Kozmonaut

Hans Schiller (real name Michael Gutierrez) moved from a small providence in Canada to San Francisco due to his sexual orientation. He was fascinated with electronic music and Germany in general (hence his artist's name). He converted his garage into a little recording studio and ran three different phone lines (artist, sexual orientation, legal name). 'Flieg' was his first release. He pressed a 1,000 copies of this record, but never sold it. Hans ended up getting language cassettes to improve his German. 

He used some of those tapes for his second release called 'Hyko'. It never came out and exists as a demo tape only. Right around this time is when he met Peter Ziegelmeier and formed Kode IV. In 1994, Hans returned to Canada being very sick from AIDS. After his death, all his records and cassettes that were stored in his garage were thrown in the garbage and his synthesizers, instruments, and recording equipment were sold for very cheap. His 'Flieg' original LP as Kozmonaut is nearly impossible to come by. 'Hyko' consists of 16 songs in total, all of which are unreleased. [SOURCE: DISCOGS]