A Wedding Anniversary: A little story in history
Early 1988. The basement of a turn-of-the-century apartment building in Vienna's 17th district. A small recording studio. Two young men eager to experiment. One of them drumming to a sequencer he programmed before. The other picks up a guitar for the first time and produces what he is currently capable of: finely dosed noise. The voice is his actual tool. He always understood it as an instrument in the past and worked with it, alienated it and tortured it through currently affordable effect devices. This time, then, the guitar shall be the extended creative arm. Between rhythm and noise, the vocals, inspired by a quote out of "Musik-Box", probably the most influential radio show of the time in Austria: "Sex and paranoia control our world". Both have known each other for years, since their first tentive musical tries. This time they should open their horizons wider than ever before. To do so, they are looking for support. At first, they need a foundation. A befriended promoter recommends the bass player of the Viennese punk band "Instant Karma". Visiting her at the squat in "Turnergasse" shows that she already knows the singer as "the best voice in Vienna". Of course she joins in. Providence lets another musician meet the two in conversation. One who is actually only looking for a rehearsal room but, after listening to first layouts on tape, spontaneously offers himself as a guitarist...the rest is history
