God on the Ladder

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the tracks

side A

• 01. for past & for present - instr ... 2.15
• 02. convinced - feat. karmen arco ... 6.48
• 03. my life as a refrigerator - instr ... 3.12
• 04. where? ... 8.02
• 05. in the meantime... ... 2.50
• 06. the re-in-car-nation ... 7.26
• 07. sweetheart - feat. things with wings ... 5.12
• 08. servants of TIME ... 7.01
• 09. my stranger - feat. oli rihs ... 4.16

side B

• 10. emotional REVOLUTION - feat. karmen arco ... 6.42
• 11. don't stop the hindrances ... 6.53
• 12. selfpity ... 4.08
• 13. like a fool ... 5.52
• 14. neighbours ... 4.29
• 15. wurzeltod - instr ... 6.36
• 16. no more HEROES - feat. karmen arco ... 6.47
• 17. information overflow ... 4.11

bonus tracks

• 18. where? instrumental - instr ... 8.03

hi, dies ist meine zweite Song-Collection von 1997...

the credits

the louder you scream, the more you can keep the demons away...

all songs written and performed by t-ache, except "convinced", "revolution" and "heroes" sung by karmen arco. lyrics on "sweetheart" written and sung by "things with wings" (steffi, esther and debbie) hommage kylie minogue. vox and lyrics on "my stranger" by oli rihs. samples: "convinced"-beat: brian eno. "past & present" and "heroes"-beat: us3. "information"-beat: monk & canatella, noises, frogs and the wonderful sea are from thailand recorded by dictaphone. git-samples auf "wurzeltod" vom gleichnamigen film performed by markus gringer & band. dank an die stauffi, alex, stephan und speziell linda-oli für den "goldenen reiter". also available mc's: "first exercises" 60min, 1990, "ricard" (filmsoundtrack) 90min, 1996, soon coming: "instrumentals"

the cover

front side fold out with tracks and info.

back side fold out with lyrics.

god on the ladder tracks side A.

god on the ladder tracks side B.

god on the ladder illustration: t-ache

my FRIENDS CALL me NILPFERD :

Der falsche Gott auf der Leiter.
Der Richtige guckt nicht heiter.

Versteckt sich hinterm Blätterdach.
Der oben macht gar grossen Krach.

Während Hero aus dem Westen Wild,
zieht die Knarre ganz geschwind.

Denn er möchte so gern auf die Leiter.
Doch eine Sprosse fehlt, er kann nicht weiter... ;)

Hi, dies ist ein Testimonial

tek info

as the technical gear changed, my way of composing songs changed also. after FIRST EXERCISES in 1990 i still programmed my KORG M1 WORKSTATION for the drum and bass parts - at least in the beginning. but the sound-quality got much better when i started using my new-bought second-hand fostex 8-track-tape-machine because i didn't need to ping-pong-copy the individual tracks anymore.

track 1 and 2 were usually reserved for the left and right output of the Korg M1, which were mostly the drum- and bass-parts. after that i still had 6 tracks which i could fill up with keyboards, guitars, voices and noises. great! :) here you can see a coloured example of a tracksetting list.

although i liked the drums from the M1 a lot, i took the chance to purchase a used Roland R8 Drum Machine from a friend, by the end of 1990. it gave me more possibilities and i could use the M1 to play actually synth-sounds... you can hear the R8 on cold, neighbours and don't stop the hindrances... and on many more. especially the glattsoundtrack and in der tat's die zeugen.

Hi, dies ist ein Testimonial

From 1991 on i had an 8-Track-Tape-Machine: the Fostex M80

juno 106

beside my korg M1 i also had a Roland Juno 106 synthesizer, which, as a slave, was synced per MIDI to the korg M1, which was the master. the juno once got stolen from our band-room, but fortunately i could find the same one for the same used price again. the last song to be programmed on the M1 was probably selfpity in 1993.

My beloved slave Juno.

in 1994 i was able to buy my first MAC and from then on i controlled the midi via the music-software Cubase. but my computer was not fast enough to handle real-time recording yet. that was still done on tape.

the first sampler was a second-hand AKAI S700, which used floppy-discs for sound-storage. you can hear it on servants of time, selfpity and the glattsoundtrack among others. since the soundstorage was so awfully slow, i invested some money into a new sampler by 1994: the ENSONIQ ASR10. it is very dominant in tracks like no more heroes, and on all of the ricard-stuff. but soundstorage was still a huge problem and my newly bought external hard-drive Kronauer SyQuest soon kacked off.

i also invested in a yamaha midi-controlled mixing-desk some years later. but soon some channels began to crackle, so i returned to my pure analogue mixing-desk which was a hassle too but it sounded better and it was more reliable. i used the yamaha mixing-desk-automation extensively on where?. you might ask yourself why this release has such a weird title. it's explained here and here. besides: i like weird titles! :)