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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!

this weeks selection...
1) Tha Silent Partner - Platters Act.1-Lounge Music And Exotica - hiphop instr. - download link
2) Damu the Fudgemonk - Spare Time - hiphop - get it here
3) Dafluke  - mix No.8 - minimal, electro - download link
4) Martyn - fabric mix - minimal, dub - download link
5) DDay One -  Monday Sermon  on good old days, hiphop -  download link

enjoy!

Rrrrrotaug visualizer CLRCDD is celebratin birthday together with his friends barbara and max at blue lagoon this friday, with musical backup provided by sonido ojo rojo...

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lens g. jadepfahl is back, delivering a 1h 11min live dub minimal mix straight outta sechzehnablechstudios ottakring, where the Euro2008-beer-crate-mountains are growing! you can get the mix and playlist by clicking the link below. lay back and enjoy the drift!

LM21 || one's & two's - april 15th 2-3am

and as we were talking about Euro2008: i found the best Euro "trash" track within millions of them on the web. predicted to be a hit among austrias beer drinking population and all the people that understand the seriousness of the situation, haha. its called "europamasta" by "der 12.mann"! we will see, if "he" is the one additional player the austrian football team needs to win the Euro, lol

This weekend, Saturday April 19th to be more precise, two legends will be holding lectures at semper depot vienna. Since one of them is truly an austrian local hero, this is one you shouldn't miss. Here's some info about the two, provided by the RBMA, who will be hosting the lecture (sorry about the german language):

Supermax:
Kurt Hauenstein ist der coolste Typ auf Erden. Punkt. Wer außer Hauenstein bzw. Supermax kann sonst schon von sich behaupten, als erster weißer Musiker beim renommierten Sunsplash-Festival in Jamaica gespielt und 1980 als erster Westler die Bühnen hinter dem eisernen Vorhang erobert zu haben? Von seinen Hits wie „Love Machine“ ganz zu schweigen. Dieser Track glänzt auch heute noch trotz der 30 Jahre, die der Klassiker mittlerweile am Buckel hat, weltweit als Exempel für reduzierte Funkyness und deepe Discogrooves. Vor allem aber besticht Supermax durch seine Originalität und seine ablehnende Haltung gegenüber fauler Anbiederung. Wie sonst wäre es zu erklären, dass sich der 59-Jährige jeglicher Austropop-Nostalgie entzieht und stattdessen lieber mit seinen musikalischen Verehrern wie Buddha Monk of Wu-Tang Clan-Fame ins Studio geht.

DJ Funk:
Ein Blatt hat er sich nie vor den Mund genommen, der gute DJ Funk. Mit seinen Platten auf dem legendären Dance Mania Label, die Titel wie „Ass & Titty“ oder „Mr. Big D**k“ tragen, zählt er nicht nur zu den schelmischsten Schweinigeln der Dance-Historie, sondern hat obendrein das Genre Ghetto House erfunden. Schnelle, harte Housebeats, eine Brise Electro und HipHop-Elemente kombiniert der Chicagoer DJ seit Mitte der Achtziger Jahre mit nicht ganz jugendfreien Schlachtrufen und entlockt seinen Drumcomputern dabei explosive Dancetracks, die kein Tanzbein ruhig lassen.

April 19th 2008, Semper Depot VIENNA
SUPERMAX (Universal, Wien)
DJ FUNK (Dance Mania, Ed Banger; Chicago)
Moderation: Heinz Reich & Stefan Trischler
Start: 17:00h

Don't forget the party @ Fluc Wanne afterwards hosted by RBMA and electro-nix featuring Dj Funk and many more, starting at 23:00 h !

Good Vibe Party Thing with Sake & Exidas (Mountain Top, SOR) and Visuals by Gandl at JazzIt, Salzburg / Sat, 12. April 2008

Check the details


Avatar Machine is a system which replicates the aesthetics and visuals of third person gaming, allowing the user to view themselves as a virtual character in real space via a head mounted interface. (text taken from site)

for more information goto
http://www.marcowens.co.uk

As some of you might already know, Graz, Austria was what i called home for about a year and it's about time for me to go down there and catch up this weekend. I'll be visiting my Beat Connection Bro Dero to elaborate on the MPC (stay tuned for results!) and have a good time on Friday, April 11th @ Galileo Graz and the day after, April 12th @ Continuum Graz. Dero and company will be spinnin records all night long and I'll be joining them. So come out if you are around the area, and btw: checkout tiefparterre.net for some hot shizzle! over and out.

filmscreenings, bookreading, djing, vjing, live performance by synthiemodul, ... would be nice to see the one or other. find all the information about the event, names of djs, bands, vjs, ... on the festival website: think its goin to be a nice one!! starting 8pm, entry fee: five euros ...

www.sickultur.com
www.ragnarhof.at

Another free download banger. Courtesy of one of our favourite mc´s, RAPTOAR
(wortschatz crew / dnk-movement.com), comes this dl that includes the mixtape/album "WORTSCHATZ - SCHMIAZETTLWIATSCHOFT" plus some bonus live-recordings and exclusives. deep as the abyss...

download that classic austrian rap sh...