The tracks featured here are mastered but have gain drops, that - of course - will not appear on the official release.


"I live in the arcades. Reality was never an option!"

The 85-year-old video game queen and film composer pdqb (born on November 14, 1939) delivers a beautiful love letter to your boomer childhood, a wild ride through the golden age of video gaming. Hear how she dodges bullets, jumps over cosmic chasms, beats bosses, reaches bonus stages, uses cheat codes and even her last continue...just to stay in a world of pixels and vectors forever. pdqb will bring you back all those fond memories of unburdened joy that you might have lost while growing up. She could be your savior.

Synaptic Cliffs is filled with otherworldly pride to present these 14 timeless masterpieces to its beloved listeners.

Written and produced by Sascha Dornhöfer, analog mastering, digital finalizing and lacquer cut by Mike Grinser (Manmade Mastering, Berlin), stamper by Stamper Discs, Sheffield and pressed by Intakt, Berlin... the vinyl... has a pretty cool locked groove on side b and 2 uplifting messages inscribed into the dead wax...artworks by Sascha Dornhöfer and Alexandra Rothert.

8 1/2 Bit, Album, 12" Colored Vinyl, 33 rpm, 140g · 2024 - SC003

Life: Just an endless procession of little apocalypses...

Postpunk/Shoegaze/Electronica-sideproject from PDQB under his moniker Perzeptiverdampfkesselqualmtbesinnlich. 9 short tracks on side A...and as a bonus one experimental binaural Noise/Ambient/Illcore-17-minute-track on side B. Everything written and produced by Sascha Dornhöfer, additional lyrics/vocals on PHluiron (Weiße Haut) by Max Müller (Mutter), mastered by Mike Grinser (Manmade Mastering, Berlin), chrome tape by Tapedub, Berlin, artworks by Sascha Dornhöfer and Alexandra Rothert.

Vor dem Punkt ist nach dem Punkt, Album, Colored Tape, Cro2 · 2024 - SCT002

In the late 90s, pdqb et al. developed a tiny hydrodynamic oscillator (NCO6.27) that uses electrochemical messengers to communicate via the synaptic cleft, modulating the frequency of waveforms generated by the human encephalon. Using open brain surgery, 10 subjects were then given implants of this unique machine and eventually - after years of training - were able to experience music with an enthusiasm unknown to mankind. For this record, pdqb decoded 8 tracks originally produced with the NCO6.27 for ordinary people... finally unveiling the lucky test subjects‘ wetware to everyone.

Written and produced by Sascha Dornhöfer, analog mastering, digital finalizing and lacquer cut by Mike Grinser (Manmade Mastering, Berlin), stamper by Stamper Discs, Sheffield and finally pressed by Intakt, Berlin...the vinyl has a pretty cool locked groove on side b and 2 uplifting messages inscribed into the dead wax...artworks by Sascha Dornhöfer and Alexandra Rothert

Wetware Unveiled, 12" EP/Mini Album, Colored Vinyl, 45 rpm, 140g · 2024 - SC001

18 Berlin-schoolish Synthwave tracks published under pdqb's moniker Aipd Q41/B47. Carefully promted and edited by Sascha Dornhöfer, mastered
by Alexandra Rothert, artworks by Sascha Dornhöfer
and Alexandra Rothert, limited to 100 printed silver cassettes in a printed O-Card, no digital release.

Will be followed by a golden tape on which man-made remixes of the AI-generated tracks will be preserved. So once again It will be man vs. machine!!!

Neutopian Sunrise, Album, Siver Mirror Tape, Ferro · 2024 - SCT004

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Wet Dreams of Jesus Christ

Exozytoxis

However, the cause of death will be electrocution.

Kegelreibahle, spiralrechtsschneidend

Strolling along the edge of a straight razor.

Somatodendritical

There is nothing what we can do to improve this difficult and worrying situation.

Black Kimchi

Like his legendary father, PDQB, pdqb has become a versatile style-art master. While you read this he is preparing a powerful foray into the realms of sonic equivalents to the mysteries in oil paintings...one that will be heard of soon.

Maurodius-Papeda

Do not ever allow the fog to be around you.

Music Video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EV7HBH5bSwg

Anxiopagode

re-downtake

A grave, deep and narrow. 

lyrics/vocals: Max Mueller (Mutter)

PHluiron (Weiße Haut)

Eyes like black holes, letting nothing out...but the darkness.

Sycorax

pdqb uses an underheightened sonic style to underline the Kreuzbergian complexity of his story.

Hypothermia (34,8)

pdqb. Something about the name...brings a warm tingle...of premonition.

Sixfold Radianz

At the end of times you will be taken to hell to hang with pdqb...

Ankh

pdqb proudly presents the first song that fits in your palm and weights less than a pound!

Boktay

樫尾忠雄; 樫尾俊雄; 樫尾和雄; 樫尾幸雄

Exosphear

At level 1 pdqb moves quickly and is fairly easy to beat. At level 8,
he may think or "compute" for as long as 20 minutes before making
its move and is very difficult to beat.

4d-TögTägTüu

Is it possible to dig a hole right through Kepler-1606b and would someone be able to jump into it?

18 Billion Miles Outbound From Kepler-1606b

...pdqb has now racked up more than 18550 days in space, breaking the record for most time spent off Earth...

C - Beams Glammer

Again pdqb brings back favorite and forgotten memories of sounds that you hugged and hoarded. You're welcome!

Wireless Yearning

Teaser-snippets of edited AI-generated tracks that will never see a proper digital release and will never be streamed. Only available on a mysterious silver cassette...

Luströus Detached_d Conponemts

A song about Kyoto's history of producing sake rice wine.

Thromboembambino

Take my money!

Danny Wolfers took over and transformed the original Disco hymn into an Electro-eargasm-extravaganza...

Cychochloride (Legowelt Cyberwave Electro Remix)

I want it!

Thromboembambino (Legowelt Lost in a Valley Remix)

Order! It's an order!

pdqb says: It is vitally important to groove and to keep moving because kinetic energy releases the brain and confuses the fiends.

Cychochloride

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The Psychonautic Adventures of the 187 Year Old EDM Intolerance Survivor Gunnar Oliasson

Submarinobambino (The Exaltics Double Groove Treatment - slow)

Fiendorf Kranzler

The Electrifying Dojo

Diskmind

Fiendorf Kranzler (Rolando Remix)

Diskmind (Scape One's Quantum Mechanics)

Beyond Diskmind

Diskmind (Scape One's Temporal Paradox)

10000 Gauß

Quaoar

Sermons of the Electrofying Messiah

10000 Gauß (Dopplereffekt Gaussian Surface Remodel)

Quaoar (Dopplereffekt Quasar Radio Source 3C 273 Remodel)

Rumgurken auf Ibiza

Rumgurken auf Ibiza (Roman Flügel Remix)

Laserzimmer 1, Raum 3.16

8 1/2 Bit Replays

DodgedoG (pdqb Killscreen Suture)

Laserzimmer 1, Raum 3.16 (Noise&Noise Ghost Shell Remix)

Chipppps

Chipppps (PRZ Remix)

Maurodius-Papeda (pdqb Demake Suture)

Flossbite (Galaxian Artefacts Remix)

4d-TögTägTüu (CEM3340 Rework)

Exosphear (pdqb Speedrun Suture)

Lygöphobiä (Mesak's Broken Vectrex Mix)

Boktay (Dark Vektor Inside Your Eyes Remix)

Binäry Gatoraders On Acid (pdqb Bonus Stage Suture)

Giallectrus

Maximalism

Elysiaamora

El Misterio de la Suoivex hddnflg

El Misterio de la Suoivex hddnflg (Instrumental Egyptian Lover Remix)

Was born. Now has to live with it.


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