Incursions Release

Phaeder - Incursions is out now and some ardent fans have started to consume the goodies. Don’t be shy, let your friends know that here is some Of the wall trance and get it for free!

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Folding Space

“Guild Navigators no longer were the only ones who could threa”Guild Navigators no longer were the only ones who could thread a ship through the folds of space -
in this galaxy one instant, in a faraway galaxy the very next heartbeat.”
(Heretics of Dune, 76)

Folding Space is one of my new tracks on Lotus Beat 2. It’s Electro at 148 Bpm with avery spacey trance like aural mist surounding the actual drum and bass engine. i used a vocoder to trnasform my voice and make it more machine like with a human atenuation. There are three converging bass-lines and even more morphing drum tracks with lots of cross rhythms, syncopations and drive. It really travels this piece; and of course ends with a bang, like a good space folding journey should!

more more about LOTUS BEAT 2

The Bardo beings perception is seven times more powerful then a human’s, imagine your senses that sharp! A lot of the samples come from a trancer friend, who biffed playing and gave me whole collection, awesome dude! Just going through the third pass of editing and fleshing out the drum texture smore, had a few funny accidents with PS 3 drum synth and guitar midi, which made for some interesting loops. i have chanted on a couple of tracks and there is a really cool loop of Tibetan monks i recored at Sera Je during my last meditation retreat, plus and that is going to be a big chnage; i sing in German again, mostly becasue the language allows for some expressiions that English is too contextual for and becasue that is the way the lyrics cmae out of the vortex.

Just being able to freely compose again after years of self imposed restriciton is very refreshing.  So there is a definate avant-garde element in lotus beat II, which makes the music surprising and unpredicatble, just like a good power switch.

i am thinking i should start uploading and make it all available, but am too wooried still about the mastering quality.

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MorE abouT LOTUS BEAT 2

Lotus Beat 2 is what we used to call trippy in the 70s, mix of opium and speed, kinda sureal trance, but with 21st century attitude, as in “hip cosmopolitan, multi culture”, for lack of better metaphore. just thinking about mixing Germanic, almost third reich choir vocals on a bed of hard-harsh analogue basses and brutal drums, with a dominating back beat. I wondered what would happen after the first vortextual explosion, but then life kicked in and i forgot to check on that again. So now, after having had a few moments of divergence, i would like to say that a nouveaus trance sureal is emerging, as if Salvadore Dali would mix photoshop palettes with Magritte and borrow the vexing pictures of Mauricius Escher, with old schule beat sense, that is the first volley of LOTUS BEAT 2. Interestingly so, that was not my intention. i wanted fast trance, because i only pogo dance, but you surely could dance to LOTUS BEAT 2! Thee are some fast pieces here though, 150 BpM upwards. Some of the other incursions are at dance floor speed around 126 BpM - 134 BpM, some down beat and even ambiences. If i had to put all of that on a cd i would make two albums out of it, but in cyberspace, it doesn’t matter, people mix an dmatch there own music anyway they like. The power of downloadable media!

Lotus Beat 2 driving force

I did not expect to produce such a vast body of work for Lotus Beat 2, but there you have it, the vortex opens and you get a tremendous kick in the pants. When music becomes that experiential it is almost forbidden to listen to it. Morphunk dipped in galvanising electrophoresis, with star dust sprinkled on it and a trip-ability to take you to outer space and back. Lotus Beat 2, Incursions into the Bardo. Unforgettable journeys… Morphunk like sex on morphine: Very chill and hyper-real, gets very confusing once the Absynth has taken full effect.