Miles Davis, Louis Armstrong, Art Tatum, Thelonious Monk, Sonny Rollins, Bill Evans, Billy Eckstine, Horace Silver, Herbie Hancock, Freddie Hubbard, Charles Mingus, Charlie Parker, Duke Ellington, Jelly Roll Morton, Eric Dolphy, Fats Waller, Dizzy Gillespie, Jamie Cullum, Ella Fitzgerald, Billy Holiday, Nina Simone, Marcus Miller, Frank Sinatra, Sade, Wayne Shorter, Wes Montgomery, Cecil Taylor, Ornette Coleman, Sun Ra, Max Roach, Earl Klugh, Bill Withers, Billy Taylor, Count Basie, Nat King Cole, Cassandra Wilson, Peggy Lee, Cannonball Adderley, Sarah Vaughan, Chet Baker, Grover Washington Jr., Dinah Washington...many more
Portishead, Airlock, DJ Shadow, Massive Attack, Björk, Kosheen, Dido, Monday Michiru, Morcheeba, Eurythmics, Kraftwerk, more Videogame Soundtracks you can think of, The Busters, The Mighty Mighty Bosstones, Skatalites, Bad Manners, Diana Krall, Garth Brooks, Johnny Cash, Dire Straits, Fury In The Slaughterhouse, Midnight Oil, Richard Marx, Cannibal Corpse, Dying Fetus, Chris Hülsbeck, Rob Hubbard, Jeroen Tel, Nullsleep, Chris Liebing, Assück, Faith No More, Staind, Gackt, Malice Mizer, Miyavi, X-Japan, Hikaru Utada, Celldweller, Armor For Sleep, Muse, The Dead 60's, Dropkick Murphys, Hedley, Hatebreed, Agnostic Front, Bad Brains, Evergreen Terrace, Gorilla Biscuits, Madball, Pro Pain, Raised Fist...
Before doing electronic stuff I played classical piano, keyboard and jazzguitar. Other Instruments are bass, drums, berimbau, blues harp, xaphoon, alto and tenor saxophone, alto recorder, ukulele, melodica and some other ethnical instruments. After some business in jazz bands I decided to continue alone and make a solo project wich isn't bound to a genre. So it's pretty common that the songs range from straight chiptunes, over jazz improvisations to rock or metal.
Another big part is making music with trackers like Famitracker or Psycle.
Besides working in a library, I work in a music studio as an audio engineer and studio musician. And I'm also holding free lessons in instrument playing and music theory for everyone who's not able or willing to learn it at a school. Also I think music shouldn't cost money. It's a matter of passion and not a matter of business.
bod, Happy Thursday to you! Wishing you a restful and relaxed week. If you need some inspirational musical help relaxing, there are 3 albums available now at iTunes! You Can download them at Itunes by clicking below:
Der schönste Tag des Jahres! Die Tage werden immer länger, die Sonne scheint immer heisser, die Clubs werden leerer und die Grillwiesen voller: Es wird Sommer!
Und was wäre der Sommer ohne das Grande Massife Open Air? Ohne den einzigartigen Charme dieser langen heissen elektronischen Sommernacht? Ohne Kuppeln, verschwenderischer Deko, Jonglage und überwältigenden Visuals? Ohne leckere Cocktails, saftiges Grillgut und Omas Chilloutbalkon?
Check it out! I wrote a free book on music production! It's for total beginners, but if you aren't new to music production, maybe you'll still learn something... at least you can send it to your friends who always want to ask you a billion questions about music production! It's totally free too; my goal with this is to accumulate as many BFF's as possible.
