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Weekend! Party! Aciiiid! :)  read more »

Just toying around with some images...

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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 »

After computers, telephones and pads Apple now also entered the architecture business, presenting the new:

If you want to move in there of you'll need new furniture. Of course from:

Now you might ask: Who's gonna live in such a lousy place? Easy:

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Other than The Void, Ambient 01 actually features a grooving slow beat. I don’t know about you, but to me this tune says “onward...  read more »

... there now would be a remastered version with added effects:

This just in today:

OFF THE RECORD OUT NOW!

THE ALBUM "OFF THE RECORD"
For Off the Record, Karl Bartos has opened up his music archive for the very first time. He rediscovered and analysed hundreds of tapes, piles of sheet music, and years of digital media. Inspired by his acoustic diary and adding his experience as a composer and producer, he has created twelve brand new songs, written and performed with masterly skill.

It took him two years to accomplish this original Bartos album: iron crystal music, vocoder newspeak, robot sounds, digital glitch, techno pop, catchy melodies, electronic avant-garde, roaring silence, futurism, and, of course, those rhythms! Rhythms of brutal minimalistic impact as found on the much-sampled "Numbers" recorded three decades ago and described by Mike Banks of Underground Resistance as "the secret code of electronic funk".

SECOND SINGLE "WITHOUT A TRACE OF EMOTION"

What must it be like for an artist to live with the image of being a legend? Surely not the worst thing that can happen. But is it always a comfortable experience? This single, lifted from his new album "Off The Record" sees Karl Bartos reflect upon the creative period as a member of the legendary group Kraftwerk for the first time. He meets the showroom dummy Herr Karl, his alter ego, and they strike up a conversation. Bartos reveals a sharp sense of humour and self-irony through the film which accompanies the single, referencing every conceivable cliché of pop stardom: dress code, interviews, champagne, mirror image, persecution complex. Yet Herr Karl, as one might suspect, remains unwaveringly cool, "without a trace of emotion".  read more »

This one’s not only one of my favourite Kobayashi Maru productions but one of the best tracks I *ever* did.  read more »

As we all know computergames get blamed for loads of evil things in the world - usually by people who apparently have forgotten that when they were young the same was said about the new rock music they were listening to and the comic books that they were reading...

Anyways - some software developers are now trying to work a "less violence" angle into their games - more or less successful: