Heute Abend ist es so weit!!! Schaut euch einfach den Trailer an, dann solltet ihr keine Fragen mehr haben.
Falls doch noch Fragen unbeantwortet sein sollten:
Die wohl bunteste Party der Stadt ruft zum Finale 2011
Es wird nicht nur LILA, es wird ABSOLUT LILA mit den LILA Allstars auf zwei Floors.
Es geht auch alles andere als besinnlich zu, denn neben DJ Lunis, Le Alen und DJ Kitsune stehen Air Fuss One & Rumble von The Kidz Make Noiz an den Decks. Knackiger R’n'B, heiße Househymnen, shaking Oldskool oder frischer Dubstep, die LILA Nacht kennt keine Genregrenzen.
Fragt sich nur, was die Shovanovas heute so machen…
Ich erinnere mich immer gerne an meine Ausbildungszeit zurück, und da gab es eine sehr spezielle Abteilung, in der mir, als ich freitags morgens nachgefragt habe, was zu tun sei, als Aufgabe aufgetragen wurde, mich aufs Wochenende vorzubereiten. Ohne Scheiß!!! Ich wusste dann schon gar nicht mehr, welche Adresse ich alles noch in den Browser eintippen sollte, und so saß ich oft vor einem weißen Bildschirm. Vielleicht gibt es ja immer noch jemanden da draußen, dem das im Moment auch gerade so geht. Und genau für dich ist dieser Post!! Zur Einstimmung aufs Wochenende. (Alle anderen dürfen aber natürlich mitlesen.)
Zum lockeren Einstieg am Freitagabend empfehle ich RUNFFMs offizielle Lieblingsradiosendung Radio Soultrain Late Night Special auf Radio X (FM 91,8 MHz / Kabel 99,85 MHz / iPhone-App) von 21:00-23:00. Inklusive intensivster Babbelei. Frankfurter Standard eben. Hier könnt ihr auch nochmal in die letzte Sendung reinhören. Der erste Teil beinhaltet die Sets von Rumble & DJ Lunis, während im zweiten Teil dann DJ Steph & Air Fuss One dran sind. Dazwischen gab’s auch noch einen grandiosen Auftritt meinerseits, als ich direkt aus dem Training zum Sender kam, gerade noch meine Jacke ausziehen durfte & dann vors Mikrofon geschleift wurde. ;-) Entsprechend fertig war ich & hatte nur meine neue Freiwurftechnik im Kopf…
Bin schon sehr auf diese Ausgabe gespannt, denn es wartet bislang unveröffentliches Material auf uns! Danach zieht es DJ Steph direkt in den sinkkasten arts club zu FIEBER! Wie alle anderen auch dorthin kommen können, zeigt dieses nett gemachte Video.
An der Stelle dann auch endlich noch DJ Stephs Mixtape zur letzten FIEBER-Party, das seitdem seinen festen Platz in meinem Autoradio hat und es hier natürlich – inklusive dem sensationellen Artwork von Air Fuss One – auch zum Download gibt.
Außerdem kann auch für einen guten Zweck gefeiert werden. Also nicht nur der gute Zweck, selbst eine gute Zeit zu haben, sondern zu Gunsten des Nkhoma Eye Hospitals in Malawi. Auf dem 1. Floor im orange peel wird DJ Kitsune Hip-Hop, Funk & Classics im Rahmen der 11. BENEFIZPARTY DES AKTIV 7 E.V.spielen. Beim letzten Mal kamen zum Beispiel über 5.000€ für Frankfurter Schulen zusammen!!!
Am Samstag dann sorgt DJ Steph für die 3. Dimension, wenn er den ersten Samstag im neuen schmucken ADLIB auf der Hanauer, der wohl einen einzigartigen Blick auf die Skyline verspricht, bestreitet. Ebenfalls im Frankfurter Osten gibt es die erste Ausgabe von DJ Passions Partyreihe PUMP UP THE JAM in Frankfurt. Das Ganze findet im Ostbahnhof statt und wird wieder von der YOSOY Fam präsentiert. Auch für die, die einen gemütlichen Barabend verleben wollen, gibt es eine Empfehlung: SOUL SCOOL mit DJ Lunis in der Berliner Bar!
Wer am Sonntag noch gut brunchen möchte, hat Glück, dass es der letzte Sonntag des Monats ist, und ist bei IMAs BREAKFAST CLUB bestens aufgehoben!
Ich denke, da seid ihr alle am Wochenende gut beschäftigt, und dann schaffe ich es hoffentlich in der Zeit, mal wieder etwas mehr zu posten. Wie immer hättet ihr aber auch alles in unserem Eventkalender nachschauen können.
Habt ein tolles Wochenende, Leute! Celebrate life!!!
This weekend one of the best basketball related events in Europe is happening in Cologne: Germany’s Reality Check!
SNIPES not only sponsors Team Frankfurt, but also gives you the chance to win two tickets for the event. You just have to hit the like button on this Facebook post right here until midnight tonight for your chance to win or you can also leave a comment under this post to double your chances!!
Please visit grc-competition.com for all the information on the tournament, that is played at Abenteuerhalle Kalk, Christian-Sünner-Straße 8, 51103 Köln/Cologne. Oh, and last year’s GRC Slam Dunk Champ Guy Dupuy is also said to be there again!
By the way, also peep this cool Vlog by our man DJ Kitsune back when he was DJing at the even in 2011.
Of course, there is also the After Game Party!!! See you in Cologne…
The LILA trailer never disappoints, so here comes another funny one your way as DJ Kitsune (@DJKitsune) tries to work his way into today’s DJ lineup by convincing DJ Lunis & Le Alen that he has what it takes to be LILA (purple)! The 4th edition of the new Frankfurt party series takes place at Club Kingkamehameha.
Hope you also kept an eye on the shirts in this video ;-)
Lots of fun to everybody, who is going tonight.
And by the way, as the weather is so nicely the inofficial roof top warm up is right around the corner at APT-PENTHOUSE with DJ Steph (@deejaysteph).
Hey friends, fellow readers and people that just stumbled upon :)
Since I’ve been in contact with @chris_mako and @the_real_crada from Frankfurt I’ve been exposed to the music of Rasul and Square One.
First I didnt even realize that english was not Rasul’s first language I honestly thought I was listening to some New York HipHop!
I think this new video has universal appeal also to non hiphop heads, hey I’m not a hiphop head myself or I probably would have known all about Square One ;D.
It is also part of a new album called “Writing Colors” that was released through Juice Magazine .
I think its a great way to discover Rasuls music and to honor him if you are a true fan.
If you want some greater insight on the lyrics and references make sure to check out this awesome blogpost by DJ Kitsune.
I think he might be one of the only few people who are able to give you that insight on Rasul’s music.
As for me personally I really like the music of “Welcome Home” and I might just hit up the newsstand tomorrow to buy me a copy of Juice Magazine.
Only because its good music! RIP Rasul.
Crada recently posted this pic on Facebook of him working with Tony Yayo in NYC. You never know, if something is being realeased out of these sessions, but it’s really crazy to see what international artists he has the chance to work with in the last months, after he landed dope beats on CuDi‘s and Drake‘s debut albums.
This proofs to me that talent, effort, good people in your team plus the tiny bit of luck can take you anywhere. Hopefully there is much more to be heard from this guy.
Andi / @IAMGANDINO
(photo credit: B.A. of TheGerminators - @TheGerminators)
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.
With a little delay but right before christmas eve you’ll receive DJ Kitsunes last part of a 4 part series called 1-2-3-4 ;D heres volume 4 titled “Grooves”
What is part 4 of 1-2-3-4 about, you ask? It’s all about Grooves. That means beats. And drums. And great production. Music that makes you wanna nod your head, tap your feet or shake your hip, whatever you usually do when you like a song. Cause these records are really made to move people. Some are a little smoother but still have that special flow, some are just banging, block-rocking beats. As usual, please don’t exect your uusal suspects in here, and please – if you like a song, go support the artists by buying their albums.
This part is something for all rap fans, heads and people that love street poetry. This volume combines some of the greatest MCs to ever do it, some of the nicest spitters, some of the illest storytellers and guys with deep metaphors, wisdom, and knowledge in between the lines. I also decided to put a couple of songs in there from artists that (in my opinion) have not received the respect they deserve for their craft but this is all about raps, rhymes and song concepts, not so much about great albums, nice videos and successful marketing plans. Anyway, I don’t wanna steal your time, download this Vol.3 of the 1-2-3-4 series and find out yourself.
Thanks for the great support of my new baby: the 1-2-3-4 mixes. This is part 2 of the 1-2-3-4 series, this time fully focusing on Melodies. This part is all about great singing, great hooks, melodies you just can’t get out of your head, toplines, hooklines, everything about singing and performing a track that makes you love it. It takes a great singer to turn an average beat into a wonderful song. Here’s quite a few of them, old and new. You’ll notice that I have a special love for artists with strong voices, guys that can take it to church and girls that can hold a note and have power in their voice. “Melodies” features tunes from the last 30 years and if you love great rnb and soul singers, this is something for you.
I also decided to write a few sentences to each track to let you know why in particular I picked this song. This is by no means a random selection. I have very strong feelings for each one of these tracks and I definitely wanna share these thoughts. Feel free to share yours in the comments.
