NOW is the timeless image of our time. A pause. A momentum. The bridge between the past and the near future. Simply TODAY. It is our world, which we have created for ourselves. Spoken words meet electronic sounds. 2021. Corona pandemic. The nightlife was functioning in a limited way, and electronic music was looking for new forms of expression. Helmut Dubnitzky participated in the interdisciplinary theater production "Jetzt!" by the theater label Tacheles and Tarantismus. Here he produced the music for the production and became part of the stage action as a live musician. He performed a cyber Jesus, playing in various sessions and live sets. A window into the depths of the World-Wide Web. A space for the state of being lost. The foundation for his third studio album was laid. Enthused by the actors' role work, expression, dynamics, and precision, Helmut Dubnitzkys decided to continue the work with the artists in the studio. The starting point was often just an idea, an instrumental, the text, or the groove. The musical arrangements framed the acting scenes and entered into a rhythmic symbiosis with the spoken word. This coherent harmony is created and reproduced with every track in the album. With his experimental excursion, Helmut Dubnitzky takes the listener on a journey into the innermost part of the human being and gives electronic music a new context. Pop-like structures, such as verse and chorus, give the actors space for their stories. A concept album composed of individual fragments. The moods of the individual tracks oscillate between dreamy, laid-back vibes and thoughtful, energetic flights of fancy. The groove remains a unifying stylistic device that runs throughout the album and forms the DNA of the tracks. NOW is the extraordinary result of an intense genesis.