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Schallwende Gruga Gig aftermath

Yesterday, I had my debut concert at the Schallwende Grillfest at Gruga Park Essen (Germany).

The gig at Schallwende Grillfest yesterday is absolutely the best experience I had in my life so far. The audience was super and the performance was well received. I expected an applause, but not one that lasted for more than half a minute long. I feel very honored, and I hope everyone had as much fun as I did.

Thanks for everyone who attended. And a special thanks I would like to give to Sylvia and Klaus Sommerfeld and the rest of the Schallwende organization.

The video and audio recordings of the event turned out quite well, as far as I can tell for now, so I hope to be able to share some moments of the event soon.

Rehearsal footage

Only one and a half a week to go before the Schallwende Grillfest gig at Gruga Park Essen. I'm looking forward for my first performance ever. The preparations are going as planned, although I do feel a little bit more stress, knowing that the 28th of August is getting near very quickly now.

Please check out the video I made of the rehearsal of one of the tracks I will be playing live. If time will allow, I'll try to make a new one soon. But for now, please enjoy the live version of "Tunnel Vision" here:

Announcement: Live performance!

Currently I am preparing my first ever live performance! It's my dream coming true.

I'll be performing at the Schallwende Grillfest in Gruga Park Essen (Germany) on August 28th 2010. It is an open air venue at Grillplatz 4 with electronic music and barbecue (I can smell the Bratwürstschen already, yum yum!) in Europe's most beautiful park.

The Schallwende Grillfest party is an annual electronic music festival, which combines a friendly atmosphere, good food and great electronic music. In previous years, artists such as Mythos, Ron Boots, Remy, Rene van der Wouden, gave their performances at the site. More info about the event can be found at schallwen.de (Check "Termine" for agenda, or "Fotos" for pictures of previous year's Grillfest events).

I'll try to maintain a journal here to give you some inside look into my preparations. Please note that it is my first performance I will be giving (and certainly not my last). It will be quite an adventure for me. I'm positively excited!

A video for "Bahnhof Zoo"

I've created a little video for the track "Bahnhof Zoo", which features on my album "Transit Realities".

It's an ode to my second most favorite cities of the world: Berlin. A poetic visual tribute to a metropolitan, closed circuit by it's public transport network, almost like a living organism by itself.

... Well, at least I have tried...

Please, enjoy the clip.

A track from TR features on Schwingungen Auf CD

A track from my album Transit Realities features on the latest Schwingungen Auf CD episodes.

Schwingungen used to be the most important radio show featuring electronic music only. It was broadcasted during the eighties and ninenties on one of Germany's national radio stations WDR (West Deutsche Rundfunk) and the show was hosted by Winfrid Trenkler.

When WDR decided to cancel the show during mid nineties, Winfrid Trenkler continued the show by means of CD distribution though subscriptions. Currently, the Schwingungen Auf CD still remains one of the most important broadcasts specialized in electronic music.

The track "Transit Line" is the opening track of Schwingungen Radio auf CD episode 179 (issue April 2010).

"Transit Realities'" airplays so far

It seems that, since it's release on February 27th, my album "Transit Realities" is well received by several media. Some tracks have been featured on several podcast shows already. As far as I could find them, "Transit Realities" tracks were featured on the following shows:

Syndae #79 (featuring no less than two tracks!)
MellowJet Radio (through welle-303.de (unfortunately, streaming audio only))
Dreamscape #94 (Groove Unlimited) (Only buffered for 7 days, so don't miss it)

Thanks to you all podcasters and radio host featuring my tracks on your shows. I'm very honored.

And you know what I think is cool too: Someone posted a track of "Transit Realities" on his YouTube channel, accompanied with the album's artwork. Check it out here (while it's still there, as some record companies might not like the idea of posting such work on YT):

"Transit Realities" will be released on Saturday February 27th

Great news: 'Transit Realities' will definately be released on next Saturday February 27th of 2010!

It will be available through MellowJet Records' web shop, as well as the most well known EM shops, such as Planet Origo and or course Groove Unlimited, where you can pre-order the album as well. You can also find some samples of featured tracks there.

I'll be adding more background information regarding the album here soon.

"Transit Realities" is planned for February 2010

All signs indicate that my new album "Transit Realities" is about to be released very soon! There's already a lot of information available on MellowJet.de. There you can find all information regarding the album, as well as an artist's bio page. And you can even check out some clips of the album as well.

"Transit Realities" will be available as CDR through the most well known EM music webshops, such as Groove Unlimited (the album has already been added to their catalog). And off course at MellowJet's own webshop. 

The album will come in the so called new Amaray case, which will be slightly thinner, and taller than a standard CD jewel case.

A special page about "Transit Realities" will appear at this site soon. In the mean time,  please go and check out the MellowJet pages and enjoy the album preview clips.

No album yet... It should be coming soon!

All best wishes for 2010 to everybody!

And what would be a better start of a new year than starting with the release of my new album "Transit Realities"? Yes, it's already been a few months ago, when I announced the release of 'Transit Realities". However, due to several circumstances, the release has been delayed. The main reason for delaying the album is that it was probably the best not having several important other releases to interfere with the release of my album. Or mine to interfere with the other releases, that were already planned by the record company. Which ever way you would like to see it, of course.

So please, stay tuned, as eventually, the album will be released anyway. I am really proud of the results, and am very excited about it. Currently, MellowJet Records has it's release planned for January 2010, which is, ehm, ... now.

In the mean time, I have been busy with some video editing jobs, of which some have been published on YouTube already, and some will be published soon. More of this will probably be posted here soon as well. And I might also prepare a surprise too. So please, keep an eye on this site for more info.

New album coming soon...

During this year, I have been working on re-discoveries of my work from the early nineties and late eighties. One example is the release of 'Almery', originally recorded in 1989, as well as some tracks on 'Dreaming Angels'. But a lot more recordings are still tucked away in the archives, and the world has never been able to hear them.

Now, work on some of these discoveries has finished and it's ready to form a new album. The album, which will be named 'Transit Realities', is currently being finalized and some work on the artwork still needs to be done.

The album will consist of material recorded originally during 1992 and 1993. However, the material has been remixed completely and polished up nicely. The analogue tapes have been recovered carefully and transferred to a digital source, where all bits and pieces have been put together again, and removed from noise, pops and other distortions. Although everything has been remixed completely down from the original multitracks, great care has been taken to keep the original atmosphere of the compositions as much as possible.

It will be a very dynamic album, consisting of two journeys, traveling through landscapes of reality and virtual reality. It's a fantastic mix of analogue and digital sounds and sequences, with some symphonic touches.

The album will be released on MellowJet Records. It will probably be available on both digital download, and CD-R. Currently, the exact release date is not known yet, but it's estimated to be available in November 2009. Please, check this space for more information, which will follow shortly.