new year, new beginnings

This year, i’m going on vacation either to North Vietnam (Hanoi) or to Lebanon (Beirut etc.)… wait, that was the situation weeks ago Now that we nearly have March…

ASOT 500 and Luminosity

I secured my tickets (through Timoco) for the 500th episode of A State Of Trance, for which the event in the Nederlands will be happening on 2011-04-09 in Den Bosch, and Luminosity before ASOT 500, which takes place in Amsterdam on 2011-04-08.

past and upcoming events

I know i know, i’m not quite up to it… i “forgot” to write reviews about some quite entertaining events in the last months:

• Fusion Festival in June 2009
• VuuV Festival in July 2009
• Western African club visits in November 2009 – they were truly unique
• Vandit Night on 2009-12-19@Kesselhaus Berlin

…and many more. By the way, “forgot’ is not the right wording. Let’s say it was a mixture of my utter laziness and being occupied with business and other travels.

outgoing serial ports using Broadcom bluetooth software under Windows Vista (x64)

Ever wondered why you were not able to add an outgoing COM port using the Broadcom bluetooth suite running on Windows Vista (x64)? For some months now, i tried to get my old licensed copy of Oxygen Phone Manager for Symbian 2.16.0 running after i switched from Windows XP to Windows Vista x64. Bought an Anycom USB-500 BT dongle for that. But OPMS refused to work, after some trials (and remembering the hassles i had with BT connection type under WinXP) found out that an outgoing BT serial port was missing under the COM Ports tab. So how to add such? Usually one would do the following:

finally, the first hardware page is up

Please find a new page about computer keyboards. Currently it is focused on providing information about Cherry keyboard models containing MX mechanical switches, but will expand in the future.

droning not drowning: Aes Dana

Discogs entry: Aes Dana

Deep, mystic, floating, gliding, ambiance filled, spacious, ethereal – all those & more words came to mind if i would describe the impressions Aes Dana’s music made on me. Of course the source for this artists was, like many times before the ambient & chill stream of CHROMANOVA. Expect everything but another a tribal / psy chill release. Hang on!

2009-02-28 – Paul Van Dyk @ Eventwerk Dresden

2009-02-28-paul-van-dyk-eventwerk-dresden

Paule, uniter of nations. No really. This magic night it seemed to us that everyone was there. You could observe that even people which you (somehow…) ‘know’ from other parties and venues came to attend this night.

twisted kicking bass: Ocelot

Discogs entry: Ocelot

During one of those evenings in 2008 when all you do is some reading on the web and listening to music in parallel, when i was listening to CHROMANOVA‘s psy and chill stream, i was hooked to some… goa kick drum…. NO i was not. As we all(?) know, goa kicks are not necessarily different from each other. This track was… different (i don’t remember which track exactly), but hold on for a second!

finally, the first artwork is up

Howdy! Finally, all my (older) photo artwork is up on this shiny new page. Try, and have a look Subject to further different organization, as usual.

2008-05-10 – Vandit Night @ Arena Berlin

2008-05-10-vandit-night-arena-berlin

Oh this was so fuckin’ great! Paul van Dyk was good -as usual, har har- Sander Kleinenberg (this time with a ‘VJ’ set) was a little bit unspectactular… the videos were just not that good.. but… Jon O’Bir was pounding our asses till nowhere!