Creative Innovation / Studio & Music

TRIPBOXAllstars.

Before the studio. Everything live.

The live trio at the beginning of TRIPBOX. In the early 2000s, electronics, guitar, keyboards and bass came together on stage, with every track taking shape in the moment.

Listen to the music

Project: TRIPBOX Allstars
Role: Electronics · Guitar · Live performance
Services: Live electronics · Improvisation · Experimental music

Listen to the music

Live recordings.

TRIPBOX Allstars · Five recordings · 2001

01
B-Side · Live at Meierei
12:59
02
Worm · Live at Meierei
15:20
03
Wednesday Morning Chillout Session
23:04
04
Jungle Lodge · Live at Roxy
14:37
05
10 Daze in Hell · Live at Roxy
8:42

Built on stage..

Before there was a TRIPBOX studio, there was TRIPBOX Allstars. Michael Dörfler wanted electronic music to be genuinely live, at a time when hardware samplers and instruments were central to the setup.

Sounds and material were prepared and rehearsed, but their arrangement, interaction and direction emerged during each performance. Michael played electronics and guitar, Paul Pluesh played keyboards, and Cuban bassist Ivan Ruiz Machado completed the trio, sometimes joined by special guests.

From Vienna to Barcelona..

Performances at Vienna’s Meierei and Roxy, festival appearances and two months in Barcelona in 2002 became an important part of the journey. Club dates and a beach concert made it a formative period of playing, experimenting and learning together.

TRIPBOX Allstars was a live band. No album was released; these recordings preserve this early chapter.