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Finally, it´s beginning to look like summer again round here in Austria. This means  leaving urban territory for good, this means barbecue, this means lakeside chilling, this means outdoor festival season, but even more important this means the skateboardcontest season is about to kick off...  

The annual "Spring Battle Skateboardcontest", presented by Cultural Boarders and Die Grünen, takes place at Skatepark Vöcklabruck / Upper Austria on June 7th 2008.

Expect a bigtime session with Austria´s best skaters...

For more infos check culturalskatestore.com

On the search for a place to spend some lazy days in the sun enjoying good music i came across the Wilsonic Festival. The line-up seems promising for all ya bass-lovin people out there & its just across the border.

live: Skream, Deadbeat, Beardyman, Dublicate, DJ Kentaro, Bonobo, Flying Lotus, ...

Complete Line UP
Festival Site
Tickets (english site)

...what a day to start of with some relaxed sound.
so here´s the selection: - - - enjoy!

1) Lokua / Trails - Album / hiphop instrumental / Moment Sound Netlabel / get it here

2) Crookram / 19/76 - EP /  downtempo / BudaBeats Netlabel / over there

3) Rec_Overflow / Keep it real - Album / weird & bass / Plataforma Netlabel / right here

- - - enjoy!


Build by sound artist Recompas, the VoS Sequencere is a 10 step analog sequencer, which basically steps through 10 different voltage levels that are set by the black knobs. The output control voltage and trigger signals are typically used to control pitch, filters, drum triggers and an endless number of other parameters on other synths.

The Voice of Saturn Sequencer can be bought either as a fully assembled unit or as a DIY-kit.

links:
Project Page
Project Blog



sing along with Richard Stallman

"Gyal ova Gun". 80 minutes of pure roots reggae niceness. For those who liked Sake´s 2007 roots mix"good over evil", this is the sequel. Equally smooth, strictly big chuunes... Lean wid it, rock wid it...

Check the projectpage and get the free download here...



First up: Ed O.G.: i got to have it...

Direct Note Access heralds a whole new age in audio editing: for the first time in audio production history it is possible to edit individual notes within chords and polyphonic recordings – separately! More ...

March 12th 2008 Celemony introduced Direct Note Access. The pioneering technology Direct Note Access was officially introduced at the Frankfurt Musikmesse today. Celemony mastermind Peter Neubäcker, the inventor of Melodyne, demonstrated how Direct Note Access allows you to access and edit individual notes in polyphonic audio material. The response was overwhelming, some even rumoured that Direct Note Access, like Melodyne, will once more revolutionize the audio production industry. (text taken from website)

link: celemony.com

due to an own personal preference i decided to cut my mixtape "Yeah!bring it" into two parts. i didn't want to forward to this part all the time. that's why i bring a part of what happened august 2006 once again in april 2008. just to make sure. i still love it! have fun and enjoy. you can get the playlist on the project's site ...

LM09 - YEAH!!! bring it (part II).mp3

the end of an era! for all of you that don't know yet: Polaroid will stop producing instant film by the end of 2008 (as soon as they manufactured enough to last it through 2009). thank you Mr. Land for this uncomparable estethics that will nevertheless slowly disappear from mother earth to be a part of history. BUT: Polaroid said it would happily license the technology to other manufacturers if they want to go on supplying the niche market with film after 2009. somebody should DO that!