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The Owen Black Experience is one of happiness and joy, world-weary angst, middle class entitlement, cosmic awareness, cinematic dilettantism, web 2.0 narcissism, jaw-dropping wonder and that ragged edge you get around your brain when you’ve stayed up 28 hours drinking coffee to finish a paper on D.H. Lawrence when you could never actually get through Lady Chatterley’s Lover once you realized it wasn’t nearly as erotic as you’d been led to believe. All in short, handy doses for the ADD generation.
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Globalisation blurs borders and boundaries – also in the world of music! Explore the world’s sound with Mixed Tape Music Magazine! Furthermore, the new edition of the free download compilation – Mercedes-Benz Mixed Tape 22 – will be released after a waiting period of eight weeks.
This month’s theme of Mixed Tape Music Magazine is the „Global Music Village“. From August 21st international artists are proofing that music does connect – regardless of limits.
Featured in this volume: Giovanca, The Arrows, Teleradio Donoso, R.M.F., White Shoes & The Couples Company and Watussi.
With Mixed Tape Music Magazine, Mercedes-Benz offers a monthly emerging video magazine which does not only show the latest music videos but also presents entertaining portraits, interviews, album recommendations and many more. Mixed Tape Music Magazine is broadcasted at the IPTV-station Mercedes-Benz.tv under the URL http://www.mercedes-benz.tv/mixedtape.
Also starting August 21st: the enjoyment for fans of the new Mixed Tape Compilation – ten thoroughly picked tracks of talented newcomers.
Mixed Tape 22 will be available via free download for the next eight weeks.
Highlights of this compilation amongst others: Tall Baby, Goldstrand, Thomsen, Sodatones, and The ME Band.
Mixed Tape Music Magazine and the new compilation Mixed Tape 22 are available from August 21st, 2008 on http://www.mercedes-benz.tv/mixedtape.
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Mercedes-Benz Mixed Tape offers ten new tracks by promising newcomers from around the world every eight weeks and for free download.
With this current 22nd edition of the successful format fans can look forward to the following highlights:
Tall Baby – Baby I Like Your Groove
Tall Baby, a five-piece from London, are a self-confessed “work in progress”. Based on a rare case of sibling love, the band’s two masterminds Clive and Nicole Selwyn not only share the same set of genes, but also a penchant for beguiling sounds.
Goldstrand – Saving All My Love
Any summer should last forever, especially a summer of love. Our perfect soundtrack for long days and hot nights is „Saving All My Love“ by hopeless romantics Goldstrand. Based in landlocked Nuremberg, but equipped with beach-friendly acoustic guitars and heavenly strings and harmonies, their subtle yearning adds a touch of bittersweet desire to this summer hit.
Thomsen – Zone Out (Remix)
Erlangen-based singer/songwriter Thomsen is a loner at heart. Still, the hushed beauty of his gentle songs, based on just a few bars of guitar or mandolin, did not go unnoticed – whether at home or opening for Lambchop singer Kurt Wagner. „Zone Out“ is a slightly different affair, it even features the help of some friends.
Sodatones – Mistakes
Serge Gainsbourg, Madonna and Jazzanova are friends of “Sodatones“. That is at Myspace. With trendy groove songs of their debut album „Day In, Day Out“ the six musicians from Mannheim and Ludwigshafen, Germany are also steadily gaining more friends in real life.
The ME Band – Delusions Of Adequacy
Mark Wilkinson, Jon Seneger and Thomas Henry Dean are The ME Band. Or not. Depending on your definition of „band“. As a virtual online project, the two Brits Mark and Tom and Swede Jon collaborate online and use the medium to invite contributions from around the world. To date, their „long distance online recording project” has featured entries from Europe, America and even India or Mexico.