Often it is not easy for successors. For example Sister Act; first part was amusing, but the second part of that 90-minute Whoopie Goldberg word stream was something for the garbage. For festivals this piece of wisdom applies as well. Honestly, subconscious expectations were high when hearing the first news about Audioriver 2008. This year’s logo of Audioriver was the opposite of all things happened; really no one was eager to hang up his ballet shoes. Dancing was the maxim, come hell or Vistula’s high water… »»

Did someone call for a Hallelujah? But now there’s Hiloola made by Moshic. Hiloola, the allround worry-free package of grooving power, washing whiter than white »»

A ride to catch up with Layo & Bushwacka; not to Rio, but to Poznan, to Poland’s venue of the moment, the SQ club. A great opportunity to visit the much lauded club itself plus finally finding out who is Layo and who is Bushwacka »»

Last Saturday the club next to Oberbaumbrücke evidenced one more time, that it is a heavy weight in the Champions League of clubbing »»

Wow… What a sound. Laurent Garnier truly deserves the title world class DJ. He is one of the few, who is visibly delighted when spinning. Easily he let his acoustic sparks fly, to set the place and crowd on fire »»

Not only for IT specialists the following would be a simple, but yet definitive piece of logic: If Pappa, then Eastern Europe, if not to say Poland »»

5 years Watergate - Fairmont live and label honcho James Holden himself, supported by Sascha Funke, Geiger as well as Dave Turov and Robin Drimalski »»

Imagine you’re in Poland and you run out of Vodka… »»

Saint Petersburg was rocking in the middle of the Baltic Sea, just a stone’s throw away from the big Kronshtadt area. There you can find the fortress “Tsar Alexander I.” - the stage of Fortdance »»

Ulrich Schnauss’ third studio album “Goodbye” has just arrived. Something new from the man whose “sounds are that warm as if created by natural instruments”. In the wake of its release I caught up with the man from Kiel, Germany, who is now living in Big Brother city London to talk about music, inspiration and philosophy of life. »»