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Thanks to theoze @ colorz for the artwork.

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On Friday 28th November, Phonica Records celebrates its fifth birthday with a bash at London’s Corsica Studios ; music comes courtesy of Sebo K, Prins Thomas and Peverelist.

With independent record emporia around the world closing down at a frighteningly rapid rate, here at VKMP3 we’re excited Phonica’s store in Soho to reach its 5 th birthday. Quality, Passion & Focus pay off. Congratulations & best whishes for the future!

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A great Initiative from PhonoPhono.

Fiday’s workshops takes place in the showroom from Berlin-Kreuzberg, Bergmannstrasse 17, 1OG. All relevant subjects for vinyl lovers are covered & it’s also a chance to see high-end hifi equipment or to chat among people sharing the same passion.

The staff is friendly & very qualified. Workshops start 17:00 and end 19:00. Read more

Illusions

An illusion is a distortion of the senses, revealing how the brain normally organizes and interprets sensory stimulation. While illusions distort reality, they are generally shared by most people. Illusions may occur with more of the human senses than vision, but visual illusions, optical illusions, are the most well known and understood. The emphasis on visual illusions occurs because vision often dominates the other senses.

Some illusions are based on general assumptions the brain makes during perception. These assumptions are made using organizational principles, like Gestalt, an individual’s ability of depth perception and motion perception, and perceptual constancy. Other illusions occur because of biological sensory structures within the human body or conditions outside of the body within one’s physical environment.

The term illusion refers to a specific form of sensory distortion. Unlike a hallucination, which is a distortion in the absence of a stimulus, an illusion describes a misinterpretation of a true sensation. listen & Enjoy!

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Herman Gillis, creator of the Sherman Filterbanks. Watch this and understand it! Read more

As usual on wednesdays, it’s time for a cool dj set on basic.ch.

It starts around 20:00 (Berlin, Germany) and usually goes up to 22:00. You can listen live here (this sould open in iTunes) Enjoy!

Clearaudio Goldfinger Phono Cartridge

You may call them irrespective when they conflict with the commonly accepted laws of audio physics. However, it is based on this kind of research and development that Clearaudio can offer the ‘Goldfinger’ to you with the awesome, unbelievable dynamic range of 100dB.

A radical new design of the magnetic circuit, achieved by doubling the magnets up to eight pieces and by using the most powerful magnet materials currently available, assist the company in reaching this new level of standart. This ground-breaking technology is incorporated to a body fashioned from 16 grams of pure gold, carefully polished by the hands of master craftsmen that realised this work of art as a whole masterpiece in technique and linear transparency. Internally, the completely symmetrical generator system is adorned with pure 24ct. gold coils and the new developed 0,00016 grams HD-diamond tip completes ‘Goldfinger’, making it the pinnacle of this achievement.
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I’m not sure what to think of Ritchie Hawtin last interview in slices. (see the video below)

I do very much respect his carrier, I do think the way he develops Minus is very clever & I do appreciate Minus release 12′. I think it’s important major labels keep releasing records. Remember you roots, keep it deep!

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I remember the first time I plugged in this mixer, ouch!

A moment ago a very close friend, probably my best friend, who’s now running a cool dj shop in Paris among other activities told me he got an old but amazing second hand mixer for sale. Urei 1620 he said. I immediately googled it and the first video I found is the one below. This made me laugh a lot at first but also somehow catched my attention so I decided to check this funky stuff the next day, very curious but also very sceptical, especially when I saw how basic the unit looks like. So we plugged it very quickly in the studio and played a few 12′, and wow! In love at first kick! Read more

I’m very happy to present Mixture Hivernale, a podcast in 3 sections released by Pierre, a real vinyl lover. All deep music addict will enjoy it.

Pierre has been djing for many many years and besides other activities he’s now in charge of the djs line-up on basic, one of Europe first webradio. I highly recommend to listen to his weekly sets, usually on wednesdays around 6pm. And for those who wanna get more, have a look into basic archives sections, there are hundreds of hours of quality music. Amazing!

Long live basic & thanks mate! it’s a great mix indeed ;-)

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