The first half of 2025 was spent bringing a certain project near to the finish line, many years & a lot of sleepless nights have culminated in something unique & new. As I approach the point of presenting the work, it occurred to me that frankly, what was available from Stoltz was an utter mess. Looking at it over, I can't show new things, until I got this house in order, & right the structure the new can exist on.
& so we arrive to the 2nd half of 2025, where I made the decision to sort through 25 years of music, demo's, sonic snakz, tasters, idea's, unreleased, unfinished & just plan old works, that few, if any have really heard. Somewhere amongst it all should be a collection of tracks that are a good representation of Stoltz & what I've been fiddling with all these years. & so, I created the MALGATUDE VOLUMES. They are a series of Albums, drawing from those 25 years of work, re-mastered, re-worked, & polished up for a modern presentation.
I used this as an opportunity to launch Stoltz on BandCamp, a music streaming platform that is far & away better for independent musicians than the rape-show that is Spotify, Apple Music & the like.
Originally I expected to maybe cherry pick about 2 or possibly 3 albums, & rattle it all out in about 3 weeks. That was not the case, as 25 years of music tends to be a bit more than a couple of tracks…
& so the Albums I pulled together cover a cross section of years & sounds:-
Malgatude Volume One - Prophet before Pride (Works 2000-2003)
Malgatude Volume Two - Crawl Ideas Works (Works 2002-2006)
Malgatude Volume Three - Punk'It (Works 2004-2007)
Malgatude Volume Four -Retanza Silo (Works 2006-2011)
Malgatude Volume Five - Light Eater (Works 2004-2010)
Malgatude Volume Six - Beatcher (Works 2010-2011)
Malgatude Volume Seven - Roll Sound (Works 2012-2015)
