Sundaze 1421

Hello, yes the pretty boys from Real won the cup, undeservedly i might add not just during the game where they managed to equalize in the third minute of extra time with the first real effort on goal. On a side note i found the amount of extra time suspicious. The Athletico men had been spent, the extra time saw that illegal hit man Bale head the winner into the net as he was quick to direct a deflected shot into the top corner. Illegal yes that 100 million euro's man shouldn't have been allowed to be bought by a technically bankrupt club. Athletico has seen it's best players bought away these last years on that account they have a healthy balance. But don't expect those at the UEFA proclaiming fair play to do anything about it....

The coming month it's all about elektrolux's space nights. Space Night (full title: space night - All-tag nachts) is the name of a German television program in the early night/morning hours each day. It is a mixture of chill-out-music and images of the earth as seen from space interspersed with informative broadcasts. It was started by the Bayerischer Rundfunk (BR) in 1994 and is now broadcast by BR-alpha, .....N'Joy

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Space Night started in 1994 as a replacement of the test cards which were broadcast on BR at night until this time. The idea originated in the fact that the German satellite ASTRO-SPAS (see STS-80) had recorded many hours of video footage in space. The BR received this footage, edited the material and added downtempo spherical music.

As BR did not want to show the same pictures 7 days a week, both NASA and ESA as well as the German Aerospace Center were addressed. They offered more hours of footage from in and around space, which were thusly included.
Cult status and music.

Space Night IX





The broadcast quickly turned into a cult: At raves in the mid-90s it wasn't unusual to show the images of Space Night on big TV-screens. Early in the morning after the rave it was often used to calm down, especially from 1996 and later, as Space Night's sound changed through the musical guidance by Alex Azary (a European chill-out-DJ), who provided a more electronic background music. This was a logical step that originated from Alex Azary. He headed the Club XS in Frankfurt where "chill out nights" started in 1990, supported by spherical music. Alongside, pictures of Space Night were shown, albeit the playback was a little bit slower than in the original program. The images did fit well to the then new music-genre and Alex thought it would be a good idea to show it to the people at BR. A meeting in Munich followed where he could convince them to try something new.

The compositions are also available as separate CDs, the mixdown starting from the album "Space Night II" is done by the German music label Elektrolux. In the meantime, twelve CD-albums with music to the television series have been published, with three of those clearly differing in musical style. While "Space Night Vol. 1" is an album featuring pop music, "Space Night Vol. 10" features Jazz music and "Space Night Vol. 12" is a double CD with classical music. A DVD titled "Best of Earth-Views" is also available.

After a change in tariffs by the GEMA, BR stated they would not want to continue Space Night starting in January 2013, due to the drastically increased royalties. Hence the series was ended on January 8th 2013. Numerous viewers engaged BR to continue Space Night by using GEMA-free music. The station decided to undo the cancellation, first by rerunning older episodes starting on February 25th, 2013 and to later broadcast new episodes starting in autumn of 2013. To accomplish this, BR will use music with Creative Commons licensing, encouraging their viewer to upload their favorites.

The restart was scheduled for November 1st, 2013. It had to be postponed to November, 15th, because NASA was not able to provide the necessary graphical material, due to the Government shutdown in the United States

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The nights of the Bavarian television with their shots from space or its simulation as well as the lounge wants to played / fall asleep electronic music for many years of the classics, if you enjoy the evening slowly or watching TV. For both, the music is ideal. Which does not mean that they would be shallow, arbitrary or boring. The opposite is the successful compilations on this shipment usually the case. So also with output IX. Elegant Chill out music from some of the usual suspects (Pascal FEOS, Aural Float, Funky Porcini, Waldeck, Roysköpp or Lemongrass) and hopeful Neutönern (Jean F. Cochois, Avatars Of Dub, Metalob, Ruxpin). The Space Night series has become an indestructible reputation that reaches as readily to the Cafe del Mar series. And just like there are for some time and over again to find a few boring tracks. Therefore, no Höchstlob, wonderful she is but has certainly turned.

VA - Space Night Vol. 09 alpha  (flac 479mb)

01 Guardner - N.Y.C. 5:26
02 Josh One - Contemplation (Fresh Moods Remix) 6:01
03 Avatars Of Dub - Sexelevatormuzik (Thievery Corporation Mix) 5:15
04 The Funky Lowlives - Inside (Dorfmeister vs. Uptight Mix) 4:28
05 Sniper Mode & MBP - Diesel 3:45
06 Pascal F.E.O.S. - Down To Earth 6:35
07 Mono Chrome - Flowers In Ocean (Edit) 5:24
08 Lemongrass - Feel Good 6:13
09 Jens Buchert - Spirit Of A Dream 5:20
10 Naoki Kenji - Night Passage 4:20
11 Fresh Moods - The Touch 8:18
12 Jean F. Cochois - From The Edge Of Time 5:40
13 Fous De La Mer - Stars & Fishes 5:22
14 Röyksopp - In Space 3:28

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VA - Space Night Vol. 9 Beta  (flac 448mb)

01 Waldeck - Dub Ploitation (First Impression Dub) 6:07
02 PFL - Airwalk 4:51
03 Aural Float - Perspectives (Life In Dub Remix) 5:20
04 Funki Porcini - It's A Long Road 3:39
05 Chris Coco - Only Dub 4:13
06 Black Dog & Black Sifichi - Invisible Things 4:13
07 Robert Leiner - Roots FM1 6:54
08 The Sushi Club - Hamaguri 8:12
09 Metalob - Airwave 7:17
10 Ruxpin - In Form Of A Bird I Meet My Creator 6:23
11 Copshow - Side Walk 2:37
12 üNN - Pictures 4:50
13 Chris Zippel - Surface (Genuine Remix) 5:53
14 The Orb - Dilmun 3:58

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I don't know if Elektrolux was muscled out of the commercial successful space night series or not, fact is Sony picked it up but forgot to bring the Aural Floaters on board and as is all to common with these big labels they didn't know what to do with it. The predecessor Space night 10 was a jazz act doing their thing, a single album that really didn't fit the series. So expectations were there for the new double album Spacenight 11 Unfortunately, this edition now doesn't deliver. I associate or association with Space Night not only innovative (!) chill-out and ambient music it appealed to a very conscious niche in the vast lo-fi and electric field. The titles were to listen to the early Space Night samplers were not together stolen from various other compilations, but were usually so pre-release of the silent high quality Elektrolux labels from Frankfurt. Now the forefathers of Aural Float from the project have withdrawn and therefore the fascinating and compelling series comes to an end. "Stop when it's at its most beautiful!" has been heeded.
Unfortunately, Sony did the opposite and with this bland compilation (really sad considering it 'celebrated' the 10th anniversary of the series) alienated the loyal fans. A great pity!

VA - Space Night Vol.11 Alpha (flac  462mb)

01 I Monster - Daydream In Blue 3:37
02 Nightmares On Wax - Les Nuits 6:17
03 Hooverphonic - Mad About You (Llorca's Radio Shot) 4:24
04 Vargo - Get Back To Serenity (Beach Mix) 6:08
05 Zoo Brazil - 1987 4:58
06 Solasoap - Look Around (Album Version) 4:54
07 The Strike Boys - Cocaine Is A Sin 6:33
08 Vienna DC - DC Lounge Theme (Album Version) 4:42
09 Aquanote - Nowhere 7:08
10 Booka Shade - Moonstruck 6:10
11 Audioplacid - Diving (Adam's Clear Mix) 3:57
12 Benet - Trap 6:35
13 Terranova - Common Places (Album Version) 4:72
14 Micatone - A Part Of Me (Album Version) 4:10
15 Roger Sanchez - Another Chance (Afterlife Mix) 5:30

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VA - Space Night Vol. 11 Beta (flac 466mb)

01 Justus Köhncke - Timecode 7:45
02 Gaelle - Rain 6:39
03 Chevallier - Crack City (Club Chevallier Mix) 5:30
04 Freaks - Where Were You When The Lights Went Out 6:33
05 M.A.N.D.Y. - Tonite 6:58
06 Korsakow - I Don't Know 4:34
07 Seelenluft - You Come Along (Joakim Remix) 6:35
08 Unit 4 - Bodydub 4:03
09 Scissor Sisters - Comfortably Numb (Album Version) 4:26
10 Chelonis R. Jones - One & One 7:02
11 Moonbootica - Love Is Our Gold 5:55
12 Jimi Tenor - Take Me Baby (Album Version) 3:39
13 Planet Funk - The Switch (Radio Edit) 3:14
14 Tiga - Pleasure From The Bass (12inch Version-Edit) 5:20

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