Founded in late 2008, Mother’s Cake drew attention of the Viennese label GAB Music and got signed. Their debut “Creation’s Finest” (release-date: 26-10-2012) got featured by Ikey Owens († 2014, member of The Mars Volta & Jack White). Creation’s Finest created a big stir in Austrian music press and ensured Mother’s Cake a firm stand in the business.

The first single “Soul Prison” (17-08-2012) reached over 200,000 views on Youtube.

In 2013, they got awarded with the “Austrian Newcomer Award″ and played many sold-out shows including support gigs for Iggy and the Stooges, Omar Rodriguez Lopez Group, Deftones and Tito & Tarantula.

The “Endless Space Tour 2014″ led them to Australia in February 2014. They band was welcomed cordially in Down Under and successfully played 12 shows in 2 weeks. On April 4, Mother’s Cake released their album in Germany, played a tour there and announced their new video project.

“Off The Beaten Track” presents itself as a 45-minutes long movie that features a whole live-set of Mother’s Cake. It was funded successfully through a crowd-funding project and was officially released on July 17, 2014.

In fall 2014, Mother’s Cake supported Anathema on their Distant Satellites tour leading through 20 countries playing 42 shows in 56 days.

At the moment, the group is busy producing their second studio-album.

Plays bass for BlackBeak. https://soundcloud.com/blackbeakband
Plays bass for Feed Them Like Birds. https://soundcloud.com/feedthemlikebirds
Plays bass for It's a Fucking Rhino. https://soundcloud.com/itsafuckingrhino
Plays bass for SNAKEJUICE.
https://on.soundcloud.com/TDgNM

NEW VIDEO "Fuck Golf" via Brooklyn Vegan:  http://www.brooklynvegan.com/watch-gv-graces-provocative-nsfw-video-for-fuck-golf/

Versuchsanordnung: 
"It's our aim to paint images in your head!"


Versuchsanordnung (German for: experimental arrangement) stands for research on tones, molecular geometries of sound, destillates of incidental tonal sounds, be it in the form of compositions or pure improvisation.

Versuchsanordnung create sound impressions full of atmosphere aiming to paint pictures in your head. Versuchsanordnung also compose film scores when getting commissioned (they already did music for 3 films).

Versuchsanordnung is experimenting with unlikely forms of compositions and is a quite well-known unit for group-improvised music.

Versuchsanordnung has been in existance since 2006. 

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Status (May 2019):
At this point, Versuchsanordnung is working on another CD, composing & arranging new pieces. This is a slow process, cause the members live in different cities and don't rehearse.

Despite of this, Versuchsanordnung are available for concerts as a unit for free-improvised music (working as "Laboratorium") until recordings are finished (Guest musicians are welcome).

Contact/inquiries/bookings:
Please contact Christian Barthold:
weaverofyourdreams@gmx.de

Find more music by versuchanordnung on their second soundcloud, reserved for experimental music and group improvisation:
https://soundcloud.com/das_laboratorium

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Versuchsanordnung / Members:

Christoph Uhlhaas: piano, live-electronics
Christian Barthold: guitar, bass, bass-ukulele, flutes and other devices, live-electronics
Martin Schubert: drums & percussion

Guest Player:
Wilfried Hanrath: fretless bass, live-electronics

Former Bandmembers who play in all recordings, despite of "Hades" (2019):
M.: fretless bass, bass-synth
Jörg Düpjohann: electronic and acoustic drums

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First CD: "Urlaub am Saundstrand":

Versuchsanordnungs' sounds are available on CD "Urlaub am Saundstrand" (16 tracks/79min). 
CD comes with beautiful Paper sleeve (Paypal available /13 $/shipping included). If you enjoy the music & like to get the already available CD, please contact us here: weaverofyourdreams@gmx.de
 
Downloads:
Don't look for downloads, you won't find any.
Versuchsanordnung stopped all downloads after noticing heavy piracy.
Listen to Versuchsanordnung's music on Internet.

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Websites:

Main site (with 31 pieces of music, along with videos, photos):
http://reverbnation.com/versuchsanordnung

Other:
https://soundcloud.com/das_laboratorium
www.facebook.com/versuchsanordnung
www.myspace.com/versuchsanordnung
http://myspace.com/versuchsanordnung2

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Latest award:
Highlight in "Best of sound" category on Behance (by Adobe systems)
https://www.behance.net/gallery/46412611/Versuchsanordnung-Urlaub-am-Saundstrand
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Thank you so much for listening to Versuchsanordnung! Very much appreciated.

John Ruskan originally made a splash with his indie New Wave album "I Am A Model" which got huge college airplay. In this album, John played all instruments except drums, becoming one of the first pop artists to multi-track their recordings. One reason the album was considered striking was because of John's unique approach to synthesizers, which was consistently noted by reviewers.

John was able to accomplish the multi-tracking because he was owner - engineer of a 16 track recording studio on 22nd Street in New York called Crossfire Studios. Crossfire was the second "budget" 16 track studio in New York. As studio operator, he worked with and advised tons of musicians who were now able to afford to record pro quality demos and indie records.

John completed several independent albums under the 22 Records banner, but eventually phased out of music in the late 80's to pursue a career in psychology, as an innovative author and originator of a type of East/West meditative self-therapy. His book, Emotional Clearing, was published by Random House in 2000, and has become a widely respected classic in the field.

In 1995, John happened to be living in Los Angeles. This was a particularly vibrant time in pop music, when the trip-hop genre was just getting underway, with groups like Massive Attack, Enigma, Moby, and many others blazing a new trail in the music world. It all was being broadcast by the local radio station, KCRW, before the internet, so you had to be there to hear it. It was a unique and exciting opportunity - a brand new, electronically based musical art form was being launched which totally captivated John and drew him back into music creation.

Since then, he has released several albums: Downtempo, electronic-acoustic, ambient-groove with trip-hop and post trip-hop grooves. His compositions are usually song-based, because John is primarily a singer-songwriter. The song themes are introspective and reflect John's psychology leanings, exploring the challenges and pain of personal evolution. 

John's productions are unique in the contemporary music world and represent a cultivated and mature artistic effort. He continues to create the entire production, feeling like a painter who executes a painting. There are few others who are able to combine skillful songwriting with strong artistic concept, masterful electronic and acoustic musicianship, and superb audio engineering.

All of his albums may be listened to in their entirety at his website:
http://www.johnruskan.com

John now divides his time between his two major career interests, music and psychology. His psychology work may be reviewed at:
http://www.emclear.com

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