Love ... Sex 

Written and recorded in Berlin throughout 2024 and 2025, Love ... Sex is a deep dive into the shadowy elegance of the Phong sound. Built on shimmering synth textures, analog pulses, and sensual vocal lines, the album explores intimacy, longing, and the electric tension of urban nights.
Lucy’s haunting voice moves between vulnerability and seduction, threading through layers of warm pads, brooding basslines, and digital detachment. With echoes of New Wave, post-club ambience, and smooth retro-futuristic grooves, Love Sex feels both nostalgic and ahead of its time.
At its core lies a fascination with transhuman desire — the blurring of boundaries between emotion and circuitry, between memory and code. Much of the sonic architecture was sculpted using a rare PPG system, a Moog One, and the elusive Synergy II+, lending the album its distinctive, crystalline depth and synthetic soul.
For listeners of Phong, this is a cinematic experience — moody, immersive, and unmistakably emotional. The sound of city lights on rain-soaked glass. The sound of touch, memory, and machines dreaming.


Under Your Control

octave plateau – music by Gerhard Andreas Schreiber

Gerhard Andreas Schreiber. Since the 1980s,  composing and producing music under the name octave plateau. What began in the shadowed clubs of the post-punk era and the neon-lit pulse of the Neue Deutsche Welle has grown into a lifelong journey through diverse soundscapes and emotions.

Back then, working with artists like Markus, capturing the spirit of a generation in transition – between analog grit and melodic futurism. But the musical path didn’t stop there.

Today, octave plateau bridges four distinct yet emotionally intertwined genres:

Smooth Jazz – music like warm light on late-night streets; gentle grooves, atmospheric chords, and melodies that breathe and linger. It’s the sound of reflection and release, crafted with subtlety and soul.

New Wave – shimmering synths, melancholic harmonies, and rhythm-driven storytelling. A style rooted in the 80s, but constantly reinterpreted to reflect the tension and beauty of the now.

Deutscher Schlager – emotional, melodic, and lyrical. I approach this genre with both respect and reinvention – drawing from its traditions while reshaping its form for contemporary ears.

Neue Deutsche Welle (NDW) – raw, ironic, and rhythmic. NDW has always been the rebellious heart of octave plateau, combining German lyrics with electronic textures, punk aesthetics, and a dose of playful absurdity.

In 2024, these songs – some newly written, others rediscovered and reimagined – are being produced in the octave plateau studio in Berlin. Here, the past and the present meet in harmony and friction. Analog synthesizers hum alongside digital clarity. Stories unfold in every track – sometimes with a wink, sometimes with a sigh.

octave plateau is not just a musical alias. It’s a lifelong project, a personal archive, and a sonic playground. Welcome to a place where genres speak to one another – and where every note has a memory.