Megumi Special Remix

Just finished this tune. Hope you like it. Tell me, if so… otherwise just let me think, nobody had listened to it 😉 This tune is inspired by the great Megumi “Miss Megoo”. I took the intro from Prince Buster “All My Loving” and looped it. At my rehearsal room @ Sedel I recorded the flute or better the flutes… Tune called: Megumi Special Claude Remix 2 featuring Prince Buster All Stars. There are 5 tracks with flutes. I cut off different parts of those flute tracks. With Amadeus Pro I put one flute to the far right, the other

September 28, 1996 – Café Mokka, Thun

Today, 20 years ago there is this very nice invitation to a fantastic club in the beautiful city of Thun. It is the last preparing event before the Skasplash tour starts. I know the club already, because 6 years ago (in 1990) I was there with my bicycle to meet Laurel Aitken and asked him to show up in Lucerne for The Roots Connection. In the cellar of this very nice place, there is a disco. While upstairs the german Ska band “No Sports” is playing, I’m almost alone downstairs. But after the show, the place is more than full. Later that evening, the

September 14, 1996 – Peacestreet | Peacestreet

What is Peacestreet? Peacestreet is a band from Lucerne, Switzerland (1990-1995) Peacestreet is also the address of our flat (in fact it was René’s) in Lucerne (1989-1996) What have Peacestreet to do with Skasplash? Without Peacestreet I would never be a part of the Skasplash. Our band is called “Peacestreet” 1990-1995 (take a look at rootsconnection.ch) (Simon [drums], René [bass], Nonsi [guitar] and I [flute, trombone] are still together as part of Der Transformer). There is one release of Peacestreet on the Benno Riedmann compilation “Skampler 2” and we play shows all around Switzerland. But the source of our band’s name

Promotion video for the first Skasplash tour in 1996

Happy birthday Lloyd Brevett Born, 1st of august in 1931. Today is the swiss national day. As a little present, here is for the first time in 20 years: The Skasplash promotional videos The Skatalites – Nelson’s Song This was recorded in Mailand while The Skatalites were on Europe tour in 1995. I left the tour just the day before this recording. Played my own show in Lucerne and organized a show with House Of Rhythm! A few months later, the Skatalites management gave me a video cassette, to copy and fade in the titles. At that time, it wasn’t easy to do

July 27, 1996 – Paleo Festival, Nyon, Switzerland

20 years ago, I went for the first time to the Paleo Festival in Nyon, Switzerland. I was invited by The Skatalites. I remember, the show was inna tent. After the show, we went to a Hotel in Nyon, where some polish people blocked our Hotel rooms. It was in the middle of the night, and these heavy men had to leave their rooms. I was aware of a big fight with them. Can’t remember how, but finally everything was fine. The 1996 festival is still online here. It was a great event, because there was a nice meeting with

July 10, 1996 – Hepcat – Bimbo Town, Basel

My very first tour management was with the californian ska band “HEPCAT”. But it ended with a little disaster. The first show in Bimbo Town in Basel was quite empty and the contract I made with the club was stupid, because, there was no money without no paying public. The second show was planned for Lucerne, but there was no promoter ready for this wonderful band. The third show was in Berne at Reithalle. That was a great show, with a great audience. But I went very sick. My fever went very fast very high, and with my very last

March 22, 1996 – Festival des pôtes, Fribourg

Friday night in Fribourg, Switzerland. I was the DJ for the “Mitenand Festival des pôtes”. Thanks to NoF-NoF. Find more about here. Grafik: Oli Zwimpfer/Velvet 2 days festival with a lotta RootsConnection sounds Sound System DJ Clad (C-lector) & Marc da Silva (MC) Tonton David feat. Earl Wire Lindo (Wailers Band) Cheikha Rimitti: personal handshake special invitation by Marc NofNof Tourtchaninoff Have made no pictures of this event. Here are two pictures by NoF-NoF with Cheikha Rimitti from 1996.