schneider TM
16.03.2004

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listen : SCHNEIDER TM RECONFIGURES MARGO
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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"
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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 traveled 'Zoomer' around the world with a 3-piece band comprising of longtime friends and collaborators Kpt Michigan and Christian Obermaier. Together they have played 130 live shows in the last year and a half alone and taken in most of Europe, the US, Japan, Brazil...
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Summer of 2003 saw the group playing festivals that included a memorable show at S

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