270beat reaches EKH By the easiest trip we never did (our van "Romeo" was flying on "autobahn" at 130Km/h without any probems): we arrived in the austrian capital, and we finally met the EKH squatters... that actually are more than 55 people and 23 dogs!! This building is huge and it has an interesting story. When it was squatted, it was property of the austrian communist party, which judged politically correct not to ask for an eviction. To go out from this dilemma (social credibility or economic interest?) dirigents of the party sold the building to a rich entrepriser with neo-nazy simpathy, wich during one year tryed in vain to evict EKH. He is now about to withdraw and sell the building once again.

Many squatters, here, are very good in welding, and realized impressing barricades and nice iron works. They have a nice D.I.Y distribution, practice rooms, a bar, a little concert hall and a bigger one that used to be a cinema/theater hall, but the most interesting thing, for us, is their way to organize the day by day life in such a big community of people and animals living together!

The party in Kapu was cool, for many aspects. Since the beginning we appreciated the  clean and powerfull soundsystem, and the concert hall was well equipped to rig lights. Thanks to that, in about 3 hours we finished to set up all our stuff, and we moved to the guests kitchen where our new friends had prepared for us a special austrian dinner: apfelstrudel mit vanillasosse!

We started playing at 10, with some flamenco and rumba songs, that fascinated the small audience of the beginning... Then PartyMaker Lammore got the control for a 2 hours electroclash-session, before the party crossovered onto  dance music. There where about 80 persons, split between our hall and the bar room, where other dj's were offering an alternative ambient for those who prefer ragga or punk to electro-dance. Most of the time there where almost only girls dancing at our rhythms, while the boys where sitting down, but some eighties hit made the party end in a more than acceptable way. At the and, thanks to the alcohol too, we allways manage to bring some radical punks to appreciate for some hours even dance music!

Another positive aspect was the solidarity cash, because people from Kapu charged an  entrance fee and also set up a coktail bar just for us. All in all we could send about 400E to the prisoners of S.Pere (Barcelona). By the way, we have to say that Kapu is a place given by the city council to a cultural association; squatting is almost impossible in Austria (the only squats are EKH in Wien (where we will actually set up a party next week) and a new one recently opened in Salzburg): anyways people made us feel at home and many of them were interested in the squatting movement in Barcelona and in the rest of Europe.