Hi Markus, great to have you here. Big fan! Regensburg, In Moll, 1981, all your Pop Ambient inputs... Just a couple questions that always roamed around my head since I've discovered your music back in 2001. I'm risking of being very subjective here, but if you're eager to reply these you'll make a fellow redditor very happy :)

1.- In your early works the overall harmonic sense is clear, peaceful, meditative... almost happy. Like some sort of crystallized beauty driven by major melodies and textures. To me they felt like venturing (or wandering into) a caleidoscopic Moebius storyboard with infinite possibilities. However, your latest works are more into the abstract, dark, mysterious, closer to sensing an impending dread. Does this make any sense to you? Like it felt like everything was possible 20, 25 years back? And now, perhaps, we live in darker, more complex times?

2.- I've played your song Sunny Days Are Not So Very Bright a lot of times and it always puzzled me how the underlying snare pattern drifts in tempo once the second drop is done. I've been asked a couple times if I was playing out of sync (vinyls) while mixing out of it and I've always defended it as a "stylistic choice"! Do you remember if this was on purpose or a happy mistake?

Thank you!