I will be a jury member of the swiss Metal Battle 2010. This is the 5th time this contest will be held in switzerland and also the 5th time with me as a member of the jury. The jury already decided which bands will be playing in the first round which will take place between the 5th and 7th of march. Those will be:

05.03.2010 Uster, Rock City
06.03.2010 Olten, Provisorium 8
06.03.2010 Worblaufen, Downstairs
07.03.2010 Solothurn, Kofmehl

Unfortunately I’ll not be present during this round since I will spend some time in berlin. But I will be at the semifinals and of course the final round. I believe those will be again some amazing events. So you better be there!
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Just added a new track in the ‘music‘ section. It is the first track of the demo reel 2010.

I just finished a remix for Celldwellers ‘So Long Sentiment’ Remix Contest. You can listen to it right here

My courses at Berkleemusic startet about 2 weeks ago. So I am pretty busy with learning. But I can’t stop creating music… :-)

Well, for starters there is a project with Stefan Schroff going on. He played the bass when we were playing a tour with draven and he is an amazing guitar player. You might check out his solo album ‘Evolution‘. We both wrote some songs for draven which we took with us when we left the band. We felt these songs are worth to be recorded and we do it! I finished the synths and orchestral stuff some weeks ago and he will eventually record some guitars before those raw version will be sent out to the guest singers. I’ll tell you more about it when we start recording with them.

Further I am working on a remix for a remix contest of Celldweller. This I do just for fun. We’ll see how this will turn out.

And – as if I had not enough to do – I found the RPM Challenge. To attend to this challenge you are asked to create a full album of at least 35 minutes or 10 songs within the 28 days of february. Sound quite fun and a nice challenge. This would not be about high quality production and I probably will not create the next big thing within those 28 days. It’s just about getting it done! For fun and glory. I am thinking about taking this challenge.

That’s it for now…

Yesterday I found an article about SoundsOnline and EastWest giving away a small version of its Quantum Leap Symphonic Orchestra Library for free. There’s only one catch: You have to take a short survey.

I got my version and took a short look. Well, there are some useful instruments in the package but in the end it is nothing more than a promotional package. The instruments can be used in addition to some other libraries but don’t make too much sense alone. I think the best part of this give-away is the upgrade offer of EastWest. You can upgrade from the free version to the full versions with a discount.