Neuroticfish releases ‘Skin26’ single, including four versions of its 1998 debut track
Neuroticfish released “Skin26” on June 2, 2026: a four-track single revisiting the 1998 debut track “Skin”, as Bandcamp download and MCD via Neuwerk Music.
Neuroticfish
German electronic project Neuroticfish has released “Skin26” via Non Ordinary Records. The four-track single revisits “Skin”, the first official Neuroticfish release from 1998, and offers a new 2026 version next to the original recording and two further versions. The download is available on Bandcamp, and a CD single is also sold through the Neuwerk Music shop.
‘tSkin26’ returns to a 1997 living-room recording
Sascha Mario Klein recorded “Skin” in 1997 in his living room with an eight-track recorder, three synthesizers, one sampler, and an SM-58 microphone. The track first appeared in 1998 on the Maschinenwelt compilation “A Reflexion Of Synthpop Vol. 1” and was the project’s first official release.
The single traces the journey of the song over nearly 30 years, including its 2002 evolution as “Skin Binary”, and its new incarnations as “Skin26” and “Skin (Deep)”.
About Neuroticfish
Neuroticfish is the electronic music project of Sascha Mario Klein from Germany. The project was founded in the early 1990s as Klein’s alter ego, bringing a mix of synth-pop, trance, industrial, and EBM under the concept “Music for a Paranormal Life”. Also part of the initial line-up was Henning Verlage (keyboards and production).
The project’s first official release was “Skin” on the 1998 compilation “A Reflexion Of Synthpop Vol. 1”. The debut album “No Instruments” followed on September 27, 1999, with “Les Chansons Neurotiques” released on July 2, 2002 and “Gelb” on February 15, 2005. The best-of compilation “A Greater Good (History 1998-2008)” appeared in 2008, after which the project went dormant. In a 2015 Side-Line item, Klein said about that period: “I felt exhausted and had the impression that I lost control about my artistic process“.
Neuroticfish returned with “A Sign Of Life” on March 27, 2015, followed by “Antidoron” in 2018, both on Non Ordinary Records. Klein discussed the project’s direction in a 2019 Click Interview with Neuroticfish on Side-Line. The album “The Demystification Of The Human Heart” followed in December 2023 on Non Ordinary Records. In 2024 the project contributed a remix to Solitary Experiments’ single “Träumen“.
With “Skin26”, released on June 2, 2026, the project returns to its earliest recording 28 years after “Skin” first appeared.
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