2012-02-27 18:36 von Admin
ROCK NIGHT - Those Furious Flames
Born 2003 in Ticino, Switzerland, a band with a need to hit the audience with a hard dose of rock sound and to tear up the world's stages! Those Furious Flames have played some acclaimed gigs all over Europe, Russia and California and amongst the others performing in legendary venues as "Whisky a GoGo" and "Viper Room" and with bands as Faith No More (usa), Papa Roach (usa), Valient Thorr (usa), the Bones (swe), Uk Subs (gb) and many more, receiving positive feedbacks from critics and fans. They are currently working on their 4th LP and are ready to rumble at the Contestiväl!
2012-02-27 13:19 von Admin
Monsters on Snow at the Transition Jam in Kufstien
With support from Ironlak, the Monsters on Snow arrived for the Transition Jam in Kufstien for an intensive Tag session that took over the entire area. In a four day mission, it left the location with a completely new look and new feel. The Monsters on Snow had time in Mayrhofen to put this timelapse together, before heading to Innsbruck for the first of the Austrian Spring events, the Shred Down Austrian Masters Halfpipe.
2012-02-26 19:00 von Admin
HIP HOP NIGHT – LYLIT
2012-02-26 12:44 von Admin
Hip Hop Night – Free Open Air - Ill mindz
Def Ill and Digga Mindz teaming up means original streetrap at it´s ruffest and dirtiest. Digga is yet the only true representative of Corinth-I.A. aka the Dirty South of Austria. He has long made a name for himself as a producer and a rapper with this special flow of the region and a distinct love for the battle, diss and competition elements of Hip Hop.
If an MC is measured by tecnique, flow, style and meaning – then Def Ill has to be called the country´s best rapper. No wonder, that if you start to get on the mic at the age of 10, you are spitting perfect tripple-time-raps in your early twenties and are the worst enemy that anyone could ever have in a beef or battle.
2012-02-24 13:39 von Admin
SNOW - Confirmed team #5 Homies Crew
One of the most recognized crews across Europe, the Homies have been putting it together and putting it on the ground for years now, producing a sublime French Connection across the Southern Swiss Alps and well into France. This year saw the release of their latest video ‘Homies Grounds’ which is yet another chapter in what is always an impressive output.
Homies manager and all round good guy, Nico Droz, took a bit of time putting the team together this year with the cunning and guile of a fired up José Mourinho looking at a Real Madrid squad. His preference for this year was to lean on experience and team work, rather than other options of fresh faced raw talent in the waiting.
No surprises in his choice of Homies Team Captain, Anthony ‘TonTon’ Holland. Apart from being recently married, he has been fired up all season claiming a qualification spot for the World Snowboard Championships and fine tuning his skills in the best snow season at his home resort of Leysin, Switzerland. TonTon’s knowledge of the Wängl Tängl, it’s set up and system, is second to none having competed at the even more times than any other rider outside of the Ästhetiker organization crew, and in many cases more. Last year he Captained the ‘Welsh Airforce’ team who were will on the way to claiming a possible podium position, before an injury cut their team to two, but they powered on anyway just for the love of riding the supersized Vans Penken Park.
If there was any proof that age is simply in the head, TonTon, for shits and giggles, landed all four 10′s in a relaxed training run recently at home. He told us by phone, “Dammit, I’m going to be the first rider to do a switch b/s 10 at the age of 40!”… Knowing TonTon’s determination and love of snowboarding, we can only wonder if he will go 12!
Teaming up with the cheeky dark horse of Jules Reymond, they have a spark in their forward line not many teams will boast. Absent from the contest scene for a couple of years while on filming duties with Absinthe, Jules’s command of the unexpected, his propensity to surprise, and his ability to pull off the impossible – all the while with an infectious grin broadly across his face – regularly leaves the defense bamboozled with his Ronaldo like footwork and subtle skills. There is no doubt with Jules Reymond, you are going to learn to expect the unexpected with daring and bravado… and a polite shake of the hand. Jules’s personality is infectious, which is translated into his riding style. Smoke and mirrors, tastefully counterpointed the stomp and thump… He would scare most people if he just could get that smile off his face!
Making up the third rider in the Homies team is former ‘Welsh Airforce’ ripper, Nico Tile. Never the one for glory or fanfare, Nico is the business – point. Similar to a Paul Scholes, you hardly notice the control and command that Nico puts down all over the field in a quite yet dominant fashion, there is one thing we can tell you – he’s as hard as nails! Nico spends almost as much time at home in Leysin sitting in a cat building the very structures he is going to hit once he exchanges the pisten bully for his board, often exchanging them again once he’s tested what he’s built to fine tune his latest kicker creation into the perfect launch zone. The communication between his lifelong riding partner and Captain, TonTon, is all but telepathic, and that is reflected in their almost mirror like ability to adapt and control the timing and tempo of any combined feature they hit. Substance, not flowers is the name of the game, and Nico is about as solid as the Great Wall of China!
If this line up is not formidable enough, sitting in the wings ready to dust off his riding gear is the legendary Nico Droz who is enjoying a season riding with no commitments. “I’ll let the boys warm it up…” said Nico when announcing to us his team, “But, if there is any injury… well… let’s just call it a come back!” he concluded with a cheeky smile…