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Search Result for Artist SCHNEIDER TM
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BB 117CD
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With Construction Sounds, Dirk Dresselhaus aka Schneider TM processes a time when he was surrounded by constant clatter, noise, sawing, drilling, hammering, chipping, etc., in the former working-class district of Prenzlauer, Berlin. It happened like this: While improvising at home with his electronic equipment, Dresselhaus at some point noticed that his music was increasingly beginning to imitate the sounds and structures of the construction site noise that surrounded him daily for up to 15 hours at a time and periodically brought him to the brink of a nervous breakdown. Perhaps as a kind of defense-mechanism, he began to record the sounds and patterns produced by the construction workers and their machines, and even began to have fun in doing so. Gradually, he had the feeling that the workers, whether consciously or unconsciously, were using their tools much like musical instruments, even interacting, as if they were producing improvised music. Construction Sounds combines these moments with the electronic recordings that Dresselhaus made during this period. He only minimally processed the recordings, as he wanted to make "those beautiful moments, generated by unknown construction workers, which I sometimes even heard as cosmic music" available to a wider audience as faithfully as possible. Under no circumstances should one confuse Construction Sounds with industrial music, which either uses conventional instruments to sound like factory noise (like Kluster in 1970) or uses industrial noises as mere atmospheric or rhythmic additions to music made using instruments, as Einstürzende Neubauten did in the early '80s. For Dresselhaus, the sounds of construction are the music itself. Important: This album is not a statement, it's just beautiful music. Anyone delving into these sounds will experience it much like Dresselhaus: From the cacophony, a symphony.
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BB 117LP
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180 gram LP version with CD. With Construction Sounds, Dirk Dresselhaus aka Schneider TM processes a time when he was surrounded by constant clatter, noise, sawing, drilling, hammering, chipping, etc., in the former working-class district of Prenzlauer, Berlin. It happened like this: While improvising at home with his electronic equipment, Dresselhaus at some point noticed that his music was increasingly beginning to imitate the sounds and structures of the construction site noise that surrounded him daily for up to 15 hours at a time and periodically brought him to the brink of a nervous breakdown. Perhaps as a kind of defense-mechanism, he began to record the sounds and patterns produced by the construction workers and their machines, and even began to have fun in doing so. Gradually, he had the feeling that the workers, whether consciously or unconsciously, were using their tools much like musical instruments, even interacting, as if they were producing improvised music. Construction Sounds combines these moments with the electronic recordings that Dresselhaus made during this period. He only minimally processed the recordings, as he wanted to make "those beautiful moments, generated by unknown construction workers, which I sometimes even heard as cosmic music" available to a wider audience as faithfully as possible. Under no circumstances should one confuse Construction Sounds with industrial music, which either uses conventional instruments to sound like factory noise (like Kluster in 1970) or uses industrial noises as mere atmospheric or rhythmic additions to music made using instruments, as Einstürzende Neubauten did in the early '80s. For Dresselhaus, the sounds of construction are the music itself. Important: This album is not a statement, it's just beautiful music. Anyone delving into these sounds will experience it much like Dresselhaus: From the cacophony, a symphony.
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EARSUG 004CD
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Remixes by Schneder TM of: Pulseprogramming, Margo, Lamb, Rechenzentrum, Turtle Bay Country Club, The Faint, Phillip Boa & the Voodooclub, Ruby, Lambchop, Alc Levora, Boss Hog, Turner. "Some of Dirk Dresselhaus' favourite music includes The Velvet Underground, Sonic Youth, Richard D. James, Autechre, Sun Ra, Shuggie Otis and Daniel Johnston. One of his particular favourites is Neil Young's 1982 album Trans, where nearly everything was played through a vocoder. 'It's definitely one of my main influences for doing the Schneider TM stuff. It's a really strange record, really great.' Schneider TM's acclaimed second album Zoomer was recorded in Dirk's Berlin living room studio and released on the City Slang label in September 2002. Since then he has travelled Zoomer around the world with a 3-piece band comprising of longtime friends and collaborators Kpt Michigan and Christian Obermaier. 'The way I do music, for example, it's very much a reflection of life. Basically it's folk music I would say. From the main vibe, telling strange fluid stories about whatever and everything you see, or I see, or we see or whatever, somehow affects the music very much. It's difficult to do political music but music is more often alternative to politics because music connects people so well.' There are many more stories, have a listen."
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CITY 20198CD
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Last copies, reduced price. "Schneider TM returns to mess with your minds with the release of 'Frogtoise', a limited edition single which features one of the stand out tracks from his album Zoomer. Inspired by a dream in which Schneider dreamt he had surgically spliced together a frog and a turtle, the single contains four radically different versions of the song. The lead Frogtoise Exploitation Edit blossoms vividly with a rich palette of sounds, a killer melody and a timbre that Schneider memorably described (flippantly, possibly) as 'post-Timbaland'. The Frogtoise Vredus Remix is a more electro-pop friendly version, drier and glossier and not a million miles away from a more avant-garde Pet Shop Boys! The Frogstears Schneider FM Remake sees Schneider TM take an acoustic approach to the song -- something that he is also able to do with any of the songs on Zoomer, and which he probably will -- while Fruktos sees Schneider's live companion KptMichigan tear the song apart in a glitch and crackle style." This CD version adds a video clip.
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CITY 20198
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12" version. Last copies, reduced price.
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