we're proud to announce that we're the co-promoter of the first Halfplugged Festival!

This gathering of bands, sound & visual artists, workshop, teach-ins and what not will take place in Bochum, Germany on the fifth of May. [BOLT] and PECHUGA DE POLLODIABOLO will perform live among others such as PETRELS, N and KH Mauermann.

The advanced sale of tickets will start on the first of April in the venues and the aentitainment mailorder.

Their first EP will be released soon. To find out a little bit what's behind the ███████ we asked the guys to take their time for a little interview:

Your ep ( 0 2 ) will be released pretty soon, why will you go for this d.i.y.-thing concerning the artwork?
- next to our music we do care about the outward appearance as a whole. and we had several ideas and wishes for ( 0 2 ) which could only be realized by ourselves. furthermore this d.i.y.-thing allows you to design things independantly from industrial standards.

Playing with just two bassguitars can easily be described as "minimalistic" but on the other hand you collaborate a lot. so what's the deal?
- the deal is that [ B O L T ] is a duo. nevertheless being able to collaborate with different artists from a wide range of musical genres is of great importance to us. it gives the possibility to add verious new shades and musical layers to our songs. and of course: they are fun.

What equipment do you use in particular?
- basses, amps and several pedals. and some pre-designed sounds come from a pc.

Is there anything about your bandname you'd like to say or explain?
- in fact, there is no real bandname. our logo is a simple beam/bar and so is our name. but because of pronunciation problems and the impossibility to type a beam/bar into your browser, we decided to utter ourselves [ B O L T ].

Will you be going for some livegigs?
- if the location feels right for our kind of music.

CHECK: http://wearebolt.com/

Stuff's going to happen in 2012. As far as we can see this will be the year with the most releases in the history of the label... But let's take it step-by-step:

- ███████ (spelled "Bolt") will release a limited vinyl EP in the first half of the year. Recordings are almost done. Chris (from utopia:banished) will sit in the producer seat and a couple of guest musicians have already entered the pit.

- Moogulator is planning some multimedia stuff

- Pechuga de Pollodiabolo will release an EP on vinyl in the first half of 2012 as well. We're talking about few new tracks and remix of "Einer muss ja..." by the Cologne based producer Numinos.
Check the "Ruhrpuls Sampler" to already get in touch with one of the new tunes.

- utopia:banished are working on new songs so eventually at the end of the year there will be an album 

- Guns of Brixton will return with an album