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  • Happy Birthday! 🙂

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    Today’s my girlfriend’s birthday. Look what I made for her! Since I live in Istanbul, and she lives in Sofia, Bulgaria, and we couldn’t be together for her birthday, I still wanted to make something special. So I gathered up some friends and acquaintances at my university and made this! 🙂

    There’s many nationalities in there also… Italian, Dutch, Romanian, American, Turkish, Canadian, Greek, German and Czech. I thanked them for their help afterwards.

    Hope you all like it as much as my girlfriend did. A little bit less is also okay also. 😉

  • Who Gives A Duck!?

    My girlfriend Tsvety and I proudly present the launch of our new blog Who Gives A Duck? with this rubber duckie video!

    Who Gives A Duck? We give a duck!

    First person to guess which city this video was shot in gets 200 Entrecard credits! (regular readers should have no problem with this)

  • New Picture Album of Sofia!

    Just uploaded another album to my Picasa with pictures of my stay in Sofia, Bulgaria this week. Click on a pic below to go check out the album!

    Or click here to see all of my albums, including older albums of Sofia, Istanbul, Brussels, Holland, Macedonia, and Bulgaria.

  • Crossing The Bridge – The Sound of Istanbul

    Last night I was relaxing a bit, since that’s the main reason why I came to Sofia, and I was looking for some documentaries on Istanbul. Hoping to learn about some interesting things I didn’t know yet in my current hometown, I came across a famous 2005 documentary called Crossing The Bridge – The Sound of Istanbul. It shows a lot of the music and culture that Istanbul has to offer, but also captures the daily life quite well. From rock to gypsie to Turkish traditional to rap to the whirling dervishes… It’s all in there! Without further ado… the documentary. (some commentary below)

    Press CC to turn subtitles on. The subtitling is decent and sometimes inaccurate (both for the German as well as the Turkish parts). However it doesn’t prevent one from enjoying and understanding the documentary. So don’t let it hold you back. If you prefer to watch the video on Google Video’s site, click here.

    My commentary
    Ok, so most of the sights seem really special, right?     That’s what I see every day. The sunsets, the Bosphorus… If I want to go to the European side, I go on one of the ferries displayed in the documentary.

    At some point the video shows a group of rappers walking the street (one of them stops to say hi to a girl that’s on the phone)… I walk that street every day. It’s the street that goes from the main Kadıköy busstation to my neighbourhood, Moda. The next shot shows them walking down a street and it has the Bosphorus in the background… I walk down that street every day too. 🙂

    I thought this documentary shows the daily life and the cultural life in Istanbul quite well. Some I have experienced, some I will experience, and some I will probably not experience. Having seen this documentary, I’m more inspired than ever to make the best out of my time… living in Istanbul!

  • Beautiful Istanbul Sunset

    As said in the previous posts, I live very close to the sea. The first evening that I was in my apartment, I got a bit bored and went to walk around a bit. I found a gorgeous sun setting in the sea. Check out the video below… It’s really soothing, relaxing, meditative. 🙂

    Sorry for the crooked horizon… see it as artistic expression.

    Subscribe to my RSS feed now! 🙂

  • spacescape – FrigginChicken (Eclectic Mix Download!)

    As I’ve stated before, in my free time I love mixing music and DJ’ing, especially if I can get a little creative and experimental with it. I made a mix the other day in the dormitory I blogged about and I’m very happy about the result.

    Eclecticism at its best in this set containing dub, minimal, breakcore, dubstep, grime, world fusion, breakbeat and psychedelic. Not much to add. Just exploring the waves of electronica. Enjoy!

    Tracklist
    Omar Faruk Tekbilek & Steve Shehan – Ya Bouy (Shulman Remix)
    Headphonics – Corrupt & Immoral
    Nagual Sound Experiment vs Ital Roots – Forward
    Younger Brother – Sleepwalker Part 2
    Shulman – Fromage
    Ed Davenport – Apples
    Dave Seaman – Gobbledygook (Jori Hulkkonen Remix)
    Combichrist – Red Signal
    The Bug – Murder We ft. Ricky Ranking
    Mood Deluxe – The Living Receiver
    Beat Bandits – O.I.T.S.
    Venetian Snares – Öngyilkos Vasárnap
    Ott – Evil Do’ers
    Venetian Snares – Senki Dala

    Click to download as MP3 (VBR), 78 minutes

    Enjoy! And support the artists when you get the chance!

  • Look Up More Monday

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    A few years ago I was walking through my hometown Utrecht in The Netherlands quite bored, but I had to kill some time. For some reason while I was walking I looked up and suddenly found myself marvelling at a beauty I had never noticed before. I believe a lot of things in our surrounding go completely unnoticed, because we don’t look up much. That’s why I’d like to encourage you all to LOOK UP MORE!

    Every Monday I will post a photo or two of shots I took while looking up. This is the first installment with some shots from Istanbul, Turkey.

    The last one is a shot by my girlfriend Tsvety (visit her DeviantArt page) and was taken in Ephesus, Anatolia, Turkey. It contains the Library of Celsus, completed in 135 AD.

    If you would like to participate, just post a pic every monday taken from an upward angle and post your link below! For this week don’t worry if your post is a day late. Just post your link and visit the others.

  • spacescape – MacroScope (Progressive Psy Mix!)

    Free Download!

    spacescape – MacroScope

    Open up your eyes and zoom into the infinity of existence and non-existence. Open up your ears and let the universe collide as this mix takes you on a progressively intensifying journey through the galaxies of ambient, progressive psychedelic trance and world fusion! If you’re listening to the mix and like a particular artist, please feel free to check out their work through clicking on their names in the list right here. Support the scene! Enjoy! (download below the tracklist)

    Tracklist
    Biosphere – Sphere of No-Form (00:00 – 05:40)
    Bitstream – Trumbull (04:41 – 11:04)
    Bigwigs – Córki Lota II (10:08 – 17:00)
    System 7 – Strange Beings (16:07 – 21:40)
    Cyberbabas – The Second Revelation (20:10 – 29:41)
    Prometheus – Arcadia Magik (28:03 – 36:36)
    Tripswitch – Viscous [Eat Static’s Jumbled Noise RMX] (35:30 – 42:33)
    Space Tribe – Sonic Mandala [Crop Circle Mix] (42:17 – 50:47)
    Benga – Go Tell Them (50:32 – 54:18)
    Soundaholix – Technofari [3rd Ear RMX] (52:34 – 60:15)
    Alien Project – Aztechno Dream [RMX] (59:23 – 67:00)
    System 7 – Wolf Head (66:05 – 74:00)
    MIDIval Punditz – Dark Age [Audialize Super Psy-Remix] (73:13 – 82:41)

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    🙂 Enjoy! 🙂 Enjoy! 🙂

    click >> Download the whole mix in MP3 here
    or, alternatively, here << click

    🙂 Enjoy! 🙂 Enjoy! 🙂

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    Remember, a lot of hard work has gone into producing the tracks used in the mix. Please support the scene by seeing these artists live whenever you get the chance or by buying their CDs through the links provided in the tracklist.

    Artwork by spacescape.

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    A polite disclaimer: some of the links provided in the tracklist are affiliate links with Amazon.com. It is not my intent to make money. I exchange whatever profit I make at Amazon for vouchers and purchase work from deserving authors or artists like the ones above to help out the scene. These works will be reviewed on this blog. Being a student, I have very little money, so I try to help in every way I can. I could also just download.

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