I'm hardly the first to say that myspace is now a busted flush, but to give it its due there was a time when it was a good place to find new music and make connections with interesting people.
During the time I was using it I was lucky enough to discover the music made by me raabenstein. He's a Berlin-based musician and producer, involved in numerous individual and collaborative projects, and the man behind nonine recordings.
I know that the me raabenstein name is well-known in the electronic music world, but to a largely jazz-based musician like myself his music came as a revelation. The sonic quality of it is so precise and refreshing I always feel I'm listening to it in a different way from most of the other stuff I hear. That's not to say the content isn't fascinating too; it is - constantly surprising and challenging.
I'll stop before I sound like I'm giving a speech at his funeral, (and he's probably a terrible person in real life :), but if you haven't heard his music, head over to nonine and check it out.
Before you go, here's a remix of one of my tunes, Blow with the Flow, that he was kind enough to do a while back:
Blow With The Flow (me raabenstein remix) by Chris Bestwick
OK, it's a sunny day so I'm going to get back to my plan for a jazz-based ice-cream van, provisional name "Mr Softee as in a Morning Sunrise".
Stop me and buy one,
Chris
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