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 nave, 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 clich 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