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Köhn

Uglyness is in the mind of the beholder.

About Me

Started with a mini Casio at 12, got a bigger Casio one year later, expanded my setup over the years with electric and acoustic guitar, four-track tape recorder, cheap sampler (mks-100 by Roland), Sequential Circuits Pro-One, sequencer, Kaoss Pad... Nowadays I use a decent laptop with truckloads of plugins & software & guitar & bass & voice & all sorts of stuff that lies around.Played in different types of bands.Joined 'de portables' in 1997 and am still member. Released tapes under the name 'Ed Nolbed', released a couple of CD's as 'Köhn' and one CD under my own name.Currently involved in making music for dance & theatre, taking care of my little daughter, trying to make a new album, helping Bherman out, and loads of other stuff that shows up along the road :-)

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 12/13/2006
Band Website: kohn.studiomuscle.com
Band Members: Me, myself and eye
Influences: Anything really... but if you care for names, here they are in random order: Oval, Fennesz, Microstoria, Frank Zappa, Pink Floyd, Syd Barrett, Talk Talk, Julian Cope, My Bloody Valentine, Iron Maiden, King Diamond, Polvo, Sonic Youth, Sebadoh, Slint, Pixies, Rob Crow, Built To Spill, Jim O' Rourke, Tony Conrad, Neu!, Kraftwerk, Charles Mingus, Raymond Scott, Swervedriver, Nirvana, Steve Reich, Philip Glass, The Cure, Stooges, Beatles, Stones, Miles Davis, Guided By Voices, Kinks, Saints, Mercury Rev's Yerself Is Steam, Nick Drake, Spacemen 3, and many many more
Sounds Like: Sometimes like rock music, sometimes like electronic music, sometimes like something you never heard before, sometimes like something in between the aforementioned... sometimes like shit :-)
Record Label: (K-RAA-K)³, Tomlab, Studiomuscle, Western Vinyl
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

I have sent you a mail!

I wish people could stop sending me the following sms: "I have sent you an e-mail! Please read it, it's urgent!"If it's so urgent, why don't they just phone me and ask what they have to ask. You don't...
Posted by Köhn on Sat, 03 Mar 2007 05:54:00 PST

Work, work, work :-)

So, here i am, not freezing but in cold Reykjavik. I'm working for Choreographer André Gingras' new piece 'Soft Death of A Solitary Mass'. I'm writing the music for it. It kicks ass to hear my own mus...
Posted by Köhn on Mon, 12 Feb 2007 03:23:00 PST

Can I cope?

Ever since hearing Julian Cope's "Peggy Suicide", I've been a fan of the archdrude. Lately I've been riding another wave of Cope fanaticism and I've found this website that features tributes to the ar...
Posted by Köhn on Sat, 03 Feb 2007 08:07:00 PST