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b°tong
Experimental / Electronica / Industrial

"hostile electronics noisy tectonics drones & tones"

Basel,
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Member Since5/17/2006
Band Websitenid-musik.com
Band MembersOne man and his kitchen utensils.

InfluencesH.P. Lovecraft, David Lynch, Jacques Cousteau, Wilhelm Reich.
Sounds LikeRichly detailed stills sailing through gentle oceans of drony water... Unheimliche, apokalyptische Horror-Reise durch düsterste elektronische Gefilde... Truly bizarre, gorgeously freaky cinematic dronemusic...

Releases:

2005:
untitled 3"CD (Verato Project)/MCD (P.B.B.)
Wider der Elektronik schlecht Gewissen 7"+MCD/3"MCD (P.B.B.)/download (Clinical Archives).
TiLt no.9 CD compl (1000+1 TiLt) with "Waves To The Shore".

2006:
Polar:is CD (1000+1 TiLt)/CD (P.B.B.)
One Man Drone 12" compl (Mayo Rec/P.B.B.) with "To Raise A Thief In Your Midst"

2007:
Nid: Plate Tectonics CD + ltd. b°tong/F.T.B.P.D. 3"CD (Auf Abwegen)
Grindweh 7" compl. of 8 endless tracks (A Tree In A Field/Saeurefabrik) with "Grindarsch"
Microsleep CD (Verato Project)/download (Clinical Archives)
El Inventor Del Schabernack CD (L.ike A.n E.verflowing S.tream)
Ten Seconds Compilation download (Keep It Frozen) with "Greed", "Groin", "Groove" & "Grump"
b°tong/F.T.B.P.D. 3" CD (L.ike A.n E.verflowing S.tream) with "Feine Junge Brechbohnen"
NTNS Radio Compilation download (NTNS-03) with "Brain Scan"

Coming:
Genetic Design Flaw CD (Ambolthue Records)




Record LabelAuf Abwegen/Verato Project/1000+1 TiLt/L.A.E.S.
Type of LabelIndie





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   About b°tong
b°tong is Chris Sigdell, former member of Nid (German experimental sound-collective that existed from 1995 to 2005). b°tong reaches for the nether regions of experimental electronic sound. Born in the winter of 2004 it is a full-time project. b°tong has shared stages with artists the likes of: To Live And Shave In LA (USA), Sudden Infant (CH), Column One (DE), Dave Phillips (CH), Asmus Tietchens (DE), Thomas Köhner (DE), Ditterich von Euler Donnersberg (DE), Origami Galaktika (N), F.T.B.P.D. (DE) and more. b°tong has played at renowned festivals such as: Sinus-Series (Basel 2006), Ausklang (Hamburg 2006), Shift (Basel 2007), and has appeared on radio stations Radio DIO (France) and vm.radio (Greece). b°tong has also collaborated with other artists (To Live And Shave In LA, Feine Trinkers Bei Pinkels Daheim, PS Stamps Back), partaking in installations (Polarkreis and 95° by Brigitte Gierlich & Camilla Schuler) and video-projects (Ulrich Fischer’s Images). His tours, so far, have taken him to Belgium, France, Germany, Netherlands, Spain, and Greece. The video to Sphere II (from Polar:is CD) was shown at the 2007 Miami Art Fair as part of the Urban Nomad film-festival. A new video, Black Dog Dream, made together with video-artist Silvia Bergmann, will be shown in Beijing.

b°tong is influenced by the original purveyors of industrial muzak and the early pioneers of experimental electronics. His music varies from dark ambient layers of sound, brooding drones, itchy-scratchy tones to weird electronics or harsh noise. The sounds created give birth to images of darkness and tranquility... the solitude of an icy polar night... or the equivalent of an underwater journey in a bottomless pit! Welcome to the darker side of laptop histrionics!

b°tong deconstructs samples from television, radio and film, recordings of natural and artificial sounds, and processes his own recorded voice. When playing live, he leaves the laptop at home! Instead he relies on microphones, sp-202, self-made noise generator, casio, metal, ventilator, vibrator, electric-engines, and kitchen utensils. The music is improvised on the spot and fed into a loop machine and through various effect-pedals giving him that trademark b°tong soundscape.

THE ARTS MAY BE AT AN END - B°TONG IS ALIVE

Past dates:

05/08 Cave 12, Geneva (CH) - 05/08 Cinema Oblo, Lausanne (CH) - 04/08 MS Stubnitz, Rostock (DE) - 03/08 Kasal Jove de Roquetas, Barcelona (ES) - 03/08 Casa de Los Jacintos, Madrid (ES) - 03/08 Convivio, Guimaraes (P) - 03/08 Maus Habitos, Porto (P) - 03/08 Oremus Gothic Bar, Gijon (ES) - 03/08 Antzoki, Bilbao (ES) - 03/08 Noiznahi, Getaria (ES) - 03/08 Le Bokal, Bordeaux (F) - 03/08 La Jungla, Barcelona (ES) - 03/08 L’Assomoir, St. Etienne (F) - 03/08 Echokammer, Augsburg (DE) - 03/08 Kalkbreite, Zürich (CH) - 03/08 Schlachthof, Basel (CH) - 03/08 White Rabbit, Freiburg (DE) - 02/08 AZ Conni, Dresden (DE) - 01/08 Hirscheneck, Basel (CH)

10/07 - Shift Festival, Basel (CH) headphone concert - 10/07 Studio, Athens (GR) - 10/07 Platformes, Athens (GR) - 10/07 VM Radio, Athens (GR) - 09/07 Salon Bruit, Berlin (DE) - 07/07 Kiosk Feldbergstrasse, Basel (CH) - 06/07 Cargo Bar, Basel (CH) - 06/07 Keller 264, Freiburg (DE) - 06/07 Friends Bar, Basel (CH) - 04/07 Centre Culturel CROUS, Reims (F) - 04/07 Envers Swa, Antwerpen (BE) - 04/07 Driest HQ, Gent (BE) - 04/07 Astra Stube, Hamburg (DE) - 04/07 Raum ()()(), Berlin, (DE) - 04/07 Salon Bruit, Berlin (DE)< - 04/07 Carlo Lévi, Liége (BE) - 04/07 Raststaette, Aachen (DE) - 04/07 TAC, Eindhoven (NL) - 04/07 Living Room, Tienen (BE) - 04/07 Le Hanger, Lille (F) - 04/07 Atelier Mommen, Brussels (BE) - 04/07 Le Zorba, Paris (F) - 01/07 Wagenmeister, Basel (CH)

12/06 Ausklang Festival, B-Movie/Hoerbar, Hamburg (DE) - 11/06 Hirscheneck, Basel (CH) - 10/06 Beam On, Kult Kino Camera, Basel (CH) sounds to images of U. Fischer - 10/06 Portes Ouvertes, Reichensteinerstr, Basel (CH) sound installation by C. Schuler & B. Gierlich - 10/06 Sinus-Series Festival, Basel (CH) headphone concert - 09/06 Radio Dio, St. Etienne (F) - 09/06 Le Sonic, Lyon (F) - 09/06 Raymonds Bar, Clermont Ferrand (F) - 09/06 El Inca, Bordeaux (F) - 09/06 Noiznahi, Getaria (SP) - 09/06 Los Pulimentos, Bilbao (SP) - 09/06 Le Klan D, Toulouse (F) ex-Bordello - 09/06 Aux Musicos, St. Etienne (F) - 09/06 La Gambetta, Paris (F) - 8/06 Metropoly Festival 3spitz, Basel (CH) - 08/06 Gaertnerstrasse, Basel (CH) - 07/06 Galerie Raumausstatter, Berlin (DE) - 07/06 Galerie Scherer 8, Berlin (DE) - 01/06 Un/Real Festival, Basel (CH) L.S.D. Symposium

12/05 Josefstrasse, Zuerich (CH) - 11/05 Himmel, Schwyz (CH) - 11/05 Hirscheneck, Basel (ch)

12/04 Portes Ouvertes, Reichensteinerstr. 20, Basel (CH) 2 performances and sound installation - 10/04 Wagenmeister, Basel (CH) - 10/04 Studenterhus, Aarhus (DK)

1995-2005: with Nid AKA Feine Trinkers Bei Pinkels Daheim (a.o. 1995 Ausklang Festival, Hamburg - 1996 Industrial Meeting, Bochum - 1996 Duft & Drüsen, Vienna - 1997 OJC Kompass, St. Niklaas)



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8m2stereo





Jul 3 2008 1:55 PM

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Music is not a language.
Any musical piece is akin to a boulder
with complex forms, with striations
and engraved designs atop and within,
which men can decipher
in a thousand different ways
without ever finding the right answer
or the best one..

(Yannis Xenakis)

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Jun 28 2008 7:42 PM



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Jun 27 2008 12:26 PM

Hello!

sorry for the lateness

Many thanks for the add and the comments

Like your sounds here.

greetings from interzone

Benj/arcaide

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autonon





Jun 26 2008 1:14 AM

Hello.
Thanks for adding.
Very nice sounds!
Cheers,
Autonon
tBH





Jun 22 2008 9:43 AM

thanks
Death Worship





Jun 13 2008 2:45 PM

Greetings my dear friend and thank you for the ADD
Dr. Strangelove is the satire of our time...hehehe
CAT EYE BOOKING





Jun 5 2008 5:54 AM

ahoj
ja wir booken tourneen - aber eher seltener und mehr in PL und CZ!
cheers, Lee.

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Balazs Pandi aka 666 CENT





Jun 4 2008 4:30 AM

yo chris! was fun to hang out! let me know when you come exactly! paris was fun even i didnt visit the redlight district.
:-D
Chaoticbabe





May 27 2008 9:31 AM

euer profilbild ist einfach der hammer ... chris for president!!!
Belgrade Noise Society





May 22 2008 3:34 PM

Hello!
We've been in touch with Tamagawa so I guess we'll see about playing live here. There is possibility.
Let's stay in touch!
Lo-Fi Terrorist





Apr 22 2008 2:53 AM

Hey there, de luxe mister!

So you saw the Gun Club???Cooliooooo le turbeau!

The best from Utrecht abstract city of digital shit!
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Apr 14 2008 7:46 AM

Hallo Herr b°tong,

vielen Dank fürs Hinzufügen und Deine Musik. Ich hoffe das einmal live erleben zu können ...

Es grüßt,
Volker (SUBMAG. TV)
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Apr 8 2008 1:05 PM

! SUPER PROFIL-FOTO !
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Apr 8 2008 5:44 AM

das würd ich mir ja gern mal ansehen...
hoffe ich bekomm bald mal gelegenheit dazu
EHEIM 1000.220





Apr 8 2008 4:00 AM

Hallo!

Danke fürs Akzeptieren meiner Freundesanfrage. Tolle Sounds hier ... da geht der Film im Kopf gleich dazu los ....

Grüsse
EHEIM 1000.
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Marianne Morris





Apr 1 2008 12:25 PM

a good scrub with meaninglessness
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Apr 1 2008 2:41 AM

Hello Chris,
Your music and sound is great!
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thanks for the + !
best wishes
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Apr 1 2008 2:59 AM

INCREIBLE SONIDO!!!

UN SALUDO DESDE ESPAÑA!!

ME GUSTARIA PODER MANDARTE MI DOSSIER CON MAS INFORMACION, ESTAMOS EN CONTACTO..

Le Ligre:

ligretonbbv@hotmail.com

SALUDOS!!!
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Mar 26 2008 2:37 AM

Great concert.

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Mar 18 2008 4:13 AM

break a leg out there
;^P

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Mar 15 2008 4:04 AM

HAVE A Beautiful weekend!!
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greetings from japan
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Mar 15 2008 5:38 AM

if i know him? he is one of my best friends.
you also played in salon bruit, but i missed it as i was working on some stuff.
hope to see you live next time you play in athens or berlin
greetings!
christina
Carsten Vollmer





Mar 15 2008 7:06 AM

LOVE, RESPECT & PURE NOISE!
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Mar 15 2008 10:37 AM

vielen dank herr b°tong.....immerwieder schön sie zu hören!
beste grüsse aus bremen
nina
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Mar 13 2008 5:52 AM

Hi Chris, ja ich erinnere mich! Wusste gar nicht, dass Du bei NID warst/ bist.
Habe in Stockholm 64 Konzerte erlebt und neben Muslimgauze, Noise Makers Fifes und Zoviet France ist mir das NID Konzert noch in bester Erinnerung.
Freue mich auf den 4.4. werde auf der Stubnitz auch einen Stand haben. Bis dahin, Frank.
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