A little teaser by our friend Kangding Ray, who will be performing material from his excellent album Or at Berghain tomorrow evening, as part of Club Transmediale’s Raster-Noton night, which are always a treat, featuring new lecker material from the likes of Byetone and more. Don’t say we didn’t tell you.

We’ve mentioned it before, but since it’s all grey and rainy outside, more time for the inside, and what better moment to have a little peek into Shabazz Palaces latest and rather brilliant album Black Up – a certain someone’s favourite album of the year, and that’s saying something.

ASLSP is a music piece for organ, which John Cage, always up for a little joke, noted should be played ‘as slow as possible’ – shrewdly leaving the comment open to interpretation. Performances range from 21 minutes to, erm, 639 years.

The city of Halberstadt, in the meantime, boasts the first organ with a 12-note claviature, which was completed in 1361 and laid the ground stone for organs to come. There are many myths and anecdotes as to why they decided to initiate the longest musical performance in history, but with some swift mathematics (2000-1361=639) a new and rather eccentric interpretation of ‘as slow as possible’ was determined, and the concert began on what would have been Cage’s 88th birthday, on September 05, 2000.

Note changes occur every few months, attracting a large crowd of music fanatics to experience, well, a change of chords. In the meantime, we’re here – 11 years in, 628 to go. People come up with curious things sometimes, but I’m sure John Cage would have loved the idea.

As you might have noticed, it’s CANT/Chris Taylor week over here, so how about some actual music: Hear CANT in a full concert, recorded live at Moogfest in Asheville, N.C.

For all you German FANTs out there, get ready for next week:

09.11.11 Berlin – Magnet
10.11.11 Hamburg – Indra
16.11.11 Köln – Gebäude 9

(We) came in the door/(we) said it before vs. (our) body traveled, our mind (…) behind the music – thanks, Palaceer, for the best concert so far in 2011. And see you soon.

There might be limits to our love for James Blake, but the Essential Mix he compiled for the BBC earlier this week is a trip worth taking once or twice – so I guess you better grab it right away.

Our friends at Jutojo will be participating at the first night of the Kunst als Klang festival – curated by Pantha du Prince and featuring the venerable Faust and Moritz von Oswald, among many others –, with an audiovisual treat in collaboration with Phillip Sollmann – aka Efdemin – that looks more than promising: a live performance of dust and other particles in the air, enlarged and projected as a visual stream of beauty to Sollmann’s electronic experiments.