Austria: a call for an nationwide Day of Action for the Freedom of Movement and the Right of Abode (”Bleiberecht”) on October 10th, 2008 has been published by organisations who had attended the coference Bleiberecht jetzt! earlier this year in Linz. A first preparation-meeting has been suggested for August 11th. Alongside the Day of Action, two campaings - Fensterpolitik (”window-politics”) and Bleiberecht für alle! (”right of abode for everyone”) - have been started, asking citzens to exhibit posters claiming the right of abode in their flat’s windows.

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After a number of spectacular cases in the past months, where whole families had been deported after years of residence in Austria, a broad solidarity movement has evolved in many regions of the country. With it’s main claim, the right of abode of foreign families who have become very much part of local communities, the movement is directly confronting the government’s strict policy on deportation. Only a couple of days ago, a campaign was launched in order to prevent the deportation of two families, who have been living and working in Austrian cities for many years, whose children are attending local schools and are part of the local soccer-team.

The split-up of the governmental coalition between the Social-democrats and the Conservatives in June resulted in general elections scheduled for the end of September. Fearing to loose votes to right-extremist parties, the Conservatives have started the concentrate on migration-policies as one of their main themes for the election-campaign, whereas the Social-democrats have picked up an EU-critical policy strongly supported by Austria’s strongest and far-right tabloid, Kronen Zeitung. The far right on their hand, react with even more extreme policies - Jörg Haider, founder of the small nationalist party BZÖ and governor of its stronghold, the southern province of Carinthia, has started to actually deport asylum-seekers to other provinces under dubious pretences.

With the introduction of the election campaingns by the end of summer, it is to fear that the situation for asylum-seekers and migrants will get even worse. The day of action intends to visibly oppose xenophoby and to rise public awareness for introduction of the right of abode to the Austrian legislation.

From August 7th, 2008 Dubsquare Radio will move to a weekly slot on London-based internet-radiostation Sub FM… each and every Thursday, 2-4pm GMT (15-17h CET). The opening show will feature Raz Marty & ChristoFX from Graz’s El Rakkas Crew, listen live here.

Whereas Play FM’s monthly Garage Sessions will be continued by Jay-S, there will be a monthly sound/text-podcast called Dub Central on Radio Orange 94.0 every last Friday of the month.

Dates

Aug 8: temp~festival p/ Dubsquare Showcase w/ Ca.tter & M-Step (live), Sigha, El Rakkas, Pulse, IZC @ Strombauamt Greifenstein/Vienna
Aug 14: Dubsquare Radio @ Sub FM

Tracklist

*** IZC ***
Warika Hill Sounds - Proverb Dub (Honest Jons)
Two Oh One - Storm/Foresics Remix (unreleased)
IZC - Sand (Dubsquare)
Thesis - Hinge (unreleased)
RSD - Koto (Angel’s Egg)
Robbing Hood - Whistle Stop (Ax/digital)
Mundo - Still Stand Rasta (Dub Assembly)
MIA - Bird Flu/Zomby Remix (unreleased)
Wiley - Eskimo 4 (Wiley Kat)
T2R - Captain Stag (unreleased)
Monolake - Alaska/Substance Remix (Monolake)
Ca.tter - So Dirty (unreleased)
Ikonika - Please (Hyperdub)
IZC - 5am (unreleased)
Martyn - Vancouver (3024)
Zed Bias - The Cauldron (Sidestepper)
*** El Rakkas ***
Junior Byles - Curley Locks (Upsetter)
Augustus Pablo - Unfinished Melody (Rockers)
El Rakkas - Seas Of Disease (LUV/digital)
El Rakkas - Mt. Decay (LUV/digital)
El Rakkas - Mr. Moneyman (unreleased)
El Rakkas - Hey Woman (unreleased)
El Rakkas - I And I (unreleased)
El Rakkas - Shoot Pigs In The Face (unreleased)
El Rakkas - Mass Erectile Dysfunction (unreleased)
Chris P - Meatgrinder (unreleased)
Sigha - Honey (unreleased)
TRG - Put You Down/Ramadan Remix (Hessle)
Helixer - Springs & Wires (7even)
Headhunter - Future Bound (Tempa)
TRG - They Know (Immerse)
2562 - Enforcers (Tectonic)
Simon/off - Pretty Faces (unreleased)
Shed - Masque Invisible (Solo Action)
Shackleton - Massacre (Scuba)
Octagon - Octaedre (Basic Channel)
*** IZC ***
Metope - Kobox/Sleeparchive Remix (Areal)
ø - Vastus (Sähkö)
Bass Clef - ? (White)

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Bratislava’s BWO! collective had invited Bristol’s Forsaken and Gatekeeper for their latest event - check out the documentation of this amazing night.

Before: Gatekeeper at the almighty Tesco…

…and after, Forsaken & Gatekeeper at Bratislava’s Subclub / photos by BWO!

In case You’re interested in techno-music, sound+ might be a good place to visit - offering a really nice collection of mixes and live-set by artists such as Monolake, Rhythm & Sound, Robert Hood or Surgeon, just to name a few. There’s also a link to a live-set Sleeparchive, who gave a funny interview including a playlist to Boing Poum Tchak! recently. For everybody prefering to keep things really minimal in an experimental way, Peter van Hosen’s May 2008 mix, featuring “bass-heavy techno, old and new”.

For the last show of this kind on Orange, D.yne & E_DE_EF from Free Christian Ringtones are joining me in the studio for hour two. Before that, new tunes & releases by Ca.tter, Joker, Martyn, M-Step, Robbing Hood, T2R, Thesis, Sully and others.

Dates

Jul 25: Bounce w/ Pulse, Rod, Odd, Direct, Intense @ Fluc_wanne/Wien
Jul 26: Rainbow Festival w/ Jazzsteppa, Mirtetz, Es_ha, Fezri, Jazzcause, Goodmood @ Nove Zamky
Aug 2: Orange 94.0 (10th anniversary) @ Fluc_wanne/Wien

For this show, Klub Sir3ne’s very own DJ Rak3te will be joining me in the studio, presenting a mix of dub & dubstep in hour two. The first hour of the show will have a slight techno/electro overhang, including new releases by artists such as Curtney Melody, ø, PDF, RSD, Sigha, Substance, This One, Underground Resistance, Wakeika Hill Sounds & myself.

Dates
Jul 10-12: Summer Break Festival w/ TRG, Grimelock & others @ Simeria Veche/Deva (ro)
Jul 11: Freiraum Aktionstag(e) @ Altes AKH/Wien (4pm)
Jul 11: Drumska Festival w/ ANS & Side9000, Wodnyah, Jazzcause, Machine Funck, Mator, Mad4bass, Joyrex & others @ Letiště Hradec Kralove (cz)
Jul 11: Dub Phase w/ Tes La Rok, DST, Kebab, Gumilap @ Mokka Cuka/Budapest
Jul 11: Sub:stance w/ Mala, Shackleton, Appleblim, Distance, Scuba, T++, Robotic @ Berghain/Berlin
Jul 12: Klub Sir3ne w/ Schalldämpfer (live), Ca.tter & M-Step, Stereofreezed Sound, Circator & E_de_ef, IZC @ Fluc_wanne/Wien
Jul 18: Style Wars w/ DWD, Sondforce Mashup, Obs.neurosis, Bassrebel, Atreyu, venom, Saybee, Beelee @ Das Lokal/Wien
Jul 22: iSueYou w/ Ca.tter, IZC @ Rhiz/Wien
Jul 23: oOoze w/ Appleblim, Maxximus, Confusion DJs, Funk Guru & Dubway, Digitron Sound Sistem, Koloritam & others @ Hotel oOoze/Dubrovnik
Jul 25: Exhale w/ SLT, United Vibes, Whistla, T_!, LHF, Rockaway, S-U-N of Selah (mc) @ Public Life/London

Tracklist

Wakeika Hill Sounds - Proverbs Of Proverbs (Honest Jons Records)
Curntey Melody - Stop Inform (Basic Replay)
RSD - Speekah Box (Punchdrunk)
LV & Errol Bellot - Globetrotting (Hyperdub)
PDF - All You Need (unreleased)
Kode 9 - Magnetic City (Souljazz)
Sigha - Bruised (unreleased)
ø - Vastus (Säkhö)
Underground Resistance - Kill My Radio Station (UR)
Dan Curtin - Planetary (Delsin)
Cyrus - Crying Game (Tectonic)
Substance - Relish (Substance)
Kode 9 - Stalker (Hyperdub)
Pangea - Coiled (Hessle)
IZC - Flow Model (unreleased)
Wiley - Who Are You (Wiley Kat)
This One - Hater Dub (unreleased)
Peverelist - Die Brücke (Punchdrunk)
*** DJ Rak3te in the mix ***
Upsetters - Black Panta (Auralux Rec.)
Rootah - Holy Mount/Part 2 (Jahtari)
Mungo´S Hifi Feat Brother Culture - Ing/MJ Mix (Scotch Bonnet)
War 004 - Rockers Dub (White)
Rude Kid - Bandannas On (Nohatsnohoods)
Big Up 749 - B Side (White)
Cyrus - Paradise Dub (Tectonic)
Markomen - Is Weak (Z Audio)
Omen - Rebellion (Tectonic)
F1 & Kromestar - Basspod (Z Audio)
Digital - More Music (Mission Impossible)
Babylon System & Spl - Shevil (Argon)
Quantum Soul - Open Skies (Dubting)
Distance Vs Skream - Political Warfare (Chestplate)
Mala - Lean Forward (DMZ)
Sugar Minott - Wicked Ah Go Feel It (Wackie’s)
Sugar Minott & John Wayne - Jamming In The Street (Wackie´s)
Rootah Feat. Mikey Murka - She Gone Dub (Scotch Bonnet)

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Dubsquare Records 001 (UK 12″)
Izc: Sand
Different styled & tricky grooving dubstep - TIP!

IZC - Sand (Dubsquare Records 001)
Spärliche Informationen. Aber dafür verdammt unerwartete Musik. Das sollte viel öfter passieren. Der erste Track wirkt auf mich ein wenig wie ein 2Step-Detroitsound, den es nie - warum? - gegeben hat. Vertrackte Melodien wie zu den besten Zeiten von Morgan Geist, an die sich heutzutage kaum noch wer erinnert, eigentümliche Grooves, in denen schon mal eine einsame Cowbell heldenhaft aufblitzt, dann so ein deep-verwirrtes Stück galaktischer Housemusik für den Jungle - ich musste erst nochmal nachsehen, ob die Platte wirklich aus dieser Zeit stammt. Die Rückseite spielt ein wenig mit Dubstep, das aber auf eine so ungewöhnliche Weise, dass man sofort begeistert ist. 4 perfekte Tracks jenseits aller Richtungen. Wer Platten liebt, die neue Wege zeigen und sich von nichts beeindrucken lassen, der wird Dubsquare lieben. BLEED
(De:bug 124 Juli/August’08)