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Treibsand

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„Treibsand“ (German for „quicksand“) is a one-man-darkwave-gothic-project from Münster in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.
In the year of 2004 Treibsand was founded by Yann, who had served as guitarist and singer in various New-Metal Bands in the area of the Bavarian Freising. After the first attempts in the own recording studio, the first song “Blade Edge” was released in early 2005. As the number of songs increased, so did the number of listeners that grew to be a small but exclusive circle. Comparisons were made: Next to established bands from the scene like “Diary of Dreams”, who can indeed be mentioned as influence, critics drew parallels to heavy weights of musical history such as David Bowie. Although attempts to find a label for Treibsand failed, new songs evolved at increasing skill levels in the "fiction factory", what Yann likes to call his studio.
2008 marked a turning point in the history of the band. Up till then, Treibsand had been music exclusively distributed online. In February the first “traditional” release took place, in form of a participation in the “mumm!”-Sampler by Danse-Macabres sub-divisional label “Biohazzard Records”. Later that year it was possible to see the band live on stage thanks to guest musicians. The response was overwhelming and calls for repetition arose. Unfortunately Yann moved his base from Freising to Münster at that time.
For now, music production is all there is, but more concerts are to be expected in the new “home” as well. To find out more, check out the website: www.im-treibsand.net
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”Treibsand” ist ein Ein-Mann-Darkwave-Gothic-Projekt aus Münster in Nordrhein-Westfalen.
Im Jahr 2004 wurde Treibsand von Yann begründet, der zuvor in der Umgebung des bayerischen Freising in diversen New-Metal Bands als Gitarrist und Sänger tätig war. Nach ersten Gehversuchen im eigenen Heimstudio erschien Anfang 2005 mit „Blade Edge“ der erste Song im Internet. Mit der Zahl der Songs wuchs auch die Fangemeinde auf einen kleinen, eingeschworenen Kreis an. Vergleiche wurden angestellt: Neben etablierten Szene-Bands wie „Diary of Dreams“, die tatsächlich als Einflüsse genannt werden können, wurden von Kritikern auch Parallelen zu Größen der Musikgeschichte wie David Bowie gezogen. Auch wenn Versuche, Treibsand bei Labels unter zu bringen vorerst erfolglos blieben, entstanden in der „Fiction Factory“, wie Yann sein Studio zu nennen pflegt, immer mehr neue und ausgefeiltere Songs.
Einen Wendepunkt in der Geschichte der Band stellte das Jahr 2008 dar. War Treibsand bisher nur Musik zum Anhören im Internet, kam es nun zur ersten „traditionellen“ Veröffentlichung auf einer CD: Treibsand beteiligte sich am ersten „mumm!“-Sampler des Danse-Macabre-Ablegers „Biohazzard Records“. Später im selben Jahr gelang es mit Gastmusikern einen ersten Live-Auftritt zu bestreiten. Die Resonanz war überwältigend und der Ruf nach Wiederholung wurde laut, doch genau da verlegte Treibsand seine Heimat von Freising nach Münster.
Vorläufig bleibt es also bei der Musikproduktion, doch weitere Konzerte sollen auch in der neuen „Heimat“ nicht all zu lange auf sich warten lassen.
Um mehr zu erfahren, besucht unsere Homepage: www.im-treibsand.net .
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Videos:
Shadow Lost
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Releases:
2008
Treibsand contributed the song "the Vortex" to the MUMM! Compilation One - head//shot
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Concerts
20.08.2008 - Rock Sie! Bandclash at the Lindenkeller, Freising.

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 10/22/2006
Band Website: http://www.im-treibsand.net
Band Members: current:
Yann: vocals, all instruments, programming, songwriting

a.d.:
Rectifier: live guitars, live keys
SAULIE: live drums
tHeRaPiEgRuPpE: additional vocals

Influences: in loose order: Psyche, Mike Oldfield, The Cure, Diary of Dreams, ASP, Schock, Die My Darling, Gackt, David Bowie, Nine Inch Nails, Paul Celan, William Blake, Gottfried Benn, Bertolt Brecht
Record Label: Unsigned

My Blog

Chart position as "guest performance"? / Chart-Platzierung nur ein "Gastspiel"?

Dear friends, financial terminology is bleeding through to the "ordinary" people as we continue our trip further down the banking crisis' throat... "Treibsand" is experiencing something similar: We've...
Posted by on Mon, 04 May 2009 12:07:00 GMT

Position 2 on April's Free Music Charts // Platz 2 bei den Free Music Charts im April

Big news! With your help we have managed to achieve an unbeliavble SECOND POSITION in April's Free Music Charts at www.DarkerRadio.com. Whoever of you checked the ratings as regularly as I did will pr...
Posted by on Tue, 21 Apr 2009 14:02:00 GMT

Free Music Charts at DarkerRadio: Finish Spurt! // Free Music Charts auf DarkerRadio: Endspurt!

Dear everyone! As much as I hate annoying everyone, as much I still want to tell you that the voting for the Free Music Charts at www.DarkerRadio.com ends today. We would really appreciate it a lot if...
Posted by on Mon, 20 Apr 2009 11:07:00 GMT

Treibsand on twitter.com / Treibsand bei twitter.com

Hello folks, just dropping short notice that I have gaven up resistance on yet another web 2.0 feature and signed up for twitter.com. You can follow Treibsand's doings here: www.twitter.com/treibsandP...
Posted by on Sun, 05 Apr 2009 02:23:00 GMT

Child of Fortune on the darkerradio-charts // Child of Fortune in den darkerradio-charts

Dear friends, amazing news! Coming back from a major trip abroad just now I have received notice that our latest release "Child of Fortune" has been given the chance to enter the charts of darkerradio...
Posted by on Wed, 01 Apr 2009 06:49:00 GMT

Treibsand is recruiting! // Treibsand sucht Unterstützung

Dear friends, for a while now I've been planning on something... the time has finally come to put it into action. In order to do so, I'll need some volunteers (reminds me of the movie about magicians ...
Posted by on Mon, 02 Mar 2009 11:17:00 GMT

Have you seen the bitter end...?

To all of you, who have seen the bitter end:I present the story of the "Child of Fortune", who definitley has. Maybe you will find yourself in it, maybe you will feel sympathy, compassion, pity or des...
Posted by on Mon, 16 Feb 2009 16:14:00 GMT

"Treibsand" leaves its band // "Treibsand" verlässt seine Band

Hello everyone, it is a common thing for band members to leave a band, but when has a band ever left its band members? What happened to us (or should I say "me"?) is quite exactly that. I (Yann) have ...
Posted by on Sun, 01 Feb 2009 04:28:00 GMT

"Treibsand" at Last.fm // "Treibsand" bei Last.fm

Hello everyone! Socialising and networking is everything today. As a band, "Web 2.0" literally forces you to operate every sort of profiles and keep them updated, get on the nerves of people you ...
Posted by on Thu, 20 Nov 2008 01:36:00 GMT

New Domain! // Neue Domain!

Some more news now - we have gotten ourselves a new domain. Actually it's two: from now on, you can reach the Treibsand-Homepage under www.im-treibsand.net, but www.im-treibsand.de will also work. Our...
Posted by on Tue, 07 Oct 2008 16:38:00 GMT