Our birthday is coming up on Saturday the 30. of January. We celebrate it at VEGA in Copanhagen and it's joined by our good friends and partners from Tartelet Records. The line-up is massive, with liveacts from Germans Wareika and Brand Brauer Frick. On this link you can see a video of Brandt Brauer Frick in Berlin, just to get an idea. Apart from the two liveacts we'll have a range of "Tartelets" playing and we're even setting an AIAIAI Team (Frederik, Mix, Arne and Kasper), it'll be good fun. Apart from celebrating our respective birthdays we are also presenting and testing some new versions of our TMA-1 DJ project and we are super exited to see how they function and sound - think we are getting close. We'll be serving you loads of drinks and beers from 11PM, so if you're anywhere near, pls make sure you don't miss this B-bash.

Tartelet x AIAIAI Birthday bash

VEGA Nightclub

23-01 free entrance / free beer

For guestlist write us at boef@aiaiai.dk

We just came back from the ”Bread & Butter” exhibition in Berlin, which took place in quite an interesting historical building: The Tempelhof Airport. Tempelhof has been designated as an airport since 1923 and in 1941 the current terminal building was taken into use. At one point it was among the largest buildings in the world and Norman Foster described it as ”the mother of all airports”. An impressive sight! Anyway, we were on the “1st floor” – a section for young and upcoming brands (read companies with limited funds!) situated rather remotely in the very corner of the old airport. On the lower left corner of the collage you can actually see the view from the "1st floor" and surely we where quite delighted not to be part of that borring, traditional-tradeshow-atmosphere down there. Instead the "1st floor" kind of reminded us of the old A-house days, with the small almost ramshackle rooms, where we could do whatever we wanted. Some local artists had installed the walls with some simple art, super well suited for our little setup. Our friend Rolf from HAY had helped us with some cool and simple furniture and Bo from I'm a kombo helped us with little fun play-stop-pause-rewind cookies that people could enjoy with their coffey from the next door café. Thanks to Rolf and Bo. Altogether it was three well-visited days in company with our friends from WoodWood, Happy Socks and Libertine-Libertine. And hey, we even got to try out the legendary Berghein Panorama Bar – quite an experience!

Even if the thought of classrooms scares your creative soul, the Rethink Scholarship should get your creative juices flowing. Their attempt to spread the news about their $ 18 000 scholarship makes your childhood pop-up books look terribly outdated and sets a new standard for creativity with 'analog' tools. In an age of increasingly cheeky attempts at viral succes, this video is refreshingly genuine and surprising. Now go apply!

Our friends from LEGO have just launched a line of Mini Figures perfect for collectors. Series 1 consists of popular iconic figures from the LEGO world. Due for a 2010 release the series is made up of 16 figures, each blind packed, so you’ll have to shop around to get the whole collection, but as they are just $2 each, it won’t empty your wallet.. Series 2 could be a curated series, who knows?

We have always been big fans of WK interact's aggressive work. Here is a new large piece he has made in Paris. Check out more of his work here.

The original is a house song but sounds like it could have been played by Herbie Hancock. It features a teasing synthesizer solo, edgy live bass and live drums. To notch it up Tartelet asked Falko Brocksieper known from great releases on Sub Static and Tuning Spork to remix it and he has made a stripped down dark dubstep-disco version. Tartelets newest Danish talents Emil Viril & Chesper made a very efficient house remix.

You can retrieve the tracks from this link. Enjoy...

For the record, this is my first contribution to the AIAIAI blog. I usually blog about music at goingotherplaces.com, and I hope to keep you entertained on here, too, in the future.

Until 2010 gets its own soundtracks, the Dutch playlist-portal 22tracks has invited 22 different genre-experts to each pick their favorite track released in the last year from one of 22 different genres. The tracks include Breakage's cutting-edge dubstep, Japandroid's noise pop, and Lindstrøm's pleasant vibes, but also visit more experimental grounds with Steve Reich's compositions and a healthy dose of reggae, jazz, latin, and jazz thrown in for good measure. Don't let the genre-craze intimidate you, the tracks are all solid and well-worth a listen until 2010 delivers its own soundtrack.