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Posted: 15.08.2025 - 20:55  ·  #1
I have just read this and I still can't believe it. Just 62 years old.

I will always remember his concert inside a beautiful natural cave, Jameos del Agua, at Lanzarote in the mid-90s.

RIP ambient master :(
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Posted: 15.08.2025 - 22:15  ·  #2
What?

I am gobsmacked. Lacking words.

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Posted: 16.08.2025 - 20:19  ·  #4
Did he really go for a swim in the river Rhine? That's so foolish... so far, there have been more than 40 casualties this summer alone.

I've overheard rumours but I simply can't seem to believe them.

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Posted: 17.08.2025 - 12:31  ·  #5
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Did he really go for a swim in the river Rhine? That's so foolish... so far, there have been more than 40 casualties this summer alone.

I've overheard rumours but I simply can't seem to believe them.

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There are news articels, like this one:

https://www.tagesschau.de/inla…h-100.html

There's no name given, but the person who drowned did so on the same day that his family had given as the date of his death in their statement (without mentioning the cause there). The person was also male, of exactly the same age and lived in the same place as Mathias.

Later, someone from his family (I suppose - via Mathias own FB account, but without signing the message) sent me the news article and confirmed to me that it indeed was him.

Of course, it's like always possible that everything is only part of a huge scam, fake reality show or that we're just living in the dream of a demon, but I guess it's reasonable to assume, based on this information, that he indeed acted so unreasonable.

And yes, I really could hardly believe it myself...
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Posted: 17.08.2025 - 18:10  ·  #6
I found something in the local press, and mentioning two male persons from Bad Soden gives more evidence to the facts:

https://www.wiesbadener-kurier…ch-4878769

The area between Bingen and St. Goar is called the Binger Loch (Bingen Gorge), with the famous Loreley Cliff nearby.

This section is dreaded by shippers for its shoals, reefs, undercurrents, racines, and unfathomable deeps (the river runs more than 20 metres deep around the Loreley Cliff). It would never come to my mind as a suitable place to have a little bath as it is utterly scary.

Then again, I went for a swim in the river Rhine in the summer of 1983, when the river was smelling like a sewer so what do I know?

Be it as it may, it is heart-breaking to know.

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Posted: 21.08.2025 - 21:19  ·  #7
Sad to hear about this.

RIP Mathias
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