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Once in a while you stumble upon new interesting artists and or albums. This time it’s Ulrich Schnauss’s – Ultimate Remix Collection. But in this case it’s a little bit strange perhaps, because I haven’t heard songs of his normal albums. I have onle heard the remixes of him, which you can find on the Internet (…). His music – or at least the remixes – is inspired by My Bloody Valentine (videoclip here) which is a “shoegazer“-like band – actually standing on stage and not moving that much, but make extensive use of guitar effects and singing along with it, personally I think it’s dreamy-like music. Anyway, if you like some easy-listening music you should give Ulrich a try. He remixed several artists like Coldplay, The Zephyrs (?) and Depeche Mode. In my humble opinion he certainly has developed his own style. For an impression of his music, take a look at this video or download a free MP3-track from Last.fm. Actually his style reminds me a little bit of Vangelis and Jean-Michael Jarre and the soundtrack made by Stephane Picq for the game Lost Eden, although Stephane created a (more) mystical soundtrack, ofcourse necessary for the game.

Many people have heard of Murphy’s law, which means: “if anything can go wrong, it will”. Take this law as a starting point for your calendar and you get an interesting calendar.

I (had the honour and) was asked by my girlfriend to contribute to the Murphy’s Law calendar for next year (2009). One of the rules was that you are not allowed to use existing quotes but you had to invent them yourself. And that’s not easy, but I managed to come up with something. If you are curious you have to buy the calendar in the bookstore, starting from the second half of August.