Pharmakustik has been played on NTS shows including Alicia Matthews, with Electric Transmission first played on 6 December 2016.

Siegmar Fricke started his first musical experiments in 1981 using tape-recorders and shortwave-radio signals to create collages of musique-concrète that have been recorded on various cassettes. After intense activities in the European tape-scene between 1985 and 1993 Siegmar Fricke founded the project Efficient Refineries together with Miguel A. Ruiz (Orfeon Gagarin) from Madrid who is already active in the Spanish electronic scene since the 80s. Further CD-collaborations with the Italian sound-artist Maurizio Bianchi were realized: "ENDOKRANIOSIS" (on Tibprod/Norway) and "STROMA~KONKRET" (on Monochrome Vision/Russia). Together with his…