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Bio: Residuum (Thomas Mayer) is about copyright laws, technology and the effects on artistical expression. The message is plain and simple: Copyright does not serve artists and preservation of their intellectual Work, but rightowners and preservation of their intellectual Property. That is the root of the music industry's fear of internet and its possibilities, because it provides a new way to spread and market works apart from their domain. Tracks oscillate between Ambient, Industrial, Noise and Techno, but are often spiced up with more or less known samples, the only connection for the complete works. Residuum is releasing music on the website under that pseudonym since 2002, first on mp3.de, later on the artist's website. Prior to that, there was a similar project called Bootie dedicated to bootleg mixing and mash-ups, which the artist sometimes re-surrects to have some fun.

"Residuum is like Throbbing Gristle without strippers." ~(FSR/AO)
"An internet activist consequently creates music that sounds like internet, like stuck downloads." (Ralf Summer, Zündfunk Nachtmix)
"[Residuum] is like Casetteboy on Crack." (Kernel32, Soulseek Records, during the Netstock festival)
"[Residuum] makes me want to slit my wrist but that's what I like about it."' (anonymous, during the Netstock festival)

Track: What is the most signifcant number? Yes, it is 10, the number of fingers, that most of the people have, therefore, most children learn to count up to the number 10 using their fingers. And 10 is also the sum of 3 and 7, the only two primes that add ujp to ten. But this is not the reason for the heavy repititive use of those two numbers in that track, the reason is different: Papa Leone is created only using samples from the opening sequence of the movie "C'era una volta il West" (1968) by Sergio Leone, and 3 and 7 are some of the only words of that sequence.

Website: thomas.dergrossebruder.org