I went out today to buy some locks and lights for my bike, which I have yet to buy. I’m meeting Biba at 13h so she can take me to the junkies. At least now I have a good lock for my bike in LJ.

Pablo’s concert at The End was cool. Everybody was really nervous because this was their first performance. This was the first bar I went to in A’dam and I already met Igor from Elastik. I thought, “Geez, this place is even smaller than Ljubljana!”

Katarina took me to 310K on Saturday where we were supposed to have a drink with her friend Yuka. It turned out there was a huge party/fashion exhibition there and the vibe was really nice. I heard a lot about Dutch parties, but this one didn’t seem stuck up at all.

There was a nice electro set and after that, a live act by 3-1. They really kick ass.

I’m crazy about Katarina’s latest two videos, “Deathbed” and “Angel’s Angle". I do hope she gets into Rijks. She’s turning in her application now.

I’ll be back…

Biba and I arrived to Amsterdam this morning. I’ll be staying here for the next 10 days at Katarina’s place. I hope we’ll have a productive week together, going to meetings and doing technical tests for a project we’re doing together with Tim. I know the technical aspect of such projects is supposed to be the most tedious, I find it very exciting. But then, everything is when you do it for the first time. We’ll also try to do the budget calculations so we can start fishing for some sponsors.

I’m being pretty vague because I don’t want to let out too much info on this work, but I’m very excited about it and it’s finally starting to move forward after a year of planning. I’ll write more about it when the ime comes.

I haven’t been to A’dam since 2001 and i should be excited, but I still haven’t switched off from LJ. I’ve been working a lot lately and yesterday I even interrupted my packing to fix some stuff on a graph for the Cliniporator project with Ivan. I’ll add that one to the ‘folio when I get back.

Pablo’s band Menage a trois is playing tonight. I’m looking forward to seeing him again, he’s a cool guy. So that’s where we’re all going tonight. After that, we’ll just see where the night takes us.

I’ve been in quite a stressful situation with a website I’m currently developing. So if anybody knows of a hosting service that can handle a PHP5+MySQL4.1 website, please let me know.

I’ll try to do more updates in the next few days, so stay tuned…

My blog won first prize in the “personal websites” category of the first slovenian web awards. Check out their page.

Lately, updates have been slow because I moved into a new apartment that doesn’t yet have an internet connection. So I’ve been running around Ljubljana from door to door with my USB key, trying to get some work done. Being offline is such a bitch, I feel like my brain shrunk to 25%.

Lately, I’ve been craving for some good parties, but it seems I’m not the only victim of the post-orgasmic chill after a wild December. After the orthodox christmas dinner, I went to check out Metelkova, but there wan’t much happening except a boring big-beat party at Klub Gromka with mostly 19-year-olds in attendance. Menza was quite empty and Tiffany was packed with unfamiliar generic gays. So I tried Jazzbina and it too was closed, so my last resort was Kodeljevo.

I now value my persistence even more because the party at Kodeljevo was exactly what I needed to get me out of this fucking melancholy.

I like DJs that know where to play what and DJ Nova hit the nail right on the head this time with dancy electro tunes that I miss so much in Lj. Because the place wasn’t as packed as it can be sometimes, Nova and Zhe were toying with the guests a bit, playing weird but still very danceable tracks. Nova even smuggled in one of the tracks from my last mix. Nice one.

Today, I dug up this old album by a band from Rijeka where my cousin Erik Malnar used to play. Actually, the original lineup released a 7″ vinyl ep called Vragoder. After that, they went their separate ways, but one or two members decided to rerecord the otherwise male vocals with a new female vocalist, whose voice doesn’t really do it for me. They released the new versions and some other tracks on the album Uh!.

Oh, I wish I could get the vinyl…

According to their official site Nine inch Nails have finished all the work on their upcoming album With Teeth (a bit of a toungue-twister, isn’t it?). Can’t wait to hear the new stuff. At least this time they were actually doing something during the 5-year album gap.

A few weeks back, Ivan Novak mentioned in an interview that Trent Reznor attended Laibach’s L.A. concert. In my book, that gives both bands bonus points.

The categories in this section list all my projects since 1998 when I started working at Parsek. The process of writing about them was very cathartic, bringing out long forgotten memories. I tried to be as accurate as possible, but the accompanying texts are still very subjective.

I split the projects up into the following categories:

• Parsek - projects done at Parsek between 1998 and 2003
• Renderspace - projects done at Renderspace in 2003 and 2004
• Freelance - projects done independently
• Artsy Fartsy - personal projects and collaborations with other artists

The project dates are more or less accurate, except the ones from 1998, which are only dated in a way that keeps them in order.

I invite you to post any comments, suggestions and corrections using the comment forms. For comments about specific projects, post using the form at the project’s page. For general comments about my work, post them here or email me at philtre(at)gmail(dot)com.

The second volume in the series of New Year’s mixes is even more danceable, sometimes venturing into the evil side of my daily playlist, although allowing breathing room with some funkier and a few mellower tracks.

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