About Hensel 3000

My name is Frank Hensel. I grew up and still live in Gelsenkirchen, Germany (the so-called 'town of 1000 fires' then) in a typical Ruhrgebiet working class background. Coal-mines, coking plants, steel mills and chemical industry darkened the sky and the mind and thus I started to read science fiction extensively and listen to music intensively. Right from the start I fell utterly in love with space and time and travelling through it, and it still has a huge impact on my work. At the beginning of the 90's I found musicians good and patient enough for a big serious project: the trio called The Enemy Within. For the next two years we played all over Germany and were local heros in the Ruhrgebiet. We recorded a self produced album in 1993 called Pulp but due to famous 'musically differences' dissolved in 1994. I found the time to write two science fiction musicals: the rock musical The Libuda Conspiracy and Space Patrol (based on the German TV series from the 60's 'Raumpatrouille' - see my top friends). 'Too far out stories for the usual friend of musicals' and 'too expensive to produce' was the experts' opinion. Both never made it to the stage to day. Apart from some sound installations for museums and music for short films I composed and produced the music for the highly acclaimed CD-Rom 'Industrial Heritage Trail'. Under the name of hensel3000 I have thrown out 9 CDs of electronic music since then.

My new love is the MyOuterSpace project . For MyOuterSpace Vol. 1 I had the honour and privilege to record the track 'berliner schule' with one of my musical heroes, Harald Grosskopf, the legendary German drummer who played (among hundreds of others) on the Klaus Schulze 'Moondawn' album. You can download 'berliner schule' in much better sound quality than on this site on the MyOuterSpace website for free. http://www.myspace.com/myouterspace3000 or http://www.myouterspace.net

For MyOuterSpace Vol. 2 I had the honour and privilege to record the track 'Confetti check A ok' (based on the UFO episode of the same name) with Alan Davey on bass (Ex-Hawkwind, now with Gunslinger) and with the outstandingly gifted German female singer Gabi Bott on vocals. Be sure to hear more from her in the future here. Here you find the short version of 'Confetti check'. You can download the long version in much better sound quality on the MyOuterSpace website for free. http://www.myspace.com/myouterspace3000 or http://www.myouterspace.net

  STILL AVAILABLE

  BRAND NEW

click on the covers to download the albums

MyOuterSpace 3 coming soon..............

hensel 3000 discography

 dumarests traum (2000)

planet der gefahren (2001)

die schostakowitsch-mission (2002)

betaville (2002)

les vacances de m. hensel (2003)

der mann aus der zukunft (2003)

galactic love (2005)

mujuuryoku (2007)

elektrische sinfonie nr. 1 (2007)

'MyOuterSpace' Vol. 1 (2008) incl. the track 'berliner schule' with Harald Grosskopf

'MyOuterSpace' Vol. 2 (2008) incl. the track 'confetti check A ok' with Alan Davey

ASTEROID KILLER - STARCHASER (from MyOuterSpace vol 1)

http://www.asteroidkiller.com/

http://www.myspace.com/asteroidkiller

KAsteroid Killer has been around for a long time but it wasn't until the year 2005 the name could be heard for the first time. The early work of Asteroid Killer makes the foundation of what to expect in the future. Melodies, rythms and synthetic sounds is the trademarks and will always dominate the Asteroid Killer sound.

Formed in Brussels by 56k & RUR during the year 2003, who produced a first track, the "Finger Theme", for the Tommy Schools's first movie "Fingernapping", directed in the cinema school called "INRACI". Later, RUR has moved back to the belgian industrial town Charleroi, and 56k created his Netlabel, Dustshop Records (http://www. dustshop. be), and formed a more dubstep/abstract hip-hop-oriented project, "This One". Robot Comes to Me is influenced by New Wave, and especially Neue Deutsche Welle, Industrial, EBM, Tekno, Trance... and has released its 1st EP during the year 2005.When RUR met his love MKZ, they moved to France, in the city of Saint-Etienne. Their union formed "Sputnik23".

MKZ gives her voice to Robot Comes to Me. They are actually working on a next EP, containing songs like "Polysexual Android", and some cover ones.Robot Comes to me will play in Live Shows during the next year. They live in a lovely place under the stars, full of love, and surrounded by their robotic friends!

http://www.myspace.com/ellablame  

Ella Blame, currently living in southern Wisconsin, comes from a family of musicians and was already singing by the age of 3. Every day during her childhood, she heard music almost around the clock - symphonic, operatic, chamber and twelve-tone music, jazz of all styles, R&B, soul, funk, rock and pop. From the age of 6 to 17, Ella took courses in violin and was supposed to become a violin virtuoso. However, at the age of 17 she studied painting, earning a Master-of-Arts degree. Ella has an extremely wide vocal range that covers the entire baritone, tenor and alto ranges, and exceeds the upper limit of the soprano range.  With her vocal cords, she can produce sounds that many people consider having been generated by a synthesizer or by post-processing equipment. However, Ella can produce these sounds without using a microphone. Ella is collaborating with several electronic musicians and multi-instrumentalists from around the globe (USA, Canada, Japan, India, and Germany), especially Michael D. Temple and Shinji Imai a.k.a. "mode complex".

New CD - BITTER TEARS This new CD contains 11 tracks with a total playback time of 48:35 minutes and a 12-page booklet with all song lyrics. Click here to buy "Bitter Tears" from CD Baby! Now also offering digital downloads! Price - US$13.99

Ella Blame's music is also available on

Apple iTunes & Amazon

http://www.myspace.com/albabeat

I'm Gary Taylor, an Icelandic / English hybrid, based in Birmingham / Reykjavik, I started making music from an early age, inspired by the original music of the time, Punk, New Wave, Metal, Reggae, Electro, Pop, Disco, Funk, playing drums on cardboard boxes and tins writing lyrics and singing with friends in my parents Garage (we all wanted to make a break in to music scene even back then in the late 70's), from there on in I played on whatever Organ, Home keyboard, Piano, i could lay my hands on, always dreaming of Synthesizers and Studios and being rich and famous (Not the case now i may add), over some time i made music with my friends at home on simple old School Yamaha and Casio keyboards (you know the ones with a button for Drums and Fills), we also added taped recordings of cool phrases from Video Films of the day (yes it was the 80's and its called Sampling and Editing now), this was the start of my creative approach to music, i started DJ'ing around this period, Scratching, Mixing up Tapes and general madness on the Turntables which i still involve in my music from time to time.  Then came the 90's and i worked and played hard and bought myself my first Home Studio, i worked under the name of Solid Dawn and built up a good back catalogue of ideas and Demos all the time working harder on my DJ live set performances, this is where I really learnt what music was all about, People, Gatherings, inspiration, new technology, attitudes and different approaches to making music, for me yet another perfect building block ; ). When the Millennium crashed in i started teaching myself more and more musical skill, everything about the musical process I could possibly find out about, I also went back to college to learn more about Music Production and Engineering, now the time is right for people to hear my Music and Sounds, with the added confidence and mobility the Internet brings i've started my Alba Beat project up, you see a form of it here and now on Myspace.

So there we have some of my Musical Journeys in a nutshell, there really is so much much more to tell you, that said I'm sorry this Biog didn't last that long or not, I do hope you will enjoy my Musical creations here, and i will stay in touch as often as possible, prepared, Peace for now, Gary, Alba Beat x.

ALBA BEAT "From silence and then..." will be released Autumn 2008.

About ELECTRASET

Experimental Synth Music .. In the beginning back in early 80s.. Myself and best friend Patrick{who has since sadly passed away} Met mentor Jon Kerry who was teaching synth songwriting from using Roland sh101s sh09s string machines Korgs, yamahas drumatix drum machines etc which culminated in an eventual collaboration. Started off as Synth act Blue Vision/Warehouse and later for a short duration renamed Out of the Blue ; Jon Kerry {see Sunfish profile below this page } Patrick Walsh{RIP} and myself Roy PJ Mullin. Later formed Nimbus {mk1} with Steve Bonshor & Karen whiting and then based in Brighton/Hove. Both Steve [Bon]{see Screamingegos profile below this page} and Karen had previously worked with other bands {see kazbahs profile below this page] Nimbus mk1 the second incarnation of Nimbus was carried on for a while in a more punk /new wave style by Steve and Karen with a new line up {though i did some synth work on a couple of tracks} i had since returned to Nottingham to live.Worked on various other projects Revolva which was a project including a guest vocalist resulting in a one off cover version of Depeche Modes puppets and another project Siochanta{meaning peaceful, in Gaelic}vocals and words and initial tune by Maggie Walsh & Blue Savannah with myself contributing with keyboards/synths & Fead'og { Irish penny whistle/flute} . A song written for Clic Sargent charity{ A charity for children with cancer} which has an ethereal celtic feel to it, and a style that i hope to re visit in the future. Also worked on one off Grantham town fc Grantham anthems football cd with Bon { who was the main writer behind the project} and Karen and others .The cd was made available for purchase with most of the proceeds going to the football club. Electraset has since come to being.Myself Steve and Karen have finalised work on a new mini album entitled Terminus. Two tracks ''Thought of you and Sometimes love from the album includes some production work on these two tracks by ex Warehouse bandmate Jon Kerry {Sunfish} ,and finally recorded/engineered in Nottingham, at Psyrex soundlab. As well as having put together our {Electrazone} ELECTRAPARADE unsigned Electronic bands cd and we have been busy promoting it. This is a compilation of unsigned electro acts, featuring Martin Degville, Electroflex, Starbase 109, Alien 6, Hypernova, One Moment, Neuvogue, Payola Disco, Synthface, Silver Factory Superstars, Silent Age and ourselves.

We are pleased to announce we have obtained a download deal through The Family Records for The ELECTRAPARADE CD which is NOW AVAILABLE FOR DOWNLOAD ON JUNO!!!!

TRANS CONTINENTAL ELECTRONICA Trans continental Electronica {the second and final compilation album] is available through the Family records and is now available to download on Beatport by clicking this link -  TRANS CONTINENTAL ELECTRONICA

Our Terminus mini album will also be available there in the Autumn.

TRANSCONTINENTAL IS ALSO AVAILABLE TO BUY DIRECT FOR ONLY £10.99

 We would like to thank all bands on the cd for their contribution and to Nige Chandler{see noizynige profile above} and Danny King{see eightyone synth profile above} for their assistance/contribution to the cd. A new Electraset song we finalised at Psyrex soundlab studio Nottingham titled Sun and the Rainfall {one day}, a retrospective / reflectiive track with an intended 80s sound to it , has now been uploaded onto this site. We are working on further new tracks at present.

ELECTRAZONRE TRANS CONTINENTAL LAUNCH PARTY AT JUNKTION 7 NOTTINGHAM. HEADLINING BAND ARE MARLOW WITH SUPPORT FROM ELECTRASET AND ONE MOMENT, PLUS CLASSIC SYNTH /ELECTRO DJ SET INBETWEEN FROM NSJ SEE BLOG FOR MORE DETAILS .Hope you enjoy the songs on this site!! . View electraset

at The Electrogarden Music Network

the new 7 TRACK EP BY 'THE TRUTH ABOUT FRANK'
is now available.
A Briefcase Full Of Suspicion.

Featured tracks are as follows:
1-Muri Desu Yo Sonzai.
2-Each Time.
3-You've Grown Insanity Hooks (Root Canal).
4-First Ask Charming Rat.
5-Glass Hour Siren.
6-Asimienta.
7-Feeding The Demons.

".....an offbeat soundtrack to some dystopian nightmare." bluesbunny.com
http://www.bluesbunny.com

the price is £5 inc P+P in the uk. Contact via Myspace - http://www.myspace.com/truthabout frank

About Machine Boy ::

Machine Boy have been creating electronic music for a number of years, Machine Boy music has been
used by various tv & production companies including BBC, Chan 4 & 5, Central/Carlton, Chilli Media, Black Diamond & in the USA by the likes of MTV.

Machine Boys albums are now available to buy at ITUNES. The ep called DEPRESSION EP thru Incubator Records Includes the huge lyrical/vocal talent of USA Seattle based poet/artist Lorian Elbert (RIP), giving the Machine Boy sound a whole new dark (surreal) edge.

The story goes on seeing one of Lorians poem books Machine Boy knew these words would work perfectly with his soundscapes. Kind words & airplay from DJ legend/icon John Peel (RIP)...god how much do we miss Johns shows ! ;-( more recently airplay for Machine Boys 'Action Figures' from the likes of top radio one jock Huw Stephens and airplay, positive vibes from BB6music's Tom Robinson plus continued support from Gill Mills TOP podcast iCast and Machine Boy being included in BBC Radio One's TOP unsigned podcast have all helped build the Machine Boy fanbase.

Machine Boy also create animated video's to promote his music, the first being a video for the track 'Depression' and the video instantly picked up airplay on the mighty MTV, more recent animated promo's such as 'Action Figures' have also been given airplay from MTV2 in various programmes such as '120 minutes' etc. Serious airplay from tv, including MTV Real World, Road Rules and various extreme sports programs/films has only made the whole Machine Boy project more mouthwatering.

Machine Boy have also been doing work with producer/writer Ian Wallman (B15 Project) and a song for the 'more sonic adventures...' album has been co-written with Ian, titled 'Despair'.  The full album is now available and goes again (as the ep) under the name of 'Machine Boy featuring Lorian Elbert' and has the full title of MORE SONIC ADVENTURES FROM MACHINE BOY FEATURING LORIAN ELBERT.

Machine Boy's latest releases are all now available again from iTunes, incl. the album BUILDING A BETTER BOY plus the ACTION FIGURES single and the very latest single release BUILDING A BETTER BOY.

GIVING FOR THE CALL - I NEVER WANT TO GO

http://www.myspace.com/givingforthecall

More than ten years ago, walking in the school's courtyard with my friend Riccardo, I began to talk about some songs of Heaven 17 : "train of love in motion", "let me go" and "trouble". Riccardo talked to me about Erasure ("sometimes"; "stop"; "drama") and Depeche Mode ("photographic"; "blasphemous rumours" and many more). We had same musical taste, interests (tennis, soccer, science fiction ) and hated the same matters (matematics and physics). One day, during the interval, we decided to create a group, trying to emulate bands like Depeche Mode and Erasure. Unfortunately we did not have suitable instruments, except a BONTEMPI organ (that still have!) and an acoustic guitar: not ideal in order to compose music electronic... Thus we went to buy a cheap KAWAY keyboard and 2 used Roland synthesizers: D50 (marvelous) and JX-8P (a dinosaur, in our opinion). After some months we took a nice GEM S3 Turbo, a KAWAY KC-10 Spectra and an arranger (GEM WK 2). We recorded music into a FOSTEX X-26 multitracker. We had the essential in order to begin. The band assumed various names: I can remember "Emotional detachment", "Style of music" and "Winter's heart" . We had a great enthusiasm: obviously, we dedicated more time to music then to study. We made some concerts for our friends and realised some demo-tapes (gone lost by now ). Unfortunately, as often happens, reality upsets the plans... We chose different University and, after a long pause, we broke in 1998. Some years later, I decided to buy new machines (a microkorg and a KORG Electribe R mkII) to play again. This solo project was only a short parenthesis. When I met again Riccardo, we formed a new band and bought some used synthesizers (NOVATION Nova II, KORG M3, KORG MS2000, WALDORF Micro Q, YAMAHA CS1X), another dear D50 and 2 ROLAND drum machines (MC 303 & D2). With a new name ("Giving For The Call", taken from the language of Stock exchange), in september 2005 we started working on a new musical project. In 2007 we began to change composition method, passing gradually to Vst instruments. Currently we're trying to find the right way between new technologies and tradition of melodic synthpop. --- Written by Maurizio

CLING - GROOVYSHOES (Instrumental)

http://www.clingmusic.co.uk

http://www.myspace.com/sonicspells