Good day to all positive souls out there

we are living in troubled times. There haven´t been as many wars as in these days. Since World War II there haven´t been more wars on this planet. The only difference is that it´s not one country against another but internal conflicts with their root in religion, greed, race or whatever creates hate these days. War zones are everywhere. Maybe directly next to us but you can feel it. Ukraine is just one new location but because of the not too far distance to Europe it feels as if war is coming closer and closer. The people out in the streets don´t understand why cause they just want to live a safe and fair life. Most of us are born and raised in peace and we should never forget that feeling. Peace is one of the most precious things in life. That is why we have to raise our voices to keep it maintained and spread the awareness that war is never a solution. Peace is not a memory, it´s the biggest freedom one can get!

ONE LOVE

A video from those days when Nas (former Nasty Nas) was really authentic and raw:

:)))))

Hello friends & family,

we hope you are fine wherever you are. The weekend has nearly come and what better than music to start it with?

Dr. Best from German radiostation Radio Z in Nuernberg asked Dogu to do an exclusive DJ Mix for his show “Limbo Rhythm” in late 2013. His show is an eclectic mixture of quality conscious music from Downtempo to Hip Hop to Funk to Reggae and more styles. That said it is perfect to fit an Ancient Astros style mix to the show. The mix was aired in early january and we uploaded the mix to our Soundcloud page for all you guys out there who were not able to listen to the radioshow:

HAPPY WEEKEND !!!

How is everybody today?

We would like to share this video of an older tune from us remixed by DJ Ole, a great DJ and producer  from Berlin. The tune is some years old now but the videos were done by Uli Sigg during his and Dogu´s performance at the GamesCom computer fair in summer 2013 in Cologne. Very nice, right? We hope you enjoy it too.

Stay safe and warm this month and talk to you soon!

good day world,

here is our brand new video for “Tuff Gong” featuring Martin Perna of  ANTIBALAS afrobeat orchestra and Ocote Soul Sounds on flute. We want to give BIG THANKS out to the B-Boys and B-Girls in the video, which are the DMI Breakerz from Chicago and Daniel “The Grouch” Holt from NYC !!! This is such a great european-american collaboration. Music bridges all distances and gaps on this planet.

Keep it positive !!

Greetings,

those of you who follow our label Switchstance Recordings since 2001 will know that the first release was edition 1 of the Fantastic Freeriding label compilation. All our label´s artists were presented with a fine selection of tunes and the sound of our label and artists made great waves all across the world. The past years saw Switchstance concentrating on individual artist releases but we thought it is time for another full label statement. Fantastic Freeriding is back again with edition number 4, giving musical statements to what is happening out there in the whole wide world as well as in our own worlds. It is music in the present, in the NOW. Next to our classic Switchstance artists Protassov, Deela, Kabanjak and ourselves, we have a new label collegue from Chicago, named Void Pedal. As our friend and collaborateur Asphate from Chicago based Hip Hop crew Maxilla Blue perfectly described him, Void Pedal “is a beast” on the beats and harmonies. An incredible new talent on Switchstance Recordings. In addition to this we have a very special guest on the album. Martin Perna, founding member of ANTIBALAS afrobeat orchestra, blessed our Ancient Astronauts song “Tuff Gong” with his live flute and gave this song the melodic shape it needed. Tight and on point!

The sound of Switchstance Recordings, NOW:

did you grab your free copy of our new song “Tuff Gong” which features Martin Perna from heavyweight afrobeat band ANTIBALAS yet? this is the FREE tune for our upcoming Switchstance Recordings label compilation “Fantastic Freeriding 4 – NOW” which will be released on the 8th of november. have a listen here:

in the song description you will find a link to get the song for FREE in exchange for your email.

Play It Loud !!!

greetings positive people,

Dogu and his Family Affairs Cologne crew are celebrating a charity ball tonight together with the good folks of Viva Con Agua (an all-profit-organisation that collects money for water projects in less developed countries) and the CityLeaks Urban Art Festival Cologne. all profits of the night go directly into water projects of Viva Con Agua, so this means it´s gonna be partying for a good cause with a lot of positive souls.

here is a wonderful trailer for the event:

WATER FOR EVERYONE !!!!!!