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Stefan Németh is a member of Radian and Lokai and the co-founder of Mosz Records.
Since around 2001, Stefan Németh has been working with the creators of short films and experimental videos, most intended for special film festival programs. He had long considered releasing music as a solo artist, and eventually Németh realized that the music he was making for those films was just what he wanted to be making as a solo musician, but just putting the music on a CD would not have been the proper way to do it. When these pieces were created, Németh was working on a variety of projects, each of them with its own life and intent, always with the music being created to serve the movie, as opposed to creating a single album where his process could have been more linear. His idea for his first album Film was to take this material and re-structure and develop these soundtracks into autonomous pieces of music, while keeping the cinematic spirit alive.
The consquence of his method is a range of evolutionary levels between the different tracks, between some that are very similar to the versions used in the various film projects, to those that have been more heavily reworked or were not used in the final versions of the original projects. For instance, the track "Field" was based on the sound design Németh created for the architectural film Domino. He had Martin Brandlmayr (Radian, Trapist) add drums to his original rough sketches, to which Stefan further added guitars, synthesizers and percussion.

Németh's page at Thrill Jockey .