2012-02-19 13:42 von Admin
SNOW - Confirmed team #3 Absolut
Dubbed the ‘Beasts from the East’, Team Absolut has been one of the most consistent, powerful and dangerous line up’s ever to compete at the Vans Wängl Tängl. Seen and understood internally as the ‘El Classico’ derby match – Salzberger Land meets Tirol – in a no holds barred, pedal to the metal match up. As it stands, the historical match up is tied for the time being, with Team Absolut taking the Wängl Tängl Title in 2010, before being edged out into 3rd place in 2011 by locals, Team 96 and The Djudes. There is no doubt they will arrive in Mayrhofen fully fit and fired up looking to take the Vans Wängl Tängl 2012 title and Derby honors back east with them again.
The Absolut Park in Flachauwinkl, one of the best home training grounds in Austria, if not the world, where team riders of Captain Herbi Thaler, Phips Gruber and Michi Stanschitz spend the entire season honing their team skills before mounting their annual Tirol marauding party. Team Absolut, part of the Wängl Tängl since 2008, they took only one year to work out their team strategy, they won or podiumed in the competition almost ever since.
Heading into last years event as odds on favorites, when disaster struck. “Everything was fine we allready had our run and we all felt pretty good with the park and the set up…” said team Caprain Herbi Thaler, “Right up until the last very last warm up run. I really can’t work it out, I clammed bad on the run out of the last jump on the run in to the Red Bull end section. Just caught and edge and fell on my shoulder. In a second – I was out.” he concluded. While this was obviously a shock, once it was worked out that the injury was mainly a bruising putting Herbi out for a week or so, Team Absolut immediately pulled Thomas Minichberger off the bench making their third placing even that much more impressive.
Looking at the next edition of the of the Vans Wängl Tängl and the continuation of the ‘El Classico’derby hositities, Herbi replied, “This year’s Wängl Tängl is going to be even harder, especially with the Qualification element, but we’re definitely coming in hot! Not only do we want the title back, but it would definitely mean something special to take home 10-Year Anniversary Vans Wängl Tängl Title.
There is no doubt that Team Absolut will be looking hard at the podium again for 2012.
2012-02-18 16:54 von Admin
Basti Stein Groove Project
Since this a brandnew project – about which it is even impossible to find any info in the web that we can just copy and paste, like we do with all the other profiles – we asked the honored artists themself for a few words of introduction and this is exactly what we got, very few words:
„ Basti Stein (Trumpet), Philipp Nykrin (Keys), Stephan Kondert (Bass) Andreas Lettner (Drums); 4 highgrade musicians that have played together in many different projects get down to let their musical repertoire and skills melt. Untamed improvisation clashes with hard frenetic grooves and sound experiments which generates a new energetic sound.“
Basti Stein
…it was the last time we asked a Jazz musician for spoken words – these boys like to talk with their instruments. The B.S. Groove Project will spice up the art show put on by our fellas from Vans Looking Sideways. Take it easy with the highgrade!
2012-02-18 14:59 von Admin
Duzz down san lable night - PDF
Bonn, Paris, Innsbruck, Lienz, Vienna, Graz … P(hil) D(a) F(unk) seems to be homeless in his creative efforts in which Funk and Soul are strongly reduced in a dub woven context to enhance the whole release with rap vocals, or not. The dedication to his music to is reflected in his ever growing record collection that goes from Hip Hop, Soul, Funk, Dub, Dubstep to Electro. He has partnered with such names as Beware,Funktionist, Kid Fresh, DJ Food, James Mountain, Diesler, Joker, DJ Spookey, Hextatic and Grandmaster Flash at the turntables. Looking beyond the limits of the turntable domain, Phil is also working with live musicians Gustavo Vohena Marcachini (bass) and percussionist Oliver Deutsch.
2012-02-18 12:58 von Admin
Duzz down san lable night - Feux
“Duzz Down San” is an independent label by a group of underground musicians. The idea is to create a platform and reach out to other underground musicians (which the name, translated as “so that you’re down”, refers to) by producing innovative music free of aesthetic or genre-based borders.
Feux is a producer and DJ hailing from Austria who has been working on music for the past five years. His first production, entitled “21 & Ghost”, on which he collaborated with fellow Austrian producer Daelectronic as well as rapper Nebz Supreme (L.A./California), was released in January 2008. In April 2009 he dropped his first full length release “Mastaplan” with MC Mirac as “Feux & Mirac” on Duzz Down San Records. Since then he can be found pursuing a variety of different projects – whether it be remixes, collaborations with other artists or simply his solo endeavors.
2012-02-16 12:56 von Admin
Duzz down san lable night - Chrisfader & Testa
Both turntablists are leading figures in the field of technical vinyl artistry – for which they took quite a few titels home to Tyrol in categories like Advancement Class, Beat Juggling, and Team Competitions. They dominated the ITF competitions from 2003 thru 2006. Internationally they made 4th place in the European Finals in 2006. This success marked Austria’s first appearance on the international turntablist stages – in cities such as Prague, Stuttgart, or Dublin. And just recently Chrisfader won the Rhymesayers Europe Tour Mixtape Contest.
Chrisfader and Testa’s talent, however, cannot only be seen in competitions of finger acrobatics. They have also succeeded artistically, raising the tool of the turntable to a musical instrument in its own right, instead of a simple record player as some regard it be. Their latest joint-venture project with DJ D.B.H. is called Restless Leg Syndrome and has a simple concept: Take an old genre of music, sample and flip it into dancefloor-ready beats. In the case of their EP “Swapping Swingers” the focus is on the Swinging 1920s. Now, Restless Leg Syndrome captured that musical vibe in the hopes of turning the dances in the Scotland Yard Pub similarly rowdy!