The Moinlabs output had, for more than a decade, been about freely improvised music. All of it (or nearly all of it). So much that there weren't even general song ideas or similar to start from. This was true for Eclectic Blah, for the MoinSound Studio Sessions, and for all of the releases ever since 2000's groxis tafelbilder.

Early in 2011, Straschill decided this had to change - and idea that had been in his mind ever since, well, quite some time. Having actually studied to write music on a sheet of paper to have it performed by other people was something he still wanted to go back to - sometime.

The project to make this happen was also one with a completely different goal in mind: reducing the playing time per track. Going through all the official releases, the average playing time per track turned out to be 6:41. This was, of course, helped by the fact that when using live-looping technology things tend to develop a bit slower, but here was the second idea: make shorter music.

So a project (in its early phase dubbed #secretalbum for a corresponding twitter hashtag) was born, with three goals in mind:

A: all music through-composed
B: track length not exceeding 90 seconds
C: as few Straschill performances as possible