In times of social distancing it's important to SAVE THE LIGHT <3

Music written and produced by Nico Steckelberg
Artwork by Joran Elane

Save The Light (Instrumental)

In times of social distancing it's important to SAVE THE LIGHT <3

Music written and produced by Nico Steckelberg
Vocals and Artwork by Joran Elane

Save The Light (Radio Edit) feat. Joran Elane

Save The Light (feat. Joran Elane)

ORBITAL BABYLON is one space odyssey of a song. Beginning with an ambient mood that leads into a kinda lo-fi style trip hop sound. But then it quickly escalates - you might almost feel like you're being dragged right into the middle of a black hole. Suddenly everything explodes in a rocking electric guitar solo climax which you probably would never have expected from TWO WORDS OF JAPANESE.

Written, produced and all instruments played by Nico Steckelberg

Orbital Babylon

LEVEL UP! is like a video game soundtrack you always would have loved to hear along with your favourite 80’s Jump n‘ Run video games. It’s 8-bit chiptune pop in a pretty fat produced rhythmic track. Good vibes and a heavy beat are waithing for you. And, hey, in case you don’t like computer-generated voices, we also have a „Sht-The-Fck-Up Mix“ for you. No words, just the tunes and the beats. Yeah! Power up – with TWO WORDS IN JAPANESE.

Written, produced and all instruments played by Nico Steckelberg

Level Up! (Sht-the-Fck-Up Mix)

Level Up!

The brand new track by Two Words in Japanese is an Hommage to the city of Santa Cruz and Steamer Lane, the cradle of Californian Surf Culture.
Also, it is an acoustic beach holiday trip.
Or - who knows - it will remind you of playing California Games on Commodore 64?

Just imagine the epic cliffs, the salty spray, the emerald colored ocean with surfers floating on their boads, excitedly looking for the next big point break.

Enjoy this acoustic Santa Cruz beach trip along West Cliff Drive to the well-known surfer's paradise at the lighthouse of Steamer Lane. And then smell the Atlantic breeze before you catch the perfect wave yourselves!

Written, produced and all instruments played by Nico Steckelberg

West Cliff Drive

Dear friends,
I distinctly remember the first time I saw Ridley Scott's 1982 movie Blade Runner on VHS. I was still a child and had so many questions afterwards. One of the scenes stuck with me: the hunted replicant's monologue towards the end of the film. He spoke of things that people would never see. The terms "Shoulder of Orion" and "Tannhäuser Gate" stuck in my mind, and I was convinced that these places must be out there in space somewhere. 
I imagined the Tannhäuser Gate as a kind of passage from one place or galaxy to another. A technically controlled wormhole, maybe? Who knows. The film leaves this question open. My song TANNHÄUSER PASSAGE describes the feeling I get when I imagine traveling through the Tannhäuser Passage on a huge Ship. 
Enjoy!
N. / TWiJ

Background information:
“I’ve seen things you people wouldn’t believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhauser Gate. All those moments will be lost in time like tears in rain. Time to die.“ (Replicant Roy Batty, played by Rutger Hauer in Ridley Scott’s Blade Runner, 1982)
The monologue is near the conclusion of Blade Runner, in which detective Rick Deckard (played by Harrison Ford) has been ordered to track down and kill Roy Batty, a rogue artificial "replicant". In a rooftops chase in heavy rain, Deckard misses a jump and hangs by his fingers, about to fall to his death. Batty turns back, and lectures Deckard briefly about how the tables have turned, but pulls him up to safety at the last instant. Then, recognizing that his limited lifespan is about to terminate, Batty further addresses his shocked nemesis, reflecting on his own experiences and mortality, with dramatic pauses between each statement.
In the documentary “Dangerous Days: Making Blade Runner”, Hauer, director Ridley Scott, and screenwriter David Peoples confirm that Hauer significantly modified the "Tears in Rain" speech. In his autobiography, Hauer said he merely cut the original scripted speech by several lines, adding only, "All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain". (Wikipedia)

Tannhäuser Passage

This is a Gothic Rock Remix of "Ghost Kitchen" by Two Words in Japanese & Bianca Stuecker.

How did this come about?
The other day I listened to a playlist with the musical heroes of my youth: Sisters of Mercy, Fields of the Nephilim, Love Like Blood, The Mission and so on... I thought to myself: Why didn't you actually have a gothic rock banger on the Ghost Kitchen album? So I played around a bit with the album's title track and quickly realised that it lent itself to a remix in the archetypal goth rock sound of the 80s and 90s.
And here it is!
Go dance to it and let your black robes flutter in your favourite goth club!

Ghost Kitchen (Goth Kitchen Remix)

Imagine a future they imagined in 1984: Her bright pink neon mouth pulverized before his inner eye into a molecular pixel cloud and gave way to the seemingly endless metropolis panorama of the skyline of Chiba City. Need something to dream, buddy? This is your soundtrack: Two Words in Japanese. Written and produced by Nico Steckelberg (ELANE)

Two Words in Japanese

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