I'm horrible at remembering names and that includes the names of songs or tracks. Faces i can just about remember or at least try and place in my flashcards-type memory. They say, in order to remember someone's name especially if you're meeting them for the first time is to say their name back in the sentence that you introduce yourself and to at least use their name 3 times within a time frame.
So anyway this post is an example of how a tune is able to bring you back to a particular moment in your past. A representation of a Time in space. And how with a little luck and determination i was able to find the name of a particular track even though i had no idea who it was by and was unable to even remember a verse or a few key words.
Yes i am that useless.
Then by simply stumbling upon a Minimal House Electro Charts website and listening to the samples, i found it!
Yes i put my S-M-R-T cells together.
...
The first time i heard the track was at Rheingold, a club that J and i used to go to in Düsseldorf. They would often would play this tune at some point during the night. And each time i heard it, i would get that feel-good feeling inside. You know how some tunes you hear just makes you feel good. Well this particular tune makes me wanna cry, it's just beautiful.
At Rheingold they would focus spot lights on the massive disco ball hovering over the dance floor, which they would then lower slightly, as if some kind of space ship was about to land and the lights would beam off it. It was always beautiful to watch.
But of course, each time we left the club we wouldn't know the name of the tune or the DJ. So we'd always look forward to returning just so we could hear it.
So yea, over the weekend, J and i drove back to Düsseldorf to pick up more items from our old flat and to basically clean up a bit. And out of the blue on the radio, that particular track came on! It was the first time i heard it outside of the club but immediately my brain associated it was all the good times and summarized the past year in Düsseldorf.
And so here it is, "Sky and Sand" by Paul Kalkbrenner... Enjoy!
The video is snippets of the movie, Berlin Calling. Which was released only 3 weeks ago on DVD and one that i really want to watch. It's in German but it has English subtitles.
Berlin Calling is about a "Berlin electronic music composer Martin (Paul Kalkbrenner), known as DJ Ickarus, is touring with his manager and girlfriend Mathilde (Rita Lengyel) from club to club around the globe and is about to release their biggest album to date. However, all of his plans are thrown out of kilter after Ickarus is submitted to the emergency ward of a psychiatric clinic high on drugs after a gig- A tragicomedy in Berlin of today." [source]
So anyway this post is an example of how a tune is able to bring you back to a particular moment in your past. A representation of a Time in space. And how with a little luck and determination i was able to find the name of a particular track even though i had no idea who it was by and was unable to even remember a verse or a few key words.
Yes i am that useless.
Then by simply stumbling upon a Minimal House Electro Charts website and listening to the samples, i found it!
Yes i put my S-M-R-T cells together.
...
The first time i heard the track was at Rheingold, a club that J and i used to go to in Düsseldorf. They would often would play this tune at some point during the night. And each time i heard it, i would get that feel-good feeling inside. You know how some tunes you hear just makes you feel good. Well this particular tune makes me wanna cry, it's just beautiful.
At Rheingold they would focus spot lights on the massive disco ball hovering over the dance floor, which they would then lower slightly, as if some kind of space ship was about to land and the lights would beam off it. It was always beautiful to watch.
But of course, each time we left the club we wouldn't know the name of the tune or the DJ. So we'd always look forward to returning just so we could hear it.
So yea, over the weekend, J and i drove back to Düsseldorf to pick up more items from our old flat and to basically clean up a bit. And out of the blue on the radio, that particular track came on! It was the first time i heard it outside of the club but immediately my brain associated it was all the good times and summarized the past year in Düsseldorf.
And so here it is, "Sky and Sand" by Paul Kalkbrenner... Enjoy!
The video is snippets of the movie, Berlin Calling. Which was released only 3 weeks ago on DVD and one that i really want to watch. It's in German but it has English subtitles.
Berlin Calling is about a "Berlin electronic music composer Martin (Paul Kalkbrenner), known as DJ Ickarus, is touring with his manager and girlfriend Mathilde (Rita Lengyel) from club to club around the globe and is about to release their biggest album to date. However, all of his plans are thrown out of kilter after Ickarus is submitted to the emergency ward of a psychiatric clinic high on drugs after a gig- A tragicomedy in Berlin of today." [source]
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