Ignoring all the rules the music business imposed on us, electronica artist Cocon released "Trip To The Essence" as free donation single today. It is an expressionistic song about nature and is recorded right there in the middle of the essence of energy. Donate your favorite amount of money and download the format of your choice. Ah yeah, I was in charge of mastering...

I recently mastered "Lower Bavarian Pizza Hits" - that's the new LP by Noah Monoton, Attune, Old Europe, David Schreck, Unifono, Relups, and NLY1P, who gathered under the name of Pan De Dan to support their local (and possibly the best) pizza store. From today on you can grab your limited edition vinyl copy housed in a special pizza box from Pan De Dan's pizza shop in Vilsbiburg EXCLUSIVELY! No need to argue about dinner today!

These cool fellas from Filistine release their new album "Lofe" today! We produced, recorded, and mixed that thing last year in November @Slash Zero Studio, the legendary Ludwig Maier mastered it, and now you should grab your 180g vinyl copy (or CD if you dig rare audio format), or at least give it a stream - you probably got some time to spare these days anyway...

At the end of 2019 I teamed up with Filistine @Slash Zero Studio and recorded their new album called "Lofe" (which will be released on April 17) and this is the first official music video (directed by Mr. Eberl) - Press "Play"!

Milk (w/ coffee) + MyMüsli + Mastering = great start for Dynamic Range Day 2020...
If you love music and are an audio nerd like me, you'd better check out Ian Shepherd's webcast tonight, as there will be lots of great sounding music recommendations and this year's award winner! Let's produce some great sounding records this year!!!

My friends from Burden Of Life release their epic new album "The Makeshift Conqueror" (which the legendary Christian Kötterl and I co-produced in August last year @Slash Zero Studio) via NoizGate Records today. Be sure to grab your copy at Bandcamp! You could also stream it, if you're kinda old school...

Finally Slash Zero Records arrived at "SM World"... Subscribing to the Instagram, Facebook, and YouTube channel can really bring you joy, or at least kill some time...

p.s.: You can even win gnarly shirts if you follow/subscribe this week!

Burden Of Life released a new video (filmed by the legendary Tom Eberl) for their epic power ballad "Trust My Own Heart" (featuring Luisa Funkenstein), which shortens the wait for their upcoming album "The Makeshift Conqueror" (which was produced @Slash Zero Studio)!

The first post here in 2020 will be about my homies from Burden Of Life releasing their new video "Geistesblitz" (filmed by Bernhard Schinn), which will be on their upcoming album "The Makeshift Conqueror" - produced here @Slash Zero Studio.

With this playlist I'll quit 2019 and start 2020. If you are, like me, constantly hunting for new music, check out my TOP5 ALBUMS OF 2019 and hopefully you get inspired...

1986 - the year I was born, and the year my uncle Robert Porcodio was about my age. He used to play headless-bass (and wear this awesome orange jacket) in this legendary 80s power-ballad-band back then. Their legendary debut concept album "Argonaut Journey" sold platinum in Nicaragua and French Overseas Territories. After their song "Love Is Not Real" was not featured in the soundtrack for the movie "Top Gun", the record company stopped distributing "Isolation VII", which has become a bootlegged underground phenomenon ever since. Isolation was history, and history was forgotten. Finally Capitolism Records (those guys suck!) re-released "How Does It Feel" from "Isolation VII" to raise some money... well, at least they did something!

TG Copperfield is known for his incredible guitar work and releasing several albums per year - "Talkin' Shop" being his 7th solo effort, and his 4th album in 2019... more neat facts: we nailed that album (from recording/mixing @Slash Zero Studio to mastering by GKG Mastering) in exactly ONE WEEK in August... Now can you outgun that?! The album is released by Time Zone Records - get your copy here or stream it!

Code Of The Road released their debut EP "Hypocrisy, Anyhow" (which I mixed and mastered few months ago)! Check 'em out on Spotify if you dig that good ole Rock 'N' Roll and get their CD (artwork painted by Phil a.k.a. Acid Robot from Radio Haze)!

Among many things, there are at least two that all Hertrich Bros have in common:
a) they all have the same parents
b) they all have the gift to create fabulous music (as you can see if you scroll down this blog)

This post shall be about Johannes & Gabriel (Unifono / Attune) and their new Electronic Industrial Pop Rock 7-piece all-star band All Blank, who now released their debut album "A Thousand Views", which I mastered recently... Check it out on Spotify and help them reach 500k streams, for they'll then consider to release this piece of art on vinyl...

Yo, check out my homie TG's latest video to "Suckers & Crooks" (filmed by Schtifilms) and make sure you'll catch Air's SICK drum break at around 1:10min. The song will be on his upcoming 7th album "Talkin' Shop" (produced @Slash Zero Studio).

My Ohrange Bros released the 3rd music video off their album "L[i]eben" (produced here @Slash Zero Studio) for the song "Patronus" - shot by up- and coming video dude Tom Eberl!

Today Radio Haze are releasing "The Psychoustic Sessions III" exclusively on 10" eco-colored vinyl with fancy booklet limited to 200 copies. I produced, recorded, mixed, mastered, played bass, guitar, rhodes, sitar, hurt my fingers, sang, and made strange sounds, and had fun doing it. Air played cajon, bongos, some things that made rattling sounds, melodica, synth, sang and layouted Phil's artwork, who also guitared, drank, and sang on this record. Ah yeah, he also played a banana... (have you seen the 'making of' video?) You should definitely turn on and tune in, because the trilogy is now complete!

This time my path of work has led me to master an EP by Cocon... The song is called "Wien West" and is featured in its original version, but also contains remixes by Unifono (for whom I recently mastered his "Modal" EP) and Loewe (a.k.a. Jakobin). It is distributed by the French house label Jango Del Mar and if you're open for some non-guitar tunes, you should definitely give that one a listen!

Slash Zero Records have the honor to release the latest MASS album "Still Chained" (which contains 13 re-recordings their classics from 1973 - 1987 plus 2 new songs) on vinyl! As I wrote earlier this year, I recorded parts of this ship, and even got to mix and master it. You can order your copy at their Bandcamp store - but be warned: a band that already sold 200k units before will easily sell out the strictly limited run of 500 double-LPs on 180g red translucent vinyl (with etching on side D) in a nice gatefold pretty fast...

Radio Haze released a new video called "Have Mercy On Me" (directed by the legendary photographer/filmmaker Ludwig Van Borkum) today. Be sure to pre-order your copy of the ultra-limited, eco-colored "The Psychoustic Sessions III" 10" vinyl (which we recorded @Slash Zero Studio last year) before they're gone.