These beautiful pictures are renderings by Swiss artist Philipp Schärer. In his own words:

"The series of images with the title „Bildbauten“ deals with the effect and the claim to credibility of images of architecture that appear to be photographs. It further questions the medium “photograph” as a documentary piece of evidence depicting reality.

Frontal views of fictional architectures serve as an example. By means of their exaggerated and orchestrated way of representation, they model themselves on the object-like appearance and the formal language of contemporary architecture in a rather ironic way. All images try to reproduce a reality. They are not a photograph; instead, they were newly designed and constructed from scratch by means of image synthesis and digital image editing."

Here is my top 40 for 2011. It was kind of hard for me to chose a #1 this year, but Cosmin TRG had a great year. He deserves it!

1.
Cosmin TRG - Universal Crush (Rush Hour)

2.

Tolouse Low Trax - Local Vers (SD Records)

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3.
Tevo Howard - Beautiful Granville (The original theme) (Tevo Howard recordings)

4.
Prins Póló - Niðrá Strönd (Sexy Schidt remix)

5.
Mark E - The Day (Spectral Sound)

6.
Arto Mwambe - One lonely knight (extended live mix) (Live at Robert Johnson)

7.
The Legendary 1979 Orchestra - Body Rock (MannMadeMusic remix) (Audio Parallax)

8.
Isolée - Taktell (Pampa)

9.
Motor City Drum Ensamble - Basement L.O.V.E. (K7)

10.
Vakula - Saturday (Legowelt remix) (3rd Strike Records)

11.
Penner & Muder - Speak your mind (Axel Boman remix) (MoodMusic)
12.
The Reboot Joy Confession - Spirit of the planets (Philpot)
13.
ADR - Codex (Public Information)
14.
Omar S - Here's your trance now dance (FXHE)
15.
The Dirtbombs - Sharevari (Scion AV)
16.
Tevo Howard - The Age Of Compassion (Donnacha Costello Rough Rub Mix) (Buzzin Fly)
17.
Smith & Birgiss - All the things (Prost Mallorca remix) (Etoka Shapes)
18.
Jamie 326 - Wicky Wacky (Partehardy records)
19.
Viadrina - Better (Arto Mwambe remix) (Pets Recordings)
20.
78 Edits - Space Talk (Audio Parallax)

21.
Aquarius Heaven - So Low (Circus Company)
22.
SBTRKT - Living like I do (Young Turks)
23.
Ayshay - Warn-U (Triangle Records)
24.
Wolfgang Voigt - Kafkatrax 1.1. (Profan)
25.
Die Vögel - Fratzengulasch (Pampa)
26.
Kyle Hall - Body of Water (Third Ear)
27.
Anthony Shakir - Travellers (Rush Hour)
28.
Tom Noble - Dancing Hard (Clone)
29.
Cosmin TRG - Less of you, more of me (50 Weapons)
30.
Gerry Read - Untitled (Fourth Wave)

31.
Moomin - Watermelon (Smallville)
32.
Knopf & Seferyn - Blank Tape 2 (Clap your hands)
33.
Fudge Fingas - Mass X (Firecracker)
34.
Martin Dawson - Sunday Smoking (Jay Shepheard remix) (MoodMusic)
35.
Tensnake - In the end (I want to cry) (Running Back)
36.
Atjazz feat Robert Owens - Love Someone (Atjazz deeper mix) (Mantis)
37.
Rootstrax - Harlequin (808 Dub) (Deeply Rooted)
38.
Solomun - Love Recycled 2 (2DIY4)
39.
Worst Friends - Billiards with midgets (Dr Dunks mix) (Internasjonal)
40.
Prins Thomas - Ny Maskin (Full Pupp)

These pictures are by Irish born New York based artist Richard Mosse. They were shot on a Kodak Aerochrome film. The film picks up infrared light so the pictures come out in this weird way. This particular film was designed for military use as far as I know. The pictures were shot in East Congo.

The Icelandic dansidans.com website just "released" their latest podcast. This one features Hypno, Iceland's foremost "urban/dubstep/funky" producer. He's released tracks on labels such as Ramp and PTN. This mix is full of unreleased goodies! No tracklist yet.

Subscribe to the podcast here.

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Just added the following mixes to my mixes category. They were recorded in Reykjavik for the Partyzone Radio Show. Thanks for listening. New mix coming sooner then later!

Partyzone mix July 2008

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1. W.B. - Something For Your Mind (Teleelectronicagrunch im diskodatschen rework)
2. Peter Dildo - Womanizer
3. Prompt - Elephant
4. Rozzo - I Wish I Was a Cat
5. Mara Trax - Let Goose
6. Malk - Dancing Beat (Leopold rmx)
7. Marco Carola - Jackpot
8. Ryo Murakami - Coke
9. Guillaume & the Coutu Dumonts - The Flying Dutchman
10. Jonny D - Soleil (Delete remix)
11. Antislash - Croc
12. Microfunk - Pecan
13. Azid Child & Karlos Phaze - Go Hamilton

Partyzone mix August 2009

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1.    Chopstick - A new Dub
2.    Maayan Nidam - Tengo (Powershovel)
3.    Noze - Encore (Circus Company)
4.    Soulphiction pres. the Chocolettes two - The Royal Pennekaums (Chocolettes Nervous mix) (Musik Krause)
5.    Margaret Dygas - Frankly (Perlon)
6.    Audion - Look at the moon (Spectral Audio) >>> Jónas Friðriksson & Helga Jóhannsdóttir - Það var alltaf haldið áfram að dansa?
7.    Stimming - Una Pena (feat. Paulo Olarte) (Solumon Remix) (Diynamik)
8.    James Braun & Dan M - Lessons pt. 2 (Mothership)
9.    Marieu - Roots (Restoration)
10.    Audio Werner - Dito (Minibar)
11.    Danny Fiddo & Affkt - Points (Ricardo Villalobos Remix) (Barraca)
12.    Dj Koze - Mrs. Bojangels (Circus Company)
13.    Precious System - The Voice from Planet Love (Running Back)
14.    Sometime - Optimal Ending (Put My Hands In Your Pocket Remix)

I recently finished a website for this small maker venture I have together with Steinunn Arnardóttir. It's called Markrún (which is an old Icelandic name). It's basically supposed to be a label for everything we want to make in our spare time. We also have a Facebook group, so please become a fan and spread the word!

At the moment we have pillows, beanies and Headbands. Knitted and sewn.

I had forgot about this amazing short documentary by Ray Eames and her husband Charles Eames. It's about ten minutes and portrays the universe in powers of 10.

They both zoom out as well as zooming in, to the limits of what we know. It's from 1968 but based on a book by Kees Boeke from 1957. Worth your 10 minutes!

PS: This website devoted to the film is also really nice.

Some genius managed to shrink wrap this shopping cart near my home. I've also seen shrink wrapped ladders and other random stuff. But this article was supposed to be about podcasts... So I've compiled a list of some of the podcast I've been listening to recently. Been kind of busy so these podcasts have been keeping me content.

Muzak: by WoodWood

Danish fashion designers WoodWood have been getting some of their jetset friends to compile some hip tapes. Kind of disco oriented, sometimes a little obscure and full of rarities. Includes tapes from the likes of Headman, Munk, Hugo Capablanca and Dr. Dunks.

Petcast: by Catz n Dogz

Podcast done by Polish duo Catz n Dogz and their friends. House and similar.

Dansidans

The best Icelandic podcast. Very diverse and always on point! Includes mixes by icelandic dj's only (up until now at least). Tapes by yours truly and many more!

Resident Advisor

Who's who of dance-music. Almost 300 podcasts and running. The RA exchange is also well worth listening to.

Fact Mixes

Weekly mixes focusing on all kinds of rhythmic grooves and electronica. I don't know if you can subscribe to this one though.

Wolf + Lamb

House, disco and downbeats. Featuring Wolf and Lamb, Maayan Nidam, Tim Sweeney, Slow Hands and other friends.

Bleep

Advertising the latest in music sold on Bleep.com. I keep finding future classics here. Also available on Soundcloud.

Juno Plus Podcast

Similar thing here - advertisement for the Juno store. Recent guest mixes by Nebraska and JD Twitch.