One more live appearance this year, together with my friends Kybernaughty and Circuitnoise. Check the page of the organizer for more details: Xerox Exotique #074

I've created a brand new song called 'SIDcraft through the Ages', which is featured in a little accompanying demo.

It is also part of a 10 track release which my good friend szmt has just released digitally.

bandcamp
Spotify
Apple Music

Yes. A new demo. For Onslaught. With amazing music by Narcisound. Find it here.

And another strange year has bitten the dust... time for some thanx!

• David Simmons aka Jazzcat for asking me to join Onslaught, my new C64 scene home. Shoutouts to all other Onslaughtees ~ a pleasure to hang out with you.
• The First Offenders aka all the lovely people who contributed to 'Das Schlagen des Bimpfs' - Sascha Stadlmeier, Gerald Fiebig, Trstn Kauke, Worsel Strauss, Jens Rosenfeld, Guido Braun, Carsten Vollmer & Minimum Viable Person.
• Patrick Neuntausend & Worsel Strauss of Frankfurter Klang for organizing my only live show this year.
• Transmission64 - a great online demo scene event and the first time I entered something into a compo.
• And yet again Worsel Strauss for inviting me to contribute musically to Fortran Love Call and to create the video for 'Double Timing Baby' together. Cheers to the other contributors: Claus Niegsch, Patrick Neuntausend, Markus Mattern, Frank Wilke & SZMT.
• SZMT for inviting me to do a remix for him (to be released this year).
• Keen Vox for all the amazing C= gadgets he made for me.
• Guido Braun of ANALOGmusiq for various collaborations and releasing my stuff.
• QTCT for invaluable support during all my silly little endeavours.

And of course everybody who watched, listened, downloaded, bought or otherwise showed interest in my stuff.

Hope I didn't forget anyone...

My final C= release for this year, a little old school demo called 'Gold Is The Metal With The Broadest Shoulders", has been added to the C= section.

The first release of my new audio project is out now. It's called 'Das Schlagen des Bimpfs' and consists consisting of 9 reworkings / remixes of an original LDX#40 track by musician friends.

Available via bandcamp.

Here's a new video - a colorful 80ies retro trip called 'Double Timing Baby' for Fortran Love Call's upcoming EP. I contributed some musical input for the EP as well - but not on the track used in the video.

A new release! Well, more like three releases in one - I've created two brand new tracks on the C64, which you can get as...
 
#1 a digital release on bandcamp - includes both tracks in 4 versions (emulation vs. real hardware & SID chip variants 8580 vs. 6581), plus a special remix of the first track combining all versions
 
#2 a .d64 file for use with emulators, which includes the tracks for both SID chip variants
 
#3 an actual 5.25" floppy disk in a custom gatefold cover, available in three disk colors - also available via bandcamp
 

I've unearthed an early attempt at game programming from 1989 - you can find it in the C= section at the bottom of the page.

Finally, a new C64 release - an old school demo called 'Off the Grid'. Get it here or at CSDb.

First update for 2021 - a spanking new section showcasing the 'Rejected Logo Designs' graphics series.

Some releases - first, a recording of my 2019 concert in Augsburg, released by Attenuation Circuit & available on Bandcamp.

Second, the digital version of my 20 years EP Vint, also available on Bandcamp.

Both for the customer-orientated price of 'pay what you want'.

Welcome to 2020 - a few live dates are casting their shadows ahead.

[Well, this did not turn out so well :( ]

Whoops, another year over. Still no flying cars (at least not outside my window). Oh well.

Thanks are due! To a lot of lovely people!

First and foremost to Di No for constant support! <3 <3 <3

There's a legion of incredible humans I did something together with! Here's to: Kybernaughty & szmt (the belated 20 years CD), Frank Kumm (live video for zid), Guido Braun/Waffensupermarkt (remixes and various releases on ANALOGmusiq), Kaffee und Kuchen (remix), Matt Ecocentric & Ma Joscha of XQM (recomposition (next to Emerge) of their session #43), Sebastian F. (The Brown Toners), trabouliste (Suceurs de Chèvre du Centre de la Hesse) and finally Kybernaughty again (live video as Tilmann O'Blivion).

There are those out there who are kind enough to organize shows for me! Do not speak their names in vain: Sascha Stadlmeier (Attenuation circuit), Xerox Exotique, Kybernaughty (yet again), Sebastian F. and finally Grg Klein (Bend Make Change).

Appearing together with me: Lucas Alvarado, DUO, Siegfried Kärcher, Amigos del Autobus, Materialeinschüchterung, META MEAT, Gerald Fiebig, Roland Etzin, Emerge and XQM.

And last but not least to everybody who showed up, listened, watched, bought, downloaded, talked and whatever other -eds people are up to.

Hope to see you all again soon. It's back into the C= coding dungeon for me now :)

Out now: XQM / Emerge / LDX#40 - Session #43 Recomposed. Contains track #02 of the original recording session #43 by XQM and two recomposed versions by EMERGE and LDX#40. Available as CD or download via Bandcamp.

And a little self-remix of themEx from 2017 - have a listen on SoundCloud.

New video online, this time a processed live recording of a home concert by Tobias Schmitt, trabouliste and Frank Wilke.

2018 is almost over, and I am taking my usual break at the end of the year :) But before that, thanks are due to some people!

The collaborators: Sascha Stadlmeier (Attenuation circuit), Zan Hoffman, Sebastian, Kershyll Vanne (synapscape), Guido Braun (Waffensupermarkt, ANALOGmusiq), Gustav Ring & Enrico Cerrato (Petrolio).

The organizers: Sascha Stadlmeier (re:flexions), Ulrich von Hutten (club|debil), Trstn Kauke & Grg Klein (Waggon am Kulturgleis Offenbach), Josip (MAJ MUSICAL MONDAY), Der Kulturminister, Worsel Strauss & Patrick Neuntausend (Frankfurter Klang), Xerox Exotique.

The co-players: szmt, SixTurnsNine, Rovar17, Emerge, Genesis, Ritual Extra, Worsel Strauss, Roland Etzin, trabouliste, Hans Hiscore, Minimum Viable Person, Anja Kreysing, Donatella Bartolomei, Eric Leonardson, Federico Dal Pozzo, Feine Trinkers bei Pinkels Daheim, Friedemann Von Rechenberg, Jan Kaiserwetter, Sofía Bertomeu Hojberg, Julia Zemanek, Bodycocktail, Kollaps, Patrick Neuntausend, Frank Kumm & Dr. Atomic.

Everybody who looked & listened.

And last but not least QTCT for help, support, photos & feedback <3

The live video of the L'MERGE 40 performance with EMERGE has been released into the wild. Watch it here.

And some more C= programming...
This time, a port of the lovely QLOCKTWO®, with added features.

ANALOGMUSIQ has released an EP with three of my tracks called Fahrstuhlmusik. Get it here or here.

I am back in the Commodore programming game and produced a business software called $QUAND€R.

New video: Blank & Blanker - Dance or Die (Waffensupermarkt Remix / LDX#40 Recut)

#technofasching

New track: Escalier Étroit Supérieur Du Cochon

Dark Forest Ambient.

Happy New Year, everyone. I got some brand new 2018 live dates.

And so my most productive year so far ends.

Heartfelt thanks go out to everybody who helped make it possible.

My co-conspirators: Di No <3, Tobias Schmitt aka szmt and Emerge.

The organizers: Sascha Stadlmeier (Attenuation circuit), Worsel Strauss & Patrick Neuntausend (Frankfurter Klang), Angy-Oleg Drohnig (AKK), Grg Klein & Trstn Kauke (Waggon am Kulturgleis Offenbach), Tomislav Bucalic & Matthias Orgler (Hans Hiscore), Xerox Exotique and Sascha Djäzz (Djäzz Jazzkeller Duisburg).

The co-players: szmt, Martyna Poznańska, Michael Wiebusch, trabouliste, Kenzo Römer, Klein und Glücklich, Frank Kumm, Dan Bay, Worsel Strauss, Hendrik Klangrausch, Anna Hjalmarsson, Al Margolis, Martina Vodermayer, No Noise No Reduction, VLK & The Tuesday Night Machines, Siegfried Kärcher, StÖrenFrieD, Pyrolator, Kybernaughty, Joker Nies, Wein Glas, Chris Sigdell (b°tong), Emerge and SixTurnsNine.

All who came, listened and supported.

And now I am off into hibernation 'til next year.

Out now: the DVD with the live recording of my audiovisual collaboration project L'MERGE 40 (with EMERGE). Recorded at Xerox Exotique #013 on May 26th 2017.

Yet another live date coming up: on August 25th as part of the gamescom retro floor. Stay tuned for details.

And another video sees the light of the world: Gymnastiorka for my good friend kybernaughty.
You can see him live in Frankfurt in October at Xerox Exotique #018.

The live recording from the Silent Series concert in Augsburg this year is out now on Bandcamp. Heartfelt thanks go out to Sascha Stadlmeier/ Attenuation Circuit for this release.

My documentation expeRheiniMainental will be shown at the Waggon in Offenbach as part of the Liberation Movies series.

Yet another video, this time for the track 'Chiptune Bourne' by the lovely Hans Hiscore.

Upcoming live dates:

• 06.05.2017: re:flexions: silent series presented by attenuation circuit - Ganze Bäckerei (Augsburg)
• 19.05.2017: Frankfurter Klang - sortenrein - Dreikönigskeller (Frankfurt)
• 29.05.2017: AKK (Karlsruhe)
• 09./10.06.2017: Bended Realities - Waggon (Offenbach)

Let's break spring with some automobile madness and a lovely track by Philipp Münch: the video for drivers without control.

Keep it coming: another short video, this time with a personal note.

It's been a while, so I made a new track called 'themEX'. Check it out in the sound section.

Out now: a CD EP called 'Struggling', with the live recording of my set in Augsburg last year. Biggest thanks to Sascha Stadlmeier/ Attenuation Circuit for creating this piece of documentation.
If you want one, get in touch.

Finally started assembling my video documentation about experimental music in the Rhine-Main area. See the teaser. The full documentation should be finished by the end of 2016 and premiere early in 2017.

Upcoming live dates:

As part of the first event of the new series Xerox Exotique: live video action together with QTCT as Image Accumulator, supporting Autumn Appreciation Society. Also on the bill: Vacuum from France. All these wonderful things happen at the Waggon in Offenbach. Here is the facebook event.

More live video for Suspicion Breeds Confidence as part of the Skop series under the name 'Der Mann mit den magischen Kisten'. Takes place on December 13th, 20:00 at Saalbau Gallus (Großer Saal), Frankenallee 111, 60326 Frankfurt.

• September 23rd in Augsburg (Jugendzentrum Kanalstraße, Kanalstraße 15, 86153 Augsburg), together with Go, Eigenidyll and All Machine. Here's the facebook event. Big thanks to Sascha for inviting me.
• New project The Neon Hitlers with Tobias Schmitt (October 1st at Phonophon - Institut für neue Medien (INM), Schmickstraße 18, 60314 Frankfurt). Together with Tarsus and kybernaughty. Here's the facebook event.

• 28.02.2016 - Phono Festival 2016 @ INM, Frankfurt (part of the Phonophon concert series)
• 30.07.2016 - VI. Scheunenmottenkiste - thanks to Tarsus for inviting me!