Auf zum letzten Geflecht (live @ Radio Kanal K)
The song "auf zum letzten Geflecht" was played by Magnetfisch at the radio show Alternative Radiation 10/17/2005. The band were invited to play five of their newest songs by DJ Leo, a Swiss radioshow-producer and presenter broadcasting on radio LoRa, radio Kanal K and radio Rasa on 17.10.2005. It was their second appearance at his show.
The song is featured on the full length album "Body on the Left, Soul on the Right" (2009)
Synth Pop
Propangasmaschinerie
"Rarotonga" was recorded on 3./4. Nov. 2012 at Benj Stoll's studio in Bern (www.bstoll.ch). The four track EP is the band's eighth record to date.
Synth Pop
Brüllregen
roaring rain, 1999: probably Magnetfisch's most "gothic" song
Gothic Trip Hop
Slurmz (The Web and CXXXVI remix)
This completes "The Chexbres Trilogy Remixed EP". six feet above the ground...
Drum & Bass
ADNDADN (live @ Radio LoRa 2012)
this song is of 4 on the Magnetfisch EP Rarotonga 2012, and was played live at DJ Leo's radio show "alternative radiation" on Radio LoRa (Zurich, CH)
New Wave
der kleine Durchbruch
"Rarotonga" was recorded on 3./4. Nov. 2012 at Benj Stoll's studio in Bern (www.bstoll.ch). The four track EP is the band's eighth record to date.
Dream Pop
Hoppla!
This is the third song from our latest EP "Rarotonga" (2012), available here on IAC, as well as on http://magnetfisch.bandcamp.com/, iTunes and so on and on and on
Synth Pop
Glacenkampf
Glacenkampf: from Silence Fiction, our 2003 full length album
Synth Wave
Electrocker (radio edit)
Electrocker: The name says it all... (second radio edit on the album Silence Fiction, 2003)
Electro Dance Pop
Slurmz (live at Radio LoRa 2012)
This song from the 2011 EP "The Chexbres Trilogy" was played live at DJ Leo's radio show "alternative radiation" on Radio LoRa (Zurich, CH)
Indie Pop
Scheebr Garten (live at Radio LoRa 2012)
One of the 4 songs from the 2011 EP "The Chexbres Trilogy" and played live at DJ Leo's radio show "alternative radiation" on Radio LoRa (Zurich, CH)
New Wave
der Tortengraeber
an intriguing song from the 2001 full length album "Fruchtkönig"
Alternative Chill
der blaue Held
from the 2003 full length album "Silence Fiction"
Dream Pop
Musik mag Herbst
from The Early Years 1998?-?2000, best of early recordings by Magnetfisch
Synth Pop
Raumstift (radio edit)
dance in space (from our 2003 full length album Silence Fiction)
Dance Pop
Rolizel (The Web and CXXXVI Remix)
There is no secret for the secret police 8-)
Original song on the EP "The Early Years 1998-2000" by Magnetfisch
VIDEO
Synth Wave
ein Vorlaeufer (rehearsal room precursor)
an unpublished song of ours, 2004 or so.
Dream Pop
Futureighteen
a very early (1994) song on keyboards, as played on a festive event
Synth Pop
Funkstille (guitar and bass demo)
a rehearsal room demo recorded in 2004 by guitar & bass player
Euro Pop
Spacescape
quite an old synth demo song (1998 or so)
Ambient Trance
Citeyes
quite an old synthesizer demo (1994)
Synth Pop
Ex-On (blacksnow mix)
ex-on´s first version, aka "black snow", 1994
atmospheric
Tunnel (ghost train mix)
inspired by "Der Tunnel" by Swiss author Friedrich Dürrenmatt (1952): a train rushes into a tunnel, never to get out, accelerating... First demo for Tunnel, 1994
VIDEO
Dark Wave
le feu au lac (lamartine mix)
early synth demo 1994
album version recorded in spring 2001 (luce studios, Marco Liechti)
Synth Pop
le royaume de Chexbres (2008 voice demo)
early demo (2008) with singer and former band member Seline Kunz (Lena Fennell). The instrumental version was recorded for the 2011 EP "The Chexbres Trilogy" and remixed in 2012 by The Web & CXXXVI
Electro Pop
Averse Adverse
at times rain is a formidable adversary. synth demo, 1999 probably
Dance Electro
Friendzy
A friendly yet frenetic drum'n bass demo written 1998 or so
Drum & Bass
Abyss
a rather romantic song written in 1994
VIDEO
Psychedelic Pop Ballad
Basilea
synth song from 1999
They are all called Basilea:
-first queen of the legendary Kingdom of Atlantis in Ancient Greek folk tradition.
-Italian and Romansh name for Basel, a Swiss city
-2033 Basilea, a main-belt asteroid
Ambient Electronic Groove
Aquarium
synthie song from 1999
VIDEO
Synthpop
Zebra
synth track from 1999 or so
just like zebras, synthesizers do have distinctive black and white stripes
VIDEO
Electro Pop
Narrentanz
a synthesizer track from the magnetfisch middle ages (i.e. anno domini 1995)
Synth Wave
Flederlaus
songs without words, reduced to the max! this is the new Magnetfisch EP "Lieder Maximo", the Swiss instrumental band's 11th record to date.
Synth Pop
Dream Off (rehearsal room dream)
an unreleased Magnetfisch demo (2010 or so)
New wave
Skyscrape
an unreleased Magnetfisch demo (2009 or so)
New wave
Petit-peur
from the Magnetfisch EP "If you were a dinosaur, what kind of dinosaur would you be?" (10.7.2016, iMusiciandigital). Available on https://magnetfisch.bandcamp.com/album/if-you-were-a-dinosaur-what-kind-of-dinosaur-would-you-be and on iTunes etc. from 25.7.2016 on
VIDEO
New wave
O'tranto House
on the single "existing building" (released 28.1.2022)
available on iTunes, bandcamp, spotify etc.
VIDEO
New Wave
Hoppla! (rehearsal room demo)
this song shall be on our forthcoming EP which will be recorded early November 2012
Ambient Space Music
ADNDADN (live @ Carré Noir 2012)
this song will be one of 4 recorded for the forthcoming Magnetfisch EP November 2012
New Wave
Fruchtkoenig V1 (The Web and CXXXVI Remix)
an earlier, darker Version of the track Fruchtkönig (1998) by Magnetfisch, published on the EP "The Early Years 1998-2000". +SUISA+
http://itunes.apple.com/de/album/the-early-years-1998-2000/id412958413
electro pop
Scheebr Garten (The Web and CXXXVI remix)
Track number three for "The Chexbres Trilogy Remixed". Original track on Magnetfisch's EP "The Chexbres Trilogy", 2011, http://itunes.apple.com/us/album/the-chexbres-trilogy-ep/id449143447
You can listen to the original track here: Scheebr Garten by Magnetfisch
VIDEO
Atmosphearic Breaks
Contre la Crise (The Web and CXXXVI remix)
Music against the crisis - PUT ON YOUR HEADPHONES!... Second track for "The Chexbres Trilogy Remixed".
Drum & Bass
Le Royaume de Chexbres (The Web and CXXXVI Remix)
Welcome to the kingdom of wine!...First track for the EP "The Chexbres Trilogy Remixed" (2012, work in progress). Original track on Magnetfisch's EP "The Chexbres Trilogy", 2011
Ambient Trance
Le Royaume de Chexbres (rehearsal room demo)
song from the 2011 EP "The Chexbres Trilogy"
New Wave
Contre la Crise
A crisis can be for the better, be the motor for indispensable change. But it's also accompanied by hardships and thus can be paralyzing for us, leading to fear. Contre la Crise means "against Crisis" in French. Let's get over with it!
Electro Pop Rock
Contre la Crise (live @ Carré Noir 2012)
A crisis can be for the better, be the motor for indispensable change. But it's also accompanied by hardships and thus can be paralyzing for us, leading to fear. Contre la Crise means "against Crisis" in French. Let's get over with it!
Electro-Pop
Scheebr Garten
Song # 2 on the EP The Chexbres Trilogy
New Wave
Kadaviar (rehearsal room fragment)
Dark Wave
Anonymate (reharsal room excerpt)
an urban piece of pop recorded in our rehearsal room in 2002 (among the first rehearsals with our long-time bass player Rolf Althaus)
Urban Pop
Alizarine (live @ Radio RSR1)
Alizarine, as played live @ Radio RSR1, 16 september 2000
during the show "le kiosque à musique"
link men:
Valdo Sartori
Jean-Marc Richard
Dream Pop
Neinsaege (live at radio RSR1, 2000)
Neinsäge, as played live @ Radio RSR1, 16 september 2000
during the show "le kiosque à musique". The track is featured on full length album "Fruchtkönig" (2001)
link men:
Valdo Sartori
Jean-Marc Richard
Synth Pop
Schiefe Ebene (Studio Demo)
The studio demo for the song that was included into full length album Fruchtkönig 2001
Electro-Pop
Le Connaisseur (studio demo)
studio demo for the full length album "Fruchtkönig" 2001
Synthpop
Inuit (studio demo)
studio demo for the song that later appeared on the full length album "Fruchtkönig" 2001
VIDEO
electro pop
le feu au lac
"if you are wondering how "Seventeen Seconds" by The Cure would have sounded if Robert and Co. had decided to make it an electronic piece of art it would have sounded a bit like magnetfisch!!!" Didier Becu, the original sin fanzine
VIDEO
Electronic Pop
Fruchtkönig
Fruchtkönig: first song from the eponym 2001 album
Ambient Electronic Groove
Ex-On (live @ Carré Noir 2012)
a live version of Ex-On played at Carré Noir, 2012
Ambient break beat
Fruchtkoenig V1 - First Version
Fruchtkönig V1: the dark side of the king of fruits (from the 2010 EP "The Early Years 1998-2000"
Synth Wave
Ex-On
starts with the noise of squeaking steel, continues with dixie/breakbeat rhythm...
the song's original name was "black snow"...
Pop
Rolizel
a strange old moody track of ours 8-)
Synth Wave
rendez-nous
silence is rare – nowadays it has almost become fiction
"If you were a composer living high in the alps in Switzerland, its not surprising that your music would be ethereal. The music of this elevated group of musicians from Berne certainly could be called heavenly." Wayne Fetherbay
Ambient Space Music
Courant d'Ere (live @ Carré Noir 14.1.2012)
lots of technical progress whithin just 200 years feels like a draught of the ages, sometimes... "Courant d'ère" (from our album Silence Fiction, 2003)
http://itunes.apple.com/us/artist/magnetfisch/id210165764?ign-mpt=uo%3D4
Synthpop
Fluchtzeug
silence is rare – nowadays it has almost become fiction
Fluchtzeug. It’s a small world, isn’t it? Here is the list of the numerous percussion instruments used by François Clavel on this song: Dholak (Northern India), Derbouka (Middle-East, north of Africa), Riqq (Orient), Doira (Ouzbekistan, Iran), Udu (Africa), Muyus (China), Gongs (China)
"If you were a composer living high in the alps in Switzerland, its not surprising that your music would be ethereal. The music of this elevated group
VIDEO
Euro Wave
Raumstift (The Web NASA Remix)
The Web: "Raumstift" is one of my favourite Magnetfisch-Tracks. Their 2003 Album *Silence Fiction" is an instrumental electronic music highlight - especially if you were a teenager in the 80ies, wearing dark clothes and listening to wave, alternative, synthpop, and maybe a bit of ebm/industrial ;-)
VIDEO
Techno Trance
Fluchtzeug V1
early unreleased Magnetfisch track called "Fluchtzeug V1", 1998 (the track Fluchtzeug on their 2003 album Silence Fiction is a quite different one...)
Ambient break beat
Magnetfiesch
DreamWave
Le Connaisseur V1 (first version)
Not published on our album "The Early Years 1998-2000", but a very early Magnetfisch song nonetheless: here's a first version of "Le Connaisseur" (a new version appeared later on Fruchtkönig, 2001)
Synth Wave
der Fensterbaer
When bossa nova meets industrial! from our EP "some very old songs"
Industrial Electronica
Tunnel
Tunnel is probably one of Patrick and Tim’s oldest tracks, later recorded by their first group “Illusion Perdue?” (appeared on their first and last album: “un pied devant l’autre”, 1997)
Industrial Electronica
Schnee von Gestern
dark instrumental trip hop
Trip Hop
Eine Frage der Atemtechnik
Atmospheric instrumental song with Seline's voice and the Delay Lama
Electronic
Absolut Windig (original version)
the original, previously unreleased version of the song, recorded 2004
New Wave
spit me out (before I drown) - live on RSR1
played live on RSR1 (Radio Paradiso, Gérard Sutter)
"I quickly fell asleep that night...
dreamt I was unware of space and time"...
Electronic Pop
China
I dreamt of China last night...
passionate, intimate, invisible...
Euro Wave
SIPCH
a blend of disco & synthpop with a funky touch
Pop
Body on the Left, Soul on the Right (test bounce)
This is the synthesizer test bounce of album title track "body on the left, soul on the right". Yeah right, sounds like guitar, but it's Yamaha nonetheless ;-)
Electronic Pop
Gone staying
live (on air)
alternative electronic rock
poisonous trace
Alternative Pop Rock
footloose and steady
"In the wide worlds between synth pop and new wave, Magnetfisch have sort of created an own segment by combining guitars and synthesizers in their own way. The lead track, “botox”, is simultaneously buoyant and harmonious and accentuates Seline Kunz’s distinctive voice." Jörg David
(www.synthiepop.de
Alternative Pop Rock