Sideprojects

Music that is not released under the “Looza”-Label. For example music that is created as a stand-alone project or in a collaboration with other people, or music created for a specific project.

Please note that all tracks that you can download and that are done by me (no matter under which name/moniker) are licensed under a Creative Commons “by-nc-nd” 2.5 License. Read the Music/Info-Page for more Information about what you can and can not do with these files.

Mar
2009

Roquette Science live in Cologne 20th of March

First gig after being sick for nearly six months, I look forward to it very much.
If you have the chance please drop by, this is gonna be a great evening.

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Dec
2008

Digitalism Contest finished

And we didn’t “make it”, but I have to say that I heartily congratulate ULTRNX for their win, that remix of theirs is just pure dope and they definitely deserve the first place. Listen to their remix here.

Second place went to Gooseflesh, a decision which I agree to as well, I heard their remix before the official announcement and did like it very much.

I won’t mention the third place though, because it sucks in my opinion. I really don’t see why they made third. This does not mean that I think our remix should have made third or anything, I just really don’t like it, seems to me that Digitalism (or whoever actually took care of that compo) really just selected a random “okayish” remix for third place to wrap that whole competition up. So no link from me. :P

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Nov
2008

Roquette Science

“Roquette Science” is a sideproject by me together with DHG and our approach to the current new-rave/ maximal-craze.

The whole thing came to existance when he managed to get a spot at a festival in the summer of 2008 and asked me if I would like to join him on stage. We had both been experimenting independently on some new-rave-inspired tracks and had done remixes of each other, at this point we decided to jump in fully, give the project a proper name and kick it off.

At the moment we have a livegig that we played several times, the most celebrated ones being at the Grande Massife and the Evoke.

Recently we took part in the Digitalism-Remix-Competition in Myspace, let’s see how that works out.

The official Myspace-Page of Roquette Science is the best way to stay up to date with that project and listen to tracks.

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Nov
2008

SquareSaw

SquareSaw is a little project about remixing old gametunes, mainly from the C64, but also NES/SNES.

This project started under a different name and got quite far in a very short time, including a few livegigs and such, but the whole thing came to a grinding halt due to different reasons.

There are still plans for the future and a shitload of Samples/Sourcefiles to work with, but at the moment all there is are some pretty amazing tracks and a Myspace-Page that you can use to make friends.

As for the tracks, the best ones are:

Last Ninja 3 Intro Remix (C64)

Quite an amazing track that I am still very proud of, I think I managed to blend the C64-Sounds very nicely together with a Dub-inspired approach and made a really flowing hypnotic tune.

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Maniac Mansion Remix (C64)

The insane theme of Maniac Mansion in an instrumental hiphop-context.

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Turrican Level 5 Background Music Remix (C64)

The original track is really astonishing, it appears to be originally written for a speedmetal-band or similar, it’s just amazing powerchord-progressions all the way with a bassline and drums on the second voice (third voice is reserved for ingame-FX). I made a nice little D&B-Smasher out of this.

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Super Mario 2 Character Select Screen Remix (NES)

And finally the tune that was most fun to do. Most people probably never heard this one because you usually just select your character and start the game. For this I went back to a concept of mine that I have been doing for several projects so far and that I like to call “PC-Punk”. The Drums and Guitars are VST-Plugins, the Bassguitar has been recorded. Really nice little smasher.

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Nov
2008

Mindcolors (2006)

An interactive picture/sound/space art-installation dealing with the fact that art usually changes with the (physical) viewpoint of the recipient. The Installation has a built-in camera that analyses the movement and position of people watching it and generates colours, shapes and an ambient soundtrack out of that data.

The original concept was done by Matthias H.  Risse (aka “Xenon”), Markus Wessollek, Benedikt Brandhofer, three art-students from the artschool Bielefeld.

Matthias asked me concerning the audio-part, the goal being a loopable 4-track soundscape which would be fun to play with. I came up with a ambient soundscape that was divided into four parts parts named C-M-Y-K based on frequencies.

There is a german website about this installation and a promotional video that you can watch.

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