Casino Babel & A.R.K.
In the last one and a half decades of the previous century I produced a lot of pop and rock tunes in my 8-track recording studio with the help of some friends of mine. Casino Babel and A.R.K. were the names of those studio projects.
Casino Babel
It was a big challenge to produce music with a low budget 8-track tape recorder, an Atari personal computer,
an 8-Bit drumbox, a spring reverb and some cheap microphones. Nowadays it is so easy to produce a good sound,
at that time it was demanding great skill. But it was also great fun.
I mixed to a two-track tape, cut it and spliced the pieces together. Then we copied the master to dozens of
music cassettes because in the 80s and early 90s there were no low cost CD writers available.
- 1986: Smog In The Hourglass (MC: 11 tracks)
- 1987: Revel Without Squaws (MC: 12 tracks)
- 1988: Spoonful Of Clues (MC: 10 tracks)
- 1990: Shoot Until You Win (MC: 11 tracks)
- 1993: Shatterbox (MC: 16 tracks)
- 1997: Rhino Foreplays (CD: 12 tracks)
Casino Babel line-up:
- Karl Beck: bass, guitars, vocals
- Richard Bellinghausen: drums, percussion, vocals
- Roland Enders: guitars, keyboards, vocals, programming and mixing
On some songs we had the help of guest musicians and singers.
I am in the process of re-mastering the productions and they will all become available again as free downloads.
Audio samples
A.R.K.
When Richard Bellinghausen left the band Casino Babel disbanded and Karl Beck, Achim Susbauer and I founded the studio project A.R.K. We produced one CD called Endangered Species comprising 12 tracks - some originated as cooperations, others were solo projects which I recorded myself.