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Ulrich Schnauss was born in the northern German town of Kiel in 1977. During his formative years, he came to love a wide spectrum of music, ranging from My Bloody Valentine to Tangerine Dream, from Chapterhouse to early bleep and breakbeat tracks. There was not much opportunity to see his musical heroes in Kiel, so he moved to Berlin in 1996.
By that time, Ulrich was already a prolific musician in such genres as ambient and drum and bass, with a variety of pseudonyms (most notably View to the Future and Ethereal 77). These earlier works soon caught the eye of Berlin electronica label CCO (City Centre Offices), who took him up.
Soon his submissions to CCO developed into Ulrich’s first album under his own name, entitled Far Away Trains Passing By. It became an electronic classic; listeners were smitten with the lush instrumentation and the emotional impact of his elegant music.
Yet nothing could prepare his growing army of supporters for the next record, A Strangely Isolated Place, which slowly came together in 2001. The album truly displayed Ulrich’s youthful indie influences and established his pedigree as an outstanding electronic composer. A Strangely Isolated Place has become one of those extraordinary and rare occurrences: a record that slowly grows in stature by virtue of its overriding ability to deliver more than the usual arid and academic treatises on the state of the synthesizer.
“When you’ve worked with computers and keyboards for a number of years, they become not so fascinating of themselves anymore,” he said. “I gained in confidence after people began to discover Faraway Trains, and it hasn’t really stopped since then. This time I decided not to compromise on what I wanted to do, with what I thought people might want me to do.”
By that time, Ulrich was already a prolific musician in such genres as ambient and drum and bass, with a variety of pseudonyms (most notably View to the Future and Ethereal 77). These earlier works soon caught the eye of Berlin electronica label CCO (City Centre Offices), who took him up.
Soon his submissions to CCO developed into Ulrich’s first album under his own name, entitled Far Away Trains Passing By. It became an electronic classic; listeners were smitten with the lush instrumentation and the emotional impact of his elegant music.
Yet nothing could prepare his growing army of supporters for the next record, A Strangely Isolated Place, which slowly came together in 2001. The album truly displayed Ulrich’s youthful indie influences and established his pedigree as an outstanding electronic composer. A Strangely Isolated Place has become one of those extraordinary and rare occurrences: a record that slowly grows in stature by virtue of its overriding ability to deliver more than the usual arid and academic treatises on the state of the synthesizer.
“When you’ve worked with computers and keyboards for a number of years, they become not so fascinating of themselves anymore,” he said. “I gained in confidence after people began to discover Faraway Trains, and it hasn’t really stopped since then. This time I decided not to compromise on what I wanted to do, with what I thought people might want me to do.”
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A Strangely Isolated Place
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Far Away Trains Passing By
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Goodbye
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Quicksand Memory EP
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Butt_Jr wrote:
yaaaaay
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zeppoleon wrote:
YESSSSSS, he is releasing a new album, Underrated Silence, on Feb 14th.
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VK1990 wrote:
On My Own
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Motter wrote:
Dreamy
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SimonePerrota wrote:
A Strangely Isolated Place is one of the few albums that really warrants cringe-inducing praise...
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almerindo_lana wrote:
Deeply inspiring.
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ga6riel wrote:
The music still sounds amazing [2]
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jaimistik wrote:
<3 saludos desde CHILE!!!!
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nikotinte wrote:
New album please! It Is Time! (2)
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filteryourmind wrote:
bliss
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FanBars33 wrote:
New album please! It Is Time!
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mushroomsseason wrote:
Experiences build my mind
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monkdm wrote:
The music still sounds amazing
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Walking_Up wrote:
wonderful music, I'm totally in love
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mushroomsseason wrote:
Far Away Trains Passing By... is just a perfect masterpiece, but you can choose everyone, all of him is pleasant.
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airbehindbirds wrote:
titles may be misleading; I trust u guys, what's his chillout / ambient album?
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vocodad wrote:
In waiting of a new album, check out the fabulous Death Cab for Cutie - Home is a Fire (Ulrich Schnauss Remix) - can be found on Spotify and elsewhere.
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marcozer0 wrote:
new album please!
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Ashei wrote:
goodbye
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pityesz_ wrote:
your live act xesterday in budapest was fantastic thx!
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Events
- Feb 25 MORE THAN EVER w/ Sensation (live, London), Ulrich Schnauss (London) Solyanka, Москва, Moscow, Russian Federation
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23/02/11
22 Feb 2011 | from blog.myspace.com/ulrichschnauss
hello, here's a little update regarding some upcoming shows -
been making some good progress with the solo record and looking
forward to trying out more new music in a live setting. the
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28 Nov 2010 | from blog.myspace.com/ulrichschnauss
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