Peter Holmström is the lead guitarist of The Dandy Warhols, a band loved by all of us here in the KOMA office because of their affinity with DIY culture and their ability to invent themselves over and over again, making sure they always sound like they wanna sound and not like people expect them to sound. No compromises and yes; thats a big thing for us. Over the years, they’ve released albums which can be filed under garage indie rock, synth pop and psychedelic shoe gaze and that’s just the way it should be. One thing that has always been present in the music of The Dandy Warhols is Peter’s heavy use of guitar effects: his pedal board can fill half a room and creates a massive wall of sound! Which for us as gear enthusiasts is always good. He uses the KOMA BD101 and FT201 in his setup and gives us great advice on future products. Also check out his other band Pete International Airport, which brings psychedelic sounds to another level!

Bobby is very busy in the San Diego scene. Beside writing music, organizing events and DJ’ing under the name Freaksauce he is mostly known internationally for playing guitar and singing in the avant garde hardcore band The Locust. He also co-created an awesome pedal board, the Pure Data Machine, to make the open source software Pure Data easily controllable for guitarists. His new band project is called Innerds. With this experimental approach and access to music we love and are proud to hear him play with our effects pedals. And he, yes, he loves it, too.

“I am proud to be part of the KOMA Elektronik family. Its the perfect harmony of clever modular synth style effects in stompbox format – and a patchable proximity sensor! Very cool.” – Bobby Bray

Emil Nikolaisen is a musician and producer from Norway who in our office is mainly known for being incredibly awesome. Oh yeah, you read that well: awesome! He is the main man behind of the Norwegian band Serena-Maneesh and producer on many albums coming from the north. Serena’s latest album N02: Abyss in B Minor (4AD) is regularly on repeat in our office and we heard from Emil that the sound and way of recording for their upcoming record has been influenced a lot after he received his set of KOMA pedals. Great news that is!

“KOMA SAVED MY SOUL… ouuurrhhh MY SOUND… – Emil Nikolaisen

Stefan is a Berlin-based producer, label owner, publisher and mastering engineer. Most famous he became with his music project POLE, which released several dub techno clicks&cuts records on labels like Matador, Mute and of course on his own label ~scape, which he runs together with Barbara Preisinger. Making music out of deconstructed sound fragments, we are curious what he will do with the KOMA Elektronik pedals. As Pole puts it: “My new music will sound very warm, has a lot of bass and stands in a strong relation to my musical history.”

Yasmine, together with William Stangeland Menchaca, forms the “gothy electro-noise duo” (Los Angeles Times) Tearist. In their music they mix up kraut rock, experimental music and pop music with synth pop aesthetics. Yasmine sings through various effects pedals and one of them is of course a KOMA Elektronik BD101! LA Weekly says, “Tearist could very well be the most crucial musical project to come out of Los Angeles in recent years.” We from KOMA are sure about that and are looking forward to see them live in Berlin soon!

There is not much Marlon Penn is not good at. Besides being a talented multi-instrumentalist, over the last years he has been performing as MC, dancer and of course as an actor in our KOMA commercials. Leading Dutch music magazine OOR called Marlon ‘A Dutch diamond in the rough’ and 3voor12, a Dutch music website, awarded him with astounding live reviews. MusicFromNL nominated his debut album ‘Independence?’ for Album of the year’. And we know why! Because he is a true musician! Marlon has a strong opinion on how musical gear should work and gives us a lot of feedback on the pedals, which he uses in both his studio and live setup!

“I like to refer to the KOMA units as ‘Unique Boutique’. The possibilities are pretty much endless when you start using the patch bay and the sensor.
I use them in my studio, and during live performances. They’re very good for filtering loops, tweaking resonance, creating weird sequences or eerie sounds, making subtle adjustments or taking it to a whole new level… KOMA Elektronik does it all.” – Marlon Penn

Kaap de Goede Hoop is a young producerduo from Utrecht, The Netherlands. For all of you who are not from Hollandland, their band name is the Dutch version of Cape of Good Hope. And good hope they bring! At our first Musikmesse party in March 2012 we saw what these guys can do with an audience, after their show they literally screamed for more! Their music is made to get the party going and that they mainly use analog gear to create it is just what we love about these guys!

“We use the KOMA pedals to easily create monster sounds, deep vibrations and high squeaks. The effects are extreme, but that’s why we love them; once you know how they respond to your touch, they become a very valuable asset to your studio and live setup!” – Robbert & Bobby (Kaap De Goede Hoop)

André Allen is a remix artist and producer. He’s member of the remix artist collective (RAC). Apart from remixing, Andre has worked in TV (Entourage/90210/How To Make It In America), film (Holy Rollers, starring Jesse Eisenberg, Justin Bartha) and advertising (Verizon, NBA, Coca-Cola, JCPenney, etc.). And, guess what, he uses a KOMA Elektronik BD101 in his production setup.