Tag: Electronic Music

Welcome to ATOMICSUSHI Land!

Short introduction

For the last 20 years, I have produced a mixture of Rock, Pop and Electronic Music. Since 2007 I have been producing techno/electro/minimal/experimental music under the artist name Nevada Kid™.
I’m always interested in doing commissioned work for advertising and/or computer games.
I would be happy to help you with your music and/or production. Just email me.
Visit my beautiful Flash site for older examples and references – if you still have Flash installed
( dsgn/prgm: thanks to Peter Ruschel ).

Find the latest examples in Music projects

Read more about me in the About section

I’m open to work full / part time and freelance

Product Owner, Product Manager, Project Manager
QA Manager, QA Engineer, Soft / Hardware-Tester
Composer, Songwriter, Musicproducer, Musician

About me

Michael Dühr – Songwriter | Composer | Musicproducer in Berlin

Michael composes, produces and arranges music in a wide range of fields, styles and formats. He writes compositions for rock, pop and electronic music as well as for games, film, television and advertising music. As a musician (vocals, bass, guitar), he was involved in various projects and bands.

With his former band Venus Hype Machine he was awarded the Rockförderpreis Trier in 1997, the Rockbuster Winner Rhineland-Palatinate in 1998 and the Rosebud Red – Songs Of Goethe And Nietzsche VW (Volkswagen) Soundfoundation Newcomer in Weimar in 1999.

The following album Console 5001 for Venus Hype Machine was completed in early 2000 and is published by Universal Music (UMP).

Since 2002 he has been involved with techno, electro, minimal, experimental – music productions under the artist name Nevada Kid™.

Michael Dühr was born 1974 in Trier and has been living in Berlin since 2001.

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Michael Dühr – QA Engineer / Manager | Product Owner / Manager

From 2007 to 2012 he worked for the music software company
Ableton AG.

As product specialist, he worked as 2nd level tech supporter (worldwide), in the knowledgebase creation & editorial team, as QA engineer & usability tester for hardware (PUSH) / software (Ableton Live), as project manager for 3rd party Plug-In compatibility improvements in Ableton Live and took over the communication with 3rd party companies worldwide.

From 2012 to 2014 he worked as Maschine 2 / iMaschine QA Engineer Soft- and Hardware | Product Development for NATIVE INSTRUMENTS GmbH.

Maschine 2 and its Hardware Controllers were successfully released in early 2014.

From 2014 to 2016 he was QA Engineer | Product Development @ U-HE.com ( Heckmann Audio GmbH ) and supervised the products Diva, Zebra, Zebralette, Satin, ACE, Bazille, Beatzille, Presswerk, Hive, Uhbik, Filterscape, MFM2, Triple Cheese, Podolski, TyrellN6.

During this time he helped u-he on 3 major product-releases: Bazille, Presswerk and Hive.

He composed the music for Release / Promo Videos for Bazille, Presswerk and Hive, which were shown at music fairs and can be seen on YouTube.

From 2017 to 2019 he was QA Engineer | Project Manager @ Mike Daliot & Max Zagler GmbH, with the software engineers Niklas Klügel and Tobias Ludwig. Mike Daliot & Max Zagler GmbH designed and developed Massive X for NATIVE INSTRUMENTS GmbH.

Massive X was successfully released in June 2019.

From 2021 to the end of 2021 he was Product Owner for the SOUND FORGE Family @ MAGIX Software GmbH and created the feature set and roadmap for the products SOUND FORGE 16 Audio Studio, Pro and Suite, Pro and Suite 365, which were successfully released in the first quarter of 2022.