Michael Brückner
Occasional Chemistry

1. Snahr
© Michael Brückner 2002
Taken from the album "Sleepwalking - the Somnamboule ReMakes"

Note from the author: It's the "remix" album for another one called "Somnamboule", and I view both albums as a related unit. While the original album is very much calm ambient/drone stuff in the style of Brian Eno or Steve Roach (roughly speaking...), I intended to surprise the listener with a quite opposite "interpretation" of the same basic material, and "Snahr", as the opener, was meant to almost "shock" a person who just had heard the first album - hence the rough, freaky and "industrial" approach of that track.

2. Komow
© Michael Brückner 2006
Taken from the original album "Marfology"

Note from the author: At the end of 2006, while working on finishing my big CD-Box "No Single Single" and shortly before joining Myspace, I made friends with a local DJ who was interested in what I was doing, and I had the idea of producing four EPs, each dealing with my interpretation of different electronic styles (if I remember it right, I thought of Electro, Minimal Techno, Drum'n'Bass and "Experimental"). I dropped the idea somewhen, but two short albums still came out of that, the "Electro"-thing (forming my album "Electricity did fail on me") and "Marfology", which was inspired by experimental musicians like Mouse on Mars, Auterche or Aphex Twin.

3. The Calling
© Michael Brückner 2001
Taken from the original album "Movies Moving in my Head"

Note from the author: I still consider this one to be the most relevant album in my "catalouge" (at least in comparison to the rest of my stuff); I think it's a rather intellectual exercise and owes aestethically a lot to classic avantgarde composers. It's largely based on "Metasynth" as a composition- and production tool, a software that allows to interpret pictures and graphical elements as musical scores and using a big array of alternate scales; the album is more or less my interpretation of microtonal music, something I was introduced to by classical cellist Christoph von Erffa some years earlier.

4. Konstantan
© Michael Brückner 2002
Taken from the original album "Beburpuration of the Thwerft"

Note from the author: When I was compiling the big CD-box I also formed albums out of the large archives of (then) unfinished tracks; after some months it became obvious that quite a big amount of tracks was "left over" since they were too "strange" to be integrated in any other concept. So, finally I decided to form an album dedicated strictly to those "weird" and homeless tracks (which are actually from a period of about eight years...) and it showed that they went merrily together.

5. Battist
© Michael Brückner 2002
Taken from the original album "Beburpuration of the Thwerft"

6. More Reddish
© Michael Brückner 2004
Taken from the original album "Five Small Nails"

Note from the author: This short album was produced when I was asked for a soundtrack to an experimental video that a friend on universitiy was producing; I played experimental remixes of Björk- and Nine Inch Nails-tracks to me, which all had a generous use of distorted drums in common, so I produced two hand full of tracks which (almost) all were dealing with the topic "distortion" - and "sounding experimental".

7. Silesian Demon Chase
© Michael Brückner 2003
Taken from the original album "Gokuro"

Note from the author: This is another of my personal favorites among my albums; similar to "Movies..." a certain music software and it's possibilities were the starting point and set the direction of that album. Actually, at the moment I can't recall the name of that plug-in...it was like a synthesizer which isn't triggered by midi notes but that uses an audio input which is interpreted in various way as a trigger or control signal for it's output. It's overall a rather melodic album...still with an experimental edge to it...and more or less as a "counterpart" it features also some rocking, freaky tracks (Silesian Demon Chase being the strangest by far... again, it makes more sense in the overall context of the album - to me, at least.)

8. Fluktus Bundivus
© Michael Brückner 2003
Taken from the original album "Ornitheologique"

Note from the author: This is a rather quiet ambient album, in Eno style again, and in this case, I think Fluktus Bundivus fits in there without needing further explanation. It's the "darkest" track on that album, by the way, and the shortest as well.

Mixed and mastered by INQB8R © 2009