The audiotheft youth

Meanwhile the semi-professional homerecording programs where getting better and I had my own computer on which I started to collect my audioworks. I didn’t want to write god songs, I often just wanted to capture the moment and the world and friends around me. So I started to record the blabbering of my friends and all kind of interesting sounds. At the time I moved to Stuttgart to study design, I had collected so much “drunk party talk” vocal samples (funny stuff, sensless chitchat) from all kinds of friends that I decided to add them to short songs and create my first full album. Some weeks later I had a bunch of songs, that where sometimes more disturbing noise than what you call nice songs, kept togehter by funny samples from friends of my class back then. I had created my first album and once again captured an episode of my life for the future. When I listen to it now, I miss my old friends but I am glad that I kept them as audio remembrance!

I kept up that kind of work (recording friends, making little songs and putting them on an album) and became more progressive, more experimental and focused more on the songs than on just samples as you can hear on the latest albums (lesser friendstalk, more instrumentals, finer producing). The more I grew up, the more I mixed several different styles and genres together. I am very proud of my latest albums, they really are art to me and captured an essential time of my youth. When I started to make “real” music, by singing in an industrial-metal band (which was the only logical next step for an electronic artist loving to create strange sounds) I reduced my “amateur producing” work and focused on creating sounds and lyrics for my band. Sometimes I created music for homepages, art projects and friends (you can find that stuff here too!) but no more full length albums anymore.

Now that I am so much wiser and back again with my new project “Karma Kontrols Krysis” (you’ll find the link below) I wanted to share all those works of my early music days on this site. Would be a shame to let them rot in their cd cases! “And why Audiotheft youth?” you may ask. That’s simple: At the trashy 90ies, the dj’s had names like “Yves Deruyter” (did i spell it right? anyways…) and some other cool sounding fancy french names and since I didn’t have the selfconfidence to call me a real musician, I had to be a dj. But without the vinyls and discos, more a name in the spirit of “Dj Bobo” (was he a real Dj?). So I came up with the ridiculous name “Dj Laurent O’Brion” (now I know it’s all spelled wrong) – sounds like a french “Out of work pornstar” with ancestors from ireland! ^^ But hey, I was young and stupid, what can I do?!

Another thing: At that time I didn’t know about the thing called copyright and stole every sound and sample that I found for my music. So I added “…and the stolen beat collective” to my own fancy french artist name. Of course I used samples from “Musik Maker” and “eJay” as I of course had no own synth or any hardware. Now I know about the code of honur of real musicans and create every sound, loop and beat all by myself, but those were my “early works” ages of my youth, so I just took everything sounding cool to me (that’s why you can’t download the stuff, I don’t want to make money with this music or violate the copyright-laws even more (please no one sue me! I was young and stupid)) So that’s why “Audiotheft” and “Youth”.

But enough said, now go to the music section and enjoy the journey of my early days!

Yours truly, ARB in april 2008