It was largely built with recycled materials: a basketball court for the flooring and tables, a vintage BBC recording console and classic electronic music equipment for production. The aim of the recording studio is to have close to zero environmental impact. After recording his first official release in the Labrats solar caravan in the Australian desert, he pooled together his resources and knowledge to build a fully self-contained and self-powered recording studio in 2009. He has been a strong believer in alternative energy since the early 2000s and spent many years travelling around Australia in his vegetable oil-powered van with MC Izzy Brown and the Labrats Solar Sound System. The studio lives in a converted shipping container and is powered by a solar-powered trailer.īuilding the solar studio was one of Monkey's long-time dreams.
On the albums, the multi-instrumentalist plays all instruments by himself, with the exception of the live albums.ĭuring the corona crisis lockdown, the 3 musicians Sven, André & Jens started a humoristic podcast that has been broadcasted (nearly) every week and has become very popular.įor more events, check out our listings page.The Solar Studio is a fully off-grid solar-powered recording studio, currently located in Mycelium Studios in inner north Melbourne. Sven Friedrich has always been Solar Fake’s only songwriter and has produced all albums at his “Rosa Falke” sound studio. The highest chart entry ever for the band has been with their current album “Enjoy Dystopia” (2021, album charts #4). This included the original albums and live recordings. In 2019, their former record label, SPV, released the first 3 albums as a 3CD digipak called “One2Three”. Who cares?” (album charts #20), was released, followed by a sold-out tour, many festivals, and lots of concerts globally. Also a US tour together with Aesthetic Perfection in 2017.Īlso in 2017, Solar Fake’s first acoustic tour took place in Germany, as a result of which the acoustic live album “Sedated Live Acoustic”, recorded during their concert in Hamburg, was released that same year.Īt the end of 2017, Jens Halbauer (drums Die Art, Fliehende Stürme) made the live setup, that had been unchanged since then, complete. Subsequently, headliner tours and global gigs followed, crowned by participation in “Gothic Meets Klassik” at Gewandhaus, Leipzig. With the 4th album, “Another Manic Episode” (2015), Solar Fake joined Berlin-based cult label “Out Of Line Music”. Since then, Sven’s former band mate, André Feller (keys, bass formerly Dreadful Shadows), has been joining Solar Fake onstage. During their first own headliner tour for this album, there was a line-up change for the live act. The third studio album, “Reasons To Kill” (2013), Solar Fake had their first entry in the official German album charts, all following albums as-well. In the years that followed there were support tours for example with VNV Nation, Project Pitchfork, Peter Heppner, Covenant, and Camouflage, in addition to their own concerts and festival gigs, as well as further releases, such as the “Resigned EP” (2009) and the album “Frontiers” (2011). Solar Fake is the synthpop / industrial / indie-electro act of Sven Friedrich (also Zeraphine, formerly Dreadful Shadows).įounded in 2007, their debut album “ Broken Grid” was released in 2008 by “Synthetic Symphony / SPV”.
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