Mix: Sunearth Summerdays

I had the pleasure to DJ in the garden of the Maison Baron in Geneva on the hot summer evening of last Saturday. Here's a recording of my set. It's best enjoyed lying under a tree.

Some of the places visited during these 90 minutes: Berlin in the rain, the Himalaya, a classroom in Germany, a party on the Antilles, a garden in Hamburg, the outer space via Zurich, a vocoded Greece, a wedding in Indonesia, a church in Jamaica, the garden of evil and some other artificial and real gardens and forests.

Sorry no playlist, but please ask if you want to know anything.

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Sunearth Summerdays - Dispokino mix August 2013 by Dispokino on Mixcloud

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I'm heading to the beach - see you in August! E.g. in Geneva on August the 3rd at the Pre Mos Espa minifestival where I have the pleasure to play some records in the enchanted garden of an old mansion I think, apparently playing "ethno ambient". I hope I'm gonna be able to bring you a recording as a souvenir.
Picture: Don Weller ca. 1978, "from a desk agenda of the Graphic Process Co., "a Slice of Los Angeles". Scanned from graphis annual 79/80

Estudio Cánovas

Two ads and a self-promotional-brochure by Argentinian graphic designer Eduardo A. Cánovas, Estudio Cánovas, scanned from graphis annual 1979/80.

Spinning & Dyeing the Natural Way

the library of Andreas Züst

A book lover's dream weekend.

N. and I stayed for a weekend at the Alpenhof in the Appenzell region in the northeast of Switzerland. A few years ago, the run down hotel was taken over by people from the art and literature scene. It is still a hotel, very nicely renovated with an amazing panoramic view, but also hosts events, exhibitions, lectures - and since 2010, it is the home of the library of Andreas Züst. Andreas Züst (1947-2000) was a "glaciologist, weather watcher, photographer, painter, creature of the night, publisher, film producer, bibliophile, art collector, and patron of the arts", an important figure in the Swiss art scene.  His library contains 12'000 books on topics ranging from art, literature, photography, music, film, meteorology, glaciology, ethnology, space travel, to UFOs and drugs.
After a brief first visit some time ago, I could finally spend a few hours in the library. Here's my meandering, patchy tour through this wonderful collection, with an emphasis on the cover designs.

(I also happen to have grown up  in the village where the Alpenhof is, but long before it became the interesting place it is now.)

There were several books by the Swiss UFO-believers of the FIGU society, previously featured here.

Need a break? Take a look out the window. It was a foggy day, not much to see of the beautiful panoramic view. 

Back to the books then.