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Malte Müller

Malte Müller

Malte is from Hamburg. You can find Malte’s tweets at and website at wearefellows.com.

I craft websites and run We Are Fellows, a digital design studio. I'm also a firm believer in postmodernism and minimalistic approaches.

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Because they build museum-grade reproductions of the MA-1 flight jacket that require prospective owners to be on waiting lists for several years before one even has a chance of possibly, one day, owning the jacket. Because they can say to you, with absolute seriousness, believing that it means something, 'I like your lifestyle!'
Estimated reading time: 7 min
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    Malte Müller A true William Gibson classic.

    April 11, 2013
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Wer hat ihm denn einen solchen Knebelvertrag aufgezwungen? Die Plattenfirma? »Nein, das waren meine Kompagnons. Ich war exklusiv dabei, hatte aber keinen Einfluss auf die Arbeitsbedingungen und den Output. Ich konnte nur hinkommen und komponieren, das war eine unglaublich prekäre Situation. Eigentlich wollte ich gar nicht weg von Kraftwerk, es fiel mir unglaublich schwer, da hab ich jahrelang dran gebastelt.«
Estimated reading time: 6 min
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    Malte Müller Karl Bartos über sein Soloalbum und die Arbeitsbedingungen des Unternehmenstyps "Band".

    March 25, 2013
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His whole life has been about proving things, to the people around him, to strangers, to himself. This has been successful and spectacularly unhealthy. If the boy in those letters from Chapel Hill is gone, it is this appetite to prove -- to attack and to dominate and to win -- that killed him. In the many biographies written about Jordan, most notably in David Halberstam's "Playing for Keeps," a common word used to describe Jordan is "rage." Jordan might have stopped playing basketball, but the rage is still there. The fire remains
Estimated reading time: 33 min
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    Malte Müller Mike at 50. Sounds unreal if you're one of the many growing up with him.

    February 22, 2013
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there are all kinds of medication lying around and one band member has to have his bandage changed every half hour! It was so obviously existential, it just had nothing to do with show business. It was about getting completely immersed into a performance
Estimated reading time: 8 min
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“Paul’s Boutique” was a kaleidoscopically referential art-rap memory palace, constructed out of a thousand samples, at more or less the last moment before copyright law made that kind of music-making fiscally impossible. The album didn’t sell, and the president of Capitol Records, who signed the band, lost his job, but critics recognized it as an evolutionary leap, comparing it to “Sgt. Pepper” and “Blonde on Blonde.”
Estimated reading time: 1 min
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    Malte Müller Concerning the fate of artists who don't die, quit or sell out. Aka The Beastie Boys.

    January 1, 2013 | 1
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look at me in my bedroom with my flannel-shirted boyfriend, look at the perfect meal I made for a picnic on our living room floor, look at me admitting to the dry skin I cured with this yummy organic shea butter — suggests a world flung open to you by a friend who wants to share every worthy secret to help you improve every aspect of your lifestyle. Those secrets, though, are products and humblebrags. The advice they offer is merely how to make ourselves, as women, ever more decorative. 
Estimated reading time: 6 min
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    Malte Müller Not agreeing on everything here, but this part is spot on.

    December 10, 2012
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So the airport decided on a new approach: instead of reducing wait times, it moved the arrival gates away from the main terminal and routed bags to the outermost carousel. Passengers now had to walk six times longer to get their bags. Complaints dropped to near zero.
Estimated reading time: 5 min
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    Malte Müller On the psychology of waiting. Via Andreas Markdalen (@youthprojects).

    December 5, 2012
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Kiyota told me he cold brews his coffee, then ages it for up to 10 days, “until it tastes like Glenmorangie.” It's an extraordinary flavor to tease from roasted seeds but he does it and you should try it. If he lets you.
Estimated reading time: 4 min
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    Malte Müller Being obsessive makes sense.

    December 4, 2012
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We no longer need to toil away for months or years at a time crafting a ‘finished’ album, because digital media — by its very nature — has destroyed the hitherto-held understanding of what ‘finished’ really is.
Estimated reading time: 6 min
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Q. Did you ever think that the lessons you first learned on the stage of an improv comedy theater in Chicago would pay off later in life? A. It pays off in your life when you’re in an elevator and people are uncomfortable. You can just say, “That’s a beautiful scarf.”
Estimated reading time: 9 min
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    Malte Müller An interview with Bill Murray.

    November 28, 2012
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Sollten die Artikel aber zunehmend über digitale Medien, etwa das iPad, gegen Bezahlung gelesen werden, wäre das kein Unglück – selbst die überzeugtesten Printadepten sind keine Holzhändler, es geht um den Inhalt, nicht um die Form.
Estimated reading time: 4 min
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    Malte Müller Natürlich benötigen andere Verbreitungskanäle anderes Fachwissen und andere Geschäftsmodelle — aber an den Kompetenzen und Aufgaben des Journalismus ändern sie wenig. Ich frage mich, warum dieser Punkt in der (überaus langweiligen) Print/digital-Debatte so selten thematisiert wird. Wer dort verliert, sind alt gewordene Unternehmer. Keine Journalisten.

    November 22, 2012 | 1
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Wir müssen uns andere Orte suchen, um einen Distinktionsgewinn zu erhalten, wie ihn Lancia versprach. Wir müssen den Exzess, die Exzentrik, den Eigensinn wieder suchen gehen: Den wüsten Exzess des Delta Integrale, die stille Exzentrik des Kappa Coupé – den Eigensinn vieler Lancias.
Estimated reading time: 2 min
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    Malte Müller Exzentrik wagen.

    November 13, 2012
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The production will be focused around the fact that when one amplifies the basic constituents of sound into a building such as sine waves and noise, what is reflected back contains an imprint of the space and all of its nuances; just as when an acoustician plays pulses and sine wave sweeps into a space in order assess its properties, or when a bat uses echo location to navigate through an environment.
Estimated reading time: 3 min
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    Malte Müller A new project by Emptyset, in the lines of their "Medium" release. Assessing spatial dimensions to create music and noise.

    November 8, 2012
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Divided into two rectangles—one dark, one light—the relationship between sea and sky takes on an almost abstract geometry that carries from image to image and ocean to ocean around the world. Like Rothko, Sugimoto conveys a startling range of emotions within a limited vocabulary of black and white tones and a fixed format.
Estimated reading time: 4 min
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    Malte Müller Rothko & Sugimoto. Obvious fit.

    November 8, 2012
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Now, the sluggish sludge of those records has been housed within a newfound cleansed and gleaming superstructure. Luxury Problems' sustained plods and delayed pulses are all the more reined in and restrained, its underwater asphyxiation colder, and calculated to a higher decimal place.
Estimated reading time: 7 min
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    Malte Müller This article says absolutely everything I'd possibly have to say about Andy Stott's new record. For reference: electricgecko.de/2012/shards-slivers (german)

    November 4, 2012
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