Unterdruck was a project of mine which focused on some of the ideas of repitive/minimal music on a sound-basis (instead of compositional repetition/ minimalism).
The general idea is that the human mind starts to “wander” when you confront it with a monotone but frequency-rich soundscape and in the end creates its own variation of the actual sound being played.
It was based on the software Audiomulch which was one of the first programs that introduced modularity aswell as a very great sounding granular synthesizer. Also that was the first time I ever went into “Automation”, at the end I had two analogue joysticks hooked up to the PC to control my audiomulch-patches.
Since that music was so far away from my Looza-Music at that time I chose another name for it - Unterdruck means “under pressure” aswell as “low pressure” in german.
“Unterdruck” went quite far, I actually had quite a fanbase back at mp3.com aswell as some radiocoverage.
There was also one livegig in the art-college where I was studying at the time, which amazingly also had a totally unforseen twist: I had a small presentation at the beginning that explained the background of the whole project and I forgot to turn the beamer off when the music started. Thus the beamer projected a black square on a wall in a completely dark room for the entire time the gig went (~30 min), the amazing thing was that afterwards quite a few people actually asked about the “faintly visible visuals” that were shown during the gig… the punchline being ofcourse that there were no visuals.
However, when Renoise came around it enabled me to do my Sounddesign and my “normal” music in one program and thus “Unterdruck” as a project died.
Also, maybe these tracks are quite boring to todays standard, but back then this was really sophisticated shit. 
Apart from some recordings and snippets that I keep in my samplelibrary for future use one complete thing that has survived is the “Fragmentation EP” which you can listen to or download.
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Download: unterdruck_-_fragmentation_ep.zip
