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'I will not be pushed, filed, indexed, stamped, briefed, debriefed or numbered. My life is my own.'
(Patrick McGowan as Number 6 in The Prisoner)

The KUNSTBLOCK Years: Some songs released on MySpace

More vintage KUNSTBLOCK work is getting some long overdue exposure on a MySpace music account under www.myspace.com/kunstblock.

KUNSTBLOCKs approach was very independent and motivated by the Do It Yourself (DIY) attitude best known from the punk and hardcore scene which also led the band to name their musical style DEHC - Digital Electronic Hardcore.

Even though musical recording technology has evolved somewhat during the past 15 years this material, recorded in the early 1990s on analog equipment, stands on it's own and is a good way to document where I was at during that period of time.

Magic Mushrooms

___2008
___camera: Nokia N95

Music: Zeitgeist Disint 6

From June 1994 to February 1996 I recorded some music that did not really fit in with the Kunstblock work.

The common thread was that all songs were instrumentals consisting of sampled classical instruments and an urban type dance beat alongside the usual generic electronic sounds. The tracks ranged from 95 to 141 bpm.

The project was called Zeitgeist: Disint 6.

A collection of six songs made it onto the demo tape The Six Stages Of Disintegration which was recorded in 1996 and sent out to various record companies and magazines. After the demo the project was discontinued.

Once again, these songs would most likely have been lost forever but thanks to the socalled Web 2.0 publishing previously unreleased music is now possible. The original demo is now available in its entirety for download and or direct listening media under http://www.myspace.com/zeitgeistdisint6.

All tracks are unedited and left just the way they were originally recorded.

Potted Plant #8 (St. Anger)

___2008
___pen, markers and ink on paper
___30 x 40 cm