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RUDEKAT RECORDS NEWS APRIL 2012
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ISLAND VIBE FESTIVAL October 28-30 2012
Greetings! I’m wrapped up in a hoodie and socks, watching the rain and my mind is dreaming of the sun, waves and hot reggae of Island Vibe Festival!
Already? Well it’s 6 months out and applications are open for all Artists, Performers, Marketeers and Volunteers! Check the website www.islandvibe.com.au and click applications.
To get you in the mood we’re giving away 5 Island Vibe Tiki Voyager CD’s!
To win, email us back with a verse from the Stradbroke Island Noonuccal poet and equal rights activist Kath Walker (Oodgeroo)
Island Vibe Tiki Voyager available at: www.rudekatrecords.com
FREE Music!
Here’s a link to a free tune by Laneous & the Senors from the Tiki Voyager Compilation from 2011..http://soundcloud.com/rudekat-records/08-la-la-la-means-i-love-you
Collect the Island Vibe Series! All 6 Island Vibe compilations are available by mail order and downoad at www.rudekatrecords.com. We also stock a fantastic array of local reggae, soul and funk including: Darky Roots, Kingfisha, Kooii, Afro Dizzi Act, Bobby Alu, Zennith, CC the Cat and many more.
KURANDA ROOTS FESTIVAL June 29-30 2012
Celebrating its 9th year, the annual Kuranda Roots Festival in Far North Queensland is one of Australia’s finest outdoor celebrations of world, roots reggae and dub music.
NEW HOME at Billabong Sanctuary Kuranda!
Kuranda Roots festival has a new home! - The Billabong Adventure Parklands (Kangaventure site) a stunning location only 3km from Kuranda Village. Overlooking a lush zen billabong and surrounded by rainforest, the new site is all-weather, has camping facilities and is ideally situated to have the mad choons running late into the night!
1st Release Artist Line-Up –
Kingfisha, Combat Wombat, Darky Roots, Zennith, Monkey Marc, Elf Transporter, LubDub, Schoolfight, Billy Dread, Die Rude, Kanaka, Jobstopper and many more to be announced!
For Early Bird Tickets and event info check: www.kurandaroots.com
VIBADELIX FESTIVAL
May 26 2012
Presented by ROCK THE YAC and RUDEKAT RECORDS
Every year the Event Managent class at Byron YAC put on their own mini music and arts festival – Vibadelix! The festival line-up is a great mix of live music, electronica & circus as well as a showcase for local emerging artists and performers from the Byron Shire.
This year is a fundraiser to raise awareness for about the dangers of Coal Seam Gas mining, which is currently a major threat to the eco-sytems of NSW and Qld Vibadelix are looking for interested performers, speakers, workshop coordinators, marketeers and mixed media artists to participate http://www.facebook.com/rocktheyac


Cool Runnings line up for Feb! Catch the marvelous and enchanting psychedelic harp grooves from the Flumes this weekend, followed by the mad adlib funk of BOSS next week!


FREE TIX! FREE MUSIC!
ISLAND VIBE
Thanks to all those who played, participated and punted at this year’s Island Vibe – it was our most successful event to date and the feedback has been overwhelmingly positive..
Check out some amazing festival pics by photographer Stephen Cameron
https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.270045593040491.70656.268328046545579&type=3
Watch this space for 2012 dates!
CHALI 2NA RETURNS!
Chali 2na will soon touchdown in Australia and is set to raise the roof at Brisbane’s Hi Fi Bar on Saturday 10 December.
Chali blew away crowds at this year’s Island Vibe Festival and was last on our shores in 2009 as a special guest on Nas’ sell out Australian tour. He returns in the wake of the ‘Fish Outta Water’ album and the unstoppable ‘Fishmarket 2’ mixtape, on the eve of the release of his long awaited 'Against the Current' EP.
Chali 2na is one of the hottest live hip hop acts today. On 10 December Chali will drop the bomb on Brisbane with his explosive 4-piece live show with supports from Lotek (UK/Melb), Bankrupt Billionaires and Coalition Crew.
WIN TIX! The first 5 people to reply to info@rudekatrecords.com will win a free ticket to Chali 2na
TICKETS $35 +bf from http://www.moshtix.com.au/event.aspx?id=51514&ref=moshtix&skin
COOL RUNNINGS SAT NIGHTS AT THE BOUNDARY!
Dec 3 features the delightful songwriter Clare Quinn, The Flumes and Senor Quinzalez.
Dec 10 – Danny Ross, Si-Fixion and Selecta Bing
Dec 17 – Ska punk rockers The Rude take on Sunny Dread for another sound clash
THE RUDE VS PASTEL BLAZE
AUSTRALIAN HOUSEWIVE’S favourite NEW WAVE PUNKS, The RUDE, mash it up with ALL GIRL sludge core grinders PASTEL BLAZE! Get along to the JOYNT, DEC 8!
DARKY ROOTS NIGHT TIME EP
Darky Roots are about to hit NZ shores for a string of dates promoting their new EP Night Time. Night Time was recorded by Paulie B and features 6 new tracks including a bonus Tanuki dub mix of Version.
Night Time and the combined double EP Wrong Place/Journey will be available from Dec 15 on www.rudekatrecords.com.
WIN MUSIC! The first 2 people to reply to info@rudekatrecords.com will receive a copy of Night Time!

by investigative journalist Seamus O’Donnell, Dublin Beat
Rumours abound regarding the origins of trans-global record giant Rudekat Records and its founder, the enigmatic Rudi Quinzalez. In a journey that took me from Russia’s frozen wastes to sharing crackpipes with the homeless on the streets of Trinidad, I managed to get some inside information on the man behind the empire.
Born Rudolphus Quinn in Luzon City, Philippines in 1975 to Liverpool dockland gangster Mickey Quinn and high society transgender prostitute Lena Gonzalez, Rudolphus was fostered by his aunt and lived his childhood in a nunnery on the island of Mindanao.
The quiet life of meditation and abstinence only served to fuel an intense opposing reaction in his teenage years. Changing his name to Rudi Quinzalez he joined the feared Bananos Mutilados Triad.
Gaining a reputation for fearlessness, diplomacy and tea-making, he soon rose to senior level in the gang and made valuable alliances with the Yakuza and Chinese triads. By the age of 17, with the help of tattooist friends in the Yakuza, he had a complete body suit inked and it is rumoured his penis is decorated with Emperor Hu’s battle junk complete with all 47 sails.
Little is known between 1991 and 1998, save for speculation that he made and lost close to 800 million yen on various dubious business ventures the most notorious being the 300 ton haul of Cannabis off the Venezualan coast. It is also estimated that the upkeep of his scores of children and mistresses worldwide was close to 27 million Euros per year. Finally, In 2002, tiring of the media spotlight, child support agencies and running from underworld bosses, Quinzalez settled in Brisbane, Australia to pursue his musical hobbies and become a ‘legitimate’ businessman.
His underworld experience helped keep his eye sharp for opportunity and he quickly recognized Brisbane as being a future global hotspot in the world music industry.
Together with his partner in crime Winston Chadwick, they jointly operated a small café/record shack in West End called The Shire Tea House for 5 years and held weekly gigs to showcase the emerging talent of West End.
From that base, Quinzalez founded the Kuranda Roots Festival, Island Vibe and the West End Carnivale and has helped bring to Australia such artists as Chali 2na (J Five), Groundation (California), Mad Professor (UK), Katchafire, Ladi 6, The Black Seeds, Olmecha Supreme, Natiruts (Brazil), Little Bushman and many more.
Postal: PO Box 5094 West End, QLD. 4101
Email: info@rudekatrecords.com