[ Summer in the Palestinian Islands ( via dusanson) + greetings to our global citizen compas currently in Jerusalem! ] … Well, having felt a little bamboozled and of conflicted opinions re: the N.a.s.a. L.A.-style party beats last weekend ( more on that in the previous entry ), it’s a good time to clear the musical palette and assemble a list of fresh inspiring things that are on our radar… just press play ( well mostly ) : … …

< 23-25.7 > Freigest Music Festival with Brass Wood and Wires, DLC- Sudsound, Ganjaman, XLterrestrials + Media Decompression ( Sat.), Open Air + Big Tent Kino, Infostands, TV Coop, workshops, & Art resistance in many forms! all at YAAM, Berlin ( a bit subject to weather since most of Yaam is open air ) … < 24.7 > N.A.S.A. lands at Icon, Berlin Some of the Hottest shit ( at least in the pop sector ) to hit these ears this year is NASA’s 1st release, The Spirit Of Apollo.

So many thoughts are pouring thru, maybe we’ll write some down eventually, but for the moment one cannot appropriately post the music or the silence of the emotional and humbling anthropomorphic journeys. Another sign that the reductionism of the digital is a very very funny joke. Maybe a tribute to the man on the moon would fit here too, but for now Gil Scott Heron did one that already hits the spot called Whitey on The Moon. tbc… ( maybe )

< 17-19.7 > Schokoladen Hoffest # 19 with Schokoladen Venue, Club der Polnischen Versager and a whole colorful assortment of true neighborhood flavors in the Hof at Ackerstr. 169, Berlin Added: dj~vjs Youssarian + Podinski ( upstairs ) sat. nite ~ ~ ~ Recently the XLterrestrials determined that a tactical guide to surviving in the 21st century would have to entail a map and a pie-chart and a diagram for multiple escape hatches to exit the “virtual migration” - refering to the commercial+commodities vortex that sucks the libidinal energies, all yur communities’ natural resources, and yur individual hard-earned mullah into the faceless void.

Freezones were never a given, they must be created ! Having navigated Berlin for many years, the XLTerrestrials have observed that the territories for “free living” ( best defined for yourself ) have tragicly declined… and the city life is spiralling into a dismal normalized state. Fortunately the awareness is on the rise, and the time is ripe to take account of where your home is and when to fight for it: 11.7 > MegaSpree Demo ( By no means is this all that is happening, afterall this is a mostly symbolic action, a demo march from here to there to rouse the solidarity spirit and inform the wider public, another small human-scale day going only as far as one day can go.

< 8.7 > Mittwoch Abend 20.30 ~ DJ ~ VJ ~ Performance am Alten Museum in Mitte More info in english here (below): Hallo liebe kulturinteressierte Mitmenschen, am Mittwoch 8.7.09 ist es soweit: die Eröffnung des Berliner Museumsinselfestivals wird zelebriert. Dazu gibts an zentralem Ort eine einmalige Performance von DJ Shazam in Kollaboration mit dem Visual Artist Podinski aus San Francisco und special guest VJ Lillevan and Jen Mai. Ab 20.30 h gibts Musik von mir und etwas später gegen 21.

[ still from Ron Fricke’s Chronos ] < 8.7 > ETHNOTRONISCHE ZEIT & INTERKONTINENTALREISE mit DJ SHAZAM & VJ PODINSKI with special guests Lillevan and Jen-Mai at the Altes Museum, Berlin for the MuseumsInselFestival 2009 ( ab 21h in the Lustgarten ) “Combining museum archives with both cinematic bits and still imagery, XLterrestrial media ecologists provide the emotional and historical triggers to venture deeper into the anthropological overviews, which is usually reserved for a cool detached gaze, as if all these cultural artifacts were not in our being today.