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. There are snippets from these releases in the player above, as well as other tunes which may or may not be released some day.
News will be posted here as soon as possible and the tunes in the player will change as well. So if you like what you hear it's recommended to check this space regularly!
A 2CD limited edition of the classic debut album 'Immigrants, Emigrants and Me' containing all 14 original tracks plus the debut “A Little Piece of God” ep and various b-sides, will be released on 1st March 2010. Pre-order @ One Hundred Percent Music
Anna is incredibly proud that Stefan / THE SILICON SCIENTIST has chosen to release his second album entitled “Poly” again with Anna Logue Records. His first album “Windows on the World” has received wonderful feedback, from both fans and other musicians worldwide, and he is nowadays recognized as a great influence to many other contemporary electronic music artists. Stefan is indeed one of Germany’s most talented contemporary composers of electronic pop music and taking into account that his time for music is rather limited and that his efforts in playing and finalizing the debut album with SONNENBRANDT in 2008 also took away much of his time for his solo project, his high quality output on all fronts is outstanding. With “Poly” he proves his continuous ability to write substantial and timeless melancholic electropop and electronic wave songs while most of the album’s sounds have been generated on the wonderful Polymoog synthesisers, hence the title! “Silicon Beach” shows the Polymoog’s great versatility to even create lovely South American flute sounds along the all analogue warm and dark synth sounds. On “Meltdown”, fans of The Cure’s Disintegration album will almost get a heart attack from joy – what a wonderful track with real bass and acoustic guitar accompaniment! The album versions of "Oceans of Green" and "Lost City" are reworked and remixed versions of the tracks previously released on the “Colourblind EP”. This time Anna and THE SILICON SCIENTIST are the CD "Bookmarks II" to all copies which is definitely more than just a bonus: it contains 72 minutes of outtakes from the "Poly" recording sessions, tracks from samplers, early mixes of tracks from the previous album and tracks from the very first THE SILICON SCIENTIST album "Inselwinter" which was never released. "Seven" is based upon a demo recording by Marc Schaffer and was accordingly
I thank you for the friendship I recently discovered your music and was amazing! i havent heard that good music for a long long time! you are very talented..well done..i am also glad to see you started from SID chip music sequencing since i was a c=64 user too and loved the sid tunes..cheers from Greece !
Cool new pic on your profile. Looking forward to your new vinyl record from Anna. I really like 'When The World Slow Down' very much. Keep those vocoders up! You inspire me..
!!! partyfreunde in stiller trauer!!! die INTERZONE party sieht ihrem ende entgegen. 3 termine noch und dann ist schluss. morgen ist der anfang vom ende und eine der letzten möglichkeiten meine dj-kunst pur und unverfälscht genießen zu können!
und denkt dran: ab einem anreisweg von 100 km gibts freien eintritt (perso nicht vergessen)
mehr infos zur party und viel musik-tipps, netzleben usw gibts auf www.slowpulseboy.de
und nicht vergessen: 3.10.09: INTERZONE S P E C I A L im amadeus, oldenburg
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