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As written above Deep Space was recorded in '92. The equippment at that point still was really minimalistic (I just had started to use keyboards and a sequencer, and I bought my first FX-processor). But the track itself turned out really well - even if you compare it to newer arrangements. Let’s do a quick walktrough:  read more »

“But who does live in these worlds if there is to be life? Are we or are they the rulers of space? And is all this really made for mankind?”

Johannes Keppler, 1621  read more »

That one’s an old beauty too - I later reused the melody in Maral (on Evolution), ‘cause I liked it so much. Anyway - this is the early version.

The main theme of this tune, the second “Sonix Only” exception later returned in Sequenzen (on Solaris) as well as in Water/Wasser (several times). I tried to move along with some early Oldfield works here - not including his great soli, but only the main structural layout... Works pretty nice though...  read more »

This is one of the “Sonix-Only”-tunes: Using mainly the Roland MT32 through the software’s minimal midi capacity I here added some floating sounds played directly by the software’s virtual synthesizer (it’s that spacy main synth).  read more »

If you’d ask me why I didn’t allready do a fresh version of this small melody (I really like it): I don’t know, but I think it’ll have to happen sooner or later... just beautifull, yet minimalistic. Definitely a fine round-up for this CD. :)

“After passing planet Earth in a close flyby manoeuvre the satellite Cassini is heading into deep space to gather it’s informations...”  read more »

“There were some evenings when Cmdr.Kruge, after his shift, would go down to the engine room to spend some time just sitting down on the floor and relaxing, while looking at the fluid antimatter pulsating up and down in the ship’s energy-core. Just like a lava lamp.....”  read more »

“Here we are, standing on the top of a hill, looking down into the beautiful, green plains Suddenly, as the Eclypse passes by, things start to change.....”  read more »

“No commentary.....”

You could call Phase IV the bonus track of Eclypse, since it’s actually a remastered track from... 4 or five years ago... Hmmm... It’s building abound some silly sounds and a monotonous bassline, but ... I don’t know, I just like it... :)

For the earth part of the Elements cycle I was looking for a heavy, strong base for the whole tune, for obvious reasons. Think heavy earthworks, flowing magma.  read more »

Vengol 1, recorded in 1991 on a friend’s Yamaha DX-7 synthesizer, was my very first tune done with midi. Before that I only had programmed my tunes on different tracker programs either on the Amiga or the C64. This one wasn’t recorded with a sequencer though, I planted notes with the mouse in Sonix, using it’s extremely limited midi functions.

Still using Sonix, this tune marks the next step: My very first own synthesizer, in this case the Roland MT32. Multitimbral, multichannels, an own delay-processor... I still love to use this little black box, it has a very warm sound.  read more »

... and the next step: Just before I started using real sequencer-software for the first time, enabling me to do real-time recordings, I bought my first Keyboard, the Yamaha PSS790 and a great FX processor: The Boss SE50.  read more »

Maral is the last real evolutionary step I did until recording Evolutions itself: Moving from computer-based interfaces to a real sequencer and keyboard. It’s from the same tape as the uncut recording of Evolution, done in 1993. At this point I was allready using the Wavestation and the DR660 drumcomputer.

Before we get to the main feature: This second version of Vengol was done on the MT32, just to try what it would sound like... It’s here to round up the first part of this CD.

So this is the main feature: Evolution. A track ~30min long and full of changes in style and melody.  read more »

Hmmm, hard to exactly say why, but I like this minimalistic tune quite a lot... The bass is pretty strong for my usual style, maybe that's why the piece sticks out for me.  read more »

This is a humble hommage to both the movies and the music of the master of terror: John Carpenter!

Rob Hubbard has allways been one of my most important influences, and he possibly was the artist who got me to start making my own music.  read more »

This is an interesting little diddy if you ask me. Hard to say why, but it has something that makes you listen through it to the end once you're in.

The percussion is reworked through a vocoder, giving the beats an outlandish sound. I think today that I should have mixed a little different, something's not *quite* right, of course that can be my personal paranoia. ;)  read more »

“Solar flares, reaching out into the cold emptiness of space... Sol, the giant ball of fire that from far away means the source of all life becomes nothing but inferno when you get too close...”  read more »

“The man walked down the beach, with pictures of his long dead family fading in and out of his dying mind...”  read more »

Set 08 was written a year *after* Set 09, this time for the tape “Evolution”. Here’s a classic example for slowly building ambient that’s based on sounds and not on melody... Really great to chill out too. Again, most of the atmosphere in this track evolves out of the options to modulate provided by the Wavestation.  read more »

Being published on 1992’s “Stellar Systems” as well, Set 09 is the first of the three “Sets” - the name’s explained very easily: When I started working with my then brand-new Wavestation I used different soundsets for different songs...  read more »

Done for the “Evolution”-tape as well, Sequenzen more or less is a medley of older tunes from “Elementare Klänge”. It’s based on a sound-carpet from “Wasser”, percussions from “Erde”, a lead synth from “Feuer”, and some titbits of melody from “Deep Space” (unpublished until today) and the “Set”’s.  read more »

To round up the whole album I’ve added Sol - a late 1998 reprise on 92’s Solaris. Originally this one was done as a title tune for a PC game, but it got never used. Maybe happened, because I’ve chosen some really old fashioned sounds... :).

Anyway - here it is! :-)

“Guten Abend, es ist 23 Uhr und 16 Minuten.”  read more »

If you'd like to toy around with The Void and make your own remix - here's the "raw" Sound data.  read more »

FINALLY! Some new music! NEW as in "made and recorded just now". :) The first time I sat down with cubase in over five years! :)  read more »

Okay - this is my very first experiment with using virtual synthesizers, to be more exact the WusikStation.  read more »