In 1993 a new label, imbalance recordings, released a radical and beautiful ambient / drone CD, Steady State Music, created by Wieland Samolak.

Wieland Samolak used to work for the Munich branch of the legendary Synthesizer Studio Bonn. He was also the creative mind behind the even more legendary advertisments of the shop and wrote user manuals and translations for Emu Systems and Sequential Circuits. Robert Henke and Gerhard Behles first met at Wielands studio/appartment above the shop in 1988.

Imbalance recordings was a small label, it was the first release, and Wieland Samolak was not a known artist. The CD only sold a few hundred times.

However, more than ten years later this release is still worth listening to and we are very happy that due to Wielands generousity it is now available as a free download from the monolake website.

In his liner notes on the back of the original CD release, Wieland explains his intentions:

When I was a teenager I used to sit on an empty field listening for hours to the sounds of distant cars, railroads, helicopters, and other motorized objects. These sounds, which are very rough and noisy when they are near, attracted me from the distance because they had merged and diffused into a continuum when they reached my ears. By this experience it came to my mind that it is more satisfying for me to listen to continuous changes within one sound than to the combinations of discreet sonic events usually found in music.
Remembering that a few years ago I began to search for possibilites to create continuous sonic situations with controlled dramatic development that cannot be expressed in traditional terms of melody, harmony, and sound color. The five pieces collected on this compact disc are my first results.

W.S.

L I C E N C E _ T E R M S :

Things you can do with the free track:

- download it and listen to it
- copy it to any media you need in order to listen to it

Things we do not want you to do:

- do not upload to p2p servers
- do not distribute the track
- do not link the mp3 file directly
Everyone who wants it is invited to download it from this page.

If you disagree do not download!

Steady State Music, by Wieland Samolak, Imbalance Recordings 01, released 1993:

Steady State Music 1 (mp3) 11.04 min
Steady State Music 2 (mp3) 11.52 min
Steady State Music 3 (mp3) 09.49 min
Steady State Music 4 (mp3) 06.45 min
Steady State Music 5 (mp3) 08.58 min