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1) Beat For Ikutaro (Tape 52)
2) Heizungskeller (Tape 66)
3) Floating Bottles (Tape 04)
4) Wavy RX (Tape 57)
5) Nachtspaziergang (Tape 40)
6) Film Drei (Tape 09)
Album out on June 25th, 2021
Most of the tracks on this album were recorded with a basic stereo (2-track) cassette recorder. The studio set-up looked more or less like this: a drum computer (no Midi) and a sequencer were connected to each other and synchronized rhythmically. I crafted melodic sequences and rhythms and usually transposed them to the desired pitch manually, using the keyboards. Other live instruments were played over the top. Then everything, the sum of all the sound sources, was put together in a kind of “live recording” with the aid of a mixing desk. Just a single mistake would mean having to start all over again. Reconfiguring many of the sounds once the controls had already been adjuste was a painstaking process. I ended up with heaps of cassettes, often featuring seemingly endless versions and variations of the same track. Demo Tapes 1984-86 by Heiko Maile includes a selection from his beginnings of electronic music and the bizarre sonic worlds he inhabited.
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Incredible good. Heiko is one of the very few people with a real talent. Spice Crackers 10 years before ;-)