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german netlabel specialising in electronica
soundscapes and cinematic music
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Siegmar Fricke - Medical Soundscapes___ __________
Medical Soundscapes represents clinic
electro-robotic acid that is strongly associated
with medical processes and images. Siegmar Fricke
mainly works with analogue vintage equipment,
sampling, sequencing and a broad range of effect
periphery. Instead of notebooks he uses
HD-multitracking.
/ 7 Tracks ~ 52 min
01 Calmedic sections
02 Propulsion-M
03 Synphaseq
04 Rhythmanorama
05 A-Quaretique
06 Thermodorm
07 Neuracor
/ Info..
Jun 2006
Siegmar Fricke (38) is a non-DJ and electronic
musician living in Wilhelmshaven, a city in the
north of Germany. Since the beginning of the 1980s
he has been involved in experimental music. Between
1981 und 1985, he made is first creative steps with
the help of ordinary tape recorders in the fields
of musique concrte related to the school of
pioneers such as Stockhausen and Pierre Henry.
In 1986 he added a sampler, an analog synthesizer,
sound effect devices and multi-channel recording to
his equipment. The tracks made between the years
1986 and 1992 may be filed under electro-pop and
were characterized by playful elements. In this
time, Siegmar Fricke was active in the international
tape scene and got first impressions of rougher
industrial sounds.
In 1995 Fricke founded the project
Efficient Refineries together with the Spanish
musician Miguel A. Ruiz (aka Orfeon Gagarin,
Ventral Metaphor und Exhaustor). They produced five
CD albums from which two of them are released at
Simple Logic Rec. (Poland) and Menstrual Recordings
(Italy) in 2006.
Efficient Refineries is a very experimental
collaboration with lots of favour for rhythms:
click-electronics, narcotic ambient scapes,
industrial influences, modulations, robot-like and
transformed fragments of voice, minimalistic
structures without lyrics and without song qualities.
His recent solo works may be described exactly in the
same way. In fact, dance-ability, melody and popular
sound structures never have been played a central role.
He focussed on sound science and "pharmakustik", as
Fricke called his new created style. Fricke hopes that
the term pharmakustik possibly may establish a new
genre of electronic music in the 21st century: single
samples reduced in a microscopic way are rebuilt to
multi-layered structures. Instead of fat basses he uses
syncoped rhythms, and furthermore, instead of sweet
synth medlodies he prefers clinic and clean ambient
filtered soundscapes.
Artist: Siegmar Fricke (sistop@gmx.de)
Location: Wilhelmshaven / Germany
for more informations and impressions
and even more music visit http://www.subsource.de
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