Conrad Schnitzler (1937 to 2011) was an institution of German electronic music for forty years. A student of Joseph Beuys in Düsseldorf in the mid 1960s, he opened the Zodiak Free Arts Lab in Berlin in 1968, played on Tangerine Dream's first album, Electronic Meditation, then left to form Kluster with Dieter Moebius and Hans-Joachim Roedelius.
this is an archived recording that sat in the vaults for 30 years before it was issued by the great qbico. this recording is a tough one to sit through, sort of like any early synth recordings, a veritable wankfest of synthesized bleeps and blurps. but don't let that fool you, this is way better than many other synthesizer albums of the period, having more of a range of sounds and feelings than most bands that did this sound, and for 1972 it's pretty impressive. still, sitting through 40+ minute…
Astonishing reissue!! Conrad Schnitzler has been an institution in the German electronic music scene for thirty years. For a complete electronic muisc journey of Conrad Schnitzler on eighties. The Japanese label Captain Trip proudly presents "The 80's Works Series" 7CD box set, which featuring title are in following:CTCD-637 CONRAD & GREGOR SCHNITZLER / Conrad & SohnGreat split album by Conrad Schnitzler and his son, Gregor Schnitzler! The original LP was pressed 500 copies in 1981. Including p…
Long out of print. Though it begins with a few minutes of depth-plumbing space music, Constellations soon evolves into a series of tuneless synthesizer squiggles tweaked to perfection by Schnitzler with help from his effects array (reverb, delay, echo, etc.). The assortment of electronics is reminiscent of '60s academia but loaded with emotion nevertheless.
This release documents the second collaboration between Conrad Schnitzler and Jörg Thomasius (the first, “Tolling Toggle” came out on Fünfundfierzig). 15 tracks of their experimental collaborations. Recorded in 1991 and 1992, and released in 1992 in an edition of 500.
Conrad Schnitzler is a genuine legend in the krautrock and electronic music worlds. Schnitzler studied under Joseph Beuys before joining an early Tangerine Dream. Their first album Electronic Meditation shows a band highly influenced by Schnitzler's unique, singular approach. Schnitzler left Tangerine Dream to form Kluster with friends Dieter Moebius and Hans Joachim Roedelius. When Schnitzler left Kluster they changed their name to Cluster, eventually merging with Michael Rother (of Neu!) to fo…
Described as a "strange mechanical ballet for Androids" - " Con Brio " reveals one more time that Conrad Schnitzler, usually described as a " mad-berliner" is first a poet, a sculptor, & a painter...who expresses himself through musical pieces.
Trigger Trilogy consists of three discs each selected from hundreds of hours of Schnitzler's private recordings. Each represents a one of the few unique approaches that Schnitzler takes to recording, each uniquely identified and defined by Schnitzler. Within each of these recordings one can hear how Schnitzler influenced a generation of artists not only in Germany but the world around and how he's brought those sounds into the modern day. It's also apparent in these recordings that Schnitzler is…