For the deep techno artist JOIX, science fiction books and movies are a significant source of inspiration, and it was finally time for him to express this musically with a more conceptual approach than ever before. The result is the first half of the album presented here, titled "Science", which consists of 4 deep techno tracks that explore scientific themes from cosmology, astrophysics, quantum theory, and particle physics. Robotic voices move across a dense web of experimental and spherical sounds, supported by driving rhythms that not only create a unique listening experience but also invite you to dance.
• Big Bang (Gregorian Mix) in new version expands the original mix of 2020 with greater depth and an increased hypnotic effect. The voice of the astrophysicist sounds even more synthetic, and the basslines rumble more ominously and expansively in a deep space. Like an organic mass, the track stretches back and forth, reflecting in its own way the states of the young universe shortly after the Big Bang. Because in the beginning, there was sound.
• Is Schroedinger's Cat dead or still alive? At least in this track, it meows, purrs, and hisses with all its might in the multiverses of deep basslines and experimental sounds. Meouwrrrr!
• Gravitational Wave: A massive wave rushes toward our Earth and breaks during the epic break in the dark and delicate atmosphere of a world that looks completely different after the track's final movement.
• Darmstadtium directly references the science city of Darmstadt, where the GSI Helmholtz Centre for Heavy Ion Research first created this new synthetic element using a particle accelerator in 1994. It was set to synthetic music with this release.
NEW track Darmstadtium, inspired by the first creation of a synthetic element at my new home town in 1994. 30 years later it was set to synthetic music.
Some impressions of my live performance at the open air event "Der Berg ravt. Down the rabbit hole" on top of a mountain near Heidelberg on 25th May 2024. It was a great night with a lovely party crowd, phantastic visuals and a powerful sound system. In respect to the privacy of the audience they were blurred.
The corresponding track list you can find in the video description.
It was very early in the morning when I awaked from a dream where the following german words came to my mind together with some unwritten song structures: Der Krieg soll enden und das möglichst bald. Für den Frieden und dessen Erhalt.
(eng: "The war should end as soon as possible. For peace and its preservation.").
It seemed very important at this moment, so I immediately stood up and noticed these two sentences on a piece of paper. After going to bed again and waking up later, reading these words once more with a rational mind I was not so convinced of its meaning any more and doubts came up if it would be really a good idea to use this for the next music production. At daylight and with sober mind it seems a bit childish and naive.
But finally the power of the dream was stronger and so you can immerse yourself to the result on my newest 4 track EP "Der Krieg soll enden".
All tracks of this EP are available at: BandcampBeatportSpotify The documentary "Grenzmusik" is on YouTube now!
This liveset was recorded at the beautiful riverside of Main at Offenbach in Germany where the Gleisbrett Festival took place inside an old train wagon on 24st June 2023, directly after I came back from my Japan Tour. It starts deep and melodic with some Japanese vocals and field recordings and evolves to a Deep Techno journey with lots of sound manipulations and some Didgeridoo parts. It was streamed live by Bloop Radio on 12th July.
7 years ago I texted and produced the Deep Techno track "Mantra". On 31th March 2023 a Remix compilation came out on Sounds of Jericho with remixes by
Anschein,
Chris Maico Schmidt,
Hübschmann,
Køps,
Sori and
Studiogegner!
Record of my liveset at Villa Nachttanz on 10th September 2022, live streamed by Evosonic Radio!!💃🕺
A little video of my live performance and the nice visuals you can find on Facebook.
After a long wait the Desert Planet EP finally arrived in form of a beautiful orange-black marbled Vinyl, limited to only 200 pieces!
Official release date will be on 11th December 2021, Pre-Order is already possible at Bandcamp, more infos here!
Here is a first teaser of the upcoming documentary "Grenzmusik" by Salome Beil where I was part of. :)
Die Dokumentation lotet in 29 Minuten und 54 Sekunden die Wahrnehmungen und Einschätzungen von Michael Beil (Komponist und Leiter des elektronischen Studios an der Hochschule für Musik Köln) und mir rund um das Faszinosum Musik im Spannungsfeld ihrer Entstehung, Wirkung und Darstellung aus und gibt Einblicke in unser musikalisches Schaffen.
My meanwhile 10th EP called BIG BANG is OUT NOW! :)
For video, audio snippets, links to shops and lots of more information feel free to visit the release page.
Thanks for your support and still believing in my (special kind of) music!
A live recording for Peer23 at Mannheim. It starts with speric field recordings of a buddhistic temple in Kyoto and ends with the live version of my remix of the track Pareidolia by Køps, which will be released at Sounds of Jericho on Saturday.
Wanna build a hydrophone by yourself? Here are the building instructions!
