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Today, December 12th, starting at 8pm Eastern Time, Pitchfork.tv will be streaming Daft Punk’s Electroma for 24 hours!

Pitchfork’s own Pitchfork.tv has convinced the robot powers to let them screen Electroma for one night and one night only this very weekend. It’s just like their usual “One Week Only” feature, except, you know, for a night.

The “odyssey” begins today, Friday December 12 at 8 p.m. EST and concludes precisely 24 hours later, at 8 p.m. on Saturday.

Check it out over here: pitchfork.tv

Vote for the nominees of the 24rd Annual International Dance Music Awards - recognizing the industry´s best achievements for the year 2008.

Winners will be announced live during Winter Music Conference in Miami Beach. The Voting ends December 30th 2008.

Vote now - If you have no particular preference in any category, simply leave it blank. One ballot per person. Multiple ballot submissions will be disqualified.

BEST EUROPEAN DJ - Paul van Dyk
BEST GLOBAL DJ - Paul van Dyk
BEST BREAK THROUGH DJ - Jon ‘O Bir
BEST RADIO MIX SHOW DJ - Paul van Dyk (VONYC SESSIONS)
BEST COMPILATION - Cream Ibiza, Paul van Dyk
BEST FULL LENGTH DJ MIX - Cream Ibiza, Paul van Dyk
BEST PRODUCER - Paul van Dyk
BEST REMIXER - Paul van Dyk
BEST ARTIST - Paul van Dyk
BEST BREAK THROUGH ARTIST (SOLO) - Jon O´Bir
BEST BREAK THROUGH ARTIST (GROUP) - Filo & Peri
BEST GLOBAL RECORD LABEL - VANDIT Records
BEST MUSIC EVENT - VANDIT Nights Berlin

Klick on the names to vote! As you can see, the choice is so easy…

During the upcoming Berlin Fashion Week in January 09, top model Iekeliene Stange will exhibit some of her personal photography.

The exhibition will be presented by projektGalerieshowrooms.

For the rest of the article check our main page over here.

Yesterday the Victoria’s Secret fashion show got aired in the USA. And it was yesterday when some most remarkable (at least for us) events took place.

One of our favorite model agency IMG Models did a relaunch of their website and they now even run a funky fresh model blog!!!

Check out the website here and the blog there

During Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Berlin an exiting battle takes place: Jay-Z vs. Chester Bennington - Rocawear vs. Ve’cel at FASHION ROCK NIGHT.

On January 31st 2009 - for the second FASHION ROCK NIGHT, Jay-Z’s Rocawear fashion label and Linkin Park’s Chester Bennington’s Ve’cel will compete for the fashion crown at West Coast Customs in Berlin.

Not only Beyonce wears Rocawear. Especially in the USA, the fashion label is a big success. With it’s range of sportswear, businesswear and clubwear it offers a big selection of hot urban street styles. Ve’cel by Linkin Park’s frontman Chester Bennington transforms the lifestyle of a rock star into some unique fashion range. During FASHION ROCK NIGHT it’ll be the first time ever that Europeans will be able to check out this label in the wild. Both fashion labels will be presented at the same time during an X-Catwalk at the factory building of West Coast Customs in Berlin, known from MTV’s “Pimp my Ride”.

To find out more about the event follow this link!

Cross over into the New Year 2009 with a mighty marathon of the high-grade underground Tresor Berlin experience. This year we’ve got the party rolling on three floors, splitting the all-night adventure into a spectrum of music seasonings for all tastes.

Whether you’re in the mood for the classy, sexy, funky electronic soul of Tresor house music or the energized, whirling, bangin’, uncompromising intelligence of Tresor techno - you can meet up with your New Year’s goal right here with us.

Tresor New Year’s Eve “TAKE OFF 2009!” Marathon line-up:

BATTERIERAUM:
- Blake Baxter (Mix Media, Tresor Rec. / Detroit)
- Djoker Daan (Tresor Bonito House Club / Berlin)
- Daffy (no_label, no_release / Berlin)
- Tyree Cooper (SupaDupa Rec. / Berlin)
- Wimpy (http://www.wimpy.info / Berlin)
- Medy Soul (Berlin)

TRESOR:
- Kriek (Tresor / Berlin)
- Housemeister (allyoucanbeat / Berlin)
- Dash (Tresor, Rampe-D / Berlin)
- Dry (Tresor, Rampe-D / Berlin)

+4 BAR:
- Pikaya - Live PA ( Cadenza / Berlin)
- Franky - DJ Set ( Pikaya / Berlin)
- more DJ’s TBA!

We are very excited to introduce a brand new offering from (RED), a digital music magazine called (RED)WIRE.

When you sign up you’ll receive exclusive music from the world’s greatest artists every week, and people living with HIV in Africa will get the medicine they need to stay alive.

Sign up now and get two free issues on them. And on World AIDS Day, join them for an unprecedented online launch event and see performances you won’t find anywhere else by some of the greatest talents on the planet.

Click here to check out (RED)WIRE

To mark this World AIDS Day, on Monday only, Starbucks will contribute 5¢ for every single handcrafted beverage purchased at participating stores.

In honor of their partnership, the iconic Empire State Building will turn (RED) too. If you’re in New York City, it’s a great way to remember to do something good this World AIDS Day.

As Bono said, “It’s pretty mind-blowing to think that millions of people can buy (RED) going about their daily lives and in doing so raise millions of dollars to fight AIDS in Africa. That’s not a bad hit from your caffeine.”

Bruce Springsteen’s single “Working on a Dream” is available for FREE in the iTunes Store and on BruceSpringsteen.net today ONLY.

The track will be a paid download in the iTunes Store from tomorrow through December 8. So get your skates on now!

Springsteen’s new album ‘Working on a Dream’ has been set for January 27 release on Columbia Records. ‘Working on a Dream’ was recorded with the E Street Band and features twelve new Springsteen compositions plus two bonus tracks. It is the fourth collaboration between Springsteen and Brendan O’Brien, who produced and mixed the album.

www.brucespringsteen.net

Art + Commerce now exclusively representats Hedi Slimane, a singular talent whose vision crosses one boundary after another: fashion, photography, curating, publishing, industrial design.

Slimane is perhaps best known as the creative director of Dior Homme from 2000 to 2007, a role that earned him a CFDA Designer of the Year award in 2002. He has worked as a photographer for French Vogue, Vanity Fair, V, VMan, Purple, and Dazed & Confused. Slimane has organized over a dozen art exhibitions, including the seminal ‘Sweet Bird of Youth’ and the recent ‘Young American’ at Amsterdam’s FOAM Museum with filmmaker Gus Van Sant.

Among the nine books of photography Slimane has published is London Birth of a Cult, a document of London’s postmillenial rock scene viewed through the eyes of former Libertines frontman, Pete Doherty. Slimane has designed compelling architectural spaces from Paris to Shanghai and recently created an original furniture system for Comme des Garçons.

Slimane is available for projects through Art + Commerce (www.artandcommerce.com). Slimane’s photographs are available for licensing exclusively through the Art + Commerce Image Archive.

As we are always happy when peple send us questions via our contact form, regarding our website or other topics of interest, we get surprised from time to time about the nature of the request.

Recently some brave soul asked about the private contact data of no other than Lenny Kravitz.

Yes, we love Lenny, but sadly enough, he’s one of the very few celebs who are not in our address book. If we had those info we’d of course wouldn’t give away any too personal information like address, phone number or something similar.

Next time we receive some similar requests we might just answer by sending the following link to “let me Google that for you”.

And another print magazine by the industry which is mainly responsible for the destruction of the rainforest has consolidated with eternity.

Any one’s able now to show some tears or feel sorry for the outdated industry?

I say: Go digital or die!

This one sends shivers down my back.

PRADA and LG just launched their micro site for the upcoming second edition of their PRADA phone.

At first sight the phone looks like the first one, but the amazing difference is the PRADA watch which perfectly matches the phone and shows you incoming calls and messages!

Must have item of the upcoming season!!!!! Check it out over here: www.pradaphonebylg.com

UPDATE: cnet uk now has some detailled review about 2009’s must have fashion mobile: LINK

Read somewhere that Heidi somehow again “stole the show” of all the beautiful girls attending.

Look at her… 35 years of age.

Over at askmen.com they have more pics of all the beautiful girls.

Actually i wouldn’t have to ask a man for his opinion, cause for me and i guess for most other 20 something girls i can tell ya that we all wanna look like her at that age… or maybe right now?

The Helmut Newton Foundation presents the exhibition “Helmut Newton: Fired Fashion Photography of the 1960s and 1970s” opening on 30th November 2008.

This interesting exhibition which runs from 30th November 2008 - 17th May 2009 covers two of my favotire tipics: fashion and photography!

Check out our extended preview, which includes some pictures, over here

Berlin Mitte Institut Download::
WebTV - Berlin Mitte Institut Friends Session with Sweet`n`Candy, Audiopüppi & Fresh Meat
4 hours of great music! Download >> HERE <

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Sweet n Candy (Einmaleins Musik // Raum .. Musik, etc)
Audiopüppi + Fresh Meat (Berlin Mitte Institut)
Listen to the Sweet’n’Candy set: Absolutely amazing, the chat went mental. He played his soon-to-be-released tunes only. This is hot stuff to be coming in 2009.

Coming soon:
New Releases Show with Kandel & Fresh Meat, District of Corruption Label Show with Aaron Hedges, Beaner and Simon Beeston + much more

Berlin Mitte Institut für Bessere Elektronische Musik
Playground for concepts which are related to electronic music culture
Every Second Monday from 7pm CET on ShoutedFM_mth.electro

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