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At the Olympus website you can download this great song for free.

I’ve got a new favourite song: Time by The Brokenmusicbox.

I first came up against this song in a time lapse cover design video (Cover creation from Peter Belanger on Vimeo). Just a pity that they cut off the last seconds of the song…

The party is over! It was awesome! We’re on YouTube! Can you spot us?

Especially Westbam was truly amazing! Thanks to Lars for the compilation!

On Saturday August 29, 2009 is the party I’ve been waiting for for over half a year: Bass Planet. Who’s coming? Westbam, Hardy Hard and Lady Waks from St. Petersburg (Russia): the reason I’m looking forward to this party so much. The second dance floor is being taken care of by local DJs Phoenix & Martink.

The party is taking place in Edelfettwerk (Hamburg, Germany) on Saturday August 29th. Doors open at 10 p.m. and the party is open-ended. Entrance is 6 EUR before midnight and 10 EUR after midnight. Read more

Ever since Last.fm made the unfortunate decision to become a paid subscription service for all countries except in the US, UK and Germany, I’ve been on the lookout for a good alternative to get to some tunes from somewhere else and I’ve finally found exactly that!

CitySounds.fm lets you listen to the latest music from cities around the world. At the top are the most active cities and the list constantly changes as new music is being created. The music is being fetched from SoundCloud and the city photos are fetched from Flickr.

The music available through CitySounds.fm seems to be primarily dance music until now and I’m quite happy about that actually. Enjoy listening to the music!

Update (August, 22nd): There’s a new and improved version of CitySounds.fm online in which all cities now have their own page as well, you can register as a listener by tweeting a link to the city page and and cities within the same country are suggested to listen to. CitySounds.fm was already great and it just got better!

Are you bored on a Friday evening in Hamburg? There’s a great weekly party called The Uniscene Experience in Halo you should check out if you’re into dance music.

It’s a nice location with 3 dance floors offering dance classics, house, RnB, techno, electro and tech-house. Entrance is for free for students, otherwise it’s 6 EUR. We had a great time! Read more

This is my favourite song at the moment. I could listen to it over and over again.

It was also used in a commercial for Air New Zealand. Read more

It’s spring, the sun is shining again and I suddenly couldn’t agree more with the (albeit very limited) lyrics of this song: “We should all be dancin’” (Ultra DJs – Dancin’). Instead I’m sitting inside behind my laptop, working… Read more

Every Friday evening from 7 to 9 p.m. (CET) Studio Brussel airs the radio show Mish Mash, presented by Gunter Desamblanx (hence the trash talk). From behind the turntables Gerrit Kerremans brings us two hours of great techno, dance and electro mashups, delightfully blended into and easily digestible and refreshing mix of pure exhilaration (Gunther: “JA’ah!”). This is no mere chart song chaining!

For your enjoyment, there’s a playlist online, often along with parts of the show available for download (MP3). By now, you’re probably very curious what this all sounds like, right? To satisfy your hunger, check out the mix of Les Petits Pilous (44,3 MB), the megamix of Switch 12 (20,6 MB) or the minimix of Switch 13 (20,6 MB) by Jin Sonic. You’ll be coming back for more! The radio station can also be listened to live from the Studio Brussel website (“Luister Live” on top).

If you’re a Facebook junkie and you like the radio show, you might consider joining the Mish Mash Appreciation Society.

After much consideration, I’d like to present to you the best web game of 2008: You Have To Burn The Rope (YHTBTR) (alternative link). It’s an amazingly superb little platform game and has everything that makes a game great. It’s unique and highly original. Enjoy it! Over and over again…

Congratulations and many thanks to Kian Bashiri, Christian Dryden, Henrik Nåmark (for the great music) and everybody who contributed to this little gem! There’s also an interview with Kian Mashiri, who’s responsible for the design, code and graphics of the game.