HHV.DE organizes the 3rd Edition of the Diggin Days, the huge vinyl sale with more than 50.000 records on saturday 11th & sunday 12th of september in Cassiopeia, Berlin.

It’s always a good chance to get cool records at a very affordable price. Better come early, it’s gonna be packed!

The Diggin Days sale will take place on Saturday and Sunday between 12 o’clock a.m. and 9 o’clock p.m. During these opening hours HHV will provide a free checkroom where you’ll be able to store your bags etc. During the day they’ll have a bar open, a bbq and some fine music will be playing. On Saturday night there will also be a big party at the cassiopeia called “Born2Roll”. On three floors the DJs Dejoe, Dister, Han Shock and Roxy One will play their sets ranging from hip hop to funk and soul to club classicpeia.

Can you dig it? Yes you can!

Despite the hordes of clubbers that might make you feel in Ibiza those days, there’s not much left of the sunny days. Not sure why but summer gets shorter & shorter since a couple of years already.

I hate those days when we can’t see the sky, not even the top of the TV tower. On the other hand that’s a good reason to stay home and digg through the records crates or to go out late, party hard and stay the whole day in bed.

In the meantime you might enjoy listening to our latest podcast Clouds Over Berlin.

Click to listen, right-click to download Clouds Over Berlin.

Our Podcasts are also available in iTunes ; just search for VKMP3 in the iTunes Store. All our podcasts are free.

Music lovers can now be immortalised when they die by having their ashes baked into vinyl records to leave behind for loved ones.

A UK company called And Vinyly is offering people the chance to press their ashes in a vinyl recording of their own voice, their favourite tunes or their last will and testament. Minimalist audiophiles might want to go for the simple option of having no tunes or voiceover, and simply pressing the ashes into the vinyl to result in pops and crackles.

The company was founded by Jason Leach, who co-founded the techno group and record label Subhead in the 1990s and has since founded a number of other labels, including House of Fix, Daftwerk and Death to Vinyl.

Leach explained to Wired.co.uk that there were a number of factors that made him launch the service, including thinking that he was “getting a bit old” and “might not be invincible”. His mother also started working at a funeral directors, which brought the whole funeral process closer to home. A third prompt was when he saw a TV programme that showed someone in America putting their ashes into fireworks, which made him think about how he might want to be remembered. And, he says, “It’s a bit more interesting than being in a pot on a shelf.”

How does it work?
The process of setting human ashes into vinyl involves a very understanding pressing plant. Basically the ashes must be sprinkled onto the raw piece of vinyl (known as a “biscuit” or “puck”) before it is pressed by the plates. This means that when the plates exert their pressure on the vinyl in order to create the grooves, the ashes are pressed into the record.

The site has a very irreverent style and operates under the strapline “live on from beyond the groove”. One of Leach’s family stories, he tells Wired.co.uk, suggests why he has a practical attitude to people’s ashes.

He explains how he went out on a boat with his family members to sprinkle the ashes of his grandfather into the sea. His uncle “released them on the wrong side of the boat and so the ashes went all over us.” Apparently the same thing happened to his father, too!

And Vinyly also offers personalised RIV (Rest In Vinyl) artwork — the simple version just carries your name and your life span, or you can have your portrait painted by artist James Hague, using your ashes mixed into the paint.

The basic package costs £2,000 and comprises of the standard artwork along with up to 30 ash-flecked discs with whatever sounds you choose, lasting a maximum of 24 minutes.

Extras include “Bespook Music”, where artists from The House of Fix and www.daftwerk.com write a song especially for you and global distribution of your record in vinyl stores.

The main challenge is choosing the music. Leach says: “It’s difficult to think of what to put on your record because you want it to be the best album you can imagine.”

What would he have on his own record? “I would definitely have a recording of my own voice as well as some ’sound photos’ of places that are important to me and then I would have some of my own music on there. It’s something I’m working on.”

Hops, CGB-1, Jiggah and Skratch, DJ Pete, Mark Ernestus w/ Savage …on the KILLASAN Sound System!

Sunday 29.8.10, 6pm, @ horst krzbrg, Tempelhofer Ufer 1. East caribbean food available from Cris’s Roadside Cuisine

In the meantime you can enjoy the lastest Wax Treatment Podcasts.

Here’s new dubstep mix recorded last night by Zsolt a new comer on vkmp3.com Check it out! That guy is an amazing dj & collector.

Enjoy!

Our Podcasts are also available in iTunes ; just search for VKMP3 in the iTunes Store. All our podcasts are free.

What began in 2002 in a small record shop in Berlin’s Friedrichshain (or even earlier in a small private apartment) grew until today to one of the leading European Web Stores for music and related genres. And of course hhv.de is specialized in the sale of vinyl records with a range of almost 70,000 different vinyl records in stock that can be send out worldwide.The musical spectrum of their offer now includes all the relevant genres of popular music, without having lost their musical roots in Hip Hop from the eyes. I personally enjoy their dubstep selections a lot.

In addition to the sale of recorded music and DJ accessories and equipment, culturally relevant print media, books and DVDs etc., they established themselves in trade in textiles and shoes of various streetwear brands and trade in merchandise. You can also pick your own Vinyl Kills MP3 T-shirt there ;)

Besides all that hhv.de runs its own little record label including the sub labels Project Mooncircle and Project Squared. hhv still has a small street store in Berlin-Friedrichshain on Revaler Street N° 9 called HHV.DE Selected Store where they offer a fine selection of hhv.de’s wide range of good products. When you’re berlin based you can also digg your favorite vinyls online and get them delivered to the store the next day with no shipping costs. That’s also a cool thing!

Wanna know more? check this out!

www.hhv.de
www.selectedstore.de
www.projectmooncircle.com
www.projectsquared.net
www.facebook.com/hhv.de“

Some of you certainly remember Tatjana’s amaizing afro beats set a couple of weeks ago at Wax Treatment. But she’s also an amazing House dj! Check This HOUSE!

Our Podcasts are also available in iTunes ; just search for VKMP3 in the iTunes Store. All our podcasts are free.

Times running, and running fast, it’s the end of the month again and time for Wax Treatment… In the meantime you can enjoy the lastest Wax Treatment Podcasts.

Errorsmith, Tatjana, DJ Pete, Mark Ernestus w/ Tikiman will warm you up with some deep and cosy bass-sounds straight outta the Killasan Soundsystem.

And if you hungry, try Cris’s caribbean sandwiches – that’s always a good choice ;)

Yet another mix recorded in the studio. A selection of classic & future classics house tracks to listen to while enjoying the summer time. I Can’t Kick This Feelin’ When It Hits

Detailled tracklist is written down below and the AIFF version can be downloaded from my soundcloud. Mastertape version available on request.

Tracklist:

Moodymann – Amerika – KDJ 15 (1997)

http://www.discogs.com/Moodymann-Amerika/release/3281

Oracy – Bass Mood – mojuba 014 (2010)

http://www.discogs.com/Oracy-Bass-Mood/release/2294910

Goldwill – Blush wandering – 5th journey (2010)

http://www.discogs.com/Goldwill-What-Is-Behind/release/2283039

Nina Kraviz – The Loop – GYM003 (2010)

http://www.discogs.com/Nina-Kraviz-Brandt-Chevallier-Featuring-Standingman-The-Loop-SLW/release/2222607

Moodymann – Dem Young Sconies – PE65233 (1997)

http://www.discogs.com/Moodymann-Dem-Young-Sconies-Bosconi/release/2517

Tiger & Woods – Come Down – tain 1 (2009)

http://www.discogs.com/Tiger-Woods-Hole-In-One-EP/release/1619199

Tiger & Woods – Caddy Shag EP – Deflowered – tain 2 (2009)

http://www.discogs.com/Tiger-Woods-Caddy-Shag-EP/release/2054047

Moodymann – Forevernevermore – KDJ19 (1998)

http://www.discogs.com/Moodymann-Forevernevermore/release/4175

Moody – It’s 2 Late 4 U And Me – KDJ39 (2010)

http://www.discogs.com/Moody-Ol-Dirty-Vinyl/release/2263356

Moodymann – I Can’t Kick This Feelin When It Hits – KDJ6 (2001)

http://www.discogs.com/Moodymann-I-Cant-Kick-This-Feelin-When-It-Hits/release/186332

African Head Charge – Stebeni’s Theme (St. Echo Mix) – Dock02 (2010)

http://www.discogs.com/African-Head-Charge-Stebenis-Theme/release/2294884

Vril – V3 – glg st 01 (2010)

http://www.discogs.com/Vril-1-4/release/2085623

Substance – Relish (Shed Remix) – SV 06 (2008)

http://www.discogs.com/Substance-Relish/release/1371953

Jacob Korn – Mirrorflip – Dolly1 (2010)

http://www.discogs.com/Jacob-Korn-Supakrank/release/2114949

Quince – For My Mr (Sterac AKA Steve Rachmad Remix) – 75DSR/VAR-EP3 (2009)

http://www.discogs.com/Various-Delsin-20-Remix-EP-2/release/1763693

Substance & Vainqueur – Immersion (Sleeparchive Remix) – SV 03 (2007)

http://www.discogs.com/Substance-Vainqueur-Remixes-Chapter-1/release/976974

Music For Dark Rooms. recorded during VKMP3 weekly show on Basic.ch a couple weeks ago.

no eq, no efxs. 2 turntables straight out the urei 1620.

Enjoy it! Click to listen or right-click to download. Our Podcasts are also available in iTunes ; just search for VKMP3 in the iTunes Store. All our podcasts are free. Also available from my soundcloud page in higher resolution.