Tracks like “Falling” (with ECHO IMAGE) and “Too Far From The Pack” (with Salva Maine) already set the tone with two highly successful pre-release EPs, showcasing ELEKTROSTAUB’s refined formula: emotional depth, club efficiency and vocal performances that elevate each composition beyond genre conventions.

The album does not follow a strict concept. Instead, it functions as a carefully curated mosaic united by its collaborative spirit and the diversity of its guest artists. Each track has its own identity, shaped by a distinct vocal personality, yet all remain unmistakably ELEKTROSTAUB. And the guest list reads like a who’s who of the modern synth / electronic pop scene: Richard Bjørklund (SPEKTRALIZED), Salva Maine (CULTURE KULTÜR), Lis van den Akker, ECHO IMAGE, J:DEAD, Alex Braun, Lilli K. Engelhardt, René Anke (LOGIC & OLIVIA), BEYOND BORDER and Mel Gúntzelsson (FUTURE TRAIL, davaNtage) each bringing their own emotion, character and colour to the album.

Musically rooted in future pop, synth pop, and electro wave, “Humility” offers a rich and emotional journey through themes of friendship, love, loss and introspection. Powerful beats meet sophisticated, often orchestral harmonic textures, layered pads, and lovingly crafted arrangements – elements that have become a signature of the ELEKTROSTAUB sound. Catchy melodies and memorable hooks coexist effortlessly with melancholic atmospheres, resulting in a finely balanced mix of ballads, mid-tempo tracks, and club-ready anthems.

“Humility” is not about ego. It is about connection. About collaboration. About understanding that the strongest moments happen when talent is shared rather than claimed.

For fans of VNV NATION, SOLITARY EXPERIMENTS, DE/VISION, SOLAR FAKE, MONDTRÄUME or yet ICON OF COIL, “Humility” stands as a pure and authentic future pop album – heartfelt, melodic, and timeless.

A quiet strength. A collective voice.

This is “Humility”.

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“Mantis” is featuring nobody else but Stefan Netschio, lead vocalist of the legendary synthpop heroes BEBORN BETON. A powerful mid-tempo ballad-song merging emotional darkness and addictive catchiness offering the perfect sonic field to Stefan’s poignant and captivating voice to shine in absolute brilliance and charisma.

Besides a great variety of remixes of the title song offered by PEOPLE THEATRE, AUGER, NEUROACTIVE, PSY’AVIAH, DIGITAL FACTOR and RESTRICTION 9, ELEKTROSTAUB’s usual partners in crime !DISTAIN also contribute to this 9-track EP with new remixes of “2806” and the so touching and intense “The Day She Died” both reinforcing the noir melancholic side of this release.

This “Mantis” EP will hopefully help you “handling the truth”…

This is ELEKTROSTAUB at best: top-notch future pop music for your body and soul.

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Strong from his unique ability to select the right singer to best fit his music, Patrick Knoch intelligently reformed the winning team by joining hands again with partners in crimes like Henrik Iversen (NAMNAMBULU), NÓRDIKA and his good old friends from !DISTAIN. But he also capitalizes on the surprise effect of gathering a sort of “who is who” from the indie synth pop scene on this release, with special additional guest singers in the likes of Stefan Netschio (BEBORN BETON), Darrin Huss (PSYCHE), Damasius Venys (MONDTRÄUME, MENTAL EXILE), Patrik Hansson (VANGUARD), Claudia Uhle (X-PERIENCE), René Anke (LOGIC & OLIVIA), Alex Rush (UNITY ONE) or yet Jan Dieckmann (NORDERNEY).

On this top notch album, ELEKTROSTAUB hovers between melancholic synth pop and dancefloor future pop with a harder EBM edge, each time finding the judicious balance between the addictive club appeal of his songs and the very emotional expression of his guest singers while preserving the melodic touch of his intricate electronic synth sound arrangements; offering the perfect setting for all these talented vocalists to expand their captivating charisma and to release intense emotions through words while leading them to the dancefloor…

“Reliance” is bound to become a reference album of top quality and consistent artistic collaborations and comes highly recommended to all electro/synth pop music lovers and fans of bands like DE/VISION, WOLFSHEIM, VNV NATION, MESH or yet IRIS.

This is top-notch future pop music for your body and soul…

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As usual, the German artist proves once again his unique ability to select the right singer best fitting his music. This time, he joins hands with Patrik Hansson of Swedish Electropop band VANGUARD for another stunning upbeat club synth pop song with a highly emotional dimension. Alternate remixes of the songs get delivered by electro specialist in the likes of PEOPLE THEATRE, SPEKTRALIZED, WE THE NORTH, UNCREATED and EXCUBITORS, each bringing its own flavour and colour to the original tune. But ELEKTROSTAUB also brought the challenge one step further by recording a totally different and so inspiring version featuring this time the unmatched female voice of Claudia Uhle from X-PERIENCE fame.

For the B-side song “Loneliness”, Patrick Knoch capitalised once again on the winning team he forms with his good old partners in crime from !DISTAIN for a more melancholic and soulful mid-tempo tune. Besides the club mix and the floating “no drum” edit of this song, we also get more laidback and introspective interpretations of this catchy song by PEOPLE THEATRE as well as from label mates TECHNOIR and DIGITAL FACTOR.

Another 12-track EP that teases once more our impatience to hear that much promising new studio album by ELEKTROSTAUB and the list of exciting additional collaborations he managed to set-up. What is sure is that we can count on ELEKTROSTAUB to bring us some more intense emotions through club-friendly tunes lead by the melodic touch of his intricate electronic synth sound arrangements.

This is top-notch future pop music for your body and soul…

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Originally released on 1st June 2018, “Birthday And Death” is the 4th and last single to be released from ELEKTROSTAUB’s same titled debut album.  For this very personal and highly emotional song, Patrick chose his long-time friends of !DISTAIN to sing it.  The result is a very melancholic club song bringing us close to noir synth pop realms.

The EP holds some 11 various versions of the song for the ultimate pleasure of fans & DJ’s.

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Like we always say: “don’t change a winning team”… Well, that’s exactly the lesson learnt by Patrick Knoch who here once more delivers a new major club hit with “Wake Up” featuring once again his partner in crime Henrik Iversen (NAMNAMBULU) whose highly expressive and melancholic vocal tone superbly fits this new song revealing ELEKTROSTAUB’s best characteristics through very catchy melodic choruses, driving upbeat electro sequences, kicking beats and bombastic dark synthetic harmonies.

And that’s not all folks! ELEKTROSTAUB offers to us a pre-Christmas present by adding a second A-side song to this EP with the harder and darker EBM song “Futurism” featuring the impressive and poignant vocals of NORDERNEY’s frontman Jan Dieckmann whose strong and very emotional vocals immediately evoke bands like VNV NATION and WOLFSHEIM.

ELEKTROSTAUB reveals today a very mature song-writing attitude, creating in his production work the judicious balance between the addictive club appeal of his songs and the very emotional expression of his guest singers while preserving the melodic touch of his intricate electronic synth sound arrangements; offering the perfect setting for these talented vocalists to expand their captivating charisma and to release intense emotions through words while leading them to the dancefloor…

This EP features in total 11 songs, offering 9 great bonus remixes going from moody synth pop to upbeat electro dance through EBM and modern electro wave remakes by artists in the likes of AIBOFORCEN, THE SECOND SIGHT, AESTHETISCHE, CULTURE KULTÜR, DIGITAL FACTOR vs. MARGARET STREET, VERSUS, DJ THOMMY, NÒRDIKA and DMT BERZERK.

This is top-notch future pop music for your body and soul…

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Originally released on 17th November 2017, “Birthday And Death” is the first album of ELEKTROSTAUB that was then much anticipated thanks to the resonant success of the two previous club hit singles “Also Without You” featuring Anne Goldacker (ex-OBSCYRE, WINTRY) and especially “Unforgotten” featuring a stunning and highly praised collaboration with NAMNAMBULU’s frontman Henrik Iversen.

In only 2 singles, ELEKTROSTAUB managed imposing its own synth pop style with an edge and made its place amongst the leaders of the future pop movement next to bands like VNV NATION, COVENANT, APOPTYGMA BERZERK, DE/VISION, ASSEMBLAGE 23 and many more.

This 13-track debut album confirmed the skills of multi-talented German artist Patrick Knoch who enlarged the number of intelligently selected guest vocalists offering both vocal wealth and emotional diversity.  We this way notice some 5 songs made together with his long-term friends of !DISTAIN who help him giving a more melancholic synth pop touch to the album. But also a second song “Prediction” together with Henrik Iversen as well as additional guest vocal collaborations with artists like THE ETERNAL AFFLICT, DATASUSHI or yet Roberto Lindner.

ELEKTROSTAUB now rhymes with quality upbeat synth pop music with highly melodic choruses, captivating expressive vocals you sing along to in no time and a little touch of melancholic darkness touching your soul…

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