Recently, at a flea market, I bought an old micro-cassette-recorder. It still contained the original tape of the last recording made 30 years before. Voice recordings of a railway engineer inspecting and controlling tracks somewhere in former GDR, shortly after the reunification. He recorded what needed to be done at certain parts of the route, the exact location and who accompanied him. Even though, this must have been daily working routine for him, I was immediately touched by his voice, the monotone enumerations and the sounds of the recorder being turned on and off. Considering the historical circumstances, this has a strangely melancholic atmosphere, which inspired me to turn this into music. 
With the tape having so much expressivity, I realized, the musical background has to be as unpretentious as possible. - I hope, I did it right. And I hope, the track I made from this, shows my respect for that man, who unknowingly spoke to me from the past.

The Spotlight Kid, November 2019

Microtape, Modular (crackling electricity and synth voice), guitar loops. Recorded live on tape.

'92 / '93 ( Tracks )

German performer, composer and producer of instrumental-electronic ambient soundscapes, using guitar, modular synthesizer, virtual analog hardware synthesizer, drum-machine, tape loops and other looping devices, field recordings and samples. Tracks mostly recorded live in one take or, respectively, live-takes are base of the production.
Genres:  Ambient, Downtempo, Dub, Alternative electronic music.

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