How it all began
A DRINK WITH HURTS
BITAPART is a synthwave project which started in 2010 after having a drink with the band HURTS during their promotour for “Wonderful Life”. We talked about our favorite artists and the love for musicians from the 80s. Depeche Mode, Prince, Tears for Fears, Madonna and Michael Jackson were only a few of many artists we agreed on we liked. It wasn’t until then, that I realized what I was missing in today’s music: It was the Passion, Hope, Love and Heart from 80s music and film.
Finding a Sound
After having found a name for the project, I had to find a sound. I compared many synthesizers online and at the local music store but I was never satisfied. It had to be an instrument that inspired me on my musical journey. Then a friend sent me an article about a synthesizer from Teenage Engineering. Fortunately, I was one of the first lucky customers who could welcome the OP-1 to the studio.
The onboard 4-Track recorder, the intuitive and colorful interface as well as plenty of sounds were just the thing I needed for my first track “Driving You Home”. With a lot of inspiration and the help of my beloved new synthesizer, two of my tracks
(“Running Out Of Time” and “Shadow Warrior”) were featured on Rumble When Bumble #1 and #2, (a compilation series by the German label Noorden). “Running Out Of Time” was also featured on several synthwave mixtapes such as the Synthethix.FM Mixtape, and interviews on a few synthwave blogs would follow.
The Dream Of Working ON Film Soundtracks
After I released more tracks on Soundcloud I was asked by Martin Laurence (a very talented actor and filmmaker) if I would like to compose a song for a scene on the second episode to “Retaliation”.
This was a dream come true and I was happy to score the “office” scene (“Bad Day”) in which the main character was driving home from a stressful day in the office to his beloved wife. My work with Martin Laurence would continued on another short film called “I Lived Here”, which was nominated at the British Horror Film Festival 2016.
...and game music
It was a comment to a tweet about a game in development which got me on board of “8bit State”, the team behind the game Sirius Rising. Due to a huge workload at his job, the composer who was supposed to work on the soundtrack unfortunately had no time to work on the project anymore. As the game developer (artistname: Mazeon) liked my music, he asked me If I wanted to compose the soundtrack for Sirius Rising. This was another dream come true! Having played a lot of games in my child-hood and being a retrogaming fan, I gladly accepted. Sirius Rising is still in development. For more information and the current state of progress
An Almost Lost EP
After a while, I got contacted by an indielabel. They wanted to have five or six songs and would back them up with two to three remixes by other artists. So, I quickly finished another three songs to the already
existing ones and contacted them again. Unfortunately, they changed their mind and wanted to publish exclusive songs only. After this experience, I stopped uploading songs to social media and wanted to come back with an Album containing only exclusive songs. This was the reason why my EP never had a proper release.
It was only a few months ago I decided to upload the songs to my bandcamp page.
Muscle Memory
After having collected enough material for an album, I am finally ready to release my songs.
“Muscle Memory”, (a ten track album, including three “clean version” tracks of the original ones), has been released on Bandcamp, and will possibly be released on other platforms as well.