From Past To Present – Part 1
In 1995 it all started to change: Somehow i lost the ability to sleep at normal times and so friends gave me the nickname “Dr. Nachtstrom” (in german, *Nachtstrom* describes the electric circuit working in the night), and around the same time i bought an Amiga 500 plus lots of discs with samples & tracker software and started to fill the endless hours till dawn with musical experiments. The year before, my brother Gert (known as “Vger” then) had started to jam with his friends, and theses drug- induced sessions slowly evolved into the anarcho-glitch-punk project “Farmers manual“, which soon had the first of a series of groundbreaking releases on viennas then forefront experimental label “Mego“. Vger introduced me to the Mego label bosses Pita and Ramon Bauer and in 1997 ( after having released several tapes on my own label “Innerlodge Records“) they asked me to join for a release .
“17 songs after midnight” came out on vinyl in 1999 and was the first beat-oriented record on Mego, which had a strictly experimental, ambient output till then. The years after that first release were filled with many live- performances, i played at festivals like “Batofar” in Paris, “Exit” in Norway (as part of “Cube & Sphere” with Hans Platzgumer and G.D. Luxxe), the “Phonotaktik” in Vienna and at the “Austrian Cultural Forum” in New York, but also at clubs in Denmark, Germany and in my home country Austria. I always had a strong affinity to movies, and in 1998 i composed new tracks for Charlie Chaplins “Goldrush” and presented the music live with screenings of the film in movie theaters in my hometown Graz; i also organized two “A/V collision” events, which specialized in the “anarchic crash of the visual and acoustic” and hosted many very exiting live meetings of artists like Holger Hiller, Chicks on Speed, General Magic and more with local video artist groups. In the years since 1999 i contributed several tracks to compilations and also did some remix work (for Fetish 69s “Dysfunctions & drones” and more).
Listen to A Song About Food (from “Leidenschaft“, Mego, 2002)
