2002- The End

there were several reasons why cymotec as a band ceased to exist. first and foremost the relationship with inception records didn't work well. in the beginning i felt very enthusiastic and flattered about "their" interest in my music but after a while only kidded and fed up with dishonesty and empty promises. consequently i stopped the collaboration.

i guess another reason was that i never felt 100% satisfied with my music and always doubted that it was ready to present to the public. i have never sent out any demos to labels except for one single track submission(see rosengarten) for a comp.

a lot of people didn't understand it back then and still get it today. i'm punk. for me personally the process of making music was and is always more important to me than the results. of course i'm proud of my music and love to rave about it like every musician does but when it comes to it i never had, have and will have the dream to become a fucking rockstar, have success with my music or even make a living off it. i don't need my music for the ego. it's part of my life but not the focus.

also the name cymotec itself had always this cyberpunk ring to it. this was ok when i started but the more the project grew the more i realized that the name doesn't mirror my music which isn't about technology or similar topics at all.

The Music

sterbensfreude

a song pro suicide. everybody should have the right to decide when it's time to go.

blutende stiefel

ironic track about oldschool ebm. the guitar is back. actually you could call this the first anarchstate track.

rosengarten

a song loosely inspired by the book i never promised you a rose garden by joanne greenberg. this is the only piece of music i ever sent to a label. i submitted rosengarten for one of the septic compilations from dependent. it was denied for being too overloaded/complex.

mythos

lyrics about some guy who was kidnapped by aliens and invented all religions and the wheel. my girlfriend met him at a trainstation once.

wirklichkeit

mainly driven by some surrealistic (but naive and cliched) lyrics i wrote in my teens. friends tend to believe i was stoned when i wrote them- i wasn't.

traumkind

instrumental track. inspired by the idea of all children of the world disappearing.

hoehlenkind

this one is about the pleasures and dangers of self- isolation. probably one of the most autobiographical i will ever write.

lebensweisheiten nummer eins & zwei

some may call it words of "wisdom"- others nonsense.

des teufels neue kleider

another instrumental track inspired by the used speech samples taken from polanksi's "ninth gate"