this is a track of the upcoming album
"off the trail"
release date: 07.12.2018

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Sneak Peak

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Some of our art is made on computers, some of it is made by hand. We are particularly interested in that gray area in between where you cant really tell. All of what we create here is one work laid out in segments, all connected. The Mystic Tape Deck universe is vast and explores all manner of adding meaning to our lives, while pondering meaninglessness.

Please consider supporting our project and helping us complete the work. We make books and cds that go with them. We also have a graphic novel and a custom oracle deck in the works. All part of the story.

A Multimedia Puzzle-Story Of An Immortal Being's Struggle To Define And Exert Their Will Upon A Wholly Deterministic And Ambivalent Multiverse, And The Strange Cult Who Loves Them.

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Greetings to you: readers, beaders, seekers, wanderers, wonderers, outsiders, rebels, fantasy gamers, freaks, mythologists, philosophers, appreciators, creators, perpetuators of beauty, coveters of mysterious objects, collectors of counter culture, the curious, the questioners, the unusual, the unique, the star children, the light workers, shadow integrators, diviners, alchemists, hermits, monks and popes, the saviors and prophets, the builders and destroyers of worlds, the old ones, the young ones, the rollers of boulders, the sun orbiters, the morning star dewdrops and twinkle toed dreamers of dreams, you mystic shining beacons, you crossers and denizens of the void, reality shapers, universe makers and underworld freaks.

"A prominent feature of avant-garde music is to break through various rules and regulations of traditional culture, in order to transcend established creative principles and appreciation habits. Avant-garde music pursues novelty in musical form and style, insisting that art is above everything else; thus, it creates a transcendental and mysterious sound world. Hint, metaphor, symbol, association, imagery, synesthesia and perception are widely used in avant-garde music techniques to excavate the mystery of human heart and the flow of consciousness, so that many seemingly unrelated but essentially very important events interweave into multi-level structures and forms."

« La musique est libératrice, elle libère de la solitude et de l’enfermement, elle ouvre dans le corps des portes par où l’âme peut sortir pour fraterniser. »   Milan Kundera

Profil : Illustration avatar/Rat(e), auteur.e inconnu.e.

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There have been many incarnations of SICKER MAN throughout the past 20 years. He went from experimental electronica to shoegaze pop to free noise improvisations. But there have always been two constants in his work. One is his quest for new and unique music, no matter the genre. And the second is the electric cello, which is his main tool of his artistic journey for 20 years now. Massive drones are mixed with distorted beats and shoegaze melodies. The Bug meets Arthur Russell meets Peter Brötzmann.

Gargyzaa is a one-man band located in Espoo, Finland.
 I play all the instruments manually (guitars, keyboards, bass, plastic  didgeridoo, Korg monotron duo, fipple flute etc.) and sing all the vocals. Plus I have written these lyrics and peculiar poetry/ bizarre dialogues you hear (in Finnish&English).
Some people have asked me who plays the instruments and I have answered them several times that it´s me who is responsible for all this trippy noise and musical weirdness.
It has been quite tedious and more or less irritating to explain this relatively often, hahaha.
I´m a also a self taught "musician" and "vocalist". I play by ear.
The drum parts are made from short loops with Audacity and then the so called rhythm track is upoaded to my Zoom R-24. After that I will start recording the instruments/vocals on top.
I don´t have or play drums. Well, maybe one day.
So basically I use Zoom R-24 to record and even master these tracks. I bring the finished "product" to SoundCloud through Audacity.
My equipment is very amateurish, cheap and in some cases semi-broken. 
I use those infamous progressive rock structures, but deliver them with a punk rock attitude/gear, hehehe.
The cover art/design is just basically a few collages/paste-ups, psychedelically distorted&enhanced pics and a couple of random photos I took. Nothing special.
This is a non-profit project. Enjoy!
Many thanks to all of my listeners and followers!

Rock,Techno,Ambient,Metal,EDM etc...
There is no border.
Enjoy freely!

Tobias Vethake was born in 1975 in Gütersloh, Germany. After school he studied violoncello and music at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater Hannover between 1995 and 1999.

Since 1999 Tobias Vethake is composing music for movies, commercials and tv-series, first at a studio in Hamburg (BOYD MUSIK) and later as a freelancer in Berlin. He composed music for movies like "MUX MÄUSCHEN STILL" (Ger // D: Marcus Mittermeyer) and "BYE BYE BERLUSCONI" " (Ger/Ital // D: Jan Stahlberg). As part of the PHIREFONES he scored the short film "WRECKER" (USA // D: Nadav Kurtz) and the movie "STREETTHIEF" (USA // D: Malik Bader)

In 2003 he founded BLANKRECORDS, a record-label for electronic and experimental music. He was and is part of several live-projects and groups such as VINCENT, BLAINBIETER, PUSHKIN BOOM BEAT, KAT FRANKIE, KIKI BOHEMIA. Apart from that he has his own solo-projects: SICKER MAN, GERMAN EXPERIMENTAL LOOP ORCHESTRA.

Since 2004 Tobias Vethake is also composing music for theatre. He is working at theatres like SCHAUSPIELHAUS HAMBURG, DEUTSCHES THEATER BERLIN, THEATER DRESDEN, etc.


mini pops junior

"...it’s two fellas from berlin improvising and overdubbing till their smoke-stained german hearts are content. imagine a futuro-james ellroy.(...)

how do they do it? overdubbing a series of bohren and der club of gore-esque improvs atop atop atop one another. sounds like some elseworld version of bernard herrmann at times, where they’ve dug up his corpse, attached him to some turntables playing the taxi driver score and fed electricity through it.

it’s all very scratchy and late-night creepy. a real feeling of abandonment, of the horror of urban sprawl. all very 3am berlin, barely warmed with jagermeister and the skeletal rattle of the u-bahn acting as post-club metronome to ringing ears as you traipse through empty snow streets with only graffiti to semiotically, metaphysically and fearfully guide you.
with sampled sneezing. y’know.

hands down the best shit i’ve listened to this weekend.
zum flughafen bitte!"

(marxbeard, 2010)



MINI POPS JUNIOR:

Jan Hupe: Saxophone, flute, percussion, kalimba
Tobias Vethake: guitars, synthesizer, loops, effects, lotusflute


Bury your head in the sand and scream towards hell that you are on your way. All evil imprisons itself.

Sneak Peak

Sicker Man