Hello… And again we release two tracks from our Back Catalogue for your listening pleasure. This time it is “Schrumpfschlauch” (rewired, 2009) which already deserves a star for its name and “Media Docks” (Sloan & P. Schrader (R.I.P.), 2001).

Sloan about Schrumpfschlauch: Hypnotizing! I have the urge to move my feet, to gyrate my hip and to clap my hands. This track is not just a poor copy of electronic dance music, oh noooo! It comes with brass smuggled under the beat and the electronic appliances! And have I told you about this beat which is so accurate that it can be used as a measuring tool? Measuring what exactly you may ask… Well, how about the beats per minute this track is in. Funny occurrence, this track reminds me of Yello sans the dulcet crotchety vocals. Great tune to tune in for shaking some arse!

rewired about Schrumpfschlauch: IMHO: This one simply grooves. It was bounced to my HD some time after we had polished “I Want To Shout Out (Shouda Louda Mix)” for release on ccMixter.org. Somehow (more accidently) I programmed some grooving drum tracks. This one here is one of them. I also experimented with some maverick bass treatments in which I really chased various instruments thru different FX-channels. This one here is also one of them. Furthermore there was some kind of giving strange automatizations a burl. This one here — yes, you guessed right!

rewired about Media Docks: Somewhere between Vangelis and Jarre this relaxing and soothing tune glints like an yet almost unheared gem of finest melodic electronica. This piece of artwork is dope! Full stop. Very awesome instrumentation with this little grain of dirt in patches highlights the gaps between clean and boring relaxation CD’s (you can buy for an euro or two at the supermarket) and superb electronica strongly. I have to point out with sincerity that I love this one.

Sloan about Media Docks: This was a special project. P. Schrader (R.I.P.) got the mission to organize the musical backdrop of a presentation video for the fully renovated “Media Docks” facilities in Lübeck. This video was then shown at the dedication ceremony, with loads of politicians of Schleswig-Holstein present. We composed this track in several iterations and had some requirements to fulfill, like bridging the old with the future and radiating some sort of “Aufbruchsstimmung” sound-wise. The video itself showed statements of important and influential people about education and stuff, then morphed into a rendered flight through the modernized building at the dockside, accompanied by the musical change. The pity is that my final video copy got lost somehow on my side. I would love to see it all again. We had a really good challenge to sync the music with the video scenes in good old Cubase VST 5 that time.