Monday, October 27, 2008 AT 03:55 PM - Category: BCN 2008 - English
Written by Jeff 'Chairman' Mao
We Did It, Barcelona!
Diary: Term 2, Day 13 (Las Ramblas Edition)
Ciutat Vella's the borough: Academy team member Jeff Mao
Though truthfully my non-Barcelonan arse is too old-fashioned (not to mention just plain too old) to get with the program of regularly carousing till da breakadawn on a school night, my Friday diary nonetheless commences with the coda to Thursday night’s revelry (which, naturally, took place Friday morning).
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Saturday, October 25, 2008 AT 09:15 PM - Category: BCN 2008 - English
Written by Ki-En-Ra
No Sleep Til...
Diary: Term 2, Day 13
Do-Re-Mi-Fa-Ki-En-Ra: Participant Janno Vainikk
Finding a couple of minutes between lunch and the final gathering in the lecture hall, Estonia’s very own
Ki En Ra found a couple of minutes to jot down his thoughts, the gentle ticking of the clock heard ever so slightly in the background. Here goes…
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Friday, October 24, 2008 AT 09:08 PM - Category: BCN 2008 - English
Written by Torsten 'Akshun' Schmidt
Wind It Up! (The Good Life, Revisited)
Diary: Term 2, Day 12
T2 Posse (no bassline)
We get the message. Second day of straight rain, the Mediterranean weather gods are gently preparing us for our return back to the lovely Cologne winter. Good thing we brought all those thingies that so far have been in the closet ever since we got here. So, about time for them to come out.
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Thursday, October 23, 2008 AT 04:32 PM - Category: BCN 2008 - English
Written by Emma Jean Denée
Super Mario’s Wonderland
Diary: Term 2, Day 11
Dorian Concept, Nino Moschella, Dennis Coffey in the studio
Wednesday dawns hard... but some people (like Brooklyn's
Pursuit Grooves) even make it on the first bus: 10 am for all the early birds.
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Thursday, October 23, 2008 AT 02:46 PM - Category: BCN 2008 - English
Written by Gerd Janson
Life's A Gas!
Diary: Term 2, Day 9
Take the bull by the horns: Wolfgang Voigt during his Gas live set at Parc Güell
The main attraction of this thing that we call Academy might be the big events or those fancy equipped studios, where tutors (didn’t the incognito one called
Marco Passarani just say that “we are learning more technical tricks from these bunch than we could teach them”?) and participants consume one night after the other with staggering desire to wrap this song up or finish a couple of more tracks. One could almost think to be in the middle of a box set album deadline.
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