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  • A Curious Cat!

    The other day I got up before dawn because I wanted to take some shots of Istanbul as the sun came up. The set went alright, but the best picture has nothing to do with Istanbul by dawn… It’s this curious cat I came across (you can click the pic for a bigger version). I’ll be posting other pictures from the set regularly soon… The lower quality, unedited versions are already online for a sneak peek. Have a look in my Picasa.

    Before I left I took another picture of the cat…

    Istanbul has a lot of street cats, which I don’t mind. The dogs can be a nuisance, especially at night, but they are generally clean, healthy and well-behaved, unlike the ones in Sofia, Bulgaria. In my neighbourhood here in Istanbul, people put rests of food outside their window or put special food for cats on the pavement. Every now and then you’ll hear a cat outside your building meowing really loudly. One look out of the window and you’ll find out your upstairs neighbour is throwing food down at the cat – so be careful with sticking your head out of the window. 😉

    In Holland, I have not once seen a street dog and I doubt I’ve ever seen a street cat, but it’s hard to tell as most people just let their cats outside during the day.

    Do you have a lot of street animals in your country? I see a lot of reactions from different parts of the world, so I’m especially interested in what type of animals? How do they behave? How does the general public feel about them?

    BasBasBas.com is about my life as a Dutch student living in Istanbul. I regularly write about my adventures in Istanbul and travels in the region. If you’d like to stay up to date, you can subscribe to my RSS feed or get email updates in your inbox. You can also follow me on Twitter.

  • spacescape – NoComment (Speeches & Eclectic Music Mix)

    I present to you the most recent mix I produced, called NoComment. It was commissioned by Andy Bailey, creator of the famous CommentLuv weblog plugin and concept. Via Twitter he gave me some feedback on previous mixes and based on his desires and the feedback I created a customized mix, adjusted to his wishes. He told me it’s fine to share this, so there you go! Enjoy this experimental DJ set! If you’re interested in a similar deal, email me at . I can do many styles and you can set the price yourself.

    Only for the open-minded!

    Artwork by earnest70six

    This mix is a blend of speeches set to eclectic electronic music. Go on a 80 minute trip through history and let the music and speeches play with your moods, thoughts and ponderings. Great for passive as well as active listening. Get ready to get your mind blown right open!
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    Tracklist

    The Bug – Freak Freak (00:00 – 04:51)
    >> Nelson Mandela – Freedom for All
    Emancipator – Wolf Drawn (04:17 – 07:26)
    >> William H. Taft – The Republican Party Stands By Mr. Roosevelt
    Braincell – Daybreak (06:53 – 13:02)
    >> Dr. Timothy Leary – Think For Yourself
    Ott – Neon Tetra (12:49 – 19:41)
    Timothy Leary – Any Reality is an Opinion (19:23 – 25:35)
    Spoonbill – Bouncing Stones (25:07 – 29:46)
    Nitin Sawnhey – Streets (29:33 – 33:14)
    Celtic Cross – Stargate Avalon (33:01 – 34:29)
    Celtic Cross – Darshannon (34:17 – 40:22)
    Pryda – Muranyi (40:05 – 47:46)
    >> NLP – Skill of Conversation 05
    DJ Scotch Egg – Scotch Goat’s Skull (47:43 – 49:15)
    Nagual Sound Experiment – Black Lodge Dub (49:15 – 53-33)
    >> Terence McKenna – Tree of Knowledge [8/8]
    Venetian Snares – Második Galamb (53:25 – 54:04)
    Venetian Snares – Szerencsétlen (54:04 – 58:36)
    Entheogenic – Earth Song (58:23 – 65:53)
    >> Barack Obama – Berlin Speech
    >> Malcolm X – World Wide Revolution
    Shpongle – Around the World in a Tea Daze (65:37 – 77:02)
    >> Albert Einstein – Non-Violence
    >> Albert Einstein – E=MC^2
    >> Adolf Hitler – Appeal to the Nation 1932
    >> Neil Armstrong – The Eagle Has Landed
    >> Mahatma Gandhi – Soldier of Peace
    >> Roswell Incident Announcement
    >> George H.W. Bush – Death of Communism
    >> Death of John F. Kennedy Announcement
    >> Hitler Is Dead Radio Broadcast

    Download:
    http://rapidshare.com/files/168105625/spacescape_-_NoComment.mp3

    This mix was commissioned by Andy Bailey. Thank you Andy!!

    As always, support the artists and buy their work or go to their live shows!

    Presented by The MiX-Files (subscribe to email updates or follow the RSS feed to get the newest mixes first!). Opinions very welcome!

  • Marmara Sunset Cruise

    A few weeks ago, or was it a month, we (the exchange students) received a special invitation from the rector of our university (or chancellor/president, if you will). A special boatcruise was planned and we would be having dinner with the rector on the Bosphorus in Istanbul. Amazing!

    Afterwards we would dance and the rector might teach us some Turkish folkdancing. “Wow”, I thought, “it’s really incredible what this university is willing to do for their exchange students”. Everyone was excited about it, partly because of the promise of free food and drinks ;-), and most of the 100 exchange students at Yeditepe University planned on attending.

    On the day of the cruise we arrived and it turned out the boat had already left. Miscommunication. The boat left 2 hours earlier than was announced to us. The university bus took us to another dock where the boat would come to pick us all up. When we got there, the boat was a lot bigger than I anticipated and what surprised me was there were a lot of people on board already…

    We were then told that kids from high schools and their parents were already on board and that the rector had ordered the boat to come pick us up. Great! I let the new information sink for a minute and then realized that it had all been a great PR stunt. There were hundreds of people on the boat and this way Yeditepe could show off their international character. The cruise was quite different from what I expected and definitely not as intimate as it was made out to be, but it helped me achieve one of my goals for Istanbul:

    To party on the Bosphorus! The Bosphorus is the strait that connects the Black Sea to the Marmara Sea (and thus ultimately to the Mediterranean) and runs between the European and Asian sides of Istanbul.

    As we got on we sailed out to the Marmara Sea and saw the Prince’s Islands (I think) and witnessed the beautiful sunset pictured above. Later, as the skies turned dark we sailed through Istanbul. The lights are beautiful and as I’ve said before, the best way to see the glory of Istanbul is from the water. We partied on the deck of the ship with a bit too many high schoolers and very loud Turkish house music. Oh, and free beer (which finished within half an hour) and free wine!

    View the pictures of the trip on Picasa! Pictures of the sunset and the sea and of course the party! Sorry, I don’t have the right equipment to catch Istanbul by night. You’ll have to come and see it for yourself. 😉

    If you took a ferry or boattrip in Istanbul before, how did you like it? What was your experience? In the past I’ve partied in an empty office building, under a bridge, in an abandoned church (controversiaaaaal), a parking lot and in the forrests on a mountain in the Balkan range. What’s the most spectacular location you’ve partied at?

    BasBasBas.com is about a Dutch student living in Istanbul. I regularly write about my adventures in Istanbul and travels in the region. If you’d like to stay up to date, you can subscribe to my RSS feed or get email updates in your inbox. You can also follow me on Twitter.

  • spacescape – WombTomb (DJ set MP3)

    Another mix by me for my project ‘spacescape’ with which I aim to take listeners on a trip through emotions, moods and mental states. Enjoy! Scroll down for tracklist and download link.
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    Electrons and neurons connected. Soundwaves versus brainwaves. Can this leave your reality untouched? A progressive and experimental mix of chilled out yet energetic electronic music.
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    Tracklist
    Scuba – Hard Boiled [SCB Edit] (00:00 – 08:49)
    Fatboy Slim – What They’re Looking For (07:56 – 13:45)
    Josh Gabriel – Recife (12:44 – 16:51)
    Vibesquad – Lone Salamander (16:38 – 20:28)
    Talpa – Still Dreaming (19:10 – 25:54)
    Shpongle – Flute Fruit (25:35 – 27:41)
    Plastic Shell – Gutbucket (27:34 – 34:20)
    Michael Knop – Fiddel Fiddel (34:03 – 41:31)
    Butch – Mushroom Man (40:03 – 45:54)
    Kaya Project – Saranghi Breaks (45:29 – 50:00)
    Orocol – Crooked (49:37 – 55:05)
    Aphex Twin – Digeridoo (54:42 – 61:47)
    Paper Squad – Endless Mindput (61:28 – 69:05)
    Shitmat – More Fire [’93 Ting Mix] (64:03 – 68:30)
    Oren Barkan – Misra Malok [RMX] (68:12 – 77:05)

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    Much thanks go out to the producers of the tracks used. Support the scene! Buy their records or go to their live shows!

    Presented by The MiX-Files (subscribe to email updates or follow the RSS feed to get the newest mixes first!). Opinions very welcome!

  • Tunnel


    click for more detailed version

    It’s amazing what you can do with a little Photoshoping. Upon returning from Borovets to Sofia, in Bulgaria last weekend, our busdriver dropped us off under a bridge (click here to see the original photo). I immediately envisioned the above picture and snapped a photo. I was anxious to see if my idea would actually work and it’s always exciting when they do. To quote The A-Team’s Hannibal, I love it when a plan comes together.

    So what do you think people? Post-apocalyptic enough?

    More travel photos soon; including some snowy shots of Bulgaria! If you’d like to get them straight to your feedreader, you can subscribe to my RSS feed or subscribe by email using the form in the right sidebar.

  • Snow in Bulgaria

    This weekend I was in Bulgaria due to my 1 year anniversary with my girlfriend, who’s from Bulgaria. We went to a mountain resort, which is cheaper than Sofia (in the low season). On the day we arrived everything was green, but this Saturday the world turned white. I love it. I notice I feel quite at home in Bulgaria, and especially Sofia.

    Will write more about my stay there in the days to come. Have to find my way back to Istanbul in this snowy mess. You can stay up to date by following my Twitter feed, or subscribe to this blog by RSS or email.

    I’m hoping for some nice snow in Istanbul this winter. Has it snowed where you are yet? Will it at all?

  • EvilAngle – BreakSauce (Breakbeat Mix Download)

    A dirty breakbeat mix to get your groove on, wherever you are! Mixed by yours truly. 🙂


    Tracklist
    The Aut0b0ts & Timmy Schumacher – Attitude (feat. MC Kyla & Bex Riley)
    Bobina – Kylie Minogue’s Slow (Cosmonaut Remix)
    General Midi – The Westerner
    Unbalanced Jack – Flaming Tongues (feat. Crown Jewelz & Killa Benz)
    Farace – Guys Girls Dance (Farace Breaks Mix)
    Bassnectar – Everybody (Freq Nasty vs Bassnectar Remix)
    Chase and Status – Running
    Tayo – March of the Soundbwoyz
    Tambour Battant – Atomik Cirkus RMX
    Entity – Coming On Deep (feat. MC S.A.S.)
    ILS – Burn Again
    Noisia – Groundhog
    Overdub – Killing The Psyche Rock (RATM vs Pierre Henry vs FatBoy Slim)
    Prime Suspect – Megalomanic
    Specimen A – Nightmare
    Freestylers – Push Up (Plump DJ’s Remix)
    Freestylers – Push Up Word Up (Stanton Warriors Remix)
    Duel Calibre – Devil in Flight
    Grievous Angel – Lickle Friction

    Download here: http://uploaded.to/?id=idhaf3

    Presented by The MiX-Files. Photo by Miss Loisy.

  • The Tourist View

    A view of the most touristic part of Istanbul. The mosque on the right is the Blue Mosque or Sultanahmet mosque, left of that is the Hagia Sofia which was a cathedral, but was turned into a mosque during the Ottoman empire and left of that is the Sultans’ palace. Quite a nice view, huh? On the left side of the picture, you see some land at the other side of the water… That’s where I live. Literally less than 2 minutes away from a nice sit at the sea with the view of the Hagia Sofia and the beautiful buildings around it.

    The picture was taken from Galata tower. If you come to Istanbul and want to come home with some cool pictures, go to Galata tower. If you have many friends who go to Istanbul, all of you will have the same pictures though, as everybody seems to go up the Galata tower. It’s also a nice spot for panorama shots.

  • spacescape – Eclectrocution (Eclectic/Breakbeat Mix Download)

    Brand new mix, filled with progressive and experimental breaks.
    From high to low, east to west, keep up… scroll down!


    psychedelic and progressive,
    sometimes aggressive
    gloomy, everchanging,
    a little mind-deranging
    rocking up & down like a boat
    scroll down now for the download 😉

    Tracklist
    Haldolium – The Last Dance [Andrè Absolut RMX] (00:00 – 09:50)
    Juno Reactor – 10,000 Miles (09:21 – 15:09)
    Moby – Extreme Ways [DJ Tiesto’s Vocal RMX] (14:38 – 21:49)
    Hybrid – Formula of Fear [Uberzone Vocal Mix] (20:50 – 26:33)
    MIDIval Punditz – Raanjhan [Jalebee Bass For Breakfast Mix] (24:55 – 31:51)
    Gaudi & Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan – Bethe Bethe Kese Kese [Gaudi’s Dark New Wave RMX] (30:53 – 38:12)
    Grievous Angel vs. Rubi Dan – Culture Killer (37:02 – 44:18)
    Josh Gabriel – Summit (42:22 – 47:41)
    Elite Force & Meat Katie – Nutron (46:00 – 52:26)
    Layo and Bushwacka – Love Story [Stanton Warriors RMX] (51:04 – 56:58)
    General Midi – Never Gonna Stop The Show [Dylan Rhymes Mix] (55:46 – 62:58)
    Maelstrom – Makossa [Rob Reng RMX] (61:31 – 68:00)
    Moby – Ah Ah (67:32 – 71:28)
    Grievous Angel – Immigrant (71:13 – 78:00)

    Download as MP3 (Varial Bitrate)

    Artwork by Fr3a

    First posted at The MiX-Files!

    Another breakbeat mix will be posted within the next few days. Stay updated. Follow my Twitter feed, or subscribe to this blog by RSS or email.

  • Hypnotized by Futbol

    By far the most popular sport in Turkey is soccer, or as they call it futbol (football). This snapshot was taken on Istiklal Caddesi during the match of Turkey’s two biggest teams, both coming from Istanbul: Fenerbahçe versus Galatassaray. It’s one of the top 10 derby’s in Europe and one of the most exciting games for futbol fans across Turkey and especially in Istanbul. People in shops were following the match on the radio, waiters watching on televisions (as you can see in the above pic) or if they don’t have a TV in their restaurant you can see the waiters running around the corner whenever they can to look at a TV through the window of a nearby shop or restaurant.

    How popular is soccer/futbol/football in your country? What do you call it? What other sports are very popular in your country?

    I’m off to Bulgaria for a few days but posting will continue. You can stay up to date by following my Twitter feed, or subscribe to this blog by RSS or email.

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