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The Independent Rock Jury

An international jury of independent experts carefully reviewed all contributions and announced the winners. The members were selected for their deep knowledge and inside information. Although they all have different rock backgrounds, they all work and live for centuries in the rock business.
They judged the designs on: credibility, originality, reality & power.

01 Creator: Guy Tavares aka DJ Schmerzlabor, musician for over 20 years.
02 Maker: Fast Mike, organizing and living Punk-Rock for over 30 years.
03 Lover: Arpad , born to love Punk-Rock for more than 40 years.

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Autistic child, compulsive (former LSD/speed) freak, dysfunctional nerd, beat-up punk, veteran rocker and dedicated daddyo! From an ex-colonial upper-middle-class and multi-racial: portuguese, dutch & indonesian. Did gymnasium, studied biology, philosophy and prehistory at Leiden university, former director of absurdist/satyrical punkzine Maximum Droplul.

Singer and drummer in many bands since 1985: a.o. Orange Sunshine (hard-rockin' hi-volume '69 acid fuzz motor blues), Johnny Cohen and the new age nazis (crazy jewish/multi-racial swastika speedfreak hardcore punk rock'n'roll), Panty Boy (raw garage punk rock'n'roll), Sunwheel (heavy '70's sabbath/ACDC-style hard rock), Al Naafiysh (ultra-heavy proto-doom rock mantras), White Trash Minstrels (surf instros), Unit Moebius (twisted robot acid and industrial techno), DJ schmerzlabor (dark industrial electro and black ritual acid), Los Hermanos Rodriguez (booty bass/ghetto trax).

Guy has 3 boys (Rui, 6 years old, Boris, 4 years and Driss, nearly 2). In the cellar of the former ministry of Foreign Affairs, he also has his own vintage analog recording studio.