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Thanks man! 😎

Definitely. Musicwise, i've never managed to get through to as many listeners as back then.

I think this one is fictional ;-)

Exactly the vibe i was going for back then 😊 ... kind of a calmed down, satisfied but still quirky epilogue to the Spaceports stuff, after the driving adrenalin rush had gone.

Thank you! If i had to choose one, this would be the album i am most proud of. I mean, the production is horrible and i learned so much since then. But never again i managed to pour so much love and joy and honest innocent amazement into a collection of tracks like on this one.

I played Privateer on crappy sound blaster speakers. Any "horrible production" must be on purpose 😄

Thanks a lot! I'm afraid i've been active in the music world for too long to believe in "getting big" - or even to believe it would be a very good thing. If i continue to find time and inspiration to create music and some interested people to share my results, i'm more than happy with the situation 🙂

@@photophob Brother I have been listening to this album the whole week. I am a big Aphex Twin and The Orb. I hope you never stop doing stuff like this. Thanks a lot.

@@fioreidramosaco1537 Thanks a lot, man - it is (for a big part) feedback like yours that keeps me going 🚀

It is not just "good". Or "excellent". It is absolutely unique, and indeed worth all love

Uuuuh - der Niko! Servas!😎Der Segen wird voraussichtlich so lange anhalten, wie meine Freude anhält, mit Midjourney stimmige Illustrationen zu meinen Uralt-Tracks rauszuhauen. Verdient habt ihr euch das Ganze, weil ihr natürlich die beste Fanbase aller Zeiten seid 😘

Yes, it’s the first thing I ever heard of Photophob. It’s also my favorite track of yours of all time, and I love this whole album, and lots more of your work. This track will be my deepest forever Photophob love, though 🙂 I love how the melody struggles to make itself heard. The smooth choral synth softening the impact of the percussion and struggling melody synth. Just fantastic!

I’m not sure, but I think the review in a Future Music magazine is what lead me to buying this album. The rest is history (of my continued following of your work).

Wow! Thank you so much - what a nice comment ☺️

Space is huge ... maybe somewhere ... far out in the unknown regions behind Hinds Variable Nebula ... there are sounds that put this track to shame. I'll do my best to discover them someday 📡

@@photophob I doubt it. This track is on top of the Olymp together with MOS 6581 and a few other CBL tracks. I have listened to it thousands of times and every time I’m sorry that I haven’t sent more money yet. You deserve a medal for this. Thank you so much.

I think it's also the one i have the fondest memories of. Peak fun, peak love. I've come a very long way production wise since then, but i'm not sure if i've ever managed to translate my feelings into music as pure as on this release.

Ditto - I still listen on the regular. A classic!

Thank you very much! 😊

Thanks a lot!

Thank YOU for your support! Making those lighthearted sci fi tracks feels like therapy in these times of crisis. I'm glad when i can share some of my escapist visions with others :)

Hey - thanks a lot! Yeah, "Circadian Rhythms" was this very ambitious non-sci-fi-drillnbass album in between all the Spaceports stuff. Flopped tremendously, but there are some tunes on it, i am still quite proud of ;)

Thanks! I recorded analogue synth drones on cassette tape (in the studio). Then i played those drone tapes back with a vintage tape recorder (the thing in the pic at 8:08) in the winter forest and re-recorded the sound together with the forest atmo with a PCM-50 field recorder and a stereo mic. Then i arranged, edited and messed those recordings up again in Cubase.

Herwig Holzmann ah, cool so you re-record the drones in the actual environment. Nice idea

Yes, that's what i did. Because i like iterations and noise build-up and all those sorts of things :)

Btw.: make sure to check out the whole album: photophob.bandcamp.com/album/winter-forest-drones ;)

Herwig Holzmann you've released 38 albums!? That's outrageously productive.

+Ich Hier ... :)

Agree. And when you think: Wow, what a piece, it morphs to even stranger arts. Rep++ for the maker, this will be known and popular long, even after we all have faded away.