Total Kommander reached me as a demo by Scannoir. The topic is actually a joke, since we figured that both of us are using the stone age software Total Commander (compare the precursor Norton Commander). We are old, neurotic control freaks and we know it.
The credits on the back of the record reveal that I did ‘my edit thing’, fixed the rough mix and did the mastering & reel-to-reel transfer at tailout.de. It’s more Scannoir than any other track we released.
The other two were quick, but long takes we recorded together in Zurich.
I think the aesthetics of the outcome (Swiss fun minimal synth & orchestral leftfield) actually surprised Scannoir, although – they are clearly within my scope.

You’ve worked with many artists through your career. What are important factors for a collaboration to work?

I enjoy collaborations a lot. My key is – I am very flexible. 20 minute jams – check!
Endless exchange of project updates via the web – I am not getting tired!
So it’s rather dependent on the approach of my counterpart.
With Jacob Korn I was able to learn both. He is my musical mentor, now partner in our mastering venture and foremost one of my best friends, who always supported and believed in me.

What you can’t foresee is, however – whether the process becomes laborsome.
I am also flexible enough to pause the concept of a big project like the 2xLP “La Deutsche Vita” with my girlfriend as Bionda e Lupo, when life (or the partner) is telling you to do so.
I am very stubborn, but it should always be fun!
Some projects take shape throughout 5 years or more. That’s fine to me. Although I am very impatient in the moment I like to realize well-drafted long-term plans.

With me there is little ‘discovery’ or experimentation. But I can spend 5h on a synth looking for the desired timbre. I am aiming for well-structured ‘songs’ with a certain attitude I have in mind (I also create a folder of referencing tracks for each new song). This set of ideas interacts with the studios of my hosts.
If there is a KR-55 – “Let’s do disco, wave or minimal synth!”
101? “House time!”
303? Well, …
Any noodling that doesn’t enhance the intensity of a song will be dumped quickly. Sessions that aren’t promising, too.
Kill your darlings!
I am aiming for artistic or effective results. I don’t wanna be caught in narcissistic self-doubt. Music dictates. If I am unsure what the music is telling me – I have to learn why I don’t understand (theory, manuals, references, feedback).

What can happen after ½GOTT and GOTT. The jump into another dimension?

GOTT took more than 7 days: we happened to chat and exchange files by the web. Then it took 3 years to get together with Scannoir in Zurich. We submitted demos to Uncanny Valley after carefully considering a label that respects their artists and is trying to tighten the bond throughout an intense process beyond the necessary. UV is label that also realizes visual concepts on a ‘daily’ base (GOTT is cat. no. UV051 – all of those 51 releases with sleeve artwork).
Then – meetings with the label, a photo shooting in a 4th city (Leipzig – besides Zurich, Dresden and Berlin), the gadgets/inserts, the mastering I did and the vinyl cut I attended.

So to realize a Doppelgott, BiGOTT or whatsoever – which wouldn’t be a step-down from the previous two – involves a huge demand on the label.
Since our demos are moving towards a more minimal and harder old school approach – which doesn’t necessarily fit to Uncanny Valley – we don’t know yet, where we could see this successor being released. [addendum 2025: it turned out that Reach Another System is the perfect platform for old school EBM]
However we wanna thank the UV team for believing in our vision.
It materialized! YEAH!!!!

Once again – the links of the 3 EPs for your listening pleasure:

It’s dark outside and there’s a chill in the air. Beasts emerge from the shadows of Stevenage to stalk your waking nightmares. But hang on a Hertfordshire minute, my friend, because Fields Of The Nephilim’s 1988 version of The Watchman never sounded like this. Remixed by German/Swiss EBM (I hate that term) merchants Gott, it’s now a thrilling yet gothic electro-pop workout that resembles nothing more than the precision-tooled best of New Order – I kid thee not. The vocals are unceremoniously sidelined for much of the nigh-on seven minutes of electronic glory, but the Neff’s doomy qualities remain, and so does that bleak guitar line that so identified the original. Mesmerising. On t’other side, Southend-On-Sea industrialists[…]

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Das schweizer/deutsche Duo „Gott“ veröffentlicht vier Jahre nach der letzten EP die neue 2-Track EP „mutatio“. Dieses Mal haben sie sich an etwas ganz Besonderes gewagt. [...]

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Mattoni Pazzi Studios is a fresh and young new label out of Switzerland that makes more cool moves here with a second 12″ featuring reworkings by GOTT of industrial and metal anthems. It is a split that opens up with a remix of goth legends Fields Of The Nephilim’s [...]

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Scannoir & Sneaker, aka “GOTT”, explore, transform and mutate. This unique collaboration embodies the perfect symbiosis of passion. “Die Deutsch-Schweizerische Freundschaft” is still profound and continues to have an effect.
Now the two exceptional artists present their latest work: GOTT – Mutatio on the Zurich based label Mattoni Pazzi.

“Alles wird gut” was the motto of the occupied Wohlgroth-Areal in Zurich in 1993, where Sonic Violence was invited to the concert of their “Transfixion” album tour. Industrial beats, dark samples, guitar riffs and moshing punks dominated the scene. At the ticket booth there were CDs to take away: “Sonic Violence – Transfixion”!

A template that now, 30 years later, adorns this memory with the selected track “Malice” in a new guise. GOTT mutates the original into a dark hell ride.

Enter the realm of the Fields of the Nephilim! The guardian waits, a lifetime. Profound and melancholic, he is transformed by GOTT. Dark souls remain dark souls. Daringly and nevertheless tradition-consciously they march through the black terrain. Interwoven by GOTT, guarded by GOTT. Well – GOTT is the guard! Experience this unique metamorphosis with GOTT – Mutatio.

Mastering by Sneaker, reel-to-reel transfer by Jacob Korn at TailOut Studios.

label: Mattoni Pazzi Studios
cat. no.: mps002
limited edition of 300 pc.
distribution: Bordello a Parigi

Order here (release date Sept 1st):
  Linktree with all known shops
here the selection of the major shops carrying Mutatio:
  deejay.de (D)
  HHV (D)
  Bordello A Parigi(NL)
  Juno (UK)
  Red Eye (UK)
  Serendeepity (I)

GOTT Creatio – Remixes are out now!
Scannoir & me had the honour to make a remix for Cosmo Vitelli‘s great EP “Un Épisode Psychotique” on Les disques de la mort.
Premiered on lovely 44,100Hz Social Club here and now “GOTT Creatio Instrumentalis”.
Watch out for the upcoming GOTT EP on Uncanny Valley (to be due by the end of October)!

UN EPISODE PSYHOTIQUE (GOTT CREATIO INSTRUMENTALIS)

Vinyl here: https://lnk.to/DLM024
Vocal-Bonus-Track (Digital only) here:
https://lesdisquesdelamort.bandcamp.com/album/un-episode-psychotique-ep

GOTT ist die neue Platte von Sneaker aus Dresden/Berlin und Scannoir aus
Zürich. Zusammen frönen die Supernasen ihrer Leidenschaft für EBM & Synth Pop im Studio; predigen aber auch andächtig von der DJ-Kanzel in 6-stündigen Marathonmessen.
Übermächtiges, selbstgesetztes Denkmal. Geist, Blitz & Donner im Steinhimmel.
Eurovision. Neue Schweizer Welle.
Sonnenaufgang über dem Indüstriegelände.

GOTT event on Resident Advisor!