Finally! You can now buy my music online!

While I am still working at my own shop, I found another way to distribute my music. That way is called Routenote. Routenote distributes my music (soon) via Amazon MP3, iTunes and emusic and their own distribution site Routenote Direct. And there you can allready buy the following albums:

XperiMental Reggae WorX (Remastered 2004)
Reggae? (2009)
Alion - The Original Soundtrack (2010)

Soo you will be also able to buy the album "Electronic Spacerock" (2010) there. The distribution via the MP3 portals mentioned above will take some time. I will inform you as soon as possible when this happens. Unfortunately I cannot distribute my other 3 albums "Early Xperiments in Dub", "This is not really Reggae" and "Excursions in Time & Space" with Routenote, because Routenote only accepts MP3s with a minimum quality of 192kbps and I don't have all songs of those albums in that quality and am, for various reasons, not able to re-render the tracks in the required quality. You can still order those albums directly from me. Just drop me a mail and we will find a way.

Now I am quite happy to have found that way of distribution and am waiting that you make me a rich man ;) And to do this, the best you can do is to visit my shop at Routenote by CLICKING HERE. Thanks for each purchase! It helps me to further produce music with full force.

New Project "alionsonny's Audio Arsenal"!

Yes, here is something really new for you, especially for the musicians amongst you who work in the field of digital audio production. Over the years, I did digital music production, I collected a huge collection of free VST Plugins and other free audio software. No, I don't talk about the illegal, virus infested stuff, but legal free software. Often I have benn asked by fellow musicians, to publish a list of all that free stuff with download URLs. I have done this various times on various forums, but now I found a way to make it all a lot easier. I created the Blog "alionsonny's Audio Arsenal" and will from now on post a presentation of at least one free VST or Audiotool per day. Today I started with the indispensable Triangle II VST Synthesizer Plugin. Simply visit the Blog, preferably on a daaily basis.

AlionLive Madeira Part 7 is online!

It probably took a bit of time and I don't want to explain the many reasons in detail. Put it this way: Some are screaming "Where is the alionmind shop?". the others, "Where is the new music of project XY?", and still others, "When you go on with AlionLive Madeira?" and so on, and so on... Friends! I can not and will not tear myself apart and I have really enough other stuff to do. So much for that;)
Now for the seventh part of AlionLive Madeira: This part is the first part, which is over 15 minutes long and in one piece. The whole could be divided into two parts, but with slightly more than 18 minutes it really made no sense. On this seventh day we actually had a cruise planned on a replica of the sailing ship Santa Maria and bought the tickets allready, but when we arrived at the dock, we learned that not enough passengers had gathered, so that the trip would not pay for the ship owners and so we had to do the trip on the next day. Not really a bad thing. So we have again used the day to relax and explore the center of Funchal, a little more, visited a nice park, saw cucumbers  on trees;), and had a good time with a good wine and good food. This is the video that has been filmed on that day:

News from Willma Poppen!

Yes, it has really happened. Some people thought this project was dead, others simply knew, that it is immortal. We are talking about Willma poppen a project of alionsonny and some friends who prefer to stay anonymous for good reasons. And it is those friends who are the reason why releases by this, by the way quite popular, project are quite rare. Those friends are not willing or unable to invest more of their most valued time into the project. But now it has happened once more: An elaborate (no, Sven, it is not ejaculate!) of the relentless force of consequently sweet Pop-Techno has come to the dull light of the world. And maybe, really maybe, the Willma poppen Project will also release an album, before the folks it consists of, who are without exception old farts who have a very unhealthy lifestyle, cease to exist. Well and here without any more words, the new song by Willma Poppen which is titled "Popp-Eye"

alionsonny - Ultimate Collection 2012

For the upcomming opening of the alionmind records Webshop, I am proud to announce a very special release: The alionsonny - Ultimate Collection 2012. What is that? It is a DVD containing the seven alionsonny music albums released so far at a special price. And that's not all: You will fin not only all covergraphics in high resolution on this DVD, but also 69 of the songs in uncompressed wave audio format. Most of the songs are in pristine 320 kbps MP3 quality. Here's in detail what you get if you purchase that DVD:

4,61 GB of music
A total of 91 Songs
69 songs in uncompressed wave audio format
71 songs in pristine 320 kbps MP3 quality
2 Songs in 192 kbps MP3
11 Songs in 128 kbps MP3
3 full sets of Covergraphics in high resolution
4 frontcovergraphis in 800 x 800 pixels resolution

And what's the price? 50 Euros or US-Dollar. Expensive? I don't think so. Usually an alionsonny musicalbum is 10 Euros/US-Dollar. You get 7 albums for the price of 5 here, plus wave audio versions of most of the songs, which you do not get usually. I think that's a bargain. As I said, the alionmind records Webshop will be online soon and of cause you will be able to buy the Ultimate Collection 2012 there too. If you don't want to wait, you can also right now pay the 50 Euros/US-Dollar to my payPal account (Mailaddress: alionsonny@alionsonny.com) or you can send a bank transfer to my bank account:

Juergen Wolther
Banking Institure: Hamburger Sparkasse
BIC: HASPDEHHXXX
IBAN: DE84200505501295408106

Best is if you write an email to me after sending the money, so I am able to know who you are and of cause I need your name and postal address to be able to send the DVD to you. By the way: You do NOT get a pressed DVD, but a self burned DVD-R. This is because it would be not suitable for such the small number of copies I expect to sell. Additionally there is some issues regarding to the GEMA which keep me from offering pressed DVDs. The covergraphics are not printed allready. You get them for printing them yourself on the DVD. I added the covergraphics below this posting.

So if you want the ultimate alionsonny music collection, oder now! If you still have questions, ask them in the comments of this blog, or send me an email.

AlionLive Madeira - Part 6 is online! (UPDATE: Complete!!!)

Yeah, today a lot of stuff is going on, here at the lions den. Just after I presented my latest music project TUBENWURST, part 6 A of AlionLive Madeira is online. Yeah, you got that right: Part 6 is again in fact 2 parts: Part 6-A and part 6-B, just like part 4. What is part 6 about? Surprise: A hike! This time to Monte, the highest point in Funchal. And the hike is also the longest so far. Have fun, and don't forget to ask for some TUBENWURST at your local supermarket. This video also features the first song of the TUBENWURST project!

Here's part 6-A:

and here's part 6-B:

Musically schizophrenia is FUN!

I warned you! Because of the perpetual moaning and groaning about my musical style escapades, I was forced to think about a solution and now I got it nailed. Huh? Don't worry: You will understand it soon enough .. or maybe not ;) Those who thought that Cimelium was already the end of the story about what could be achieved, and that from now on nothing particularly new would happen, will now be shocked: Here is TUBENWURST! Let me translate this to English: It means something like saussage out of a tube, like toothpaste. Tasty and not always agreeable, but Nutritious! Decades of work at the Alion Space Labs have created a marvel of musical spacefood, which sets new standards. A good mix of influences of electronic music from the recent decades, coupled with the confused mind of the Creator of TUBENWURST give a flavor of electronic sound art, which is appreciated only by true gourmets. YOU belong to? Just try it. The handy sample pack of TUBENWURST, can be enjoyed just at home, traveling, doing sports and games, or maybe at work. It provides energy, but also mental confusion in a matter of seconds.
WHAT IS THAT SHIT? Quite simple, my dear friends: I am talking about my latest music project. As I already mentioned several times, I am ,due to the fact that my sheer repertoire of various styles of music not only confuses people, but also makes some people angry, forced to split my artistic identity alionsonny into many. So far there are Willma Poppen known for merciless candy-pop-techno, Cimelium for the calm & spacy sounds and of cause still alionsonny for everything that is reggaelike. But what about the kind of music, for example, you find on the very popular album "Electronic Space Rock"? The demand for an album with music of this kind is certainly not just small and it is fun to me to mix influences from rock and pop music of the last 4-5 decades, with a dash of 80's feel and a good shot of crazyness and let the result do it's devastating job to the the synapses of my defenseless audience. Yesterday, I consumed 3 jugs of ultra strong coffee and then flew with my loved one through the warm spring air while enjoying some beers. I was looking for a music project title, under which I could publish my latest musical work. So we did what is called brainstorming and had probably hundreds or even thousands of fully stupid ideas, until we came up with one that was so profoundly stupid that we had to just love it: TUBENWURST!
Fine! Since you now know the fascinating history ... HAAAAALT! What did Sonny just say? New musical work? Yes, my dears: There is something new and it has what it takes. It is a work that is truly worthy of being the first song of the project TUBENWURST. There's an interesting story behind this: Imagine a raw electronic beat and Sonny sitting in front of his studio computer, heavily tired, because he gets up very early in the morning in solidarity with his girlfriend, who has to get up very early to work. And there he is now and has promised his audience to create a new song for each part of AlionLive Madeira. The raw beat on the screen ... thoughts and creativity do not seem to want to flow at all ... IDEA! A STRONG COFFEE! Said and done: Sonny made a coffee that was so strong that others would instantly get a heartattack from just a looking at it and drank it. And voila: The creativity machine started to work. The beat became a verse, arpeggios were building upon it, effects were softly placed like silk sheets over it... Crap! Not enough energy! One more coffee! Said and done: Another energy drink suitable for for elephants! Now the notes flew just like that of the vibrating skull into the computer. Yikes, almost finished! ANOTHER COFFEE? ALWAYS! Well, after this third pot of nuclear coffee I felt as if I was going to explode soon ... But suddenly the song was finished. And it also had a title allready, namely "3 Kannen Kaffee" (Three Pots Of Coffee). My girlfriend thinks it is good title, because that's how it sounds. I recommend not trying to dance to it, because cardiologists always look forward to new customers ;) And here, after all the words .. FINALLY! The project TUBENWURST, and it's first song "3 Kannen Kaffee"! A web site for the project is also coming soon!

3 Kannen Kaffee by TUBENWURST