here`s a new tuesday weld song……

Historical Crimes

on the 17th through until the 20th june kptmichigan will be involved in this installation/performance piece which is being put on by the lovely people of barner 16, who are also responsible for bringing us the excellent Station 17. the whole thing is going down at kampnagel in hamburg and will definately be worth checking out.

in the 90`s kptmichigan had an indie rock band called tuesday weld……well, they are back with.
bellow are the first 2 new songs in 12 years.
the recordings are demos, a few mics placed in the rehearsal space, vocals and bits and bobs added afterwards.
enjoy !

I dont Wanna Know

Turn On And Lay Low

i`ve started to post a whole bunch of unreleased stuff right here. there`s a few hours of music up already with more to come.
you can stream single tracks or also whole albums. enjoy.

……….needs your help now !!!!!!

dear all,
in march we went to salvador da bahia to participate in the zuckerhut und silberpfeil project. it involved the both of us spending 2 weeks in a studio with people we didn`t know (who turned out to be absolutely lovely) and churning out an albums worth of music. the cd has just been released as part of the catalogue to the multi disciplinary project (artists from all over the world were invited. this incuded installations, music, dance and so forth). catalogue is a bit of an understatement……it`s a massive, heavy brick of a book bound in extremely impresive sugarcane card which looks and feels beautiful.
anyhoo….
here`s one of the tracks we did called sugar jam.
enjoy.

Now available via Colosseum:
Original Soundtrack of Ludwig & Glaser’s award winning motionpicture “66/67″ - Fairplay war gestern by Dirk Dresselhaus.

Go here to have a listen.
Click on Image to buy…….

dear all,

if you live anywhere near, do yourself and these lovely people a favour by turning up to one of the shows……..

dear all,
Nacton Sur Mer is now available on cd-r.
limited to 50 copies, it comes in a lovely sleeve, printed on 180g textured card with an inlay printed on 160g card. all spliced by hand…
the release is a co-op between the fantastic Frequency Thirteen and MWM.
it`s your`s for € 5 if you drop us a line here.
to stream the full album, click on the audio player in the post bellow.
take care,
MWM

dear all,
on my summer hols in 2009 i went on the track-a-day scheme.
i only used laptop and headphones, the rule was to only use objects which were in my direct field of view.
i could only work on a track for as long as the battery life of my laptop would allow (1 - 1.5 hours).
the tracks were then immediately uploaded to this blog.
bellow you can stream the whole album in 320kbit quality.
it has since been mixed and mastered.
enjoy,
kpt


stream the whole album : Nacton-Sur-Mer

dear all,
here is another version of jede nacht. this time around kptmichigan rocks out with marc the lizard king. the audio is take from a camera so it`s not too hot but definately listenable.
check out the kvlt blackness at the end !!!!!!
piece,
MWM


Jede Nacht Live in Frankfurt

hey,
listen to the podcast i made as a guestprogrammer for eleveneleven here.

Playlist
1. Moondog / Invocation [The Viking of Sixth Avenue / Honest Jon`s]
2. Blasphemy / Winds Of The Black Godz [Fenriz Presents The Best Of Old School Black Metal / Peaceville]
3. Unknown / Gong Station/Chimes [The Conet Project / Irdial]
4. Angel / Holding Loose [Hedonism / Editions Mego/MirrorWorldMusic]
5. Else Marie Pade / Faust [Et Glasperlespil / Dacapo]
6. Köhn / Willen=Köhnen [Köhn 2 / Kraak]
7. Der Golem / Unknown [Zmet / Grief Records]
8. Unknown / Unknown [Cambodian Cassette Archives / Sublime Frequencies]
9. kptmichigan / Ignatz/Bo Diddley Re-Work [Ignatz/The Complete Chess Years / Kraak/Chess]
10. Motorpsycho / Nathan Daniel`s Tune From Hawaii [Blissard / Stickman]
11. Oval / Catchy DAAD [Systemisch / Mille Plateux]
12. kptmichigan / Delma Lachney and Blind Uncle Gaspard/Notwist Re-Work [Harry Smith`s Anthology Of American Folk Music/Nook / Smithsonian Folkways/Big Store]
13. To Rococo Rot / Allover Dezent [Veiculo / City Slang]
14. SND/Gas / Circa 1509 / Königsforst 4 [Clicks `n Cuts/Königsforst / Mille Plateux]
15. Kraftwerk / Kling Klang [Kraftwerk 2 / Philips]
16. kptmichigan / Kling Klang (The Lost Chapter) [None / MirrorWorldMusic]
17. The Velvet Underground / After Hours [The Velvet Underground / Verve]

dear all,
here`s a brand new tra la la bip remix by kptmichigan.
please check the link to find out what TLLB is all about, they are not unlinke the german Station 17. definately worth your time.
enjoy the tune.
peace,
MWM


We Sit All Together Now

the carrot man was here and we finaly got round to making music together again. bellow are 2 songs recorded in 1 evening. enjoy….we did.


Mammoth

Down and Out in Salvador Da Bahia

dear all,
a long time ago, in a galaxy far far away………….well, 15 years ago :
Hip Young Things` second and their first self produced album was released on Glitterhouse Records in September 1994 and recorded during the summer of that same year, straight after the band & their engineer Sascha Unversucht had almost finished building the Firehouse Studio during the last 3 months. Explaining why many tools such as a power drill, compressor, accumulator screwdriver and so forth can be heard on the record.

The studio remained unfinished.
The band split up about 16 times during the recording process due to the fact that they all wanted to play different kinds of music. These circumstances had a profound effect on the album….a freaky kind of experimental-freeform-noise-folk-close-to-collapse-indierock-pop accidently evolved from the tense situation. As always, a pain in the arse in the making but a treat for the listener.
Guest appearances can be heard by Markus & Micha Acher of The Notwist, who Schneider met during the Family Affair Tour in spring 1994 and the mighty Volker Backes, old friend and member of The Locust Fudge Band & Me In The Rye.
click on the image to listen or buy
tak,
mwm

dear all,
as some of you may know, we are in salvador da bahia, brasil at the moment. today (saturday, 28th march) is our day off from the gargantuan task of hammering out an album and preparing a 75 minute show in 10 days with musicians (photo bellow….hehehe) we met 5 days ago.

being the middle european dickheads we are, we decided to take a walk to the, supposedly very pitoresque old part of town. little did we know that the route would lead us along the edge of the beautiful little favella (photo bellow) we can see from our balcony. armed with a digital camera, iphone, plenty of money, luckily a pack of smokes and looking like a pair of amateur hunter s. thompsons, we hit the road. the heat was bordering on psychedelic and the shitstinking, delapidated, dodgy tunnel we had to pass through obviously failed to warn us. so did the first almost friendly favella dweller we came across, who bummed a smoke and as we now know, tried to warn us not to go further.

we carried on………
……….the heat was way intense and blinding white.

after 200 meters the next guy wanted more than a smoke. he wanted the whole bloody pack which i happily gave him. he also told us to gitouttatown, which we promptly did, too freaked to yet be scared but only after having our picture taken with this tropical, brown toothed robin hood (with the iphone, obviously). this all happened about 3 hours ago. we`re now holed up in our appartment, happily contemplating the chance to finally see the sunset from our balcony…….armed with spliff and beer. basically a bit shook up but we`ll get over it. the whole story sounds kind of lame in a way but i guess we`ll never know if it was or not.

it was way too hot anyways.

bellow you can see a crap photo of the lovely evening view from our balcony and read our little poem; dictated to us by the passing clouds whilst sat on said balcony.

we laughed tears.

take care,
mwm

marshall vs. fender

cosmic marshall shark in the sky,
sucking the pig`s browneye,
fluffly little ottifants,
kissing the brow of satan,
waving all the ships goodbye

Schneider TM contributed a track to Musique Pour Statues Menhirs, a compilation of music inspired by those remarkable archaeological works from France featuring artists like Fennesz, Zelienople, Mapstation, Mira Calix etc…,which will be released in April 2009 on Arbouse recordings.

dear all,
at the moment, we`re in salavador da bahia, brasil, working on music with 5 local musicians. the plan is to record an album within two weeks and at the end of these two weeks, to play a show. we`ve been in the studio twice up til now and it`s looking good. the concert will take place here :

April 3rd
20oo o`clock
Praça Teresa Batista
Pelourinho
Salvador Da Bahia
Brasil

take care,
mwm

dear all,
one of the only truly positive forces left on our planet, the mighty WFMU, has just started it`s yearly two week fundraising marathon. there are too many positive things to say about this station, so i`ll leave it at that and let you check it out. go donate HERE or use the banner bellow.
thanks and take care,
MWM

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Dear All,
Schneider TM is working on music for the performace piece 2109 by Ingo Reulecke and Lukas Matthaei, which will be played on 6th, 7th, 8th and 13th, 14th, 15th of March at diverse locations in Berlin.
For further info click here.
Take Care,
MWM

dear all,
per`s here for a visit from denmark so we grabbed the chance to do a rough recording of this new boogie. the basic tracks were recorded live this afternoon (tuesday 10th feb.) with 4 mics in the cellar……as a power trio…….which was a blast. the rest was then overdubbed upstairs in my room………prog it`s not. it`s the first time in about 8 months that we`ve played together and the first time in about 3 years that we have something that could be called a new song, which feels good.
here it is : enjoy,
kpt

dear all,

in co-operation with hamburg`s premier tape label, Someone Else`s Tapes, we bring you our first free release. kptmichigan and son`s 8 track mini album home / away.

to listen and download, click on the image. to get hardware, please go here.

kptmichigan and son formed around 7 years ago in dörentrup, germany but split due to musical differences. when in mourillon, a suburb of toulon in the south of france in the summer of 2007, they swept aside their old clinch and kicked out the jams. recorded in france, denmark and germany these 8 tracks are drenched with musical genius. fieldrecordings of cicadas and underprivilaged children, pianos played with 4 hands, sleep depravation (sergej), gallons of red wine, a beautiful mother and lover and too much hash (michael) mixed with a bout of sheer joy and happiness make this a complete no bollocks affair.

dear all,
after disastrous coordination we bring you……….
in co-operation with 17Rec. we proudly present the digital version of Station 17`s Goldstein Variationen 3…….plus a little extra. To put it loosely, Station 17 is an abled and disabled persons music collective. Please go here to hear more, it`s a mighty fine project. And whilst you`re at it, check out Atelier Goldstein (a similar concept based in Frankfurt for visual artists) who are responsible for the artwork for the Goldstein Variationen.

To preview or buy, please click on the image.

Whilst we were in the studio in Hamburg, we managed to record more than a good hours worth of material with Station 17. The Station 17 and Schneider TM song Jede Nacht evolved from these sessions but obviously, there was a lot more material left. We decided to slightly edit and mix the rest and thus, we had the Goldstein Variationen 3 REDUX…….a whole album`s worth of intense freeform sound. Buyers of the physical 12inch will find a coupon inside which enables them to download the digital version plus the redux version for free (of course these are available as downloads without having to buy the 12inch first).

***DOLLARS***

if you`re visiting our store you`ll find that our currency of choice is now the u.s. dollar. we`ve always been on the side of the underdog plus, it makes the whole shebam cheaper for you lot!!!

take care,
MWM

on the 14th of december my good friend and neighbour tommy, in a state of progressing drunkeness, decided i should tatoo his arse. he had the keys to the tattoo parlour he works at and so at around two in the morning we headed off. it was the first time i`d ever inflicted this sort of damage on anyone but it was all done rather profesionally (hygene wise, that is), in good taste and tommy is quite happy with the finished “piece”. and now my other neighbour susen also wants an original kptmichigan gracing her behind…she`s just looking for the right motif. so, if you want one and you`re in the detmold area, drop me line and i`ll see what we can do. oh, and i only do right arse cheeks.
peace,
kpt

dear all,
a happy 2009 unto all of you !!!!!! for some reason i have the feeling that this year is going to be a good one.
we are both busy working on all kinds of stuff, together, apart, with others……………………
capitalism will continue to wither out……..that`s why we`ve changed our shop from euros to dollars hehehe.
the human race will continue to act a total twat and will do so til god knows when…..
oh, and obama will be moving into the white house…….let`s see what`ll happen there, could be fun.
basically the same old bollocks as always but in different.
awright !!!!
take care,
MWM

Dear all,
Dirk Dresselhaus (aka Schneider) has just finished the soundtrack for the feature film “66/67″ (check out Farbfilm Verleih) by directors Ludwig & Glaser, which will be shown in European cinemas in 2009.
Besides the score, which consists mainly of guitar / drone and noise based improvisations, the soundtrack includes some Schneider TM & FM songs, hilarious oddities such as the 80’s L.A.-hair metal song ‘Hangin’ Around’, the Nina Simone like ‘Construction Site Blues’, some Dub, a re-recorded version of the Hip Young Things song ‘Torrid Souls’, some Indie / Wave / Kraut Rock material (which was partly written for the fictive band Magnetband) and tons of other stuff…
take care,
MWM

Dear All,
XMAS OFFER…..50% OFF
due to the up and coming birthday of our lord and saviour, we have decided to knock 50% off of everything in our shop (offer lasts until the 31st December). just shop regularly, go to the checkout, fill in your details and where it say discount coupon, type : xmas. then send off your order. you`ll be redirected to paypal and the 50% will be take off automatically……awright!!!!

ANGEL - HEDONISM

in co-operation with Editions Mego (who will release the cd-digipak version, again designed by Stephen O`Malley), we proudly present Angel`s second studio album : Hedonism.

To preview or to buy the album, please go here.

Despite only being released now ‘Hedonism’ is actually the first studio album by Dirk Dresselhaus and Ilpo Väsiänen as duo, a project which started in 1999. 5 years in the making and being started before Hildur Gudnadottir joined forces, ‘Hedonism’ is collision of urban and rural settings.
The opening five blistering tracks retain a full in sci-fi punk feel being made in Dirk’s Berlin studio. Tracks such as ‘Holding Loose’ and ‘Adrenaline Strike’ are brutal urban mantras bristling with energy. These are followed by electro-acoustic exercise manipulating various concrete sources, leading up to the final 2 pieces recorded at Ilpo’s lakeside
cottage in the wilds of northern Finland. Here fragile field recordings of insects, fish eating mosquitos, birds mesh with the duos shiny electronics to create the massive ‘Mirrorworld’. The closing ‘Hornet’ while stating a calm atmosphere has a somewhat startling surprise in store for the listener

take care,
MWM

dear all,
last thursday (20. 11. 2008) i (kptmichigan) had the honour of joining station 17 on stage for 4 songs. i also had the pleasure of playing an e chord for 7 minutes with michael rother (together with station 17) of NEU! fame which i was also highly excited about (the first tuesday weld album featured a neu! style stomper called “das auf e”).
it was a truly wonderful evening i will never forget. a huge thank you to the station 17 gang for having me along.
bellow you can listen to the piece dennis and i performed.
späters,
kpt

Station 17 with kptmichigan : Jede Nacht (live at Kampnagel, Hamburg, Roughmix)

dear all,

there are 2 show coming up on thursday the 20th of november.

- Angel will be playing in Spazio 211, Torino, Italia with Hildur Gudnadottir

- kptmichigan (and not Schneider TM as stated) will be playing with Station 17 (and Neu!`s Michael Rother) at Kampnagel, Hamburg, Germany in presentation of Station 17`s new album.

it would be luvvleh to see you there (obviously).

take care,
MWM

534AIFUCKINGEM…………THATONE HAS WON…………….

Dear All,
the Dutch vinly specialist label, Tonefloat, has relased the eponymous debut album by the Eightfold Model (kptmichigan teaming up with Dirk Serries, the man behind Fear Falls Burning). The album is pressed on juicy 180g vinyl and comes in a dot varnished gatefold sleeve with beautiful drawings by Ilan Katin.

The music features Serries` trademark vintage guitar drones, with kptmichigan adding treated harmonium and field recordings.

To order, please click on the image.

To listen, please go here.

Once the limited run of 500 copies is sold out, we will exclusively offer the 320 kbit hi-res download version.

späters,
MWM

Ladies and gentlemen,

for a free download of Die Doppelt Getränkten Hofmänner`s song Sekt Trinken Bei Nake, please go here here.

Within the next few weeks we will be responsible for the digital version of Station 17`s Goldstein Variationen 3. The 12 will feature tracks by Schneider TM and Ted Gaier from Die Goldenen Zitronen with remixes by kptmichigan and someone not named yet.

We will also be releasing Die Goldstein Variationen 3 Redux, which is a 40 minute album of the original sessions we recorded with Station 17 in Hamburg…….a very cozmik recording indeed. The physical release of Goldstein Variationen 3 will be released on Station 17`s very own label 17rec. and will come with amazing artwork by Atelier Goldstein and a download coupon enabling you to download the digital version PLUS the redux version…………all for FREE!!!!!!!!

For those of you not familiar with who Station 17 and Atelier Goldstein are, we highly recomend that you check the links above.

take care,
MWM

Ladies and Gentlemen,

two bits of exciting news for you.

First of all, we proudly present you the MWM digital re-release of Tuesday Weld`s debut album (Herself).

Tuesday Weld (Herself) (MirrorWorldMusic 320kbit Re-Release)

(1996, co released by Supermodern and Dhyana. Physical format available via Supermodern)

Tuesday Weld`s debut album which merges influences ranging from classic Indie rock to Kraut rock, lo-fi and almost dadaesque shenanigans. Recorded by bunch of mentaly deranged southerners at a time when playing guitars wasn`t the coolest thing on the planet to do. They thought they were too late but time would prove them wrong………they were too early.

The full album comes with a “vintage” scan of the original digi pack style cover.

Station 17 : Goldstein Variationen

Secondly, in June there will be a co-op release of the 3rd instalment of The Goldstein Variationen. We were invited up to Hamburg to record with the diasbled persons musicians collective Station 17. We jammed for 2 days and the results were then made into “versions” (a Schneider TM track and a kptmichigan remix of said track). 17records will release the physical format (a 12″ which will come with amazing artwork by the Frankfurt based disabled persons artist collective Atelier Goldstein) which will also contain a song by Ted Geier and Station 17 and we`ll be doing the digital version and we`re working on a very special feature for that release. More news on that when we now how…….

Ladies and Gentlemen,

we proudly present the MWM digital re-release of Good Sound by Mr. Schmuck`s Farm (originally released in 2005 on Oral)

Mr. Schmuck’s Farm

Hildur Gudnadottir and Dirk Dresselhaus met each other at Club Transmediale 2004 in Berlin and started to hang out, party, play boccia and record improv-sessions at Dirk’s Constructionsite Studios. They found out that the combination of Hildur’s skills on acoustic instruments (cello, zither, saw, accordion etc.) and Dirk’s ways of electronic manipulation (effect-feedbacks, realtime sampling, modular system, filtering etc.) offers a foundation for deep musical communication and organic soundworlds, that are freefloating, time-transcending and morphable in many different sonic directions.
It doesn’t seem far that Mr. Schmuck’s Farm’s sound already inspired dance-/theater-pieces and that it was used as the score in various motion pictures.
In late 2007 they played their first live performance at Volksbühne, Berlin, opening for Pan sonic & Keiji Haino.

To preview or to buy the album, please click on the image.

Good Sound

The result of the first three recordings is Mr. Schmuck’s Farm’s debut album ‚Good Sound’, which was released in 2005 on Eric Mattson’s canadian label Oral. The wide range of the pieces reaches from harmonical influences of balkan music, gentle/harsh feedbacks combined with organic/mechanical structures to pure electricity, triggered by wood and steel…all elements influencing each other. This music was created by only following the sound, not by any preconceptional ideas.

Ladies and Gentlemen,

we proudly present the digital re-release of the highly psychedelic Super Reverb debut album, Avant Garde Is The French Word For Shit.

A cosmic collaboration between kptmichigan and Jürgen De Blonde aka Köhn and originaly released by Earsugar in 2005 and now sold out, MirrorWorldMusic are re-releasing it as a hi-res 320kbit download only release.

To preview or to buy the album, please click on the image.

This is what Mark Barton of Losingtoday had to say about it :

Here you’ll find a bulging bag of gems with treats for all the family - disconcerting sleepy pop (‘do you want one of these?’), chattering celestial abstract folk pop (as though Animal Collective where on a sabbatical with Sunburned Hand of the Man – ‘Like a Rolling Drone’), psychotropic pop hypnosis (the Sonic Boom homage of the mesmeric mantra ‘Bulgarian Death Drone’ or the gem like lysergic Spacemen 3 psyche blues on the closing ‘This year round there ain’t gonna be no summer’). From the minute the free wheeling abstract off kilter Fall-esque opener ‘Theme from Captain Carrot’ and the curious off balance lazy eyed freak beating wash of ‘Hey Mr Rambler’ veer into view you are immediately put on alert that a strange brew is at work, the haphazard pop matrix is bludgeoned by a wilful sense of black humour that brings with it a decidedly crooked foot print to the proceedings and yet for all that when they do settle down drunken nuggets like ‘Sunday groovy Sunday’ (or the Beefheart meets Zappa meets Zorn curiosity ‘Da Blues’) warm the listening space with an unusual candour that’s both alluring and likewise puzzling. Hand up the back pistol to the head I‘d have to opt for ‘Out comes the sunshine’ as the albums most indicative moment a sly slice of idly ambling pop that mid way through is ripped apart sonic autopsy style leaving both your hi-fi and head shredded from the experience.

Ladies and Gentlemen,

in co-operation with Editions Mego (who will release the cd-version within a notebook designed by Stephen O`Malley), we proudly present Angel`s first studio album : Kalmukia. The 320kbit download version comes with original notations and drawings by Ilpo Väisänen.


And this is what it`s all about…………..

SHORT NOTATIONS OF THE KALMUKIA PLAN

On 17th of May we enter a place in Kalmukia, which is only 30-40 kilometres away from the river Volga. Locals guide us to the zone where the discovery is supposed to be, but as we come close enough, they turn back. We enter the zone and start to feel the effects immediately, but we continue like planned. We start the calculations and measurements. We make the plan for the wiring but the invasion has already started. When we enter the place it has an odd effect on us. The locals know about it and call it ‚blissfull death’. One of us gets the symptoms right away: hyperactive talking, all information coming out in one moment, continuous ejaculation or ovulation, a feeling of endless bliss before sudden death. To avoid these symptoms we have to eat sturgeon eggs. We start to build the construction like it was shown in our dreams and place the tetra-shaped device above the core. Something goes wrong, the alarm starts and a catastrophy happens.

Before and after the catastrophy we find these extremely peculiar creatures that live in the harbours of the caspian sea, where the pollution is strong and the oil is thickest. They are formations of sturgeon, identical in shape and form. The head and organs are mutated by the influence of the discovery. This creature is extremely defensive and violent towards those who threaten. The locals call them ‚the tank-parasites’. They suck oil and polluted water, filtering them to then weep out organic material from their backs. After researching their breeding-methods, we concluded that the eggs have a 100% chance of survival and after researching their intelligence, we knew that this creature would be the next dominating species on our planet.

This is MWM001, the first release on Dirk Dresselhaus` (aka Schneider TM) and Michael Beckett`s (aka kptmichigan) label MirrorWorldMusic.
The 7“ is a collaboration* between Schneider TM and the long missed Peter Kruger, vocalist of the amazing and more or less forgotten Berlin based Lustfaust (1976 – 1981).
The cover was designed by Mick Larkin who was responsible for a series of Lustfaust tape covers in the late 70`s.

The A side “The girl who cried all the tears from her body”

The 7“ starts off with The girl who cried all the tears from her body which could more or less be termed power ambient.
if that didn`t sound so crap.
A fuzzed out micro molecular (there is sooo much going on there) organic drone rides ontop of a bass heavy pulse (not beat). All in all a very beautiful and oceanic scene for Kruger`s stream of conciousness, completely weirded out but super melodic vocal style.

The AA side “Sweet Divorcee”

Sweet Divorcee is somewhat more conventional. This time around Kruger sings a killer melody (something about coq au vin and sex) over a slighty glitchy almost rock`n`roll stomp.
Backwards guitars, backwards Balafon, forwards Rhodes and a defiantly forwards beat are the backdrop for Kruger`s amazingly intricate and show stealing vocals which seem to be interwoven with something which isn`t actually audible.
Quite uptempo and definately psychedelic.

* Dresselhaus and Beckett met Kruger in early 2003 in Omaha whilst on tour in the U.S.A. supporting The Faint. Kruger, who now lives in Omaha with his wife, had helped Saddle Creek on various occasions in the legal department. The boys get talking and decide to have a smoke and a drink in the TM tourmobile (aka Zion Train) whilst cranking some King Tubby. Schneider TM headed off to the next show and Dirk remained in contact with Kruger (allthough very irregularly) via e-mail. Only when Schneider TM played the I.C.A. in London early 2006 did they actually get to hear Lustfaust for the first time. There they saw and heard Jamie Shovlin`s Beck`s Futures nomination, which it turns out was a retrospective of Lustfaust`s work. A painstakingly pieced together exhibition incuding posters, photos, tape covers etc.etc.

When they got home Dirk and Michael still couldn`t believe how unbelievably good the music was which they had heard at the exhibition and checked out the Lustfaust homepage to listen to some of the music. To their disbelief, there was no Peter Kruger to be heard (for some strange legal reasons) but the music was quite something else. Schneider TM had been thinking about doing collaborations quite a lot over the last few months and thought they should drop Kruger a line. To their surprise he was imediately into the idea but unfortunately, due to the vast amount of miles seperating them they couldn`t work together and Kruger at to do his part at home in Omaha.

And by god were Dirk and Michael surpised and very much excited by what Kruger had managed to pull off.