Instrument buidling workshop for kids by Staalplaat Soundsystem (DE/NL)

Staalplaat is a forum for soundartists, an organisation network with a music label, an e-zine, a radioprogram, an audio-galerie, shop, mail order and distribution company, started in Amsterdam.

The 11th edition of Club Transmediale Festival, Berlin's unique festival for music and related visual arts, will commence on Janaruy 15. De:Bug and zero" proudly present the festival's official audio compilation, available as a free download exclusively from zero-inch.com between January 15 and February 7, 2010.

True to this year's motto 'Overlap' the compilation presents 13 leading artists from the field of experimental music, club music and pop. The range of styles on display includes beat experiments by Patric Catani and Aoki Takamasa, striking neo-classic by cellist Hildur Gudnadottir, melancholic disco pop by Glass Candy and Desire, as well as modern dubstep interpretations by Mount Kimbie, Funckarma and Hotflush label owner Scuba. Mysterious ambient project Oni Ayhun further gives insights into its disturbing sound worlds, Etienne Jaumet evokes the retro-electronic ghost of John Carpenter, while Joris Voorn, DJ of the CTM.10 afterhours at Berlin's Panoramabar, represents current developments in the techno-house genre.

A video is included on the compilation as well: The trailer to Richie Hawtin's tour documentary 'Making CONTAKT', which will premier on this years Club Transmediale.

For the first time a video is included on the compilation and it is no other than an exclusive preview of Richie Hawtin's tour documentary 'Making Contakt': The public screening of 'Making Contakt' will take place at Berlin's Babylon cinema during the course of the festival.

Check the zero" website for more information and direct download.

Available as a free exclusive download between January 15 and February 7, 2010.

You can do so many things with vegetables these days. The versatile little eddibles can be boiled, fried, baked or blended into all kinds of wierd and wonderful concoctions. The bright sparks, however, that make up Vienna's Vegetable Orchestra have entirely different intentions for them.

Apparently sophisticated sound technology transforms them into audible sound generation bodies that are performed as part of a contemporary composition. Prepare for fanfares of pepper-trumpets and cascading arpeggios from the radish- xylophone.

They play tonight at the Centre Pompidou as part of the 5th edition of Hors Pistes.

By combining courage for experimentation and joy in gaming, A MAZE. celebrates the convergence of computer games and art. A MAZE. is more than a festival - it is a series of events as well as a conceptual format that offers a regularly emerging platform for interdisciplinary exchange. Amalgamation with other media is particularly desirable. Creatives are encouraged to break down the computer game and surpass established concepts of play.

Not only are artists, designers, scientists and computer whizzes offered a platform to communicate, express ideas, learn from each other and experiment together, but the specific focus on promoting the joy in experimenting reveals the creative potential that lies behind the ambivalent medium of the computer games. The person using the games forms the central focus of these events. Intersections especially with related media such as film, TV, literature or music offer further sources for inspiration.

Playful interaction encourages interpersonal exchange. A MAZE. develops this urgently needed action space by combining a diversity of individually designed modules, which are continuously tested and expanded through regular events.

The A MAZE. Exhibition presents multiple facets of the complex field of so-called Game Art. The subject matter includes both: art inspired by computer games, and art aiming to create new forms of gaming. A rather dense variant is offered through the A MAZE. Playground - a small installation including a diverse selection of delicious games.

The A MAZE. Award follows this direction by honoring outstanding computer game creations. The artistic content and cultural relevance of computer games are discussed within the context of the A MAZE. Games Culture Circle, whereas the A MAZE. Jump'n Run series offers a different approach: it celebrates interpersonal exchange through playful experiments with the musical attributes of computer technology.

Matthew Styles - DJ, Label Manager and Co-founder of DigYourOwnRave at London's Tbar every Sunday Evening, also makes electronic music for labels such as Horizontal, Diamonds & Pearls, Bpitch Control, Disco45, Paranoid, Music For Freaks, City Rockers & Crosstown Rebels and now living in Berlin ...

Scuba, Matthew Styles, Alexander Kowalski, Dirty Doering

All proceeds generated will be pledged directly to Amnesty International.

Scottish veteran techno DJ Dave Tarrida invites Austrian veteran techno DJ Electric Indigo to the Moog.

Come down to Moog on Christmas eve to check out two of the best techno DJs on the circuit.

There is, in Ben Butler's music, a bristling and expansive melodic madness inherited from the baroque experiments of 1970s studio megalomaniacs such as Vangelis, Alan Parsons, Triumvirat or even ELO, devoured, digested, sent back in time and thrown up over some bizarrely funky rhythmic backdrops that one would perhaps define as nerdxploitation, hadn't this term been spiritually trademarked by the evil ghouls of the MTV. This philosophical stance should perhaps make you think of Ben Butler & Mouse Pad as the shy hyper-intelligent cousin of a couple of popular French dance acts also raised on unhealthy doses of weirdo synth music, experimental disco and coffee black like sin, or the one true genius who will compose the jingle for Firefly, if this series ever comes back to the screens under Paper Rad's direction. Either way, he's onto a winner, and you will be too, once you step past the golden rings of the dimensional trans-sonic portal of his awesome music. via Juan - 20jazzfunkgreats.co.uk

22:00 Ben Butler and Mousepad - live - 23:00 Patric Catani - dj-

Free entrance, concerts start on time as they are broadcast live on www.couleur3.ch

Touch Yello evokes moods, pictures and movie scenes. For the creation of this virtual concert they're working with Kevin Blanc, a Swiss moving image designer and art director.

This is the logical next chapter in Yello's 30-year history, which has seen the electronic innovators pushing the limits of music video production since 1981, when they released "Pinball Cha Cha", a suave figure-oriented video that was later included in the Museum of Modern Art's Music Video Exhibition.

However, the most mainstream aspect of Yello's music and film career sprung from the success of the 1985 single "Oh Yeah", an addictive number which was prominently featured in John Hughes' classic Ferris Bueller's Day Off, among other films. After that, the group continuing composing for the silver screen: they scored the comedy Nuns on the Run and band member Dieter Meier directed the 1990 feature Snowball.

Omodaka, the awesome 8-bit electropop band, has come out with a new music video for the first time in three years. The song is called Plum Song, and it features some familiar tunes and video game noises. The video takes you on a journey through an erotic-psychedelic electrified re-imagination of the Yoshiwara red light district from the Edo period.

via Hear Japan

Cool electropop music featuring kimono-clad 8-bit women
Bach's Cantata No 147 electropop remix
Cornelius music video for people with OCD

From Ricardo Autobahn, formerly of the wonderfully bizarre, surreal Peel-approved novelty act Cuban Boys comes this brilliant cutup/video sampling number creating a whole song from different films and TV shows - and yes they all rhyme, apparently an album and single are on the way - hurrah!

Celebrate 100 years of Austria's most important pop-culture magazine The Gap.. On hand to lead the rapturous applause (and possibly steal some thunder) will be none other than Superproducer and all-round musical maestro Gonzales.

The expat Canadian more widely known for his production on Feist's last album and his collaborations with Peaches (check this out), Gonzales is a performer in his own right, a multi-talented musical virtuoso who released the Soft Power disc in 2008, a tribute to soaring soft-rock records of the '70s and '80s-the genre that usually lurks under the "guilty pleasure" banner. Think sublime, chest-beating power-balladry, shamelessly dripping with piano and sax solos, bells and handclaps and ultimately surging towards some climactic key changes.

Hannes Tschürtz (ink music/schoenwetter) hosts a discussion about how to communicate, distribute and evolve austrian indie music to the world with those indie-players: Peter Winkler (Wohnzimmer), Clara Humpel (Asinella Records), Ilias Dahmiene (SeaYou) as well as experts like Philipp Dorfmeister (Ordis) or Michel Attia (FM4).

*Now that's projection mapping, eh? Into some "augmented surreality" territory here.

*Makes you wonder if there could be whole techno styles of augmentation, like "gabba augmentation," "trance augmentation" or "augmented glitchcore."

SCINTILLATION from Xavier Chassaing on Vimeo.

If you haven't yet heard, the next generation of professional music exchange has taken over. Straight from Berlin via Stockholm, Soundcloud's online platform allows for collaboration and communication in the production stages. A truly nifty tool, music producers world-wide are rejoicing and all those lazy Viennese producers can sit back and relax (in case they weren't already) and let the program do the work.

Vienna 16, Grundsteingasse--Kruder's G-Stone studio--assisted by noted multi-instrumentalists Christian Prommer and Roberto Di Gioia, Peter Kruder and Hell wrote and produced the "Day" half of Teufelswerk, the recent album of multi-disciplinary DJ Hell.

Listen to Peter Kruder via Soundcloud

Vienna 6, Cheap Records--Erdem Tunakan re-animated the legendary label from back in the days and launched Cheap Rocks--a tribute to his Mod alter ego.

Listen to Cheap Records via Soundcloud

Vienna 5, home of 24/7--a musician duo/collective which suffers from multiple personality disorder. One half/part of the duo/collective tries to lobotomize itself down to a single bass player, the other half is lost in the clouds.

Listen to 24/7 via Soundcloud

• Leonard Cohen - A Thousand #Kisses Deep,
• Le Mystere de Voix Bulgares - Pritouritze Planinata,
• Muse - Ruled by Secrecy

This is so beautiful, I had to post it! [download MP3]
Shhhhh... Don't keep it to yourself!

This Brooklyn-born DJ got his start at age 14, when he played his first show in the industrial Washington city of Spokane.

After leaving the states during the first gulf war, he came to Germany and attended the school of art in Hamburg. Though he was originally a part of the punk scene, Jake began rapping in '92 and has been MCing, beatboxing and DJing his way through the past two decades.

Check out his set for a serious mix of hip-hop, elctro and techno (and sweaty dancing).

Lambchop's mix of musical genres still likely creates headaches for retailers when the shelves are being stocked. Even though the band's lineup changes frequently (singer and lyricist Kurt Wagner being the obvious exception), the band has nevertheless developed a signature sound: a challenging and unique blend of country, alternative rock, folk, lounge, jazz, soul, and Antarctic steel drumming (well, maybe not this one yet).

Coupled with Wagner's untraditional voice - sometimes whispered or spoken or sung in such a way that it sounds like the words are being choked out from his throat and might not quite make it -it's tough to think of many bands that incorporate so many disparate styles without sounding like a wretched mess of noise.