The Silicon Scientist

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SNOWFLAKES

Album: POLY

Released: Aug 26, 2007

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SNOWFLAKES
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COLOURBLIND
5:42
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SEVEN
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WHEN THE WORLD SLOWS DOWN
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INSELWINTER I
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General Info

Genre: Electro / Electronica / New Wave
Location Hamburg, Bitte Bundesland/Region auswählen, De
Profile Views: 39049
Last Login: 2/21/2012
Member Since 4/6/2006
Website http://www.msplinks.com/MDFodHRwOi8vd3d3LmZhY2Vib29rLmNvbS90aGVzaWxpY29uc2NpZW50aXN0
Record Label Anna Logue Records
Type of Label Indie
Bio
.. The Silicon Scientist (a.k.a. Stefan Bornhorst from Bremen/northern Germany) started to play the piano at the age of 8 (in 1980), and got in touch with "analogue" synthesis when messing around with the Commodore 64's SID chip in the 1980s. His first real analogue synth was the Korg MS10 in 1991, followed by more analogue synthesisers, string machines and a Mellotron when they were still affordable. Resulting from a continuous search for ..the ultimate sea of analogue sound.., a large amount of solo recordings under the project name ..Dreams Encoded.. heaped up but apart from some giveaway CDs to friends and being played at some local clubs, these recordings remained unnoticed and unreleased. The real turnaround came in 1999 when ..The Convent.. needed a keyboard player. Two CDs and tours followed before The Convent decided to take a break in 2003. The times have changed but band activity continues, and another ..alter ego.. of The Silicon Scientist is now a happy member of the aspiring synth pop outfit ..Sonnenbrandt... ..In 2005 and 2006, The Silicon Scientist has recorded a proper solo album called "Windows On The World" which has been released on vinyl by ..Anna Logue Records.., accompanied by a blue 7" vinyl single called "Colourblind EP" and a CDR called "Bookmarks" which contains outtakes, demos and other stuff from the time in which the album was recorded... ...... .. After a long break in which, among other things, the first Sonnenbrandt album has been recorded, The Silicon Scientist's second album .."Poly".. has been released in December 2009, again on Anna Logue Records. This album is accompanied by a CD album called "Bookmarks II" - again packed with a lot of outtakes, tracks from samplers and even two tracks from The Silicon Scientist's very first album "Inselwinter" from 2002/2003 which has never been released. .. There's a lot of plans for 2010, so keep watching this space for news!
Members
Stefan Bornhorst - analogue synthesisers & rhythm machines, strings, organ, mellotron, guitars & 6 string bass, voice & vocoder.
Influences
abba / pre-DX7 synth pop / minimal electronics / early german electronic bands / new romantics / guitar wave..... listen yourself! :)
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