Richard Blohm

Richard Blohm also worked under the alias F451 during 1983-1990's. In 1984 after opening AIRTIGHT recording studio (renamed as recoilprodukt shortly later ). The first artists he produced, engineered, co-wrote and performed on record was Psyche's first vinyl release- Insomnia Theatre LP [m36440] This recording was done very quickly for approx. $250 during AIRTIGHT recording studio's opening sale special. The Insomnia Theatre LP was cut at Toronto's "Lacquer Channel" and released on 12" independently on Psyche's own Malignant Productions and subsequently signed and released by New Rose Records of France Insomnia Theatre Richard Blohm went on to produce, engineer, perform, co-write music on various Psyche LPs and EPs up to the SPV record release of Psyche's LP Daydream Avenue Daydream Avenue as well as original tracks for Intimacy. [m809952] In 1988 Richard engineered and produced VERNAL EQUINOX Steve Brenner electronics, Tim Rempel electronics NEW FOUND WORLD. In 1993 Richard and Psyche's lead singer Darrin Huss aka Brood, recorded a one off CD project titled "The Itch " under the artist name "Vanishing Heat" ‎– released by T.E.Q. Music?. "The Itch" Was created using FZ-1 Samplers, and Roland SH2 for bass. Darrin performed vocals, powerful as always, directly in front of the mixing console to allow the duo to avoid talkback systems separation of a vocal booth. Richard performed all the music, and engineered/produced the mix with Darrin. The opening track- Dead Agent (attributed to Brood) was actually a solo recording by Richard using a TASCAM cassette format 4 track recorder, a radio shack microphone, a Casio SK1 sampler, and a Ibanez tube screamer distortion pedal. * As often happened credits for who did what were not always accurate. Richard went on to release solo projects under the artist/band name F451 *circa 1983-85/ Morphsystems EP, *circa 2000 (collaboration and vocals by Natalie Blohm aka Ntasha), as well as a six track ambient EP under the name XMACHINE circa 2002. Richard owned and operated recoilprodukt recordings (studio and label) until roughly 1991 when royalties had virtually dried up due to the rise of MP3 format and pirating. He moved on to form a visual FX company - softdistortion.com in 2001 and continues to run this boutique VFX shop on into current year 2017 @ www.softdistortion.com In 2017 Richard relaunched his label recoilprodukt in Berlin Germany, and has been remastering and releasing his older project > https://recoilprodukt.bandcamp.com/ Select, limited edition vinyl, will be offered over time along with discrete remixable elements @ www.recoilprodukt.com New tracks will be added in future - continuing in the scifi electronica genre Richard coined in late the 1980's.