Step Inside the Baroque Castle where we Hosted a Bass Camp in Honor of Falco
Plus appearances by Carl Craig, Just Blaze and more in Vienna
Falco, Austria’s most successful musical export and the face of Vienna’s music scene in the 1980s, would have celebrated his 60th birthday in February 2017. In memory of the new wave icon, we hosted a special Bass Camp in Falco’s hometown, Vienna. Under the banner of Junge Roemer (the title of Falco’s second album), his work was illuminated, animated, remixed and – above all – celebrated live on stage.
We kicked off the Bass Camp by taking over the 17th-century Pellendorf castle, bringing together selected up-and-coming talents and creative pioneers to emulate, showcase and reinterpret audio and visual footage of Johann “Hans” Hölzel AKA Falco.
The second part of the week brought the festivities to the rest of the city, as we hosted evening lectures at Vienna Ballhaus with Carl Craig and Just Blaze, as well as a reading of Falco lyrics with Mavie Hörbiger and Philipp Hauß of Vienna’s prestigious Burgtheater, a chat with music video icon Rudi Dolezal (Queen, David Bowie, “Rock Me Amadeus”) alongside a screening of his 1984 classic Falco – Helden von heute, and a roundtable discussion with a few of Falco’s closest musical collaborators and friends – in some of the city’s most treasured venues.
We also brought the Bass Camp vibes to Vienna’s dancefloors, featuring NDW cult band Minisex, Viennese tag-team Ernst Molden & der Nino aus Wien, Berlin’s techno behemoths Modeselektor, local trailblazers Peter Kruder and Patrick Pulsinger, Yung Hurn, one of the fastest rising stars in the German-speaking rap world, Academy lecturers Just Blaze, Carl Craig, Matias Aguayo and Plastician, local alumni Clara Moto and Mirac, plus RayRay from Taipei, among many others. On top of that, we paid a visit to veteran record collector and Digatone label owner Albi Dornauer. Take a look at what we got up to below.
