dear friends. time to come up with the first featured mix by our very best friend manni montana from former B.A.S.K duo recorded in a quick session at lenson's crib two days ago. expect a 30 minutes "Dub-Club" style mix of rocking new skool breakz with some "dub and IDM influence", followed by a brand new "fidget house" track straight outta the U.K.; see there, the next genre - a mixture of smashing house beats and dubstep and drum n bass basses - was born, hehe. that's what he plays in a club.

find his own productions in digital form at soulseduction, juno and itunes. watch out for the exhausted copies of former vinyl releases and don't miss his cult-album "the return of the punk-monk" feat. dolli melaine on la place records. en plus - manni montana & sweet susie's alternative radio hit "oxygène" feat. alice schneider on private pleasure recordings. have fun, da lens is out!

mannimontana.net
myspace.com/mannimontana
download the mix (30min, mp3)

Ladies and Gentleman, please give a warm and friendly round of applause as we welcome the latest member of our rotaug - family:

THAIMAN aka trademark aka mic thaisn

As one of Austria´s dopest MC´s, Thai definitly paid his dues, constantly touring clubs and organising jams all over the country for the last couple of years. Thai is a founding member of austrian hiphop-collective DNK-Movement based in Salzburg. He dropped his tight debut-LP "Der Einzug" in 2006. 10 Tracks full of clever wordplay, very personal storytelling and heavy beats with a jazz influence.

Since then he´s workin on different projects such as "Luxusthail" with Demolux scheduled to drop 2009 and touring and recording with SK Invitational Big Band with Flip (Texta). As we speak, he also started recording tunes with our very own DJ Kompact for his own next album plus the upcoming full-length Kompact album.

To find out more about Thaiman check his brandnew ARTISTPAGE

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)