
by don campau

Above, his electronic release with M. Nomized ( from France) and Mr. Moto ( Matthias Lang from Germany).
Below, his more punk side with his group, Die Traktor. All of it is good stuff.

The early experience of
Carsten Olbrich (artist, Ebu's Music label, Die Traktor, many other bands and projects)
Well, I as a spiritual thinking and feeling man know that I learned my
synesthesia in a kind of non-material dimension, where music and
expression are much more intelligent and in a greater and easier
complexity to realize (like if you are inside of a three-dimensional
videoclip for example). This is my main influence.
However, here on earth I had to use a cheap cassette-recorder in the
late 70 's which I switched a bit too loud during a test-recording: A
weird feedback-sound came on this tape, which suggested me that this
could be the beginning of an own release.
A few years later I got in touch with a tape by Harald Sack Ziegler
called "Hoerbares Aufstossen" on which you could hear only burps, which
was quite fun :-)
A further few years later I got in touch with Frank Milautzcki, who is
now a really great poet, and who ran to that time an underground
mailorder with such bands like "Die Welttraumforscher", "Dajat Inya" or
"City Of Worms".
With their paintings, stories and illustrations I discovered a real
alternative music-scene, much more alternative than Punk, Wave,
Independent and later LoFi or Gothic with their "usual" commercial ways
of marketing and distribution. The listener of this "Real Underground"
had not to react to impulses which were given from outside. the listener
had to discover the
personality of individualists and the images, arts, works they created.
I believe, that this different kind of taking notice is much more
natural. That's why I felt good with it and why also I wanted to take
part (even if I didn't know, that I was quite late in the late 80's).
And so I took part, with my label
www.ebusmusic.com and with own releases from Wild Roses, Always Welcome, Schmertz der Welten, Mr. Ebu, Herr Ebu andwith my bands Top Of Pyramid, Die Traktor and die Hacke Peters. We released on tape, CD, vinyl, CDr and again tape. I traded and collected around 1500 tapes from other musicians (and digitalized them all - even if I'm only 40 years old now).