Schneider TM, Christ & Scientific Support Dept @ Dr Drakes - Monday 8th december 03

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Interesting Music Promotions are exceedingly chuft to announce:-

Monday 8th December 2003
Dr Drakes
Doors 8.00pm
Entry £6.00

The line up
Schneider TM
Christ
Scientific Support Dept


Now read on

SCHNEIDER TM
It's time to blast preconceptions of electronica as cold, minimal, distant
knob twiddling to oblivion once and for all, and Dirk Dresselhaus, aka
Schneider TM, is just the man to do it. His second full length album,
Zoomer, harnesses a sublimely modern depth of musical vision to the hard won
wisdom of life experience. A proper album, developed over the course of
three years, Zoomer is the sound of electronica, at last, with something to
say.
What about genuinely crafted songwriting? Check. Pop hooks? Check. Catchy
vocal melodies? Check. Wry humor? Check. Schneider TM brings a
singer-songwriter sensibility for words and music to the ambitions of a
sonic explorer. He calls it "chemical listening", being able to hear layers
of ear-teasing, soul tickling sounds, threaded personal beliefs and hopes.
The more you listen, the more you discover. It's hard to think of another
artist in the field of electronica who has yet done come up with the goods
as he does with blinding success.
Last year's 'Binokular' split mini album with long time musical foil KPT.
Michi.Gan paved the way. Its stellar track was the stunning, and ubiquitous,
'The Light 3000', a breath-catching cover of The Smiths' 'There Is A Light
That Never Goes Out'. Perfectly pitched, its naïve, coolly glistening
electronica deftly counterpoints the yearning, emotional recklessness of
Morrissey's lyrics. 'The Light 3000' inadvertently gatecrashed the trashy
bootleg / bastard-pop scene and offered something beating with sincerity. It
spread virus-like to everyone from Desperate Soundsystem DJ Jarvis Cocker
(who was quoted as saying he always used to it open his sets) to Rough
Trade's genre-defining Electronica 01 compilation, came in at number 8 in
John Peel's Festive 50, (that's as voted by listeners), and was embraced by
everyone from die-hard indie fans to dance music softies and anyone who ever
had a heart.
Over the past three years, Schneider TM has remixed in inimitable style the
likes of Lambchop, Labradford, High Llamas, Quarks and Ruby among others. A
noise-record with Pansonic's Ilpo Vaisanen is in the can and Norwegian
folkster Erlend Oye (Kings of Convenience) has asked him to collaborate on
his forthcoming solo project.
With Zoomer, Schneider TM defies expectations of aural wallpaper electronica
with a grace, passion, & wit that are the mark of a songwriter whose talents
are in full bloom.
Right now, Schneider TM has just detonated an electronic pop bomb.
Watch it explode.


CHRIST
Much like his namesake, Christ has been shrouded with the kind of mystery
and rumour mongering that's worthy of the richest biblical mythology.
Christ has been one of the most revolutionary figures within the Scottish
electronic music scene since the mid 90's with his appearance on Boards of
Canada's classic 'Twoism' EP. After a prolonged absence whiled away
rebuilding his studio, Christ returned to the fray with his 7-track mini
album 'Pylonesque'. The album gained instant critical acclaim and was soon
heralded as a classic.
2002 saw Christ headline Japan's 'Metamorphose' festival playing to over
30,000 people alongside Green Velvet. He performed at this year's Sonar and
was hailed as the highlight of the festival.
Influenced by the sound of contemporaries and colleagues, Christ continues
the theme of nostalgic and psychedelic structures within the loose
boundaries of electronic music. Distancing himself from the 'do it by
numbers' IDM handbook, Christ washes his ideas with a haze of atmosphere and
layers of emotive, evocative sound.
Much that has come to be regarded as cliché within the electronic music
scene finds at its root an association with the music that Christ helped
visualise in the first place all those years ago.
Christ's full-length album 'Metamorphic Reproduction Miracle' is now
available on Benbecula.
The album has also already received airplay on John Peel, Breezeblock, Radio
1 'Session in Scotland', Radio Magnetic, Resonance FM to name a few.


SCIENTIFIC SUPPORT DEPT.
Scientific Support Dept. is an electronic dub collective led by Docherty.
Though "Cabbageneck" is their debut album, their music has been slipping
into the Scottish sub-conscience over the last few years, with a series of
compilation appearances, gigs, theatre and film scores and remixes. SSD have
appeared on Creeping Bent compilation albums "Bentism," "Electronic
Lullabies" and "Bent Boutique" and on instalments 6 and 12 of the Creeping
Bent singles club. Docherty has also written the music for two TAG
Productions "Othello" (199, "Stroma" (2000) and more recently for "Among
Broken Hearts" (Traverse Theatre Company, 2000), MacBeth (Awarehaus Theatre
Company, 2001) and "Helmet" (Paines Plough Theatre, 2002). He has also
completed work on music for short films, "Clingfilm" (1999) and "Jura Dub"
(2000). SSD have remixed artists as diverse as Alan Vega, DJ Harri, Mount
Vernon Arts Lab and Adventures in Stereo.

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Monday night doors 8pm some changes to line-up but for the better
surprises in store