Akanoid

AKANOID was born in the year 1999 by Hilton Theissen (also founder of the early 90`s metalband Dark Millennium and its following projects) and Uwe L黚bers, intended to be an alternative and "hungry for experimental styles" dance project. After very short time they were discovered by the underground label Insolation / Zoomia releasing three singles, two albums and a "best of" compilation within the following four years. All of these outputs were produced by own hand in their new founded ELEKTROFISH Studio. During this period of time Hilton and Uwe made a lot of experiences in creating synthetic sounds, engineering, remixing or having side projects and co-operation like Sphere (Insolation) and Spacefish (Spirit Zone). The concept of Akanoid continued and had its high point with the third album "Instant Summer". New ideas and the upcoming wish to get back to song-orientated structures with much more vocal features finally lead to a new contract with a new label named Echozone. "Cocktail Pop", the fourth long player, supported by two single EPs ("On Air Again" followed by "Usual Freak") was the result of this fresh cooperation heading for new strategies referring to marketing, promotional features and visualization, presenting a well developed style combining Electro Pop with 80s influences and Alternative / Indie Pop. A new live performance according to the new structured concept was requested and fullfilled by hiring Phil Weyer on the guitar and Dirk Meyer-Berhorn on drums. Due to personal reasons Uwe quit the band in autumn 2007 shortly before the De/Vision support tour and was replaced by Daggy Fischer for the synth job and also performing addotional backing vocals. This new band constellation kept playing several concert shows within the following year, found new partnerships with the booking agency WOD and the AMV Talpa Publishing company and had a third and exclusively online single EP release with "Nexx". In July 2008 the four went on tour with The Cr黿shadows promoting their new EP "100 Burning Guitars" giving a first more alternative-rock tasting impression of the forthcoming album "War Weed For God`s Dimension" to be released in spring 2009. Directly after the tour Daggy quit the band and was replaced by Gregor Matlok changing the old key-synth against a new guitar-synth technology. The working sessions on the new album continue until the end of autumn 2008. Extractions will be presented on upcoming shows like the Gothic.pl Festival in Warszaw and the Advanced Electronic Festival taking place at the Popkomm in Berlin.