to all my friends that joined the several celebrations over the last week and made this "feel well atmosphere" i had - possible! and of course i want to thank all of you for that great, great present!!!!! and i think - no! i know: it's goin to be a LOOOOOOOT of FUUUUUUN. KOOOOOOORGIN' Obs ... 

Yo!

As you might have noticed already, over the last couple of days your rotaug.com experience might not have been as joyful as usual since we had some trouble with our server. But thanks to Rotaug's own mighty Berserka and Willi from Typoheads we're back online again with lots of info coming your way. Watch out!

The Vertual Vertigo Europe Tour, which started last Friday at Café Strom, Linz (Thx to Flip...) has reached a peak last Saturday in Innbruck with a great lineup and a incredible partycrowd! Thanks go out to Albi, Monomassive, Mosch and the rest of the crews for having us and Amewu, Wisdom and especially DJ Werd for their gifted life performance and for sharing the stage with us. It's been a BLAST!

But it's not over yet. The Tour continues TODAY Monday, June 8th at Café Leopold, MQ Vienna at 22:00 with FREE entry! So come bring a couple of friends if you want to enjoy a monday night like no other before...

After the Austria shows, we will be heading up to Berlin to perform at the official Vertual Vertigo "Sparkies Bungalow" CD Release party alongside Berlin based producer 8bit on Wednesday, June 10th.

Last but not least, Sonido Ojo Rojo has been hard at work too with 2 new releases coming up this summer: Hart & Zart 12" by Obahuba and Illuminate feat. 215 The Freshest Kidz 7" by DJ Kompact. Go check it out at our Release Page.

That's about all for now, stay tuned for media documenting the tour soon!

Peace out 

Kompact

after some busy time i was really looking forward to put a new mixtape together. its called "don't let this rapshit fool ya" named after the first track by blahzay blahzay. i posted the A-side a while ago and now it was ment to be joined by the B-side. both of them a mixture of some of my alltime favourites and other tracks that joined them recently. from dilated peoples, souls of mischief to dday one, the rza, madlib, chochlair, grav, apani b, melomaniac, masta ace, ... and dcs.

and there is a recording of last weekends digital konfusion mixshow, where i tried to give the minority sounds a little bit of airtime. quarta 330, disrupt, g.corp, akira kiteshi, and so on. from dubby dubstep to dubstep and 8-bit a like.

listen and download mixtape (side A & B) on its project page
listen and download radioshow on its project page

dear friends. as i found a short timegap i decided to work over my personal website lens.rotaug.com, changed the typo size, updated the news, recents, photography, shortfilm, cv and links section and made some slight changes in the navigation. still not everything done, but it takes a while to get through the betaversion anyway. i wanna hear some critique or proposals how i could make things better to navigate or use. greets bros and sisters. "two thousand and nine" in full effect ... enjoy

lens digitalized one of the most important milestones in ROTAUG HISTORY. the rotaug mixtape #1 called

"ICHIBAN" by DJ CRAAK

which means: the first time our name ROTAUG was officially written on something concrete - like the tape cover of this strictly limited edition of 30 tapes - and since then stands for our connection of friends sharing the same artistic interests.

listen to a part of our musical roots.

the sounds of the beatnuts, masterminds, mos def, dj honda, ..., pete rock and some extreme scratchin and juggeling by dj craak back in 1999.

DIGG THE ROTAUG ARCHIVES! PEACE
dj craak - ichiban (all together, zip)
dj craak - ichiban (side A, mp3)
dj craak - ichiban (side B, mp3)
dj craak - ichiban (side A, jpg)
dj craak - ichiban (side B, jpg)

i'm proud to announce, that i will graduate this week and that my diploma which includes an exhibition of my work "la disparation - le mur d'atlantique autour de Cap Ferret" - a project i'm workin on for at least 3 years now - will be shown in its "full range" on november 28th and 29th @ academy of fine arts vienna, lehárgasse 6-8, 1060. i will be there from 1pm till 7pm to answer questions and i would be glad to see the one or other. don't miss this. i will serve espresso :) all the best and thumbs up, lens

buddy BUSK talking about his work that - if you don't know, although you see it "writen" everywhere - includes graffiti, streetart and typography ... find the interview on lettercult.com and if you dont know them yet, go to my artist section to find the one or other shortfilm featuring BUSK ... the "view video" button is on the upper left side. and there is one more thing you should not miss. the "Busk-Cmod-Gasse" Vienna. Sad government officials removed this great art in public space. maybe my grandma did get confused by the sudden appearance of a new streetname. anyhow: great project! have fun. spread the word!

untitled_in_case_no_05_2 (their past is our future) by lens (kemoka sound version) is goin to be screened at Film:riss Student Film Festival Salzburg November 12th at 7:30 pm (panorama - category "docu") ... for more information please go to the festival website filmriss.at, the festival lasts from 10th to 15th of november. see you there.

"the fact that i was out there in this special night was determining the whole athmosphere of the sound. i didn't think a minute about how the feeling should be. it had to bee windy, mysterious and very dark. so i performed a jazzballad and cutted it into little pieces, like the pictures in the movie. a few windy sounds and some weird, cutted beats later my soundversion for untitled_in_case_no_05 was born." (by kemoka)

... a lot, so this post is supposed to sum it all up. let's take it from the top:

Tuesday Nov 4 '08 (= Today!) Kompact will be spinning records alongside Francoforte at Café Leopold, Vienna. more...

Friday Nov 7 '08 fresh out the box Rotaug member Simonaggio will be hosting EROBIQUE LIVE (International Pony) together with Bernhard Tobola at Brut, Vienna.

Saturday Nov 8 '08 Lens G. Jadepfahl will be teaming up with the First Lady of Bad Taste to blend genres into eternity at Rote Bar Volkstheater, Vienna. more...

Nov 5 - Nov 9 '08 - this is a Rotaug recommendation for all of those interested in styles off the beaten track. They should join the ELEVATE festival in Graz this week - lots of concerts, live-performances, discussions and the like. My personal recommendation would be this Thursday: DJ Spooky That Subliminal Kid a.k.a. Paul D. Miller discussing "Commons of the Mind", starting at 19:30 @ Dom im Berg with a Live Performance right after...

Don't sleep this week! Peace.