DOTNF in october 2019

There's no music to do right now, but I feel ashamed for not writing a single line here since february. All the Harburg Boys are alive making music or writing about art and things. Good to know.

Hope I'll be back to the circus in a few month, when whatever I am doing now becomes boring and my Tele smiles to me again.

with the kindest regards to you HB's

R.O.L.F.

DOTNF in febuary 2019

Hello world,

the crazy world of association: After watching the music video "Quiet" by Get The Blessing, a memory of an episode of 1982 came into my mind. I lived with a drummer in a kind of stockroom at the Nöldekestrasse in Hamburg-Harburg. It was f***ing cold in there and we didn't have neither a fridge nor a coffee machine. So, on sundays we had to walk to an arcade to enjoy a warm room and a nice Donkey Kong-coffee-wine gum-breakfast. - Later on I recorded a sound collage called "Street-Arcade-Sleep", which now has got some pictures:

 Pierre Godot (1982/2019) "Straße-Spielhalle-Schlaf"

 

with kind regards,

R.O.L.F.

DOTNF in january 2019

Hello World,
you might have guessed: DOTNF is a netlabel driven by Rolf Menk. Rolf Menk is a netperson driven by Pierre Godot. Pierre Godot is a netartistname driven by Rolf Menk. So this is a very private show. Does someone care? I don't know. Nobody has ever written something and this thing would be complete stupid if I would care about that myself. Thanks to Gadji Beri Bimba I don't care at all... This is not sex, this is diet. Of course, it's nice if someone likes my food and you're welcome to eat and drink with me. I have tons of selfmade junk food for you :-)
Anyway, I am 59 years old, which for nostalgic reasons reminds me of that:

In 1980 I owned this vinyl and loved "59 to 1". It gave me this avantpunk idea of making music. It directly leads to my first Band "Was keiner wusste" ("What nobody knew" - Find the album here).
In 2019 I also discovered the Minutemen and their phantastic "Double nickels on the dime", which in a way also represents a musically attitude I had in 1980 (but I'd been alone, working rather tuxedomoonish with a drum box and recorders).
The DIY scene. The cassette delinquents (in german "Kassettentäter" or "Geniale Dilettanten"). THIS is my scene! I sometimes forget that and think "There is just jazz and nothing else!". I like jazz, but I am not a musician. Maybe a musicaster. I never studied composition at university and spent years learning an instrument. I always bashed on pieces of wood. Sometimes with strings on it. Thats all.
The worlds greatest DIY tapers:
Martin Newell (very early Cleaners from venus)
Tim Smith (very early Cardiacs)
Daniel Johnston (very early himself)
I now have to change the DOTNF youtube stuff. And upload my new version of "Turkrut" by Was keiner wusste.


Cheers,
R.O.L.F.