The Weekly Ten Minutes started this year as a unique project from a bunch of DJs, who are determinded to bless us with 10 minutes of great music every week (as the name suggests). With a different DJ every Sunday, there is something for nearly every taste, and by continuing with the last track of the previous week there might never be an end to this mixtape.
Now 5 weeks in, it’s already a 50-minute mixtape, that will continue next week and so on and on. So far it features Frankfurt based DJs, but the plan is to also get DJs from all places involved. Hope you’ll enjoy listening to it as much as I did.
Thanks so far, guys! There’s definitely more great music to come, so if you don’t wanna miss out on it, you should follow either on SoundCloud, where you can also download the mixtapes as mp3 files, or on Facebook.
Even though Chris & I were not present in Berlin last week, we still had some RUN FFM flavor in the German capital thanks to our guys Blaksta & Shahri Almighty, who I’m sure teared up the whole city, just as they did the night before they left while pulling an all-nighter. That’s how we do!!!
Our first print publication centering around family business!
Jeff Staple & Busy P were spinning for this event, so I have to say, I’m a lil jealous because of that. Also because of all the ill things that were on display. Here’s the video recap.
UPDATE: They were reppin’ RUN FFM real hard as this pic from the WeSC party proves again (by fammivedere.com)
Thanks for those cool pics, guys. While they were mostly running around the Bright Tradeshow and some parties, the homie Simon, who lives in Berlin by now (and you know that alreadyyy when you follow this blog closely enough), was making his moves around Bread&Butter and gave me his BBB package. Thanks to you, too.
These paper edition glasses of the ones, that this French dude named Jay from BLACKRAINBOW MAGAZINE wears, are the best!!!
We’ll see each other in Berlin in summer, when we’ll hopefully be able to finally make it. :)
And by the way, you should tune in tonight at 21:00 for the RADIO SOULTRAIN – *Late Night Special* radio show on Radio X (91,8 FM in the FFM area or via stream) as Jaksta (or Mango Jack if you want) will be part of the show along with DJ Steph, DJ Lunis, AirFussOne, Rumble & MoDee. Hopefully this time it will be as legendary as the first edition of it.
Back when we dropped our first shirts, we created this FB album showing people wearing our shirt and/or hoodie all over thw world, but today another category has to be created… Something like ‘videos, in which people show off their crazy dance moves while wearing RUN FFM stuff’.
Because that’s just what Nazret of onelovefam does.
Last Friday DJ Steph invited us over to the ICE CREAM party in Aschaffenburg, where he DJed at – normally a good 40 minutes drive from Frankfurt, but since it was night, we could speed it up a little bit on the German Autobahn. :)
The party series is very big out there and Club Goya was really packed that night.
For beginners, DJ Steph is also one half of S&G Beatz, who made the beat for our stop motion video, so I’ll throw in some of his music together with the pics, too.
Here is his latest mixtape EASIN featuring some dope acoustic cover songs – very good to relax to on a Monday evening.
The party literally lived up to its motto. FLUTSCHFINGER!!!
I think it was Chris, who noticed this semi mirror ball. I also haven’t seen that before.
Steph’s edit of Alina Orlova‘s Drop It Like It’s Hot, that was also featured on MrPander recently.
Don’t worry, that’s not the devil looking over Steph’s shoulder, it’s only his buddy Timo. ;-)
Steph, his girlfriend, Timo (check above) & Sabrina
Overnight Celebrity (DJ Steph Remix)
Thanks for reppin’ RUN FFM!
DJ Steph sticker
S&G Beatz Remix of Mister Santos‘ Funky, Sexy, Fresh
My childhood buddies Ben & Simon also came to party and it was good to spend some time together again.
If you want me to show off your stickers at the next party, hit me up. (Only serious bidders please)
For all the beats by S&G Beatz, I’d suggest to check out their SoundCloud page, since it wouldn’t be fair to pick some out, because they are all great. If you got some more time, check DJ Steph’s SoundCloud, where you can also listen to the KlangDesign Radioshow Steph did some weeks ago, including a RUNFFM shoutout, so thank you very much for that as well!!!
That’s DJ Quang, who I got to know on that evening as well. He also Djed that night and besides lots of other stuff he organizes the ICE CREAM party series every month. So if you are around the Aschaffenburg area and are up for some cool music & some nice people, hit up the party on 18. Feb. 2011, that also marks the 6th bithday of ICE CREAM parties – special guest will be Denyo from German hip hop group Beginner.
Thanks for being good hosts and treating us so well, and thanks for throwing such a cool party. Ben now even wants to move to Aschaffenburg!!! LOL…
Few weeks back @chris_mako asked me if he should keep his collection of cassette tapes, yes some of you might have good memories of the cassette tape days.
I just so happened to stumble upon this really interesting and well made interview by the Rolling Stone with Nas about cassette tapes.
I highly recommend you guys watching it because it contains a whole era of culture.
As Nas mentions in this interview imagine you cant listen to one song for a whole month if you didnt record it off the radio, how crazy is that !
We should be grateful that nowadays you can just hit google and find anything on demand, so dont hate on the internet!.
When I was in Tokyo last time and hit up the now closed HMV in Shibuya I came across a CD stand with a German flag on it advertising a band called “Wagner Love”.
I was surprised that they advertised a band from Germany and even more so that I had no idea who they were??
How come a German band can be that popular in Japan and almost nobody knows about them in their home country ??
The funniest part is that they actually are from my hometown Frankfurt am Main !! FFM YA HEARD!! haha.
So I checked out their music and I kinda liked the “Maroon 5-ish” style and most of all I enjoyed this video shot in various spots around Frankfurt city :)
If you like their music go check out their album on Amazon :) and give them some Frankfurt Love ;D
Sorry, I just had to and also wanted to do some round up of last year, because it has been sooooooo kraaaaayzie… (and obviously doing so is still appropriate, since I posted the 09 Memories one year ago on January, 5th as well)! In 2010 I went from being like “OMG. This is alreadyyy two weeks ago…?!?? Wow. Time flies.” to “OMG. It’s really only two weeks ago since this happened?!?? Wow. So much stuff was going on in between alreadyyy.” and I’m really grateful. Nothing worse than those people with their boredom statuses on Facebook. There are countless things you could do, but that’s a whole nother blogpost.
We started the year running around as two dudes at the BRIGHT Tradeshow in Frankfurt, that just got their first stickers made for their blog…
Major shoutouts to Flo for coming up with the idea of the sticker image and also for all graphic design work he did for us all year long!
Then in April Chris was running around Tokyo and I was running around London (cheering on Simon) and each of us got to experience some weird stuff once again.
OK, one of us definitely experienced more crazyness than the other, but we both distributed our sticker all over those cities.
Chris did even so, that it can be seen on this pic of Levi Maestro soon later (on the very left side from photographer’s view). WHAT?
Chris also blew us off with some great RUN FFM journalism par excellence…! ;-)
By the way, I really love those random kind of videos by Chris like this, where he had to kill some time in the morning to go to the airport on no sleep the night before. I had to literally laugh out loud severel times, while I was digging through all that stuff. Here are some more impressions of Tokyo.
Now, this was really a great day as I predicted in the video. We picked up the first print of the RUN FFM shirts in June, which was an unbelievable feeling at that time. Ain’t nothing like rocking your own shirt for the first time.
Immediately after picking them up we went to the public viewing of Germany’s match that day and there was already some guy we didn’t know, that asked if he could take a picture of my shirt. Of course, feel free…
Later that month, I somehow found out about a DJ Neil Armstrong party in Frankfurt by scrolling through my twitter timeline and thinking “Wait…. A tweet by him mentioning Frankfurt? Gotta check that out.” The In Heaven Part 2 party then went down two days later on a rooftop in downtown Frankfurt. And by going down I mean really going down. Like really, really going down. It was more some kind of a festival that night and it didn’t end until the sun came up.
At that party we also met Yves & Lea, who just opened up their pop up store MARKET 41 around that time. They went on to become good friends and even selling the RUN FFM shirt in their store eventually.
The first store to have the RUN FFM shirts in stock however was Julie‘s Barber Shop and this again was very cool to have your shirt in a store in Frankfurt and then even in two stores later on. At this point big thank yous to give us the opportunity to spread the word about RUN FFM and connect with our people from Frankfurt & everywhere else.
Another chance (or from my point of view: obligation, because I was the only one to wear the shirt that day) to make that possible and just to get the shirt on TV was this interview with German TV station RTL, that were filming on Freeline Skating that day – we even made it the most watched news segement the day it aired (like 2 months later, after everybody had nearly forgotten about all of this LOL).
Then in August it was time to get some new stickers and a new TwitVid format out there…
In October we bumped into Adam Tensta and in different news I just wanted to do some stop motion film, also as a way to celebrate the arrival of our white shirts and the new stickers (YES, I posted it once again LOL). Thx to DJ Steph again, who allowed me to use the instrumental without hesitating and to be honest without really knowing me at that point, but we got to know each other more after that.
October & November were DJ Neil Armstrong time again, as he was touring through Germany for a week and also had some off days in Frankfurt. We drove to Düsseldorf to attend the first Party&Bullshit party with him & DJ Rafik at the decks.
And as you can see we didn’t come to party LOL. We had work to do. Chris filmed & I had to drive all the way home again at night. Here’s Chris’ video of the night.
Back in Frankfurt we then had the time to conduct an interview with Neil at Julie’s Barber Shop, while we were driving & running around Frankfurt having lots of fun not only, but also because we introduced him to some Frankfurt gastronomic specialties. And he even liked all of the food as you can tell from his post.
As I mentioned only a few posts earlier, it was great to see him DJing in the RUN FFM shirt here in Frankfurt.
I went to visit my buddy Simon again in November – now only in Berlin and met Phil-G. & Omer while checking out some Berlin spots.
Also another amazing party took place in December: DJ Craze came to Frankfurt and DJed along with C-Arrow, DJ Passion & DJ Jackmode at the first YOSOY party (What’s up, fam?) in collaboration with fenchurch. Chris once again did a nice little video on the event…
… as well as Julian Middle, where you can see both of us. :)
In December, we also had C-Arrowattaching our stickers in NYC, Frankfurt’s own DJ Kitsune (who is with us since day one!) with a dope mixtape series called 1-2-3-4 and we finally made it to printed press as Sven was reppin our hoodie in Journal Frankfurt magazine.
The biggest accomplishment of ‘em all is of course that I got myself finally a nice haircut at Julie’s Barber Shop. :)
Mad love to everyone supporting us, connecting with us, partying with us, rocking RUN FFM shirts & hoodies all over the place (check for some pics here and here) as well as the stickers.
Long post, I know, but there was quite some stuff going on as I told you at the beginning of this post. Looking back we began 2010 as two dudes with a blog and a bunch of stickers, but ultimately it took us places & got us to meet cool people, so thanks for the ride. Let’s see where we can go in 2011.
Yesterday I was chilling at my man Simon‘s crib, because he left to his training camp in Austria today. A few days ago he alreadyyy told me about this Frank Zander version of Duck Sauce‘s Barbra Steisand, but I forgot to check, so he showed it to me last night finally. It’s great on so many levels, don’t you think?
Our conversation then went on on the people that are in the official video for Barbra Streisand and in the end I showed Simon the original sample of the song, which is from Hallo Bimmelbahn (1973) by German band Nighttrain (that was later on first covered by Boney M in 1979). Since he was surprised and liked it that much, I’m hoping it’ll do the same for you.
