Curator: Manfred Genther

 

Using analog apparats such as reel to reel taperecorders and analog synthesizers Wouter van Veldhoven makes pop-influenced experimental ambient and some conceptual soundscapes. Old means, new music.

Orphax is the ambient drone project of Sietse van Erve. Influenced by artists such as Troum and Thomas Köner, Orphax makes slowly evolving, emotionally loaded music which takes you into a deep dark world. In the years he has developed more and more his own style and which by now can be described as emotional, dark and heavy drones. Over the years he has released several mp3s which are all free for download from his own website as well as through the Internet Archive. In 2004 the first Orphax non-mp3album »In A Long Night« was released. This was a CD-R release, limited to 100 pieces and it sold out quite fast, but can still be listened to here on last.fmAt this moment, Orphax is working on new material which he hopes to release before the end of 2007 or begin 2008. www.orphax.com . In early 2005 the album »Sand In Boxes« was released on The Verato Project. The first edition was limited to 60 pieces and comes with a special bag of sand. It is possible to listen to this album at last.fm over here. In may 2007 another cdr release, Proof Of Conspiracy, was presented. This time Cut Hands released a limited issue of a 3" cdr. This one track album is again uploaded to last.fm and can be streamed from here Orphax also contributed to several compilations and remix works in 2007, of which all tracks are freely available through the internet. See his website for more information on this.

David Tagg und Brian Grainger aka VCV kommen aus Southern Columbia und treten beim lab30 zum ersten Mal außerhalb der USA auf. Bei ihren früheren Aufnahmen setzten sie nur zwei Gitarren ein (eine im linken, die andere im rechten Stereokanal), um den Zuhörern das Gefühl zu geben, im selben Raum zu sein wie die Künstler. Später kamen Bass, Dulcimer, Harfe und Streichinstrumente dazu. VCV veröffentlichen auf ihrem eigenen Label Second Sun.

Due to their professional work within the digital world (architecture/software-engineering) »oblivion« and »ntk« discovered the possibilities to create soundscapes with laptops and the musical freedom that can be achieved with this new media. The main interest of Digitalis is to produce music in a professional studio-environment and performing live-sets in lounge areas combined with visuals. www.acidworks.ch/digitalis/index1.html

Esa Juhani Ruoho is one among the up and coming ambient electronic artists in Finland today. His first major label release, Container (deFocus, UK) was well received by critics and the electronic enthusiasts alike. He has after that had releases thru labels like Merck (Miami,US), Rikos Records (Finland), U-cover (Belgium), Inc.Us (Belgium), Zeal Records (Belgium), Psychonavigation (Ireland), New Speak Records (Sweden). Esa first became interested in computer music when he was 6. Some of his early favorites were the songs created for C64 games, later modules by such luminaries as Aleksi Eeben, Niko Nyman, Sami Järvinen, and others, on the Commodore Amiga. By 1994, Esa had shifted his musical interests to ambient/idm and has later on flourished as a member of the Helsinki scene, providing music for various netlabels like monotonik and kahvi. Currently, Esa continues to release thru several international labels and explores new tracks & techniques at his flat in eastern Helsinki. At lab30 this year he will present his new EP »Repulsine« (Slskrecords) and also celebrate his birthday. www.lackluster.org