During his teen-years, Philipp developed a strong affection for independent pop and rock music as well as for electronic and ambient music. Playing in various pop/rock bands as a guitarist, keyboarder and bass player has been an inspiring experience for Philipp, helping him to develop a distinct sense of sound and how to use it in music productions. Artists such as Nick Cave, Massive Attack, Portishead, Radiohead and Bjork have been a major inspiration for Philipp at that time.

Profiting from the fast (and now affordable) personal computer development in the 1990's, Philipp could now realize his own ideas and songs by producing them without a whole band. But it took several more years before his debut-EP came out in 2005. What began as a hobby has then become serious.

In 2005 the austrian netlabel Comatronic put faith in Philipp's music and released a five track EP with his individual style of ambient and idm music, combined with vocals. The EP gained many fans and a lot of lovely reviews in the netlabel-scene.

Encouraged by the success, Philipp kept on working very hard on new songs and was given the oppotunity, later that year, of releasing a second EP on the german netlabel Legoego. Again many positive reactions and reviews in important netlabel magazines and many plays in podcasts and songs being featured on compilations.

Then in early 2006 the big german netlabel Thinner showed interest in releasing a full length album with Philipp. Delighted and a little astonished, for Thinner was widely know as a dub label, Philipp agreed. The success of that (risky) decision proved all critics wrong and lead to thousands of downloads until today. The british newspaper The Guardian wrote:

"... Weigl lays his whispered, English-language vocals over lush, dreamlike compositions that drip with yearning melancholy. The results sound something like William Orbit and the Beloved snuggling under the duvet on a particularly dreary winter's morning. Sometimes, it seems, the best things do still come for free."

Looking for new goals, Philipp started in early 2007 a project with veteran Jazz and e-Jazz drummer Michael Hoffmann. This highly productive collaboration lead to two releases. Their first EP has been released on the Thinner sisterlabel Autoplate, the second on the well-known id.eology netlabel in Cologne, Germany. A Remix by Stefan "Gate Zero" Biermann and lyrics by Charlie Scott contributed to the success of the EP's.

Besides composing and producing music, Philipp loves to play the piano. His special interest applies to the music of the Baroque (esp. Bach, see his recent YouTube video below), the Romantic (Chopin, Schumann) and Modern Jazz (Keith Jarrett, Herbie Hancock, Chick Corea). In his sparetime, he likes to photograph, to read and to go on mountainbike tours. Besides, Philipp is working as a piano teacher in his hometown near Munich, Germany.

Land and Water

Monsters

Prisma

Fragmentary Proof

Silently Moving