25Feb: Bielefeld @ Movie
04Aug: Duisburg | Steinbruch
05Aug: Halberstadt | Zora Openair
06Aug: Bernburg | Electronic Attack Party
14Sept: Hamm | Pirates
25Sept: Bochum | Christus Kirche
01Oct: Ingolstadt | Paradox
21Oct: Bochum | Ruhrpuls Festival
01Dec: Duisburg | DJäzz
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"Escape Strategies sounds as the enraged comeback of a rather unique project in its genre."
Sideline Magazine
"Aggression, Resignation, Apathie und Aufbegehren haben jedenfalls selten so gut geklungen."
alternativmusik
"This entanglement is of such beauty, one wills not to eject the cd!"
Subexistance
"If the next album will be on the same standards, we'll have an absolute masterpiece in hand."
dagheisha.com
"...die seltsame Mischung aus den Rock und Industrialelementen funktioniert."
Seltsame Welt
"...immer wieder überraschende Ausbrüche & ein organisiertes Kollabieren aller Melodien und dazu noch dieser faszinierend brachiale Gesang, fertig ist die gutgewürzte Suppe."
derdigitaleflaneur
"Man kann nicht immer lulligen Ambient, bräsigen Dream-Pop und blümeranten Folk hören. Besonders nicht in diesen schlimmen Zeiten."
Schallgrenzen
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for booking inquiries please send a mail to: booking@aentitainment.com
for everything else (love- or hatemails) write to: words@utopia-banished.net
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As we "remember, remember" this should be a day to do something good and lasting...
As our friends from the cultural center "Rote Zora" in Halberstadt need all the help they can get we're trying to play our part. Here's what we can do with YOUR help:
Go to our bandcamppage and download "Escape Strategies"!
Even if the music doesn't fit you 100% it's for a good reason because all the money we gather through the digital sales will be donated to make sure the location in Halberstadt (which is so much more than "just" a great venue for gigs) will be there in the future.
Thanks to everyone and stay radical.
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The gig in Bochum was intense... but somehow we're still out of words but some else took the opportunity to write down something:
"Wo landet, wer aus dem Nicht-Land aus gewiesen wird? Ist ja schon etwas her, dass Utopien was Dolles waren, die aus Prin zip und mit Courage den Couchtisch nebenan erobert haben. Sie von dort zu verbannen, ist leicht getan, aber was, wenn Utopien nicht nur ver hauchte Kindheitsheimat klänge sind, son dern ein körperlicher Ver lust? Zum Paradies gehört, vertrieben zu sein, so wie es zur Utopie gehört, aus ihr verbannt zu werden. utopia:banished machen Musik, die nicht daran glaubt, sie reiche ins Paradies zurück und mache die Welt ein Stück weit besser. Das nämlich müsste, wer es denn wollte, schon selber tun, weshalb utopia:banished in die Kir che gehört und nicht auf den Couch tisch"
We're still not into religion but moved by these words...
Check the following: www.tobalo.de (the guy who made these pictures), urban urtyp (concerts in Bochum), Christus Kirche (for a church, a great website!)
We also had the pleasure to share the stage with "rd19" and "Broken Ego" on Oct.1st in Ingolstadt, some pictures made their way to facebook, so if you're into photos, just go there.
Next stop will be the Ruhrpuls Festival in Bochum on Friday, Oct. 21. Hope to see you all there...
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| GOING TO THE CHURCH (photo by Stefan Tuschy) |
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September the 25th we'll perform at the "Christus Kirche" in Bochum. This opens the 2011 / 2012 season of the "Urban Urtyp" concert-series. You#ll get the tickets straight from us, so drop us a mail or catch us on facebook. We want this to be epic.
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travelling from Duisburg to Halberstad to Bernburg and back gave us one of the most intense weekends this year. thanks to everyone who somehow gave a damn. especially to the bands and musicians we've played with and the organisators who made sure we got a roof over our heads. see you next time on the road.
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| PASS THE FLASK REMIXES / SENDAI JAPAN |
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our recent remix EP is out on Digitalkunstrasen. you can download it straight from there or from our very own bandcamp page, the songs are:
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Pass the flask (chris is mixing)
this is our own remix, focussing on the drums and the dupstep-friendly 130bpm
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Pass the flask (Ruby my dear remix)
more breakcore, quite weird, typical for Ruby my dear. along with some really spooky sounds
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Sidechain my Heart
totally drugged and adoreable mix by Pechuga de Pollodiabolo
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something else and even more important:
the Force of Nature Label released the second volume of compilations to raise money for Japan. this time curated by Miguel de Soussa. we've contributed with "Everything falls into place". go there and get it. it's for a good reason.
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We're going to hit the road again in early August. It's something we're very exited about because it seems like the dates and the bands we'll play with are awesome...
04th of August in Duisburg at the Cafe Steinbruch
the journey starts at this great venue and we'll share the stage with the "The Hirsch Effect", one of the most interesting bands from Germany today.
05th of August at the Zora Sommer Openair in Halberstadt
next stop will be our first gig under the open sky for this year, we've never played in Halberstadt but always wanted to...
06th of August at the Electronic Attack Party in Bernburg
we had a blast there in 2010 and it seems like it's going to be even better. Moogulator will perform, too and many, many other artist from the EA-family.
07th of August TBA
we're looking out...
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The friendly staff of dagheisha.com did not only put up a very pleasing review but an interview and both in Italian. They can be found right at their website. What we have here are the translated versions sp prepare for a long read:
Please introduce the concept behind Utopia:Banished and how the project did evolve since the early days..
utopia:banished delivers the soundtrack to what surrounds us right now. It says that we technically could achieve a better place than this but we're disabled intellectually and in many other ways... I started u:b as a one-man-project somewhen after the turn of the century... READ MORE
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