May 2011 – Ancient Astronauts

Good day,

we´re back again with tour telegraph number 5 about our Into Bass And Time release tour in the USA. After a highly success SXSW Music Conference in Austin/Texas we stayed another week in Washington DC. As you might noticed Washington DC is our US home base (so to say). This is where ESL Music is based. We really love this city with its great live music scene and clubs like Eighteenth Street Lounge, Patty Boom Boom, U-Street Music Hall and more. The week was full with meetings with our label management but we also played another 2 great gigs. The first one was together with label mate Nickodemus at the Newseum. That place is incredible. it´s a huge 5 level museum for news, directly in the heart of DC. The night was presented by Brightestyoungthings.com, a great website from DC that is focused on art, media, music, food and more. This was such a great show with more than 3.200 visitors through the night. It´s always big fun playing with Nickodemus.

On sunday night we played at the beautiful Eighteenth Street Lounge again alongside Names Thompson and Kiran Ghandi on percussion. As always this was a night of smiling and dancing people shaking what they got on the dancefloor. Much love to the DC massive!

Take a look at two short videos to catch the vibe of the night:

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Have a good time,

Ancient Astronauts

Hey guys,

sorry for the long silence but after returning home from our recent US tour we´ve been busy with our European album release party in Cologne and a lot of new work in the studio. This is the second part of our USA tour telegraph. This time it is about our week at SXSW Music Conference in Austin/Texas:

We were very happy to return to Austin for SXSW and this year we had a much bigger appearance there than last year. This time we were the most gigs playing German act during SXSW, playing 11 gigs in 7 days. Plus interviews and photo sessions. We started monday night at The Mohawk at a superb event that combined the elements of SXSW Interactive and SXSW Music, meaning the most talented graphic artists doing live animations and art to cool club music sets. Honestly folks, there should be more events like that. Makes perfectly sense.

That was a great start of SXSW for us and we kept on going with great parties by Soul Of The Boot Entertainment, Wax Poetics Magazine, ESL Music, Dubspot, Giant Step, Etnies, Sunset Promotions and our official SXSW gigs. We had the pleasure and honour to play with bands and dj´s like Empresarios, Bellerushe, Nappy Riddem, Ocote Soul Sounds, Chico Mann, Thavius Beck, Nickodemus, J-Boogie, Funk Ark, DJ Sun, DJ DRM, Afrolicious, Adrian Younge, DJ Yoda, Rob Luis, DJ Manny, etc. The list goes on and on. Great times all over.

SXSW in Austin is really worth the visit because it is the perfect happening that gets fans and music lovers

together with the artists and the music industry. The only negative thing in our eyes was the treatment at the official SXSW gigs. As an artist you didn´t feel threatened that good as you would expect from a festival that invited you to play. There was no artist lounge at events to get free drinks. All you got was 2 drink tickets per person and if you ran out you had to pay for your drinks. Also the manners and behavior by some official SXSW people was not really friendly, more rude so to say.

So to sum it up we have to say that SXSW is big party with great people. Austin is beautiful down to earth city (surrounded by great nature) that get´s a great mixture of music fans, freaks, artists and industry people together once a year. Hopefully some of the photos from our time in Austin can reflect that vibe.