Darage Bang

Hello and welcome to the first issue of Cloudy And Pleasant.

This page is a snapshot about great musicians and artists who enriched my musical world since I joined the community. I intend to make it a regular feature on my blog and I would be glad to receive comments, constructive criticism and suggestions.

So, what’s it all about? Read more here …

My tribute to the Man in Black. I also love the original version by Nine Inch Nails, but Johnny Cash’s interpretation is absolutely to the point and I believe every single word he sang. Rest in peace, JC!

Podcast: Download (Duration: 5:57 — 13.6MB)

My second remix of Alfadeo’s Dicrom. It turned out as a drone soundscape where the original samples are just artifacts.

Podcast: Download (Duration: 8:29 — 19.4MB)

I was asked to do a remix of the track Dicrom by Alfadeo. Based on a couple of original samples I did my own way of interpreting the tune. So, this time no ambient and downtempo, but groovy beats and real electronica. Enjoy!

Podcast: Download (Duration: 5:11 — 11.9MB)

Happy New Year to everyone! This is my first piece in 2010. Just a simple interpretation of the german winter. Enjoy …

Podcast: Download (Duration: 5:20 — 8.9MB)

A new track in the tradition of Falling Leaves and Welcome And Goodbye. Probably the last piece in 2009.

HAPPY NEW YEAR to everybody!!!

Podcast: Download (Duration: 4:42 — 6.8MB)

This is a special EP-release by the French KOSMO Netlabel.
I’m very happy about this collaboration and I strongly recommend to visit either the site or the Soundcloud pages of KOSMO. There are several other great ambient and electronica artists worth listening. Many thanks to everybody!

Every New Years Eve after we raised the glasses and watched the fireworks I get into a strange melancholic mood. It’s like standing in a no-mans land between past and future. I guess many people feel like that in that night … :-/

Podcast: Download (Duration: 5:59 — 9.8MB)

It’s always just a fine line … 

Podcast: Download (Duration: 6:27 — 10.5MB)

Just 3 days to Halloween!!!

This is my gift for you to celebrate the best time of the year. Scary little monsters and devils, witches and vampires haunting the streets and everybody is getting sick of all the candies and sweets.

The track is inspired from Ruben Martinez’ cartoon artwork with the same title, which I found on deviantART and I instantly fell in love with. It is so much fun to look at this bunch of little creeps with their big orange and black striped goblin fella marauding the streets. I wish I could be one of them!

So, this is my hommage to that artwork – a kind of funky electronic march – and: Don’t call it Schnitzel!

Podcast: Download (Duration: 7:29 — 13.4MB)

This is a remix of Fishbowl Blues from the Apeiron album. I added more depth and ambience and enhanced the whole track with a decent pad. Hope you like it!

Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:54 — 4.7MB)

insomnia |inˈsämnēə|
noun

habitual sleeplessness; inability to sleep.

DERIVATIVES
insomniac |-nēˌak| noun; adjective

ORIGIN early 17th cent.: from Latin, from insomnis ‘sleepless,’ from in- (expressing negation) + somnus ‘sleep.’

Podcast: Download (Duration: 9:02 — 15.3MB)

The air is full of motion and the sunbeams reveal the eternal dance.

Podcast: Download (Duration: 7:34 — 12.1MB)

It’s already getting cold outside and the air sings the autumn song.

Coverdesign by sweet and talented Tamilia.

Podcast: Download (Duration: 6:25 — 11.0MB)

My mind is a 24-lane-highway … filmed in time lapse and played in loops.

Podcast: Download (Duration: 7:08 — 11.6MB)

You can’t see them, but you can hear them and you can smell them. They’re close, invisible, maybe insects and tiny critters or huge raptors. Even the plants are whispering to each other. Or is it just a dream?

Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:55 — 5.4MB)

A dark and gloomy piece of ambient soundscape. Broken thoughts and incomplete memories of former lives flashing through a long and cold sleep.

Podcast: Download (Duration: 8:02 — 12.0MB)

It’s summer and the early morning is my preferred time of the day. Everything’s still allright and the first golden rays just melt the dark  away – outside and inside, too. Then,  just being here is a gift.

Hope you like it …

Podcast: Download (Duration: 8:05 — 12.1MB)

Hey, it took a long time since I uploaded something new! But finally, after having some technical troubles, I’m back with a brand new composition. It’s kinda Blade Runner style with sad synths and a bluesy hook. Hope you like it!

All MIDI-guitar, except the rythm and the pad layer.

Podcast: Download (Duration: 4:24 — 5.9MB)

I decided to upload Aurora, because this Podcast is intended to be also an experimental platform. In digital painting there is a technique called speed painting which I often use to express concepts and ideas very quickly. 

Now this track could be called speed arranging. Everything was played, arranged and mixed within 2 hours with my MIDI-guitar. Hope you like it.

Podcast: Download (Duration: 5:20 — 7.5MB)