In my room I have this hidden box in which I am growing a secret tree on which special two hour editions of my radio show grow. And, as you might have expected by now, just yesterday another special edition fell down from it, which means there will be another special two hour edition of Het Schimmengebied, tonight from 23.00 till 1.00 on Radio Tonka through 92.0 FM and http://www.radiotonka.org!
This time with a secret special guest tonight, with whom I will share my special industrial, electronic and who knows what else kind of secrets, so don’t miss out!
Tonight it’s time for another special two hour edition of Het Schimmengebied. Another special edition? How many fucking special editions does this fucking sleazy dj have up it’s sleeve?! You might wonder… Well, this special edition certainly won’t be the last one, so that’s why I was planning to have another special guest tonight – or two even – but alas, they have cancelled, both. So instead I will devote this special edition to industrial power noise and avant garde electronics, which will operate as vehicles to express my fears of being alone on this bright moonlit night at Radio Tonka.
So tune in from 23.00 till 1.00 to Radio Tonka. Live transmitted through 92.0 FM in The Hague and http://www.radiotonka.org everywhere else.
Tonight it is time for the fifth edition of Het Schimmengebied. It will be an extra special edition, because for tonight I have invited the wonderful artist Nico Urban to play records with and talk about things during the show between 23.00 and 1.00. Which, you should notice by now, also means the show will last an hour longer than usual.
Nico Urban also has a website, which you can find here, at least, soon, as for now her website is still under construction: http://www.nicourban.com/
To catch this very special show, tune in to 92.0 FM if you are somewhere around The Hague, or listen through http://www.radiotonka.org.
Whenever I follow the Greek crisis only from a distance (read: only through major Dutch newspapers), I quickly get the feeling, like many other people, that parts of the story remain substantially underexposed in the mainstream media.
In the past few days I was following the news in the same way again. In the Dutch media the Greek government is increasingly being depicted as a bunch of incapable, or even dangerous politicians, who are unable to negotiate rationally, let alone seem to act in any sensible way. I slowly started to think this might indeed be the case, and that the crisis at this point left the Greek government incapable of acting rational, despite their great stance in the past several months.
However, as soon as I looked deeper into the story again, it seems the European media are in fact creating more and more spin in their reporting. Check for example this interview with Varoufakis from yesterday. For someone who is depicted by mainstream media as a thoroughly incompetent minister of finance, it is remarkable, given the current situation of Greece, how clearheaded he remains. The sharpness with which he answers the (very critical) questions that are fired at him by the reporter is truly admirable in my view:
I think it shows that not so much Greece, but Europe is undergoing a crisis which it does not know how to handle anymore. Perhaps Europe should really start to listen to Greece (and, in fact, many economists supported by international media) more, and start to look into sustainable solutions for the current crisis in Europe.
Coming Friday I will play at Vrijplaats Leiden in Leiden. Kinda last minute booking, but if you are nearby be sure to come by if you want to experience some wild and exotic electronica in a murky squat in the picturesque town of Leiden.
This Thursday night it’s time for the third edition of ‘Het Schimmengebied’, which will air live from 23.00 till 0.00 on Radio Tonka. It is still a surprise what I will be playing tonight, but it will probably encompass a selection of my more acidic electronics.
Listen live tonight via 92.0 FM within the vicinity of The Hague, or via http://www.radiotonka.org if you are living in a less privileged place on planet Earth.
Welcome, dearest visitor, who has in one way or another ended up on this electromechanical log of mine.
Here I shall keep you up to date about all kinds of activities which occur around my creative endeavors, for as far as I will not submit this log itself to such tendencies arising from my eternal benevolent love for all peasants lingering within this early rising manifestation of the ‘underworld’, better known as the ‘world wide web’, which surrounds us all, while simultaneously letting us be brought forth within these electronic realms.
