As you might have noticed, Sonido Ojo Rojo hasn't been sleeping this year and put out 2 releases already with another one waiting to be dropped in August.

With a growing number of stores, both online and physical, we thought this might be the time to update you about the current situation:

Releases SOR002 DJ Kompact - Return Of July 7" and SOR003 Obahuba - Hart & Zart 12" can be found in these cities: Vienna, Graz, Salzburg, Innsbruck, Munich, Berlin, Barcelona, London and New York City with an ever growing shop list. For further details head over to the corresponding release pages.

If you can't find your city or if you just don't want to leave home, SOR releases can be ordered online at HHV.de (Germany) or at .

I'm going for a swim and don't forget: ROTAUG GOES FLORIDO TONITE!

out.

last week the Sonar festival 2009 took place in barcelona. the most obvious trend to observe was that there are much more live performances going on rather than simply djing, so lets summarize. Day 1 featured Tim Exile with a show entitled "we are the robots", where the musician was accompanied by an essemble of 4 robotic instruments.(video) later that day we watched french experimental hiphop producer Debruit who is also worth mentioning for his fine cut-up sound.

the second day got interesting when viennas Dorian Concept rocked the stage and got wobbly with Bombsquad (listern here) who in my opinion played the best dubstep-set at sonar... and it got really interesting when Ryoichi Kurokawa (video) performed an eclectic audio/visual show using four laptops.

the third and last day was one of the electronic performers. The Raster Noton showcase, featuring SND, Byetone, Atom™ and especially Alva Noto, who performed using a gigantic audiovisual live patch(max msp or homebrew i guess), was nothing less than cutting edge (video1-interface / video2). Furthermore you should check the sound of Lukid, who kept the dub-heads knodding in the dome.

At night the Animal Collective turned the stage into a big playground and brought psychedelic overkill. Followed by Beardyman (video), whose very unique way of performing is worth watching. Props also to Sinden form the UK for bringing some oldskool jungle to the sonar night.

listen:
dorian concept - sonar set
debruit - sonar set
lukid - sonar set

peaceout

We've been hard at work digesting the Release Tour of SOR002 Return of July / Blessed and are proud to present to you the first Live Cut of Rider Shafique's Son of Man over the Live production of myself, DJ Kompact. Enjoy as we enjoyed having this fabulous evening!

Download the HD *.mov HERE.
Project page HERE.

But that's not all, I've got a couple more news for y'all. Since 215 The Freshest Kidz are showing us Random Love on their Myspace Page, I guess we have to show some back and make you aware of their futuristic collaboration with Berlin based producer Robot Koch. Check it out HERE. There is even a free bonus track available for download HERE. Freshhhhhhh! Try to check back once in a while on our Releases section, since you will be hearing more of 215:TFK later this year on Sonido Ojo Rojo!

Last but not least, Icke&Er, originators of the infamous Richtig Geil, have their own website now and rumor has it that they are planning their comeback as we speak. Furthermore, they're commenting a little bit on the financial crisis in their own geil way, with a free download track called Finanzpolka. Get it HERE.

Blessed

Kompact

just to let you all know whats going on in the quiet ... the Obahuba masters for our (Dj Kompact & Lens J) soon to be released "Hart & Zart" - 12inch vinyl are ready. big thank you for the great job to patrick pulsinger. watch out! more information on this one is coming soon.