B*Tong / Darkrad / Feine Trinkers Bei Pinkels Daheim / Hatz / Rovar 17
Chris Sigdell is an experimental electronic musician. He developed a soft spot for early industrial textures and pioneering ambient soundscapes while cutting his teeth in cult industrial band NID (1995-2005). A mysterious and shadowy figure he has ended up assembling sounds of such chilling creepiness that it makes Aphex Twin's Selected Ambient Works Vol. 2 sound like a collection of sugar-coated lullabies. The sound of b tong feels a lot like an agonizingly slow crawl through a dark tunnel where the dim light at the other end never gets closer. The project Darkrad was founded in 2008 by a famous figure on Moscow underground scene DJ JanaDark. Being the only member she realizes her deepest feelings and thoughts in it. Experiments with voice, gloomy electronic beats and mysterious fragile melodies - all this is Darkrad. Trinkers Bei Pinkels Daheim are from Bremen and Lorrach on the German coasts, and have toured everything from The Netherlands to Switzerland and Russia extensively over the last 2 decades. In the last 2 decades, they released unique vinyl CD and cassettes in multiple editions, usually personalised and with personalised hand-painted artwork. hATZ, autodidact since the beginning of the nineties, when he started playing guitar first in 'parasol', later with 'Bolz`n'. The soloproject hATZ was founded in january 2008. Unexperienced in drum computer programming it took some time to find out how to do it. That's why hATZ spent the summer of 2008 on working in the rehearsal room, struggling with the not-human drummer at the maximum of volume. The phenomenon of Rovar17 (Insect17 in English) was born 31st of august 2002, in the workroom of Kalman Pongracz. Levente Bod joined the band three days after, and they worked jointly through the end of 2004. They together created the albums Horsehead Nebula, Anything Else The Madness and English Letter with audio collage technique.