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Rock The Bells Festival (Prague) 2008, 31.10.2008 which means today ... Line-Up: De La Soul, Epmd, Mos Def, Nas, Scratch, Supernatural, The Pharcyde, more information here

i'm sorry for you english speaking folks out there, but i dont think that there is an english translation of the books of Daniel Goeudevert. actually i read his second book "mit träumen beginnt die realität" (with dreams reality begins) back in 2000 and i must say - it already changed my view on a lot of things back then. anyhow; why i write this post: he just recently published his 6th book called "DAS SEEROSENPRINZIP - wie die gier uns ruiniert" (the water-lillies principle - how greed ruines us). its about economy, capitalism, ... ; how it works and where it will end. water-lillies take so much nutriens from their environment, that everything around them dies - until they die themselves. a very beautiful metaphoric to what he's talking about in the book. the economic world. before he started writing books daniel goeudevert was a manager and executive in some big automobile companies like Ford, VW, Citroen, ... and he was - already back then at the beginning of the 90ties - a very innovative man concerning the developement of eco-friendly vehicles and so on. that's why he had to leave VW in 1993 because of his conservative thinking collegues in the company and because what he wanted could not be turned over. among writing interesting books and giving interesting lectures, he is vice president of the EFI (Europe Finance et Industrie) and a mentor of the UNESCO. i love this guy. read his books. i dont want to link to amazon; decide by yourself, why you wanna buy this book. go to your local dealer!

for some further background information about the block of our il-fordbrother's blog fordbrothers.biz in turkey go to http://fordbrothers.wordpress.com. moreover rotaugs very own trESH posted a really interesting comment on the last post. a new firefox add-on that simulates the view, you have on the internet, when you are  situated or living within the chinese wall (with all restrictions and blocks and so on). if you wanna try it out, go to chinachannel.hk. seems to be good to find out about the "freedom of speach", its restrictions and manipulating around the world. PEACE!

ford brothers blocked in turkey

I just got word from our dear friend Ilford who currently resides in Turkey, that the Government there has blocked their blog: http://fordbrothers.blogspot.com/ . Since Rotaug also supports free expression of opinion by all means, I had to post this to declare solidarity. What an outrage.

well, its been a while... but this time we got quite a strange selection ;) first an excelent deep live set:
amon tobin - live @ donaufestival 2008 - link

then we got two laidback jazzy mixes from the lithuanian mondayjazz.com site:
dorian concept - from jazz to spaz - link
mnemotrauma - one of these stormy mondays - link

& for seekers of slow dubbie vibes, our code-monkey berserka recommends...
VA baroquedub.co.uk - mixtapes - link

as usual
enjo<y!

i lately received a link to jazzmen's straight outta the box "a tribute to portishead" mix. so all of you out there running out of good music and goin for portishead and "trip hop" beats, grab yourself this nice selected mix. also check out jazzmen's website. he's actually a hiphop producer and mc from germany, who released his first album last year. rotaug was included by doing the album-cover for "endstation". you will find everything you need on his website. digg it!


The Stylophone is a miniature stylus operated synthesizer invented in 1967. It features a metal keyboard played by touching it with a stylus. That's right, over four decades ago with computers the size of a gymnasium and nary a PDA in sight the Stylophone was a portable electronic music instrument with stylus based control.
Now all of you that r already itchy ... the Stylophone now is available again on thinkgeek for a twenty bucks, but i´ll bet not for long.
link

i know - in times of the world wide web musical supplies never dry up. nevertheless i did put a little something together for you and me (i dont have to go to the turntable that often to flip the sides and change the plates then) again. mainly goin back to the 90ties roots in part one - comin to little bit of 2007/08 triphop in part two. worst come to worst! my people come first! have fun and c ya soon out there. 

download link (playlist and projectpage coming soon)

Don't forget! More info here...

is a British record label, that is introducing fans of psychedelic / jazz / folk / funk / avant-garde and whacked-out movie musak to a lost world of undiscovered vinyl artifacts from the annals of alternative pop history. you will find single artist releases like Ersen - Ersen (turkish psychodelic rock - also appearing on the bully records compilation "Obsession" i wrote a post on sometime ago), Daisies (Soundtrack to Vera Chytilova's groundbreaking sixties Czech new wave classic), Selda - Selda (turkish anatolian invasion), Susan Christie - Paint a Lady or special compilations like the "Welsh Rare Beat 2" (a selection of 20 vintage slices fo Cymraeg Soft sych and Welsh kosmic pop curated by Andy Votel, Dominic Thomas and Gruff Rhys). David Holmes seems to be diggin it ;) have fun with it. weird music. i like!!