At the end of the 80ies we equipped the Bazillus Workshop II better. All the Bazillus Hirschen equipment came down to the basement and in the back room we also installed the recording studio (24-track Tascam mixer) that we already had at the Hirschen. 
At that time Reinhard Birri and I were in the middle of the CD production "Expemporaneous" with Eddie Harris and others.
For the first time I saw how about the sample technique works. In this production, based on given basic beats, different musicians were invited to the Artag studio, one after the other and one by one.

The new concept:

When I had to close the "B-Flat I" at the end of 1989, I started again with sessions at the legal Bazillus workshop under the sub-label "B-Flat", with the difference that I told the musicians that we should try the sessions leaving out 1:1 cover versions, and if not to at least play a personal version. So from 1993-94 we started recording all the sessions. The musicians immediately understood that the concept was wide open. Musicians from all styles came to the club. Funk, Afro, rock, jazz, the first rappers, and synth sound and effects came into play, too.
So the musicians started playing without knowing what was going to happen. Drums, bass, keyboards or guitars were played by musicians, who tried to make music "on the one" so that it somehow made sense from the beginning. Later we edited and mixed the recordings and made "tunes" out of them. That's how this LP came into being under our own label at the time, "Bazillus-Records". For a short time Birri and I had set up a studio on Bremgartenstrasse. The room was later given to Birri's daughter Tanja Birri.

In the city some vinyl stores resurfaced. Hubi Horst's hip store "Discover Art", for example, was an important contact point and there was a lively exchange with Hubi there as well. Vinyl was on the rise again! So: that's why we made an LP and not a CD! The musicians involved did complain, because they had stowed away their record players in the cellar. Today again CD's are rather rare because the music is offered over Internet, but on the other hand Vinyl is having a comeback.

The disc is simply the a document of what happened at the beginning of the nineties in the B-Flat II.

LP 1994 Bazillus Records / © Bazillus Edition BZ 9402