Thanks to T3 for a great review of our Tracks.

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

Right now everybody's writing about the new iPad, ladiladila. We obvioulsly like Apple an all, but instead we would like to direct some attention towards a project we've been following closely over the last few years. The OP-1 it is and it was just presented at the NAMM show last week. Audiofanzine.com promtly had it topping their list of the best music gear found at the show. Not surprisingly really. The OP-1 is developed by our Swedish friends from Teenage Engineering and it's a master piece. Its bold simplicity, yet super intelligent interface is going to blow away all you aficionados and even further. Thumbs up to Jesper and his crew! To check out more pics and details on the project click here.

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 Their attempt to spread the news about their $ 18 000 scholarship makes your childhood pop-up books look terribly outdated and sets a new standard for creativity with 'analog' tools.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.

Our good friend Jon "Joshua" Schumann recently received a Swedish Grammis. He won the price for producing Kent's latest album "Röd". Jon is also helping us on the upcoming DJ project, the TMA-1 Headphone, which is to be launched this comig summer. Congratulations Jon - you certainly deserve it!

On the 18th of January we are heading to Berlin to take part in the Tradeshow Bread & Butter. We will have a room on the 1st floor with our friends and partners from WoodWood and it'll be great fun. We have loads of exciting meetings set up, but if you're anywhere close, please stop by...The exact location is the new fashion-meets-art area called '1st Floor'. We will be in the room right next to the bar...hope to see you.

It was an untraditional "Christmas Lunch" rejuvenating our understanding of how to eat food. Eating from a trash can, from a lamp and from a Christmas tree. Kind of strange, but at the same time rather amusing, especially looking at everyone else around the table and how their face expressions evolved through out the night...try it! Rumors say they've found a new venue and will be doing another round sometime in February. their website will keep you updated.

We are very happy to start 2010 with the 9th ep from Tartelet brought to you by the Tartelet founders Tomas Barfod and Frederik Bille Brahe. Tickle song have been lying around on our harddrive for some time but like a good redwine it has been ageing very well, and now it is ready to be released.

First off was our Twitter account and now we've also created a Facebook account, here it is.

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.

Cool new site launched by our fellow Danes at LEGO: www.legoclick.com.

"It's a little place on the Internet devoted to creativity, innovation, and the moment when ideas just CL!CK. Come to inspire and be inspired. And bring your LEGO bricks"

Note the free LEGO photo iPhone app...

Like so many others do this time of the year, we would like to suggest what we think is this year's best tracks. The songs are not necessesarily from the best albums of 2009 (but most of them are really...)

The songs are in no particular order. Just click on the links to listen...

Dirty Projectors - Stilness On The Move

Miike Snow - Animal

Yeasayer - Ambling Alp

Animal Collective - My Girls 

The Rumour Said Fire - The Balcony

Girls - Lust For Life

Grizzly Bear - Two Weeks

The XX - Islands

Passion Pit - Seaweed Song

When Saints Go Machine - Fail Forever

Phoenix - Girlfriend

Bat For Lashes - Daniel

Before our grand X-mas lunch at I'm a komBo (will bring you photos of that later), we went through the freezing streets of Copenhagen to visit some friends and wish them a Merry X-mas. We started out at the Pølsevogn (sausage wagon), went by all the little legendary pubs, that truly mean a lot to our Danish culture, passed WoodWood and Norse, went down to Studiestræde 31 - where we might move to at some point - and ended up with a cup of varm chocolate by our friends at Ricco's. We took a few pictures on the way and created this little sequenze....Merry x-mas!!

Check out this new blog from the nice gals, and good friends of ours, over at LA Graphic Design - They definitely know their way around art, design, architecture and just random cool stuff. Latest, we espacially like their post on the collaboration between artists Matthew Barney & Elizabeth Peyton

Our good friends from I'm a komBo (Lasse & Bobby) have just opened a so-called pop-up restaurant at the A-house, where we used to reside in the old days. The restaurant is open for the month of December and it's been overbooked long before it opened. Luckily we got a few seats and are heading there on Saturday for an AIAIAI Christmas dinner. Will bring you photos next week.

The launch of Tracks Series has been a great success; in only a few weeks we've sold out our first shipment - only a small amount of peach and cream/blue are left at our webshop. For those of you waiting for the other colors to get back in stock, they'll be available again after Christmas for an early January delivery.

Our friends from The Heist have been working with Melbourne based artist Nate Gamble for a while now to present the Heist store 09/10 tee shirt range. Along with this, Nate will be selling some original works and prints. For those of you that don't know Nate, he is a Melbourne artist and skateboarder, has been working a lot in group shows of late such as the Coll-Yarra-bration show on last week with guys like Andy Murphy. If you are anywhere close you should drop by The Heist on the 18th Dec, 6.30pm for a drink or two...

As it's been a good year for our little Record Label Tartelet we have decided to gather some of our friends for a Tartelet X-Mas Marathon at Dunkel on the 18th of December. Hope to see you all for a beer or two and possibly also a snaps or two...in other words we are aiming at a good old snaps-drunk-dicknose-back-to-back-all-nighter...

Our friends and partners from Woodwood are opening up their third store in few days - this time in Vienna, Austria. Our products are going to be available at the store amongst a bunch of other cool brands. Congrats from AIAIAI!

We've just released a range of new colours to our Swirl and Y-model line. Apart from the new colours we've done a minor change on the White and the Purple ones in adding a curl on the lower part of the cable instead of up by the ear. Apart from the visual difference it adds a flexibility in pulling the cable up and down from your pocket or bag or whereever you store your iPod or MP3 player. Hope you'll like it. Click on the picture below to have a closer look.

Pop-up stores seems to be the new thing to do and most of them are not worth mentioning. When we where in NYC last month we met up with the people from ACE HOTEL and they told us about their upcoming pop-up store project at Isetan in Tokyo. Featuring all their really cool collabo stuff through out the years, this is actually not just a matter of selling out the stock they have left. Congrats to Jou and his crew for pulling it of! Make sure you drop by if you are anywhere close...

If you don't have plans for the weekend (or next) here's a suggestion. Put on your furry gloves and hats and dig into the world of Distortion. Expect a ton of great acts and fun happenings - as usual...

We hereby present our eighth 12″ - ‘The Work Out 1&2′ Mountain Ride/Restless Swing. This is the first split-12″ on our label, and it marks an important point in the peacemaking process between Denmark and Northern Germany, since the war in 1864. From Hamburg we have Wareika on the A side; one of Germany’s most promising acts. On the B side we have ourselves from Copenhagen (Tomas Barfod and I - aka Fredski).

This is the 3rd Tartelet Galaxy Edition release, which means that it embraces more experimental and deep sounds than the non-Galaxy output from our label.