Until 1990 I basically had been an island, writing, recording and taping all the stuff by myself and never gave it to anyone to listen to.  As the gear I used became more and more professional (an Atari-ST with the "1st Track" sequencer by Geerdes running on it and the Casio CZ-1 as well as a Casio RZ-1 for the drums, I finally thought, I could "dare" to expose me to the world.  On the other side, the internal pressure had built up with my life being completely out of control for a few months, so there had to be some kind of (pressure-)release. It is hard to describe, but I was actually "forced" by a power stronger than my own will, to publish some demo-songs. In the small-ads-board at the university I was looking for musicians to cooperate with me and I saw the flyer by Karl Parchow, a drummer who had simple and cheap recording facilities. I phoned him, we got a deal which sounded reasonable and I had 3 weeks to get my stuff together. Frantic re-editing ...

Although I had been interested in making music, recording vocals and stuff, the first time I actually bought and used a musical device was this one. The Specdrum - this was a hardware addition for the ZX-Spectrum home computer that I had since 1985. My Specdrum was never as fancy as this one on the photo as the company in England that sent it to me (I had send them cash) obviously thought that for that bloody german, a used one without any packaging would be sufficiant. I could not complain legally, after all. Those were the times.  Here is a nice demo-video for the Specdrum Anyway I got it and immediately tried it and put it a away and forgot about it. I would like to recall that I had a plan, but I did not have one.  Then I heard "This Corrosion", I learned, that there are "Samplers" out there, and in one of our computer magazines they had a feature on midi-synthezisers. So I learned that Casio was serious, but there was no way I could afford a CZ-101 (that was f...