RoToR
Freak Valley Festival Vol. 5
AWO Gelaende, Netphen-Deuz, Germany
May - 28 - 2016
Day # 3 - Act # 8 (19:20 -> 20:10)



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A BLUESHACKS, MIRO, RACKHIR, LORD DIE and SPACEBANDIT taping cooperation
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This is a Spacebandit, so you're in there!
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Rec. Info:
OKM2R -> ZoomH2n (@ WAV 16/44) -> MemoryCard -> HD -> Audacity (edit/remaster) -> WAV 16/44 -> TLH8 -> FLAC -> DIME -> YOUR EARS AND MIND...so far away in outer space...
Recorded by yours truly at first row dead center for the first five tracks. The heavy downpour of buckets of water from the sky forced me to move to the right speaker stack
to pull over some plastic poncho (to no significant result!). THe sound quality suffers a lot from that. All crackling noises from track 6 on are the "raindrops". This was also
the last band I recorded on FVF5, as I was soaking wet from knees down. A few nice pics from me and Blueshacks are included as well...


FREAK VALLEY FESTIVAL 2016:

Admission fee: 69 Euros in advance
Attendence: 2500 people from all over the world. Sold out since November 2015
Catering: A variety of food booths, breakfast tent on the campground (which was 3 kms UP away), prices slightly above last year. A slice of Pizza at 2.50, other food more expensive.
Some beer booths, a cocktail bar and - to my personal surprise - a small winery slot with "Met" (which I only discovered the last evening, so no chance to get full advantage of it).
Security: Very low, very mellow. Almost no controls at the gate, if you didn't try to roll a barrel of alcolhol into it...
Loos: Acceptable quality both on the festival and on the campground. This is something that makes a difference, if you're staying for three nights...
Weather conditions: Exceptional fine on thursday, some rain during the night, fine again on friday as well as the saturday until 19:45 (probably) when a massive rainfall (no, it was
buckets of rain washing over you) for 90+ minutes went down. Nice for the plants to be removed from those wild bushes pissers, but defintely not fine for tapers...
Crowd behavior: That's kind of serious thing to me. The later the day, the more rule and ruthless and agressive against others a few drunken assholes (please stay at the campground,
if you're already filled up) were. A real strange thing also happened to me and the Lord...never experienced that on during TOUNDRA...


Personal thanks...
To the crew at Freak Valley Festival...again another fine job done. Thank you.
To the reliable taping crew, friends Reinhard and Dietmar at the campground for the nice pavillion (who had gone for good, but survived 4 Burg Herzberg Festivals) and company.
Always been a pleasure and will be...forever...


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One of the biggest surprises to my ears and mind at FVF5...I've been not a big fan of RoToR in the past, as I felt their sound being a bit "too straight heavy" and less psychedelic.
With the addition of a second guitarslinger for their late 2015 release "Fuenf" (Five), it seems that the band changed their direction towards a more diversed sound. Always a good sign
to me and definitely worth checking out on better conditions again. Join in the fun (as it was despite of the heavy rain). SB.
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FULL SHOW (49:21 min.)

01. Introduction by Volker (0:33)
02. Fette Kette (3:41)
03. Gnade Dir Gott (4:13)
04. Rabensol (6:20)
05. Auf's Maul? (3:25)
06. Echolot (6:58)
07. Scheusal (5:18)
08. Costa Verde (5:19)
09. Oktagon (5:10)
10. Volllast (8:20)


http://www.rotorotor.de
http://www.noisesolution.de
facebook/bandcamp/soundcloud and other sites...


Support this fantastic band, go to their shows, buy all the merch your stonermobile can carry.
Do not convert to lossy files, unless for personal use only. No lossy net use! Flac rules!
If you spread keep lineage/taper info intact. It's us tapers that give you this recording for free!
If you sell (this recording)...eat rotten currywurst until you burst...


Sorry, no details about the lineup...


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