EKSS

News!

081212>> New tracks at my myspace-profile!
080522>> Free download of the lost tapes at unityunion.com/ekss
080503>> Added the track Spezialindikator to the player!
080316>> Added my latest tunes, 5 new tracks, ina dub-a'la-EKSS-style. Check 'em out in the player!
080311>> Added the track Pentaquark a few weeks ago and today the track Arabis had premieré at the SlideOpen-player! Check em out!
080127>> South of the Border, all three cuts, where played at Jah Massive dub event outside Uppsala yesterday with great response! Bless i and i for this appreciation! See a video down below. I'm now contracted to make a special tune for the Dub Tribulation Soundsystem event 1th of Mars. Keep looking back for a trigversion!
070925>> Kernkrach/Hertz release HERZ020 are now readdy to be shipped! Check out www.kernkrach.de
070922>> Those dub tunes where played at this dub event, check out the link. Warrior style, heavy roots, irie!
070915>> Added some dub style tunes, ASAS, Unisys and South of the Border, check em out!

070810>> Addet two unfinished tracks to the media section, "070309b", an electro-experimental thing with dub-vibes. The track "070316" is in a more EKSS-fashioned style. Hope you like it! And if you do, keep on triggin!
070807>> Kinder aus Asbest track Kraftstoff are being pressed on Herz020, 2LP featuring various artists. The compilation are being released on Kernkrach/Herz. Limited to 500x and expected to be ready for sale at the end of september!
070803>> I've delivered some Liebesgrüsse aus Ost-Berlin to record shops Pet Sounds (Skånegatan, STHLM) and Sound Pollution (Stora Nygatan, STHLM). If you want one, hurry! Don't visit Stockholm very often? Send me a message and we'll find a way for you to get a copie!
070711>> Added a finished but unnamed track by Antiseptic Illusion, (Erik and Niklas). And another newly started and still unfinished track from EKSS, listen and trig if you like!
070626>> I've added an unfinished track to the player, listen and trig if you like. I will upload the final version as soon it's completed. I've also added a couple of old Kinder aus Asbest-tracks!
070626>> Kinder aus Asbest recently appeard at the Kernkrach-special of Minimal-Electronik Plus, listend to the program here.
070508>> I was recently invited to release tracks on a german vinyl-label, more info soon!
070307>> Lots of new tracks in the media section! -Don't forget to trig them if you like them!

Some history:
In 2001 Erik bought himself some synth equipment and started to record tracks on a tascam 4-track recorder. The sound could be described as noisy sound-experiments and improvised instrumental tracks with added electric organ and guitarr. A bit later he discovered the power of using the computer for music making. The sound turned to videogame/chip style with a twist of synthpop. Still instrumental. The name was in the beginning just "Erik", and after a while a diy CD was released under the name of "EKSS".

The project ended with a bunch of diy CDs and two live performances. One in Gothenburg and an other one in Stockholm. In 2004 the experimentation of styles had developed in to a new project called "Kinder aus Asbest" wich were a minimal synth influensed thing. The name was taken from a track of the german group Eiskalte Engel.



Kinder aus Asbest released one self titled album and a single called "Elektronic". Now some words were introduced in the music,vocoder-stylee! Later on other voices where intruduced, -clips from an old sex education record from the 50s. You could hear them in the track "Seet Sex" on the same titled EP also containing the tracks "Desiree" (wich also includes samples from the same educational record), "Spiele von Berlin" and "ODE to Dax, U-Gen & Zao". Spiele von Berlin contains a sample from the opening of the olympic games in Germany 1936. The voice of Hitler. The conection between sports and evil is obvious! Just kidding, but Erik has in fact never been very kind of sports activities. It should be cleared that this track is not at all a hymn for Hitler or his philosophy.
The track ODE to Dax, U-Gen & Zao is on the other side a hymn, but to a group called
IKO'83 from Canada. In this one the sound is a reference to the sound of IKO.
There never came any more records from this project, but there are circulating some unreleased tracks at soulseek and other filesharing networks. So just keep your eyes open!
In the spring of 2006 Kinder aus Asbest appeard live in germany on the Neon-Welt festival with bands like Trans Active Nightzon and Weltklang. The Kinder aus Asbest-track called Hey Engel, from the self titled album, was later remixed by that very same Weltklang, who also added some vocals. The track appear on the 12" "Liebesgrüsse aus Ost-Berlin" from 2006, on the geman label Exil-System. The 12" also contained Weltklang - VEB Heimat -EKSS Remix, that's an acid'isch bubbeling version of the
27 year old cult track. Erik took up the EKSS-project in 2005 and started to experiment with the modern type of sound, a bit more dance oriented, after his discover of minimal techno and tech house. The track Another Day, wich is the only song that has been released as a promo, became a minor underground-hit of the club-people in Gothenburg.



There has been one more live apperance -with the two tracks from the 12", together with Weltklang at Sticky Fingers, Gothenburg in december 2006.

The EKSS-project is still awake, but is moving slowly. Lots of varius styles is blended and explored. Hopefully there will be a collection-CD of diffrent tracks and styles, out by the summer.

Kinder aus Asbest - Hey Engel - Weltklang Remix Video:

EKSS South of the Border played by Jah Massive Soundsystem