SCHNEIDER TM

Schneider TM is a multidimensional music project of Dirk Dresselhaus, named after his nickname Schneider. Since the late 80's, Dirk has been active in different musical fields. From 1989 until 1997 he played and sang in adventurous rock and pop bands like Hip Young Things and Locust Fudge (both on Glitterhouse Records) before he became more active in electronic music around 1996. Schneider TM is responsible for a couple of experimental electro-freak-pop albums (on City Slang / Mute) including underground-hits like 'Reality Check', 'Frogtoise' and a cover version of a song by The Smiths called 'The Light 3000', a collaboration with Kptmichigan that was hugely acclaimed by the alternative media like John Peel, The Wire etc.. Schneider TM has been credited as one of the main innovators of a music genre called Indietronic or Indietronica.

Since 1997 Schneider TM performed a couple of hundreds live concerts around the globe including renowned international festivals like CTM (Berlin), Sonar Festival / Sonar Sound (Barcelona, Rome, Tokyo), Mutek (Montreal, Mexico City), Pukkelpop (Hasselt), Hultsfred Festival (Hultsfred), Kilbi Festival (Bad Bonn), Frieze Art Fair / Frieze Music (London), Phonem Festival (Istanbul), Numero Festival (Lisboa), Les Siestes électroniques festival (Toulouse), Melt Festival (Gräfenhainichen), Midi Festival (Hyéres), Motomix Festival (Sao Paolo), Todaysart Festival (Den Haag), Dark Mofo (Hobart) and others.

As well as work on a variety of one-off projects - including the production of film music for movies (66/67, In Der Überzahl, Teilhard, Remainder, Continuity etc. with directors like Omer Fast, Ludwig & Glaser etc.), performance theater (The Scorpionfish, Louis & Bebe w/ Joanna Dudley & Rufus Didwiszus) or radio plays (Release, Hochhaus w/ Paul Plamper etc.) - Dirk has been performing & recording with noise & drone outfits like Angel (w/ Ilpo Väisänen of Pan sonic & guests like Hildur Gudnadottir, Oren Ambarchi, BJ Nilsen or Lucio Capece), released by Editions Mego and Real Time (w/ Reinhold Friedl of zeitkratzer, 3 CD box on Blume) on a regular basis since 1999.

For a while now, Dirk has also been moving Schneider TM in the direction of instantly composed freeform music, employing varying instruments including guitar, electronics, balafon, effect loops as well as field recordings. Sometimes he works solo and at other times together with artists like Jochen Arbeit (of Einstürzende Neubauten, Automat), Damo Suzuki (ex-Can), Günter Schickert, video artists like Lillevan, pani K and Takehito Koganezawa or Japanese dancer Tomoko Nakasato. The first results of this open & soundscape-y direction was the Schneider TM albums 'Construction Sounds'. Based on field recordings of Berlin construction sites combined with electronics, it was released in September 2012.

Since 2010 Dirk runs a small studio called ZONE in Berlin, where most of his recent projects were realized aswell as works with acts and bands like Faust, Mutter, Yo La Tengo, Golden Diskó Ship, Chris Imler, Ziguri and others.

RELEASES

Conrad Schnitzler & Schneider TM - Con-Struct
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Arbeit Schickert Schneider TM / Schneider Kacirek
Record Store Day 12"
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Arbeit Schickert Schneider - ASS
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Guitar Sounds
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Bootleg – Automat & Schneider TM
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Moebius Neumeier Engler / Schneider TM
Record Store Day 12"
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Qluster / Schneider TM // Record Store Day 12"
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Construction Sounds
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PRESS PICS

Schnitzler & Schneider TM // Click for Hi-Res version


ASS // Click for Hi-Res version


Schneider TM // Click for Hi-Res version


Schneider TM // Click for Hi-Res version

LINKS

www.schneidertm.net