Trailer video:
youtu.be/UB2NFr_THM4
30 years ago, in 1992, Michael Brückner started on his journey as an electronic musician.
10 years ago, in 2012, he saw his first proper label release - which was his 100th album at the same time:
"100 Million Miles Under The Stars" on SynGate.
10 years ago, in 2012, he also saw my second label release:
"Eleventh Sun", which was the first ever release on SynGate's sublable "Luna" (for which he had created the logo...).
To celebrate these anniversaries, both albums are now (September 2022) being re-released in very special editions - or new versions, rather:
Each track has been remixed, reworked and re-imagined by another brilliant artist - all of them well respected and highly influential members of the vast electronic music community.
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released September 23, 2022
Many (MANY!) thanks for their wonderful contributions to this new, reformed version of "100 Million Miles Under The Stars" to:
Dr. Dave Bessell, The Brückendorf Corporation, Johan Tronestam, Jörg Schaaf, Esteban Menash, Ami Hassinen and Hollan Holmes (in order of appearance).
And extra thanks to Kilian Schloemp of SynGate for his friendship and great support all through these years - and also on this project in particular! Without him, it never would have happened!
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DAVE BESSELL (Track 1)
sites.google.com/site/davebessellmusic/home
davebessell.bandcamp.com/music
Dave Bessell received training of classical orchestration and electronics at the Royal College of Music.He also studied jazz guitar with John Etheridge, performing contemporary classical works both in the UK and internationally, at the South Bank, Princeton and various contemporary music festivals.
Previously a session musician, arranger and synthesizer programmer for most of the major record labels and a long list of bands including Killing Joke and Suede, Dave Bessell is currently a recording artist on the DiN label specialising in electronica.
He is also a member of Node, a legendary analogue synthesiser quartet which also features well known producers Flood (U2, Depeche Mode, Nine Inch Nails, Sigur Ross, etc.) Ed Buller (Suede, Pulp, Psychedelic Furs etc.) and Hollywood movie composer & sound designer Mel Wesson (Pacific Rim, King Kong, Batman Begins etc.).
THE BRÜCKNEDORF CORPORATION (Track 2)
Obscure electronica project run by three anonymous characters (and usually under some other name).
JOHAN TRONESTAM (Track 3)
johantronestam.com
johantronestam.bandcamp.com/music
Johan Tronestam is a well-known composer of melodic electronic music, coming from a musical family.
Earlier in his life, he played in various music groups, but has for a long time concenrated on writing instrumental synth music. The music is created in his own studio. and is very personal. Still it has influences from Vangelis, JM Jarre, Mike Oldfield, Tangerine Dream, Tim Blake, Neuronium, Kraftwerk, Klaus Schulze and similar artists. Johan has so far released six albums on the label SynGate, and several more via his own Bandcamp page.
JÖRG SCHAAF (Track 4)
www.radikaltechnologies.com
joergschaaf.bandcamp.com/music
Jörg Schaaf is a German synthesist and electronic composer, sound designer and synth developer. He worked for Quasimidi, did sound design for various other synthesizer companies and today realises his ideas and worlds of sound at Radikal Technologies.
His love for deep sound textures, disturbing sound FXs and evolving sequences led to collaborations with synth music pioneer Klaus Schulze. After some concerts and CD productions with Schulze, Jörg Schaaf published his first solo CD in 1999 - the album „sonar eXperience“.
M3NASH (Track 5)
m3nash.bandcamp.com/music
www.cyclicaldreams.com
Esteban Menash is a composer, pianist and guitarist from Buenos Aires, Argentina, with clear influences from baroque and middle-eastern music.
His composition is formed by the constant search of landscapes, with the imagination focused purely and exclusively on the Patagonian mountains.
Esteban Menash is also one of the founders of the Buenos Aires based label Cyclical Dreams and a member of the synth trio Cartas de Japón (with Lucas Tripaldi and Pablo Bilbao). In 2018 they released their first album. Synthesizers and drum machines build their music that navigates between styles like Berlin School, Ambient and Space music.
AMI HASSINEN (Track 6)
www.nemesisem.net
nemesis3.bandcamp.com/music
Ami Hassinen is a founding member of Nemesis, a legendary Finnish music group formed in Kokkola in 1987 by him and Jyrki Kastman. In 1994 they released their debut album Xcelsior, the first Finnish electronic/ambient album to be released internationally. In 1996 Nemesis was commissioned by Finnish national radio YLE to create the long-form work Evolution, and from then on followed a series of critically acclaimed albums, as well as live concerts.
In 2001 the band was expanded with a third member, Joni Virtanen.
The band's music is inspired by astronomy, science fiction, nature, childhood stories about UFOs and ghosts, and artists like Kraftwerk, Can, Tangerine Dream, Neu!, Jean Michel Jarre, Jimi Hendrix, The Beatles, Hawkwind, Brian Eno, Robert Rich, Steve Roach and others.
Ami Hassinen also releases solo albums under the artist name Ashen Simian.
HOLLAN HOLMES (Track 7)
hollanholmes.bandcamp.com
hollanholmesmusic.com
Hollan Holmes is an acclaimed electronic synthesist, electronic composer and painter. Already musically active at as a young boy, he joined his first rock band at age 18 and began writing his own music at age 20.
Holmes initially was influenced by Pink Floyd, Rush, Journey, The Cars and R.E.O. Speedwagon. Around 1984, he was introduced to Tangerine Dream and some years later discovered the work of Steve Roach, Richard Burmer, and Robert Rich.
He explains that Music is an escape for him and a sanctuary - a deeply personal experience that brings him joy to share with anyone who wishes to listen...
Hollan Holmes has released eight albums of dynamic sequencer-driven synthesizer explorations, the most recent ones on the renowned label Spotted Peccary.
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All music by Michael Brückner (2012) and the respective collaborators (2022 - see title list)
Produced, curated and mastered by Michael Brückner.
P & C 2022 Michael Brückner & Guests
