Martin was already interested in playing the electric guitar at the age of nine. He first came into contact with the music of Pink Floyd at the age of eleven when his American childhood friend and drummer played him the album Atom Heart Mother, which made a lasting impression on Martin.

Through various bands and a first appearance together with the future actor Ulrich Tukur, he was offered the chance to join a rock band called FINNEGAN'S WAKE as a bass player at the age of fourteen. This gave him his first regular live gigs, which enabled him to realize his first equipment dreams.

In 1976, he and his brother Johannes (keyboards) founded the band SCARAMOUCHE, which at that time regularly organized well-attended concerts and for the first time toured Germany professionally with its own truck and league show. The self-titled album was released in 1980 by Ohrwurm-Records and later on CD by the French publisher MUSEA.

Martin left the band in 1983 and from then on only worked as a hobby musician. During the heyday of techno in 1991, he and two ex-Scaramouche members founded SECONDS OUT, one of the first tribute bands in Germany to focus exclusively on the music of GENESIS with a focus on progressive rock from 1970-1977. It was there that the musical paths of Markus Nanz, who joined ECHOES in 2016 as a substitute keyboardist and was used more and more frequently, crossed once again. From the mid-nineties, SECONDS OUT played quite successfully in front of sold-out halls (including with ASIA, FISH and SAGA at the Night of The Prog 2006 on the Loreley stage) and was part of the Progressive Rock Convention. Three live videos and a live CD were released in this context between 1994 and 1996.

In 2002, he joined the Pink Floyd tribute ECHOES, founded in 1995, together with Oliver Hartmann, which had been inactive for a year and a half before playing regional concerts. With the new line-up, the band steadily grew in popularity and by the end of January 2024 had successfully performed over 600 concerts throughout Europe and beyond Germany's borders. During this time, the band released a total of three live albums, "Out There...", "Live From The Dark Side" and "Barefoot To The Moon", with the latter even reaching number 20 in the Media Control Charts in 2015, the year of its release. After the band split up in January 2024, this era ended after more than two decades and led to the formation of the new Pink Floyd tribute PULSE, in which Martin Hofmann is once again part of the band as bassist and singer.

Sébastien Angrand, born and raised in Montpellier in France, played in numerous bands in his home country, mainly in the rock, metal and progressive genres. However, he has never lost sight of his love of jazz. He also worked as a studio drummer in his home country for major labels such as Warner and BMG (CYRIL PAULUS).

Over 25 years ago, he decided to move to Germany for personal reasons. He recorded his first record "So Many Ways" in 2000, played in various bands in the cover scene in Germany (BIG TROUBLE, MEGABITE, DIE LIGA, NUMBER NINE, PLANET GROOVE etc.), worked with the BLUE MAN GROUP team and performed with NEVIO and as a support band for PUR. 

As a touring drummer, he played with the well-known German band EISBRECHER in 2010, with whom he also accompanied the ALICE COOPER tour in Germany.

His preference for drums, the experiences associated with them and the music led him to set up his own recording studio with STUDIO 73, where, in addition to his own work, he also recorded and produced for bands and artists such as INFECTED AUTHORITAH, REMEMBER APRIL, SIMON FIRST, STEFFI LIST (known from TV Total - Stefan Raab) and FIONA. In addition to other studio projects such as MISTRAL, he is currently also part of the cover band CHICOLORES as a live musician.   

With his penchant for prog rock from the seventies and eighties, his passion for the music of Pink Floyd and his exceptional skills as a drummer, he is the absolute best new addition to PULSE!

Markus Nanz started playing piano at the age of 5 and continued his classical piano training until the age of 16. Starting with Modest Mussorgsky's "Pictures at an Exhibition", known by the supergroup EMERSON, LAKE & PALMER, as well as the appearance of bands such as QUEEN, KANSAS, YES and SAGA, his enthusiasm turned more and more to progressive rock and from piano to electronic instruments.

In the eighties and nineties he was part of local cover and tribute bands with many concerts. At the turn of the millennium, he founded a very successful ALAN PARSONS cover band with friends, got engagements with the Earth, Wind and Fire tribute ELEMENTS OF THE UNIVERSE and became a member of the well-known and successful Genesis tribute "SECONDS OUT".

Since 2016, he has also increasingly appeared on stage with the Pink Floyd tribute ECHOES and has played the majority of the band's live concerts in the last two years. In 2022, this also led to his appointment as the new keyboardist for HARTMANN, the solo band of the well-known and successful guitarist and singer Oliver Hartmann, followed by tours and concerts throughout Europe. Today he is a founding member, keyboardist and backing vocalist in PULSE.