardfloor at Expo XXI in Belgrade.

Despite a couple of technical difficulties and Hardfloor not actually mixing but more like playing their tunes, the crowd was well up for it and merrily bouncing around. I can totally see why Belgrade is making it's name as THE place to rock-out these days.

Here's a pics gallery and a little video i shot to give you a taste...

Can't wait till this coming Thursday to check out M.A.N.D.Y at The Tube. If you want to join me, hit me up on Twitter

Passive's new mixtape

2008-04-08T21:16:00.000+02:00

Friends, Passive have just passed us their new mixtape today. Check it and share...

10th show pics

2008-04-04T19:39:00.001+02:00

Happy Birthday Ben !

2008-04-04T18:30:00.001+02:00

He's old enough to drink now...

Tenth Edition in any Position

2008-04-02T21:17:00.001+02:00

Het Inan

Friends, hate the computer, too big, I can't control it...

What a show. Tech and I were moved... From the start we've been trying to create an atmosphere. This time the nail hit in the center of the funky head. Had a gang of folks over, enjoyed the privilege of a private radio set by Ander, got toasted and took it all with our heads up...

Save the rain.. Theme of life. Going places.

Big bow of respect to all those who are helping us make this happen: CounterSound, Soundcity, Schlonas Ue, Timor Crew, Vinnie, Knox, Monti, Ander and you...

Show 11 is gonna be a piece of unwanted heaven. Dark sides of color. Blurry feelings and a soothing dose of musical insanity. Be there. We'll let you know when...

Timchen S. and the ironic Techtonic

Welcome

2008-03-30T23:22:00.000+02:00

Welcome all. Sorry it took us so long to get the blog going. It's been a wild ride so far.

Here's pics from some of the past shows we've been dying to show you :

here's some from the spooky halloween 5th show

and here are some from the 'Timorese revolution' 7th show