The Deer track "Projectionist's Nightmare" is featured as part of the soundtrack for the absolutely gorgeous online comic book "Manmachine". This is science fiction at its best, hopefully there'll be many follow-ups to this epic in the making.

Out NOW for FREE as in BEER: Sutemos Intelligent Toys 5



Legendary netlabel Sutemos releases a massive free 3 CD set gathering artists like Ulrich Schnauss, Sense, AGF/Delay, SWOD, Praveen, Funckarma and many more. Not to be missed by anyone with a love for electronic music. I'm really happy to be part of this release and congratulate Sutemos for raising the bar once again.

I’m happy to announce that I’m part of the first release on the newly founded swedish label Ghost Sounds. The first release is a Split Album between Quantec, relapxych.0 and myself. You can preview and purchase this wonderful release at the Smallfish Records website.

STFU Heidelberg
Location: Halle02, Heidelberg, http://www.halle02.de

http://www.stfumusic.org

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After last year's STFU Weimar Festival, the pan-European netaudio and electronic music collective STFU comes to Germany again this July. This time the event is hosted by Heidelberg's Halle02, its Cube clubnight and Move D - over 20 musicians will showcase a wide range of electronic music over the course of two days.

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Friday, July 20, Zollhofgarten, 6 pm:

Analog Beingz | Heidelberg + Karlsruhe
J. | Heidelberg / Weimar
Unknown Forces (of everyday life) | Glasgow
Palac | Berlin
Elfish Echo | Cologne
Jonathan Fisher | Winchester
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Friday, July 20, kleine Halle, 11 pm:

Deer | Weimar
Aschka | Brussels
Benjamin Brunn | Hamburg / Chemnitz
Rob Park | Glasgow
Move D | Heidelberg

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Saturday, July 21, Zollhofgarten, 6 pm:

Kristellar | Nagold
8yone | Weimar
Electric Sheep | Munich
8m2 Stereo | Cologne
Hempel & Sauter | Weimar
Millicent | Manchester
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Saturday, July 21, kleine Halle, 11 pm:

Wesen | Karlsruhe
Mint | London
nq | Munich
Zainetica | London
DJ Sensu | Brussels
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I finally got around to encoding the liveset from STFU Helsinki. It's a little rough around the edges, but it was my first experience using the Monome 40h controller in a live situation and I'm pretty happy with how it turned out - and it did get a bunch of people dancing as well.

You can download the whole thing over on regicide.org.

I'm very happy to announce that my new EP, "Track Delay" is now available as free download on the new Ekwal Netlabel. Head on over there for the download! Here's the text info about it:

http://www.ekwal.co.uk

Ekwal is a new independent netlabel dedicated to making exploratory, minimal techno with an emphasis on live performance. Ekwal..s artists approach music from very different directions, but they share a common desire to produce deep, subtle, sounds aimed directly at the dancefloor. Ekwal is currently planning releases by artists from around europe, including releases from "deer", "rob park", "red shift" and "dug".

Releases on Ekwal:

EKL_001 : deer : track delay ep

Ekwal's first release is a collection of 4 tracks by "Deer" aka Martin Hirsch, featuring a blend of fieldrecordings and experiments in techno and electro. While the first three tracks explore various aspects of the four-on-the-floor paradigm, the last cut, "Stationary", features an excerpt from a living room livejam with Source Records founder "Move D". The "Track Delay EP"was mastered by John McCaig at PanicStudios, Seattle. Deer has previously released as "random noise productions" on Neo Ouija and Hippocamp. His website can be found at http://www.regicide.org.

http://www.ekwal.co.uk

I just completely redesigned my Website over at regicide.org. Much nicer to look at and easier to update now. Subscribe to my RSS feed if you want to keep up with new tracks, videos, photo galleries and random blog posts. In other news, there's a new Deer EP coming up as first release on an upcoming netlabel and a 7" and CD album on the horizon for 2006. More live gigs upcoming as well.

The STFU Glasgow documentary that I have been producing for my graduation project has just been released as video release on the Hippocamp netlabel.

You can download the 37-minute DivX for free here: Download @Hippocamp

If you're into electronic music, netaudio, glasgow or shutting the fuck up you should definitely check it out.

here's the press blurb:

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STFU Glasgow - Netaudio in the Real World

This documentary follows the STFU Glasgow music festival, featuring concert footage, visuals and interviews with many of the participating musicians. In six chapters the film explores various aspects of contemporary electronic music production and distribution, with an emphasis on the democratization of the music production tools and the Internet as a space for distribution and communication.

STFU is an international non-profit collective of musicians, netlabels and promoters who organize concerts of electronic and experimental music. After successful events in Manchester, Glasgow and Leeds, STFU now travels to the European mainland and beyond: For 2006, events are planned in Boston, Chester, Helsinki and Weimar.
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Download @Hippocamp

STFU Teaser (MPEG-4, 10mb) Just finished a short teaser trailer video for my upcoming documentary about the netaudio scene in general and the STFU Glasgow festival in particular. The excellent music was provided by Millicent. Check out all the STFU Livesets at scene.org: STFU Livesets (15 hours of free music)