after some difficulties on tuesday i have the remaining parts of my brain stitched together again. in the name of all, i allow myself to say thank you to all the people that were showing up and made it the nice-atmosphere, positive-vibe-party we enjoyed together! i'm sorry i lost orientation at some point but anyhow, i was ending up in bed after a little nap outside (but at least i smiled, mognes said)

a big thank you and shout out to julia from susihaus for making this short-termed crazyness possible, bearing us and keeping all the things we have lost until i picked it up the next day. the coca-cola you gave me "saved" my (tues)day eve by the way.

for all the people that missed that one! it was not the last one!

Update: check the picture gallery

1962 - 2007: Wien – Er hätte diese Zeilen nicht gewollt. Einen Nachruf? Bloß nicht. Werner Geiers Bescheidenheit war sprichwörtlich: nur keine Aufregung um seine Person. Das Fegefeuer der Eitelkeiten, dem er als ORF-Radiojournalist, Labelbetreiber und Musikproduzent schon berufsbedingt permanent nahe war, hat ihn nie erwischt. Dass er für Mark Murphys Song For The Geese, einer Platte seines Labels Uptight, 1998 eine Grammy-Nominierung erhielt, war ihm nachgerade unangenehm.

Werner Geier ist nach langer Krankheit in der Nacht auf Dienstag gestorben. Er war 45 Jahre alt. Mit seiner Arbeit als obsessiv von Musik begeisterter Ö3-"Musicbox"-Journalist hat er eine ganze Generation von heute in diesem Land musikaffinen Menschen geprägt. Die Mischung aus Intellekt und Herzblut, mit der der geborene Steirer Österreich etwa an das Werk seines Helden Nick Cave heranführte oder später an HipHop, hat die Musikkultur in diesem Land nachhaltig beeinflusst und verändert. (Anm.: u.a. mit österreichische Musikgeschichte prägende Sendungen wie "tribe vibes" und "rough mix" als demon flowers)

Auch dabei stellte Geier immer das Werk vor die Person, sah sich selbst nur als Vermittler. Ein Musikproduzent zu sein, also im Hintergrund zu wirken, erschien ihm optimal und erfüllte sich, als ihm mit der Wiener Formation HipHop-Finger und der Sängerin Leena Conquest der internationale Hit Boundaries gelang und er in Folge in New York diverse HipHop-Größen produzierte. Dazu arbeitete er für Massive Attack oder die mit ihm befreundeten Stereo MCs.

Den Übergang von der Ö3-"Musicbox" zu FM4 sah der sich in druckfähigen Formulierungen Mitteilende wesensbedingt kritisch und bemängelte bis zuletzt die affirmativen Belanglosigkeiten des Senders. Seinen Arbeitsansatz beschrieb er als "mit gutem Gefühl hingeschissen". Das war insofern kokett, als es den belesenen, reflexiven Intellektuellen verleugnete, der Geier war und der ihn mit zur Ausnahmeerscheinung machte. Um Werners Liebenswürdigkeit zu beschreiben, dafür reicht der Platz hier nicht aus. (flu / DER STANDARD, Printausgabe, 14.11.2007)

If You Don't Work You Can't Eat!!!!

R.I.P Bobby Byrd!!!!

1934 - 2007

best known as James Brown's longtime sideman and co-vocalist. Byrd recorded many solo funk tracks, most famously "I Know You Got Soul" (1971), which have been sampled by musicians including Public Enemy, Eric B. & Rakim, Ice Cube, LL Cool J and A Tribe Called Quest. He was the original leader and founder of The Famous Flames, the vocal group with which James Brown first became famous. Byrd is actually the man who discovered James Brown. (textparts taken from wikipedia)

go to citymodification to find more, nice one my maaaaaaan!

greetz from toronto. coming back to vienna on tuesday. see you then, either at "kunsthallencafe" on wednesday, or at "planetarium" on thursday - will start spinnin' at 10pm. for about an hour and a half - come early if u wanna hear some minimal, rhythm and sound, burial, dub step and whatever comes into my mind ...

make arista records release Q-tip's masterpiece "kamaal the abstract". the album was to be released in april 2002, but the release was cancelled due to the fact, that the record label deemed the album too "un-commercial." its currently just available on "promos", that became rare and expensive collector's items. lets make it official!! sign the petition. 

count is at about 10.600 now. shouldn't that be enough already?!   that story definitely reminds me of darc mind's DEBUT album "symtomatic of a greater Ill". this one was not released by loud records back in 1997. just one track (visions of a blur) appeared on "soul in the hole" soundtrack and was released on 12" back then. it was

one of my favourites tracks at that time but noone ever heard anything more about them. 9 years later, anticon made the whole thing available for general public. i think "darc mind" (mc kevroc, x-ray and nick wiz) would definitely have been another classic among names like oc, mobb deep, das efx, diamond d and all the other sounding names of mid, late 90ties. i don't want to know, how annoying it must be to make a (debut) album, which is a pure deep stoic-silent banger and not released!

as we're talking about dubstep/jungle/breakcore/dub/minimal/electro ... i can also recommend a store i found in leipzig (germany) on tuesday. its called "NERDRECORDS" and is located in an old east-german fabric complex called "FEINKOST" (karl-liebknecht-strasse/südvorstadt). the names say it all! "nerdish fine food" for all you nerds out there! found some delicious sweets out there... too many to buy them all - it was a jungle trip ...

nerdrecords link at discogs

by the way the guy who owns it, will take good care of you - he's really nice and definitely is a nerd too! he shares the place with another guy who looks like venetian-snares and sells old turntables, furniture and design stuff (nice one and not too expensive). so if you come to leipzig - which is much beautifuller than i thought and which moreover could be some kind of a graffiti paradise for some of you - make sure you say hello!

greeeetz outta leipzig my dear

nerdish friends out there!

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... today i spent some, and even more" time at "phil" and while hangin' around and drinking coffee, i felt like flicking through some records that were fooling around over there ... one record, another record, ... and another record! when i touched "the eraser" i stopped.

something was different and it was more than just the coverartwork that was faszinating - i already saw the cover several times, and thought "great cover" - BUT, i never touched it! black and white in a relief ... even if the music was bad - it is definitely NOT - one would have to buy this record! i "never" caressed record covers like that before. maybe i did, but i perfected it today "the eraser" by thom yorke ...

save the vinyl!

just uploaded new pics from our last 2 month in asia...

see them in the "on the way"-section at www.rotaug.com/exidas

"ATLANTIKWALL"

it features a selection of photographs of the atlantik wall around cap ferret. those coastal fortifications were "built" by adolf hitler from 1942 to 44 along the western coast of europe, to defend the german third reich against the western allies.

one topic of this workgroup is to show, how this former bunkers and batteries developed to a kind of "black board" for people, to express themselves. and how the appearance of their surface changes every year. during autumn and winter lots of history is peeled and washed away by sand and sea, as parts of those monumental signs of time are too ... new stories are ment to be written every year. be sure i will continue documenting them ...