Schnauss, Ulrich

Artist: Jerome Froese & Ulrich Schnauss
P: 2004
Ground Liftaz re-released the tracks of all three vinyl 12" singles by TDJ Rome on one CD, together with two additional tracks by Ethereal 77 (aka Ulrich Schnauss). Unpleasant Poems is filled with Drum n' Bass and Breakbeat tunes which were created by both artists in their spare time. Definately worth a listen!

Artist: Tangerine Dream
P: 2014
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During Tangerine Dream’s Australian concerts in mid-November we will start shipping the first compositional work of the new line-up comprising Edgar Froese, Ulrich Schnauss, Thorsten Quaeschning and Hoshiko Yamane. It is the format of a so-called Cupdisc (EP) with a running time of nearly 55 minutes and the first product out of “The Quantum Years” series starting on 16th November 2014 with the MMW Festival concert in Melbourne. This cupdisc is named “MALA KUNIA” – the name of two Aboriginal tribes - according to Aboriginal mythology - living ages ago around Uluru, also known as Ayers Rock, whereas the Mala tribe lived on the sunny side and the Kunia on the shady side of the rock.

Artist: Ulrich Schnauss + Jonas Munk
P: 2021
London-based producer Ulrich Schnauss and Danish guitarist and producer Jonas Munk have both unfolded their unique visions of electronic music over the past two decades, and they have been collaborating since the mid-2000s. "Eight Fragments Of An Illusion" is their first album in over four years, their third overall. The latest effort is ambient and introspective in nature, but with a kinetic, polyrhythmic energy pushing it forward. There's a floating quality to Ulrich's synthesizer washes and Munk's guitar patterns, yet the eight tracks are anchored by pulse and compositional direction. The duo brings their individual strengths to the table, yet the music transcends any of their previous work conceptually. There are echoes of blissed-out new age music and kosmische from the 1970s and 1980s, as well as traces of shoegaze-era abstraction and leftfield electronica. But ultimately there's no off-the-rack category that fits it. It exists in its own rarefied space. Pieced together from sessions spanning the course of three years, mostly in Ulrich's London studio – a workspace packed with rare synthesizers and vintage outboard gear – "Eight Fragments Of An Illusion" is a luxurious listen. Compared to the duos previous two releases there's more of a focus on texture and slowly evolving patterns, which naturally reflects the fact that Ulrich has spent a large portion of the last seven years as a full-time member of legendary synth group Tangerine Dream. Sonically, the tracks have a certain silky and shimmering characteristic, with Ulrich's mallet-like arpeggios and glittering analog synthesizer pads merging with Munk's melodic guitar lines as the most natural thing in the world. Throughout, the guitar is used both in a rather traditional manner, but often also as a vehicle for sonic exploration, processed into cloudy layers using outboard effects and software. This might be their most minimalist outing to date, but it still radiates that uplifting widescreen magic that both artists are known for. "Eight Fragments Of An Illusion" is their most focused collaborative musical statement to date, and arguably the most rewarding.

Artist: Ulrich Schnauss + Jonas Munk
P: 2013
The collaborative work of Ulrich Schnauss and Jonas Munk recorded between Denmark over a series of months. This stunning 12 track foray into the world of the emotive and uplifting has already started gathering interest and reactions worldwide.


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Artist: Ulrich Schnauss + Jonas Munk
P: 2017
If you like the melodies and the way Schnauss produces his music, you will also like this one, where the brilliant guitar from Jonas Munk is added into the 11 instrumental titles with a cool reverb flavour.

Artist: Ulrich Schnauss + Mark Peters
P: 2021
‘Destiny Waiving’ completes a collaborative trilogy that began with 2011’s ‘Underrated Silence’ and followed by 2013’s ‘Tomorrow Is Another Day’ (Schnauss also became a full time member of Engineers at this time). Initial sessions began at Ulrich’s East London home studio in early 2017 and final mixes where completed there in late 2020. Despite it’s extended conception, most tracks where completed during 2017, in part informed by improvisational sets in London, Dublin and St James’ Church in Birmingham (as part of the Seventh Wave electronica festival).

Artist: Ulrich Schnauss + Mark Peters
P: 2013
Electronic duo Ulrich Schnauss ("A Long Way to Fall", "A Strangely Isolated Place") and Mark Peters (of the band Engineers) return with a second collaborative album titled "Tomorrow is Another Day". This second project offers a sublime exploration into their signature expressionistic landscapes while exploring the potential of a collaborative model in which Schnauss's keyboards and Peters's guitar work together in juxtaposition.

Artist: Ulrich Schnauss
P: 2013
After a six-year absence from the New Releases shelf at your local record store, German shoegaze/electronica maestro Ulrich Schnauss is back with a new album called A Long Way to Fall. Due for a mysteeeeerious early 2013 release, Schnauss’ latest will come out via Domino in the US and through his own Scripted Realities label in the rest of the world. On his fourth album, the My Bloody Valentine-lovin’ bleep-blip-blopper is all about the synthesizer. According to Schnauss: “While I had spent a couple of years mainly listening to songwriting based music (a lot of ‘indie’/band-type stuff), I was now rediscovering my love for electronic music based on more open structures. This provided the main inspiration of trying to record an album that would celebrate the synthesizer as the very capable musical instrument that it is, but without the need to disguise it behind a wall of echo and reverb.”

That’s right, Ulrich! Say it loud! We’re synthesizer lovers and proud! But the album isn’t just about synths and shoegaze and blip bloop blops. No! It’s also about art. And not just musical art. For Schnauss’ latest, the London-based photographers/visual artists Nat Urazmetova and Anastasija Nikitina have crafted visual works to go along with the tracks “A Ritual in Time and Death” and “I Take Comfort in Your Ignorance.” The latter track is also coming out as a single, with remixes by Tycho and ASC. As Missy Elliot once said, “Come, get your art on.”

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Artist: Ulrich Schnauss
P: 2003 / 2020
What is there left to say about this man from Berlin? The buzz was amazing. People were calling in every day asking when Ulrich's follow-up to "Far Away Trains Passing By" would be ready. And it took him some time. But it was worth the wait. We received maybe one track per month and slowly, very slowly the new album began to take shape. We did not expect anything. How? His debut album under his real name had always seemed perfect, but Ulrich managed to take it further. And further. And further.
"A Strangely Isolated Place" is definitely bigger, deeper, more dirty even, contains more vocals and shouts its love for guitar pop straight into your heart. This guy is mad.

Artist: Ulrich Schnauss
P: 2001
Far Away Trains Passing By is Schnauss' first album, released in 2001 and long-unavailable in the United States. Schnauss' music has a timeless quality which takes it well beyond the stereotypical image of the "electronic" genre. I feel this is his strongest and most listenable album to date. If you like the kind of music that lets you totally unwind, but at the same time stretches your imagination; this album is a must for your collection.
It's thought provoking, emotional, ethereal, soothing, cool and eminently listenable whatever mood or scenario you're in at the time.. (i.e. works just as well full blast in a fast car on a bright sunny day as it does in a pitch black room through precision headphones having just been dumped)
I believe that sometimes the occasional piece of music can come along which is of such high quality and reaches you so sucessfully that you end up forming a deep friendship with the album which can last a lifetime. The more you listen, the more you understand, and the more meaningful it becomes. Based on this premise, Ulrich Schnauss is a damn good mate to have around.

Artist: Ulrich Schnauss
P: 2009
A Collection remixes done by electronic arist Ulrich Schnauss. Remixes: Setting Sun (Howling Bells), Ghost in the Graveyard (A Sunny Day in Glasgow), Faithful Friend (Katharina Kranck), Out to Sea (Madrid), Strawberries (Asobi Seksu), Remembrane (Dragons), Halo (Aus), Supervitesse (Mahogany), Lunz, Coastline (Rachel Goswell), Chinese Letter (the High Violets), Story of the Eye (Mark Gardner), Make Sense and Loose (I'm Not a Gun), Bluebird of Happiness (Mojave 3).

Artist: Ulrich Schnauss
P: 2016
The German producer is a prolific artist in the world of ambient, downtempo and synth music. In addition to classic albums like A Strangely Isolated Place, he's remixed a number of iconic acts like Depeche Mode and Pet Shop Boys and now counts as a full member of Tangerine Dream. No Further Ahead Than Today is his first album since 2012's A Long Way To Fall, and it comes via Schnauss's Scripted Realities label.
The music shows a renewed interest in more direct electronic sounds, and aims to substitute traditional verse-chorus-verse structures for more freeform atmospherics.

Artist: Ulrich Schnauss
P: 2016
This is the double LP version.
The German producer is a prolific artist in the world of ambient, downtempo and synth music. In addition to classic albums like A Strangely Isolated Place, he's remixed a number of iconic acts like Depeche Mode and Pet Shop Boys and now counts as a full member of Tangerine Dream. No Further Ahead Than Today is his first album since 2012's A Long Way To Fall, and it comes via Schnauss's Scripted Realities label.
The music shows a renewed interest in more direct electronic sounds, and aims to substitute traditional verse-chorus-verse structures for more freeform atmospherics.

Artist: Ulrich Schnauss
P: 2007
So finally, after literally years of waiting, new material from everyone's favourite purveyor of epic shoegazing electronica is back. He hasn't come back alone though - in the time since 'A Strangely Isolated Place' he has managed to pick up a few good friends, notably Rob McVey from Manchester's Longview (a band who now count Ulrich among their number!) and very surprisingly, Cocteau Twins mainman himself Robin Guthrie! Yes the rumours are true, and after years of fending off (or most probably, welcoming) comparisons to the great Cocteau Twins, Mr. Schnauss has cajoled the man himself into giving his own takes on two tracks from 'A Strangely Isolated Place'. I'll start with the new material on offer here, and the record kicks off with Rob McVey's version of 'Look at the Sky', a track taken from Ulrich's imminent full length 'Goodbye'. The first thing you might notice is that the sound is notably less 'electronic', with fat distortion, live-sounding drums, guitars and gauzy vocals taking centre-stage and those signature synthesizers almost nowhere to be seen. I suppose this is the direction Ulrich has been heading all the time though, taking his sound a little closer to 1990 every year, moving further into the den of purist shoegazing classics, and 'Look at the Sky' easily fits in snugly with the best of Lush, Curve and others from the era. Similarly, the second track here 'Medusa' (one of the highlights from the new album) goes for a full-on 'Loveless'-style assault on the ears, all bendy distorted melodies and whispered vocal parts. This is a track that simply has to be played at almost uncomfortable volumes, and reminds me of all the times i was crushed onto the railings at the front of gigs - you'll know what I mean when you hear the tracks. The EP is nicely rounded off by the two stunning Robin Guthrie remixes, and in true Cocteau's style he pulls the original tracks ('Gone Forever' and 'On My Own') down to a haze of romantic guitars and reversed voices which build into reverberating Cocteaus-esque pop crescendos. It's almost like they were never gone, and I challenge any self-respecting Cocteaus aficionados not to get tearful on listening to these tracks. What more can I say... an essential EP purchase in every way, and only one of these tracks is actually going to end up on the album (and this version is an 'edit' anyway), so what are you waiting for?

Artist: Ulrich Schnauss & Mark Peters
P: 2012
Transporting the sound of shoegazer aesthetics into an electronic context – this is
how Ulrich Schnauss once described his artistic goal. Influenced by bands such
as My Bloody Valentine, Slowdive, Cocteau Twins and Chapterhouse on the one
hand, yet wholly at ease with the electronica of bands like The Orb, Bionaut,
Orbital, 808 State and unequivocally appreciative of veterans of the genre,
Tangerine Dream or Manuel Göttsching for example. A brother in spirit of Robin
Guthrie one might say, an apposite epithet for Schnauss.
His collaborative partner Mark Peters might also be considered his soul brother.
Through his band, Engineers, he has similarly found success in following in the
footsteps of his musical paragons. Engineers have released wonderful albums of
dream pop, infused with the same spirit as the solo efforts of Schnauss. Peters
and Schnauss have been friends for many years and over a year ago, Schnauss
joined the ranks of Engineers.
For the past couple of years, they have been meeting up sporadically and making
music. The fruit of these sessions served as the basis for the ten tracks on this
joint album. More used to traditional songwriting, the working process was new to
Peters. In the absence of conventional structures, the sole aim of creating an
atmosphere, was an approach he was somewhat unfamiliar with, but one he
found liberating. Working only at night was a decisive factor for Peters, lending
the music a somnambulant quality—an effect that was intentional, striving to
create something which cannot be ascribed to a particular musical category or
zeitgeist. A challenge achieved with great success!
For Schnauss meanwhile, conjuring up an atmosphere through music is the most
normal thing in the world: he creates music for those little escapes. Headphones
on and slip away from reality. His highly praised debut album “Far Away Trains
Passing By” from the year 2001 is a masterful demonstration of his art. He has
remained true to his mode d’emploi ever since: elaborate electronic layers of
sound, elastic drum computer rhythms and drifting synthesizer textures are typical
Schnauss hallmarks. On this latest album, Schnauss brings the piano more into
play than usual, which enhances the overall impression splendidly.
“Underrated Silence” is a quiet album for the most part. Its multi-layered fabric
reveals something new every time one listens to it, a wealth of fresh discoveries,
new rhythms emerging from the sound cloud, hitherto unnoticed melodies
illuminating the background. Schnauss and Peters have crafted music which is
enchanting in the truest sense of the word, shimmering sounds, floating echoes,
rhythmically reverberant chords which wrap themselves around the listener, lifting
him into a state of suspension and carrying him gently away.

Artist: Ulrich Schnauss, Steve Roach, Wollo, Pearce, Rich, Synergy u.a.
P: 2013
A Project sampler with new tracks by the artists.