About Me
Albums:
Psychogram (Timetheory [Digital Version])
Music:
Main Aspects: Post-Rock, Shoegaze, Electro
Minor Aspects: Ambient, Singer-Songwriter, Math-Rock (slightly), Noise (slightest slightliness)
Conceptual themes: Psychology, Human Relations, Recovery
Info: This release is both, a lot more personal and a lot more structured (In terms of replicable song-writing) than my previous releases. There are still lots of experimental ideas since I can't stop to be a bit fucked up in the head area.
Still I think this is a great leap for me as a musician and there'll definetly be more like this one.
Thematically it is loosely based on personal experiences as well as psychological phenomena like schizophrenia, OCD, neuroses etc. (sometimes both)
The lyrics are mainly about people I know so sometimes they won't make too much sense in the first place. [I'm gonna put them up sometimes soon.]
Musically there's a big shift to instrumental rock (or post-rock) but also electro and softer ambient sounds. Overall it's a lot calmer with a few outbursts of noise or distortion. As always there's bits of other musical styles in between.
Note: There's a physical version in the planning to be released on MAM.
If all goes right it'll have original artwork (by yours truly) and 20 min of bonus tracks featuring a breathtaking remix by On Travel.
Weaken (Timetheory)
Music:
Main Aspects: Ambient, Musique Concrète, Drone
Minor Aspects: Rock, Post-Rock, Noise, Electronica, Trance, IDM
Conceptual themes: Drugs, Altered Consciousness, Dreams, Solitude, Straight Edge
Featured Artist: Justine of Absolute Entity 01
Info: This is a double album and I recommend that you listen to it that way.
Thus make a break after track 8.
One Day You Will Grow Tired (Timetheory)
Music:
Main Aspects: Noise, Ambient, Sound Manipulation, Laptop Music, Soundscapes
Minor Aspects: Post-Rock, IDM, Jazz
Conceptual themes: Industrialisation, Technology, Alienation
Info: Quite a noisy one and somewhere between an album and an EP since two of the songs make up half of the playing time. Best fit for a state between being awake and being asleep. Makes me fall asleep regularly... but most of my music does actually ;)
Little Lights In The Masses (Timetheory)
Music:
Main Aspects: Ambient, Noise, Improvisation, Orchestral Samples, Post-Rock
Minor Aspects: Free-Jazz, Traditional Asian Music Samples, Sound Manipulation, Glitch, Minimal Techno
Conceptual themes: Globalisation, Different Cultures, War & Tragedies
Info: My debut. I still like it. Pretty raw and warm sounds.
EPs, 3"
Clouds (III): Our Sky, His Canvas (Mine, All Mine! Records)
Music:
Main Aspects: Experimental Post-Rock, Improvisation
Minor Aspects: Electro
Conceptual themes: Clouds... mainly...
Info: My contribution to the "Clouds" Series of Mine, All Mine! Records.
A bit different, mostly because the songs don't really differ stylistically.
This will be part of the Clouds Box featuring all releases as cool 3" cds with original artwork. Be sure to get that, amazing artists have contributed their music: My Cellphone Is Better Than Your Cellphone, On Earth, Waltz, Dad School, Praw, Endometrium Cuntplow, I Hate The 80s, Tovarisch! Hospitality
Rainonmyskin (self-released)
Music:
Main Aspects: Post-Rock, Ambient, Noise
Minor Aspects: Electro, Concrete
Conceptual themes: Rain... on the skin... and other things.
Info: So far my most post-rockesque release (though next one will go a bit in this direction, too). Likely the most emotive work that came out in a short period of time. Thanks to Post-Rock Community/Silence Is Also A Sound for putting this up on their page.
Feederism
(self-released)
Music:
Main Aspects: Noise
Minor Aspects: Rock, Ambient, Glitch, IDM, Post-Rock
Conceptual themes: Eating, Feederism
Info: One 30 min track going through different stages. Stuff to relax if you can stand some noisy bits.
Also there's two remixes on it. One is a remix of x-in's x575 and the other Bryan Holme's "Autopsia De Un Globo Amarillo".
Splits:
Shade From A Devil's Lantern [Split With Waltz] (Mine, All Mine! Records)
Styles (among others): Electro, Ambient, Glitch, Noise(rock), Classical, Post-Rock
This is my split with Waltz. I think it turned out pretty well and works great as an overall product (especially thanks to the mastering by Brandon [Waltz]).
Beforehand we decided to make a rather dark album and I think we succeeded in doing that. Though not always dark in the sense of being haunting and discordant but there's a disturbing undertone even in the more harmonic passages. I like to think that my songs are probably the more dark and agressive ones while Waltz tracks are more ethereal. Still the great thing about this release is that neither one just sticks to one style or atmosphere. There's lots of dynamics. Quiet, pondering moments and spastic noise erruptions (though more of the former overall).
MAM says: "Never ones to leave you hanging, Waltz and Given Willingly team up to make one of the most satisfying mam!records releases to date. Tracks go anywhere from IDM to post-rock, all while adhering to their ambient ethics."
'Nuff Said.
Pistols at an Inquisition/As the Oceans Break Asunder [Split With Jon7] (Timetheory)
Music:
Main Aspects: Sound Manipulation, Noise, Doom
Minor Aspects: Lounge, Minimal, IDM, Post-Rock
Jon 7's music on this one: digital free-jazz
Conceptual themes: (My part:) The Ocean (Jon7's part:) Ask him. If you dare.
Info: This one moves slowly... well my part does... jon7's part is a mix of slow progressions and fast noisy/synth bits. Okay, I have those, too ;)
I'd say the overall feeling is quite relaxed if you don't mind the noisy parts.
Only my title-track stirs up some serious thunder. Oh yeah.
This is a no-brainer, really. Just enjoy.
I Am A Beta Fish... I Am A Pirate Ship [Split With Synthia] (Delta Wave Underground)
Music:
Main Aspects: Party, Techno
Minor Aspects: Glitch, IDM, Ambient, Downtempo
Conceptual themes: Partying Hard, Pirates, Namedropping
Info: Wanna party? Then do so and be sure to put this one on. Well, actually I think most of my tracks are quite hard to dance to but synthia are a friggin rave machine. This split features both uptempo dance (pseudo-dance on my part) tracks and downtempo chillout tracks. This is Fun Lesson No.1: the basics.
