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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.”
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  • Teslacoil33

    I just discovered this little gem http://tft-records.bandcamp.com/ they just digitally released an EP, pay as you feel is fair. Thought some fans of Schnauss might enjoy it.

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    Wow..

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    I completely agree with feeling the positivity!

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    ♥

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    I can feel the positive feelings everywhere in his music!

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    Schnausstastic

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  • ntsyukalo

    Pure musical genius.

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  • Dasein_60

    most excellen form and function of electronic music .... listen careful to the textures laid down and ride the train to a far away place.

    March 2012
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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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