I just uploaded my album Focus to Choon. What is Choon? In their own words: “Choon is a music streaming service and digital payments ecosystem—designed to solve the music industry’s most fundamental problems. Choon allows artists to earn cryptocurrency for every stream of their tracks.”
Here is a little cheeky remix/edit of the 1979 disco tune Laserdance by Sponooch. I call this the Laserdisc Junkies Edit. Enjoy this proto italo/space disco tune.
I just recorded another video of me tweaking the old Roland System-100. I got this idea a while back to try to do some sort of live performance, with drums or drum like sounds, live on the Roland System-100. Everything was recorded live in one take. All sounds come from the System-100 run through the Strymon El Capistan Tape Echo effect box. Not something I would include on my next album but still fun to try new ways to push this old baby to the limit.
Listen to the one-hour mix I did for Dikommmusic. I play tunes from my latest album Focus together with some other stuff I’m listening to at the moment. Check it out. My mix starts about one hour in.
Why quit a good thing?! Here is my second Spotify playlist with the best laid back, chilled beats tunes out there.
I put together a new playlist on Spotify with some of the best music I’m listening to right now. If this gets any traction I will continue to make these lists on a regular basis. Best of Deep House, Ambient Grooves and Laid Back Electronic. Check it out.
Listen to the excellent two-hour mix Immersed 229 by d-phrag. It has my track 15201000 in it.
I uploaded my whole second album from 1999 to Youtube, so that you can listen to it for free.
Did you know I have a dedicated artist page on Spotify?
Follow me there now if you never want to miss any of my future releases!!!
Finally it’s August the 25th and my third full-length album has been released. I thought I should write a few words about how it came to be.
My first album 64 was produced and released by myself way back in 1996 and my second one came out on a German label in 1999. The plan was to finish number three a couple of years later, at the latest. I actually finished some tunes but everything changed when I discovered the club scene in 2001. After that I produced mostly electronic dance music.
After a while people and labels in the club scene started to ask me if I wanted to do remixes for them. That sounded like fun so I did quite a lot of that, for quite a few years. I also released a bunch of EPs with my own dance music, on my own label and on other people’s labels. But somehow I never really managed to produce enough good tunes to fill up an entire album. Then a few years ago I though, enough is enough. This remixing business wasn’t doing anything for me anymore and I had kind of reached a plateau with my producing skills. Then about three years ago I got into modular synthesizers and suddenly I had lots of inspiration to make music again. In just a couple of months I produced 3-4 good tracks. The idea for a third full-lengther came into light again.
The result is Focus. I hope you like it.
Here is the official press release
Listen and buy here:
my Bandcamp page
Spotify
Google Play
Deezer
Amazon Music
iTunes
Seems like it’s not up on Beatport or Juno Digital just yet.