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Brooklyn’s own Cousin Cole send us this little jammy jam. CC is also one half of Flagrant Fowl with Pocketknife. I think this would mix well with that “Mr. Postman” mash up I can’t seem to understand. I think i’ll eventually come around, as I did with PPJ Time. Wind it out!
Photo: BasenI heard Shir Khan’s BBC One Radio Mix about a year ago and was instantly hooked. Ironically, the same night I heard his mix, I also checked out my first Trouble & Bass party at Boogaloo where I met the ever so talented crew and homie, Luca Venezia aka Drop The Lime/Curses! (More on that later – hint, Institubes tour!)
Anyway, seems things are coming along nicely for Shir Khan and deservedly so!
Shir Khan is regarded as Berlin’s Premier DJ outfit in the discothèque and electro scene. He has been trashing dancefloors all over Europe. Shir Khan has played on the bill with the whole Ed Banger Party Crew, Yuksek, Simian Mobile Disco, Tomboy, Bonde do Role, Munk, Radioclit, Snax, Khan, Mocky, Erlend Oye and many other artists.
After two 12″s from Surkin and Adam Sky, SHIR KHAN – MAXIMIZE! will be the first Double Mix-Cd on Exploited.
SHIR KHAN – MAXIMIZE! is straddling the lines between Electro, Baile Funk, New Wave, Techno and Punk. It’s all the mess & mayhem of nightlife packaged into a double disc of never-ending strobing bliss. And it is also a collection of tracks from friends, Shir Khan has dj’d with in the past.
49 Tracks with Exclusives from Simian Mobile Disco, Sirius Mo, Adam Sky vs Mark Stewart (The Popgroup), Munk vs Mocky, Justice vs Spektrum, Sergej Auto vs Edu K, Captain Comatose, Free Blood, Sinden. Plus Remixes from Jesse Rose, Surkin, Switch, and Digitalism.
In The News
Recently included on the URB Next 100 List (2007), Shir Khan is making waves far outside Germany with his unconventional, uncompromising blend of dance-music style. Mainly spread through the Internet, Shir Khan has become a key tastemaker DJ and jack-of-all-trades. Right now, Shir Khan must be one of the busiest Djs in Berlin. Besides constantly dropping cutting edge Dj mixes for Fabric (members area), Ministry of Sound, BBC Radio 1, XFM, he has also started his own imprint Exploited, with artists such as Surkin, Adam Sky vs Mark Stewart, Sirius Mo, Chris de Luca vs Phon.o and is currently a remixer in demand for the ones of Brazilian Baile Funk-Trio Bonde do Role (Domino), New Yorks New Young Pony Club support Act Holy Hail (ACTH Recordings) or The Jai-Alai Savant (City Slang) of Major Taylor-Fame (the man that invented the Hollertronix-parties around Diplo from M.I.A.).
Bonde do Role – “Office Boy”
At a time when even Minimal-DJs and -fans are opening up to Dubstep and Bassline House it becomes evident that more and more clubbers and music-lovers are looking for a brand new sound, for thrillingly exotic line-up combinations and exciting up-to-date performances. Just listen to Simian Mobile Disco, the Klaxons, Justice, Uffie&Feadz, Switch, Sinden, Herve, Lady Sovereign or TTC and you’ll know what we are talking about – not to forget the media hype called “Nu Rave”. London, Berlin and many more places around the world are dancing already to a new wave of ecleticism and dancefloor-power and it keeps on spreading.
Shir Khan did a new mix for swedish musicblog DISCOBELLE as well as for Jonty Skruffs show on MINISTRY OF SOUND. Furthermore, Berlin new rave/ mash-up maestro Shir Khan chatted to Skrufff this week (8 June 2007 Skrufff-E #313) about the state of Berlin’s club scene and said that minimal techno continues to dominate the city’s musical landscape.
“It’s funny because everyone from the techno-minimal scene tells me that they hate minimal and they don’t want to hear it any more, then you go to those clubs like Arena Bar or Panorama Bar, maybe not so much Panorama, it’s not quite so minimal, but all those places that claim not to be minimal, when you go there it’s all minimal,” he laughed.
“Everyone’s telling me ‘minimal sucks’-you see T shirts saying ‘Kill Minimal’ it’s quite trendy to say minimal is out but it’s still actually really big.”
Carving out his own niche as a mash-up, then electroclash and now neu rave DJ, Khan is currently riding high on the white hot baile funk/ electro crossover, courtesy of his stunningly good remix of Bonde Do Role’s new single Office Boy, though stressed Berlin has still to catch up.
“Everyone talks about neu rave but I don’t think we actually have a scene in Berlin. You get parties where they try and imitate this style but I don’t think it’s really working out; you get parties with glow sticks and the new rave fashion side but people are really just trying to imitate it.
“In the intellectual press here new rave gets a lot of disrespect,” he added, “Its either just starting or maybe it’s even already been killed by the media because they’re saying the big fuss about neu rave has already gone, particularly in the UK.”
Shir Khan’s first official double-mix CD MAXIMIZE! is out September 14th on EXPLOITED.
Free Downloads – Shir Khan In The Mix
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Shir Khan – DJ’s Anonymous Mix
DJ-VJ-MIX: SHIR KHAN – ULTRAMOODEM!
SHIR KHAN – DISCOBELLE HIGH-ENERGY MINI-MIX
PITCHFORKMEDIA: “It’s like everything good thats happening in dance culture right this second.“
BPM: “If you enjoy the montage of sounds coming from DJs like Optimo, Glimmers and 2Many Djs, Berlin’s DJ Shir Khan will treat you right. Shir Khan’s repertoire spans an impressive amount of space.”
XLR8R: “SHIR KHAN is one of Berlin’s hardest working and most entertaining djs in any of the dozen genres he plays in.”
Sphere: Related ContentI can remember being at a Electronic music festival in the mid 90’s and the National Guard, complete with a helicopter raided the camp grounds. How reminiscent!
The festival is the first time the force has used the technology
A remote control “spy helicopter” has been helping police patrol a major music festival.
Staffordshire Police have been using the CCTV drone for the first time at the V Festival site this weekend.
Officers said the remote controlled plane helped capture offenders at the festival site at Weston Park, on the border of Staffordshire and Shropshire.
By Sunday police had arrested 62 people in total at the festival and had cautioned more than 100.
Officers said 32 of those arrested had been found possessing drugs.
The remote control drone was being used particularly in the festival’s car park to catch criminals attempting to break into vehicles.
‘Caught on camera’
Police said they expected to use the technology at future big events.
Ch Insp Pete Owen said: “We are delighted to be trialling the drone.
“It will work in addition to the CCTV that we will monitor on site throughout the festival.
V Festival
The festival is expected to attract about 90,000 people
“Our message to criminals is that we will be watching you and you will be arrested if you are caught on camera.”
People travelling to the festival on Friday faced traffic delays of hours because of motorway congestion.
Highways Agency officials were forced to close a slip road on the M6 to help ease the traffic problems.
The two-day festival has attracted about 90,000 people to the park.
Vfest Official Site
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A New Jersey teenager has unlocked the iPhone, opening the way to Apple’s iconic mobile telephone being used by non-US networks.
The Associated Press news agency confirmed George Hotz, 17, had unlocked the iPhone and used it on T-Mobile, a rival to its sole US operator, AT&T.
The hacker says the unlocking takes about two hours and involves some soldering and skill with software.
AT&T and Apple have not yet commented on the news.
“Some of my friends think I wasted my summer but I think it was worth it”
– George Hotz
Hackers and security researchers have been poring over Apple’s much-coveted phone since its launch in the US in June in an effort to discover vulnerabilities in the handset.
Top of their list has been cracking the code that ties the phone to AT&T, the iPhone’s exclusive network.
Before George Hotz’s announcement on his blog, the iPhone was made to work on overseas networks using another method, which involves copying information from the Sim (Subscriber Identity Module) card.
However, special equipment was needed and the actual phone was not unlocked, with each Sim card having to be reprogrammed for use on a particular iPhone.
Analysts believe Apple may still have time to modify the iPhone production line to make new phones invulnerable to the hacks before the iPhone’s expected European launch later this year.
Collaboration
The young hacker says he hopes phone-owners can eventually unlock their phones by themselves, and that he hopes his discovery will not be exploited for commercial gain.
Apple iPhone
The iPhone is currently sold only within the US
“That’s exactly, like, what I don’t want… people making money off this,” he told AP.
The next step, he said, would be a non-solder solution: a way to unlock the phone using software alone.
Technology blog Engadget said on Friday that it had successfully unlocked an iPhone using a different method that required no tinkering with the hardware. The software was supplied by an anonymous group of hackers that apparently plans to charge for it, AP reports.
The agency notes that both the Hotz and Sim techniques leave the iPhone’s many functions intact apart from its “visual voicemail” feature, which shows voice messages as if they are incoming e-mail.
The New Jersey hacker says he collaborated online with four other people, two of them in Russia, to develop the unlocking process.
He spent about 500 hours on the project since the launch on 29 June.
As reported by the BBC
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Welcome to the final countdown. I am leaving for college Saturday, and have been busy lately with getting everything ready. And once I am there, I really won’t have much time to work on the iPhone. But I don’t want to leave being the only person with an unlocked iPhone :) So we have decided to release the hardware unlock. The hardware required is decently simple, and most people who have modded a game system have the soldering ability required to do it. This has been a great adventure, the “summer of the iPhone”, and I finally achieved my goal of getting my phone working on T-Mobile. So its about time everyone else can do this too.
Here is the release plan. Last night, I went to the Apple store, and purchased a brand new 4GB iPhone. At 8AM EST sharp, I will begin unlocking a NIB iPhone step by step on the blog along with everyone who wants to come along. I’ll be answering any questions on #iphone.unlock @ undernet. I’ll be doing the hardware part first, so you can wait to see if you think the hardware is too complicated before diving in and taking apart the phone. But it really is only a wire that needs to be soldered. So see you all at 8 AM EST.
If you’re in Chicago tonight, check out Lava Lounge where you’ll find some pretty Cool Kids rockin the mic and the decks!! In the future, we will designate a section for all party flyers in some of the big cities, so stay tuned for some changes. x
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