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• HGich T meets Santacon It’s pre-Christmas time in Vienna, sweet and alcoholic flavour from hot spiced wine stands is in the air, shoppers struggle en masse through Mariahilferstraße, the biggest shopping street in town, and between all this commercialized hustle and bustle and the traditional punch-drinking a different excess appears on the horizon.“No force on earth can stop one hundred Santas!”is the motto of Santacon or Santarchy – an annual flashmob-invasion of ... more ... December 24th, 2009 - (2 Comments)

• 100th Session Dear friends of TSMDT, we´ve got a reason to celebrate: TSMDT published its 100th session! Since the beginning of 2008 we´ve been publishing at least one session per week featuring artists we like to share them with our friends in the blogosphere. Not always, but most of the time the sessions were recorded in Vienna. What had started as an experiment grew fast. We received a Europrix nomination in 08, were featured on a lot of blog-like pla... more ... December 3rd, 2009 - (0 Comments)

• And Yet It Moves Usually we only write about artists that fit into our wide definition of the Indie genre and produce music. But on this special occasion it’s all about an Indie computer game. About two years ago four Viennese students who enjoy thinking out of the box joined forces to produce a prototype game as their bachelor thesis. Things worked out fine and their prototype got a lot of attention. They scored an award at the Independent Game Festival... more ... April 4th, 2009 - (1 Comments)

• Crystal Stilts The Crystal Stilts have released their debut album “Alight Of Night” in November this year and instantly got a lot of attention. It’s an attention that hasn’t diminished until now and will even grow as all the Best-of-2008 lists are coming up and a fair amount of them will feature the Brooklyn-based Crystal band as well. Rightly so, as their dark, reverb-laden pop is at the same time unsettling and uplifting, blends simple drum beats, washy gu... more ... December 17th, 2008 - (0 Comments)

• Winter Tunes For City Walks Around this time of year Christmas markets and the smell of hot wine punch become ubiquitous about the city, and it is the earnest attempt of some to avoid these gatherings of people and their attempts of summoning some artificial pre-Christmas spirit at all cost. Instead, a few prefer digging out those bitter-sweet tunes that fit their perception of the holiday season and load their mp3 players with them, creating an antithetical soundtrack t... more ... December 10th, 2008 - (0 Comments)

• Meur sault News   Once again the great folks at Said The Gramophone have dug out some treasure: Meursault, a four piece band from Edinburgh/Scotland, consisting only of multiinstrumentalists. I guess that’s what makes their songs so unpredictable; “The Furnace” starts off with electronic beats which are after a few bars accompanied by some distorted noise and a finger-picked banjo, until the haunting voice comes in with the right appreciation for pathos and e... more ... December 2nd, 2008 - (0 Comments)

• Blue Bird aftermath The Blue Bird festival is over – and we are probably not the first to tell you this. Despite of the very bad weather circumstances, we’ve done more videos than expected during the festival days and keep releasing them within the next few weeks. Some songs of our offstage sessions are shown on screen at the Christmas Special party of the Blue-Bird organisers VSA on Wednesday, December 3rd at Gasthaus Vorstadt in Vienna (apologies to our interna... more ... December 2nd, 2008 - (0 Comments)

• Bluebird Festival There is this song of Flotation Toy Warning, which suddenly changes pace and proceeds with opera-like singing. “Losing Carolina; For Drusky”. I expected them to press some button and play a sample of this singing part when performing on stage. But no, singer Paul Carter opened his mouth widely and passionately sang this hard part by himself. A part that one would never relate to his voice when listening to their record. Still, he d... more ... November 16th, 2008 - (1 Comments)