old school
By MAXELL XL3 on June 21, 2026 3:33 pm
Sometimes I don’t think sampling is the right way to do justice to music that I truly love. I prefer to let it flow as the musicians originally intended, in its complete and unaltered form. Of course, it is not my music, and I have to respect that.
In this case, I worked with a rehearsal recording by Zyma, a German psychedelic jazz-krautrock band from the 1970s. My friend Günther gave me a collection of their old tapes, which had been lying forgotten in his basement and slowly deteriorating for almost fifty years. The tape – and especially this track – turned out to be a real treasure. I invested a great deal of time and effort into restoring the recording and bringing it back to life.
These were merely rehearsal jams by Zyma and were never intended for release. Nevertheless, I fell in love with this piece. To create an atmosphere that gently draws the listener into the music, I added some subtle, Pink Floyd–esque ambient textures at the beginning. From there, the track unfolds and develops in a direction quite different from where it originally started.
I am proud to have helped preserve and revive a wonderful piece of music created by a group of fascinating musicians from my hometown.
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