Riff started his musical life, when changing , in early times , his violin to an electric guitar.
After some different schoolbands in the mid 70`ties , he did some musical projects together
with Limo
( see page of Fim Froil ).
In 1984 he bought a 4 channel recordingmachine and founded Stono Räkords ,
an independent cassettelabel only.
With several bands MC cassettes were produced. ( see The Twist , Fim Froil ) .
Performing mostly as a duo , the first unofficial MC release of Riff was in 1984 .
Personal Affairs In Criminal Times, a mixture of Beat- and neopsychedelic-songs ;
recorded with a small equipment of : vocals, bass,electric guitar, monosynthesizer,
Casio-organ and drumbox.
In 1984, meeting Bela in a musical way they started a female, male duo ,
first The Twist and after several personal bandchanges they formed the Cosmic Gardeners.
( see page of Cosmic Gardeners ) .
A second soloMC was the release of 12 songs, dedicated to his dog Bärbel.
Riff - Songs For The Dog ; released in 1990.
This tape has been rereleased as a CD-R version in 1999 ( see discografie ). 

As music is a magic form and by creating songs with a psychedelic tune , the energy behind is
to improve the spiritual ways and help saving the natural circles , for we all are a part of it.
Doing an active form of music , Riff started the Stono records label in autumn 1990.
 

Several recordings with the Cosmic Gardeners followed .
After a lot of improvising with acc instruments in the late 70 ties and after playing as a Beat
and neopsychedelicband in an electric way through the 80 ties ,
in 1993 after the recording of the Cosmic Gardeners CD Calling Joy-sele ,
Riff decided to create a solo project combining his acustic instruments as :
Sitar , Dulcimer , Auto harp, Mandoline, Bambooflute, Cymbals, tabla and percussion into the
space sound of the Cosmic Gardeners equipment, featuring:
Mono- and poly-phonic synthesizers , reverb and delay machines , drumcomputers and
electric guitars .


The Mad Hatter´s Garden Band Machine was born .
The first release was in 1994 the MC Cellular Fishes In An Ocean Of Time; a kind of trance folk
psychedelic music , mostly instrumental songs with a bright sound of all the instruments , Riff
got in his musicroom.
In 1995 a CD version was released with 3 bonus Tracks.
 While doing the management of the Stono records label and recording with the other Stono
    bands time had to run until 2000 that Riff found time for a new Mad Hatter´s Garden Band
production:
Dream Minatures was recorded in the time between dez.1999 to aug 2000.
A wordplay of Dream Miniatures and Dream Mindadventures giving the aspect of the album:
finding inside  by traveling outside.... unearthly tunes and sounds in dreamful melodies ;
foggy soundscapes of synthes ;
manycoloured tunes of electric and acustic string-instruments
( featuring mandoguitar, acc.el. guitars, Sitar )
Jam Sessions Vol 1 was the harvest of 1and 1/2 year improvising and working with our new Stono equipment ; as time is running bad for selfproduced bands CD labels ,
Riff started doing this very intimate work ; playing with sound s and rhythmloops
to give some special soundscapes , for a travel on some sitar , guitar beams
more details about see : Riff discografie.