Febuary 26th, 2008: Octoplex
The rvl has created a new track. A beta version of Octoplex can be heard in the latest Compiling a Network mix (v7) at:
http://feeds.feedburner.com/compilinganetwork?format=html
The mix is made by Dee3 and available for download in various formats plus track listing. You should also listen to the first six installments of this excellent series of mixes.
December 30th, 2007: rogervanlunteren.com re-launched
Yes, rvl's homepage comes to you with an enhanced look & feel. All sections have been completely overhauled and were cleaned up for better overview and navigation.
It has been a little quiet from Roger's side in the last years due to personal reasons, but he got back to producing tunes and screening old material (of which some may become available online i.e. live recordings from the scrollers, Tonkammer A and other solo live gigs).
The audio section now features mp3 formats @ 128Kbps VBR. Downloadable, free, collect them all.
Also Roger now has an official profile on myspace.com, which is another possibility of getting in contact.
We hope you enjoy the new page as much as we do, and drop us a line if you have something on your mind. We wish you all the best for 2008.
September 2006: Andrew Duke 'Consumer vs. User' Remix Contest
Roger took part in the Andrew Duke (Canadian artist and sound designer) remix contest. The track to be remixed is 'Buy First Second Free' taken off Duke's new album 'Consumer vs. User' released on Phthalo from California. The original version is available for download here. More than 100 submissions were sent from well-known and unknown artist around the globe. The best mixes will be rewarded with some software prizes, besides the mixes being released on stratagem-musik.
The contest was supported by ableton, m-audio, audiomulch, fxpansion, computer music, native instruments and remix magazine. Winners to announced mid September.
Update: Unfortunately rvl didn't not win the first prize in the remix contest. It seems he didn't even make it into the hottest selection of contestants ;-) However, rvl's remix may soon be available in the audio section, you can grab it from there then.
October 2005: Two RVL tracks on tinah # 6 compilation
Two Roger van Lunteren tracks appear on the art CD-ROM 'This Is Not A Homepage (tinah) # 6. The topic of this edition is 'Signal'. Roger's tracks are built from samples of traffic light sounds. Track 1: Original Traffic 707. Track 2: barRa. The CD is limited to an edition of 100 and can be ordered through thisisnotahomepage.com.
May
2004: Miss Kittin miss-taken
A careful listener has kindly informed Heimelektro Ulm that Roger's track 'Rainy Autumn Sunrise' is featured on Miss Kittin's 2003 compilation 'Radio Caroline' (Mental Groove Records). Artist and track are mislabeled as T-H-D: Hippies In Da House. The mix-up must have occurred because both artists were featured on the same side of the Vanilla EP. So the correct listing for the Radio Caroline compilation should be:
Track 17 - Roger van Lunteren: Rainy Autumn Sunrise
The discography has been updated.
January
2004: Roger van Lunteren to appear on two compilation CDs
The RVL is back. His track 'Red' is to be released exclusively on French compilation WTM Remission 3 A Non-Contingent Reward Experiment through HTz Records (catalogue number HTz 005). It is planned for February and will be limited to 800 copies.
The next one will be 'Coinc', again exclusive, coming out via American label Bluebell Records on the sampler 'hear you soon : part 2'. Hopefully it will be available in the first half of this year. Part 1 should be out this month.
June 2003: September 2003 tour
theScrollers will be on tour from 15 September to 28 September. The route is planned from the South to the North, starting in Konstanz and ending in Hamburg.
Confirmed Dates so far:
- 15 September 2003, Konstanz: Relaxed Clubbing (Special Guest: DJ Bernd Karner)
- 16 September 2003, Bern: WellenSitten@Radio Rabe
- 18 September 2003, Stuttgart: Für Flüssigkeiten und Schwingungen
- 19 September 2003, Ulm: Salon Hansen
- 23 September 2003, Cologne: Kulturbunker Mülheim (Special Guest: Olaf Dettinger/Kompakt)
- 24 September 2003, Berlin: RandomX@Heeresbaeckerei (Solo-Gigs)
- 25 September 2003, Berlin: Ausland
- 26 September 2003, Hamburg: Hörbar
- 27 September 2003, Hamburg: Astra-Stube (Solo-Gigs)
More dates, exact line-ups and performances to be confirmed here soon. If you're interested in booking the Scrollers, please mail to booking.
March 2003:
Back catalogue items available again
Most of Roger's records can now be ordered again, by contacting Roger directly.
February 2003: theScrollers seeking label
rvl and gro are sending out promotional copies of the gig at soupculture (see news of 21 June 2002) available for release. The package contains a CD with selections from the three hours recorded as well as info on the event and the artists. More parts or even the whole recording can be requested as well. Should you work at a label or be a label owner yourself and you are interested in releasing some ambient experimental sound scapes, send us an e-mail and we will send you the package in the most convenient way (mail, ftp, etc.). More details of the event can be found in this Word document (German & English).
January 2003: Coinc
RVL will appear on the compilation CD 'Hear you soon' (US label Blue Bell Records) with an exclusive track called 'Coinc'. Release date unknown but believed to be late Spring 2003.
16 November 2002: Live Date
Roger will perform in Hamburg again at the club 'Astra-Stube' doing DJ sets before and after his laptop concert. Be there.
14 September 2002: Church organ
Roger was asked to play a tune on the church organ as part of the wedding ceremony of Markus Gromann and Katinka Dermietzel. He will perform a short piece called 'wasserVariation' (adapted from the track 'watery' on 'tmæins').
5 September 2002: Roger van Lunteren & Markus Gromann at
'the Spletizizerz'
Roger and Markus played a 40 minute gig (as a testrun for sound and camera crew) with their usual set up at Tillmann Roth's diploma event called 'the spletizizerz'.
'the spletizizerz' gathers several artists who will perform together in various ways in audio & video. The artists are provided with source audio material (free to use it or not) from the archives of motion picture sound designers Alan Splet and Ann Kroeber. Alan Splet was Lynch's sound designer for all of his films from the Grandmother through Blue Velvet. He was considered by many to have been the world's greatest motion picture sound designer. He died of cancer in 1995.
All performances will be filmed and recorded intensively for later use on the final documenting DVD. Roger & Markus' gig is planned to appear as a 'bonus track' on the DVD ('the making of' or something).
Featured artists are Ticklish, SolarX, F.M. Einheit and others. For a full list and more detailed information please visit www.spletizizerz.net.
21 June 2002: theScrollers live at the soup
Roger and Markus Gromann played at Soupculture, a new and temporary club in cologne centre (already closed again). The venue was part of an exhibition centre built in the 60'ies. Roger and Markus were situated in the cinema theatre room, where they played a quadraphonic sound plus utilization of the loud speakers built into the theatre ceiling.
They played about three hours, using powerbooks and microphones (partially used by some people in the audience).
rvl vs. gro
Roger is playing a live gig in Berlin on Fri 17 May 2002, together with his friend and colleague Markus Gromann. This special event, a battle between Roger and Markus, will be hosted by the underground club "HI-FI". Armed with PowerBooks and their favourite samples, rvl and gro will be creating their sounds and scapes spontaneously. Later the battle is to be continued at the decks.
The whole event is accompanied by an exhibition of art works by Katinka Dermietzel. The exhibition runs from Fri 17th through Tue 21st.
Venue address:
HI-FI | Chausseestrasse 22 | 10115 Berlin
A week before the Berlin gig, on Friday 10 May, the two hit the decks in Cologne (DJ set only).
February 2002: 'n-2097' on CODEX 3
'n-2097' (from the CCO 'Cashier Escape Route' CD) is featured on the CD 'Codex 3', third in a series of multimedia and digital arts CD-ROMs. The track is used in the MOODSTATS application created by Denmark's designer team Toke Nygaard and M. Schmid of k10k.net. The application enables you to keep track of your mental and emotional states over any period of time and allows you to share and compare your statistics with other users via moodstats.com.
The CD-ROM, which is part of a 56 page four color book, can be ordered through codexseries.com.
January
2002: RVL & Heimelektro Ulm
Roger visited the Heimelektro-Ulm office in Munich to discuss his new album, scheduled for release later this year. A number of tracks have been chosen, but nothing definitive yet. The album will be produced by a sub-label of Heimelektro that has not yet been named.
The label is to feature solely recordings that have been made with an old 70's studio standard tape machine which Heimelektro boss Bernd Karner bought especially for this label. The contents of the tape will be mastered directly at the pressing plant. However, no digital signal processing, the recording and mastering techniques are absolutely analog.
As usual the favourite format is vinyl, though a CD Version is also planned.
September
2001: Sound design for game
Roger has designed the sounds to an online game for national German television station ZDF. The background music is provided by Delos. To play the game, access the host link or the game link directly (Shockwave required).
July 2001: Spex & de:bug
Respected German magazines 'spex' and 'de:bug' both feature Roger van Lunteren interviews in their July issues.
June 2001:
various
Roger's live performance in Hamburg was enthusiastically received by the crowd. The live set will follow on the audio page.
The media section has opened which is where you can find Roger van Lunteren press articles.
Out now: tmæins re-releases.
Out 9 April 2001: disord / prek 7'' (Strictly
limited 300 copies clear vinyl!)
Tracks: a. disord, b. prek. (Unlimited black vinyl bonus 7" will be available with the tmæins vinyl re-release). Label: Heimelektro Ulm. The single was chosen Single Of The Week by Pelicanneck Records Manchester.
Scheduled for release 11 June 2001 on Heimelektro
Ulm:
tmæins vinyl re-release, this time
including bonus 7" single (same tracks as transparent 7").
tmæins CD-version, 4 color digipack,
featuring the full length version of 'float' (37:41 min.)!
Details of all the above can be found in
the discog section.
Gigs confirmed:
2 June 2001, Hamburg, Astra Stube (DJ set)
3 June 2001, Hamburg, Golden Pudel Club
(live set!)
Scheduled for release in
2002: Compilation 'RMX'
Using traffic light sounds. Label: Grundrauschen, Berlin. Roger van Lunteren track: 'barRa'.
April 2001: 'n-2097' on multimedia CD-ROM
The track 'n-2097' from City Centre Offices compilation CD 'Cashier Escape Route' will also get a release on a multimedia CD-ROM called 'Codex Series 3 CD' by Codex.
Out January 2001: Vanilla 12"
This appears on Heimelektro-Ulm's new sub label 'duftplatten' ("fragrance records" - they actually smell!). This 12-inch compilation entitled 'Vanilla', containing tracks by Scarcubem, t-h-d and Roger van Lunteren ('Rainy Autumn Sunrise') is limited to 500 copies only. More non-smelling copies have been re-pressed. Rainy Autumn Sunrise is a remix of the same titled track recorded in 1994.
Out since November 2000: 'n-2097'
Roger's track 'n-2097' has been released on City Centre Offices (Berlin-Manchester based label). Roger's track features only on the CD of the compilation entitled Cashier Escape Route - a city centre offices compilation of modern supermarket music. Other artists featured on the compilation include To Rococo Rot, Pole and Arovane. 'n-2097' is a 1999 remix of the 1995 track 'M-2097' (unreleased) which will be available soon in the audio section.
Roger van Lunteren's 7" flexi-disc
The flexi featuring his track Suspect was released on 17 October 2000 by Heimelektro Ulm. Tracklist: Herrmann & Kleine: Kissing you at 120bpm (edit) | Roger van Lunteren: Suspect (short cut). Note that this flexi is limited to 1000. To find out where to purchase a copy, contact Heimelektro Ulm.
rvl working
on a project with Olaf Dettinger (Kompakt)
Samples have been recorded and work is in progress.
Heimelektro Ulm planning remix series
Entitled 'Heimelektro Ulm remixed Heimelektro Ulm' for which Roger has completed two remixes. Attention Industries' "Estertrack 9" now called "Ester water" and Dopamin's "Elektrochoko", now titled "lekker schoko". Format will probably be 12", release date unknown.
Heimelektro Ulm plan to
release Roger's tmæins
album on CD
The CD will be released as a digipack and will include the full length version of 'Float'. Furthermore, tmæins will be re-released on vinyl including a bonus 7" single with unreleased tracks from the tmæins session! Time frame: May 2001.
Remix contribution using traffic-light
sounds
Roger contributed to a remix compilation using traffic-light sounds for blind people. The project was initiated by Andreas Toelle, a Münster / Germany-based radio journalist and DJ. Planned to be released during 2002 as two albums; one dance-, the other ambient / electro(-nica) orientated.
October 2000: Heimelektro Ulm club nights
In October 2000 Roger DJ-ed at two Heimelektro Ulm club nights in Ulm and Munich. The first 100 visitors of each night received the limited edition Suspect 7" flexi-disc.