Playing in the big band at school, where he also met producer partner Noni and moved to Cologne from the outskirts of Erkelenz after graduating - Sascha's career as a musician began like many others. But what he then realised from 2023 under his alias Tape Head no longer had much to do with the regular career of an indie artist. His raw style between autotune raps and punky growl-alongs has been raved about by all the feature pages in Germany, from 1Live to Diffus. The fact that he was booked at short notice for the renowned c/o pop festival last year, that the Gloria in Cologne sold out within hours and that the high-flyers from Blumengarten expressed their sympathy is good, is good and more than justified. Contrary to the title, the ‘Memento Mori’ EP (2024) is just the beginning of a project that captures the zeitgeist with impressive intuition. Between urban melancholy and youthful arrogance, introspections on the status quo and confrontational reckoning, Tape Head does what everyone wants: his thing.