man "bie ie blaue blume blüht" off of the green one could totally use some kinda basic channel style rejiggering. not that it isn't brilliant already.
― dunt renaissance (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Wednesday, 11 February 2009 11:24 (fifteen years ago) link
If I love "Fabrik" (which I heard on the amazing Optimo Cold War mix), where do I go next with CS?
― Kevin John Bozelka, Wednesday, 11 February 2009 13:16 (fifteen years ago) link
that's from "auf dem schwarzen kanal" from 1980. i think that was reissued on cd as con 2+, so that'd be a place to start, con is also pretty good.
― dunt renaissance (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Wednesday, 11 February 2009 17:52 (fifteen years ago) link
I was feeling a little cautious about those last 5 80's reissues on Captain Trips, but a friend brought a copy of 'Conrad Schnitzler + Wolf Sequenza - Consequenz' on a car trip and it's pretty great spaced out instrumentals
Yes, that album's really good!
― Vicious Cop Kills Gentle Fool (Tom D.), Thursday, 12 February 2009 10:11 (fifteen years ago) link
ok for years one of my favorite Schnitzler albums has been this absolutely stupid goofy cassette of 80's technopop that a friend dubbed me, no information available at all
Conrad Schnitzler/Gregor Schnitzler - Roofmusic = the bonus CD in that last Captain Trips box set
http://www.japanimprov.com/indies/captaintrip/berlinexpress.html
track 8 = 'Turkish Man Like To Dance'track 9 = 'Tell me why you leave me now / Our love was good enough'
― Milton Parker, Saturday, 15 August 2009 08:44 (fourteen years ago) link
I was feeling a little cautious about those last 5 80's reissues on Captain Trips, but a friend brought a copy of 'Conrad Schnitzler + Wolf Sequenza - Consequenz' on a car trip and it's pretty great spaced out instrumentals, four tracks absolute top notch. the tracks stay looping in place for 4-6 minutes each, but all the sounds are beautifully off
'Consequenz II' is just as good, slightly even more together even. it's not music that develops, but the sounds are in and of themselves so disorienting that by the end of each 2 or 3 minute track you can get really bent out of shape
& people are still trying to catch up to something as pure as 'Windmill'
― Milton Parker, Friday, 6 August 2010 23:40 (thirteen years ago) link
Just bought Zug, a piece originally issued on The Red Cassette, now reissued on vinyl on a new label, m=minimal. Backed with remixes of the piece by Pole (!) and borngräber and strüver, whom I know nothing about. Currently listening for the first time, it's pretty & mindblowing at the same time.
― willem, Thursday, 9 September 2010 20:07 (thirteen years ago) link
Melody is the WORM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TYbKmFERgmI
― Milton Parker, Wednesday, 15 June 2011 19:27 (twelve years ago) link
LP of live recordings from 72 sounding amazing:
http://www.furtherrecords.org/index.html
― prior, Wednesday, 6 July 2011 12:15 (twelve years ago) link
yep this track is incredible. would like to hear the rest.
http://soundcloud.com/alteredzones/conrad-schnitzler-track-12
― dmr, Wednesday, 6 July 2011 15:27 (twelve years ago) link
think you can stream them from the Further site!
― prior, Wednesday, 6 July 2011 16:43 (twelve years ago) link
RIP
From Wikipedia :
Conrad Schnitzler passed away from stomach cancer in the evening 4 August 2011
― /\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\etc (Matt #2), Saturday, 6 August 2011 15:15 (twelve years ago) link
Oh man... ;_;
Can't find a single news story about it.
Jesus
― I for one am (Le Bateau Ivre), Saturday, 6 August 2011 15:22 (twelve years ago) link
Supposedly "official" Conrad Schnitzler page? Still not positive how official this is. http://www.fancymoon.com/con_s/
― scott pgwp (pgwp), Saturday, 6 August 2011 16:05 (twelve years ago) link
Aw no! RIP.
― the ascent of nyan (a passing spacecadet), Saturday, 6 August 2011 16:05 (twelve years ago) link
Uh...
http://www.conrad-schnitzler.de/neu.htm
― scott pgwp (pgwp), Saturday, 6 August 2011 16:08 (twelve years ago) link
Very sad. This thread got me into checking his music. I've loved much of it.
― Vendo Caramelos A Veces Sin Dinero (Capitaine Jay Vee), Saturday, 6 August 2011 16:26 (twelve years ago) link
super bummed, RIP
― Richard Nixon's Field of Warmth (Shakey Mo Collier), Saturday, 6 August 2011 17:18 (twelve years ago) link
played 'Conal' last week on a road trip north of Yosemite as we started getting into the mountains. it was perfect.
putting on the 'Ballet Statique' CD to make breakfast.
― Milton Parker, Saturday, 6 August 2011 17:47 (twelve years ago) link
― Dominique, Saturday, 6 August 2011 18:25 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.fancymoon.com/con_s/
notices are starting to pop up, relievedly. this passing is not one to miss. schnitzler's club in berlin was pretty much ground zero, krautrock would have been very different without this man: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zodiak_Free_Arts_Lab
― Milton Parker, Saturday, 6 August 2011 18:37 (twelve years ago) link
Yeah, I once made a pilgrimage to the original site of the Zodiak Free Arts Lab, on one of my visits to Germany...
So sad about this.
― geeta, Saturday, 6 August 2011 18:40 (twelve years ago) link
Posting to ILM from yr phone, from the back of the room during a keynote talk = challenging
― geeta, Saturday, 6 August 2011 18:43 (twelve years ago) link
rip, big man.
― you've got male (jim in glasgow), Sunday, 7 August 2011 00:20 (twelve years ago) link
― nakhchivan, Sunday, 7 August 2011 00:26 (twelve years ago) link
RIP. I'm feelin' Blau about this.
― The Pleasure Garden of Felipe Sagittarius (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Sunday, 7 August 2011 04:19 (twelve years ago) link
RIP - never heard a ton of his work, but the Kluster LPs and his solo stuff on Important is really good
― i genuinely thought when i first joined that he was the admin (ilxor), Sunday, 7 August 2011 04:27 (twelve years ago) link
Das bummer. RIP Con. Great man.
― R. Stornoway (Tom D.), Sunday, 7 August 2011 11:48 (twelve years ago) link
RIP. Rot is one of my favorite things ever, as are Kluster and that first Tangerine Dream album. A tremendous figure in my musical life for sure.
― douche chills (crüt), Sunday, 7 August 2011 11:50 (twelve years ago) link
Writing up an obituary piece--let me know if any of you have thoughts or memories you'd like to add
A friend is giving me a copy of a radio show he did in the '80s, where he had Schnitzler as the special musical guest--it is awesome
― geeta, Sunday, 7 August 2011 19:51 (twelve years ago) link
jeez, this is a bummer. r.i.p.
― original bgm, Monday, 8 August 2011 13:48 (twelve years ago) link
― moonship journey to baja, Monday, 8 August 2011 16:21 (twelve years ago) link
Brief but wonderful documentary (auf Deutsch):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LTR88nW4GcU
― geeta, Monday, 8 August 2011 18:56 (twelve years ago) link
i have never gotten deep into his music, not because i don't love "auf dem schwarzen kanal" but only because i have found it so hard to get ahold of. i never got those captain trip reissues of yellow, red, black, etc
someone should organize a memorial torrent
― moonship journey to baja, Monday, 8 August 2011 21:21 (twelve years ago) link
he's done a lot of different things. 'auf dem schwarzen kanal' was the most visible 12" in a brief pop music period. if you like that, check out 'con 3' 'consequenz I' 'consequenz II' and 'roofmusic' (the latter is silly but a sentimental favorite)
and 'ballet statique' (aka 'con') -- not pop, but it's not just his best but one of the best electronic music albums of all time
― Milton Parker, Monday, 8 August 2011 22:15 (twelve years ago) link
ballet statique was reissued earlier this year. milton otm, completely essential
pretty much everything i've heard of his up until like mid 80s (haven't had a chance to go much further as yet) has been gold, pure gold
especially love his warped synth pop phase
hopefully there'll be some reissues of the private press stuff
rip con
― missingNO, Tuesday, 9 August 2011 00:35 (twelve years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MUdIZsbCe-g
gelb, pure gelb
wrote these reviews of the captain trips reissues for a retail website that sold out of them before they could even post them -- ah well, here now
Conrad Schnitzler, Con (Captain Trips Records)
From 1978, 'Con' is Schnitzler's most legendary release. After adecade of recording extended side long damaged & detuned synthepics, he went into the studio with Tangerine Dream's Peter Baumann,who refined Schnitzler's most decentered sounds into five discreettracks. At a time when many of the established electronicmusicians were eschewing all abstraction to focus on classical (andcommercial) melodies, spending more and more time behind the keyboardsand less at the patchbay, Schnitzler's sculptures on 'Con' werepushing even further towards the forgotten potentials for pureabstraction in electronic sound. The opening thirteen minutetrack 'Electric Garden' is a subtle and spare masterpiece.
This album was originally released on CD by Spalax as 'BalletStatique' in 1992 with five bonus tracks taken from the 1981 album'Electrocon'. This edition on Captain Trips is remastered(sounds slightly louder but otherwise the same), and contains threenew bonus tracks, including two later reworkings of the track 'BalletStatique'. Lovely mini-sleeve replica of the original vinyl, andan illustrated fold-out sleeve. Though there's no need to rebuythis if you have the Spalax edition, many of the people who've heard'Con' list it among their favorite electronic albums of all time,including me. If you're only buying one, make sure it's thisone.
Conrad Schnitzler, Con 2+ (Captain Trips Records)
The 1980 followup to Schnitzler's disorienting and beautifulmasterpiece 'Con', was, surprisingly, a 12-inch disco single for RCARecords. Though 'Disco' might remain a relative term, the fourtracks on the 'Auf Dem Schwarzen Kanal' EP are straight up danceableelectropop. The production standard is very high, withSchnitzler's distinct analog synth solos filling in all the detailsbetween his chanted, vocodered & filtered vocals. Releasednear the beginning of Neue Deutsche Welle and the rise of Germanicelectropop that signalled a clean break from the tranced out cosmicmusic of the 70's, Schnitzler might have been the last person peopleexpected to bridge the gap without missing a beat, but he did it:this 12" EP is definitely of interest to fans of contemporaryworks by D.A.F., Pyrolator or Palais Schaumberg, but shows thedistinctive fingerprints of a ten year veteran of the electric musiclab. This Captain Trips release fills out the disc with apreviously unreleased album recorded in 1981, 'Consequenz 3',featuring an assortment of primitive synth sounds laid over loud,live, real drums -- while some of the tracks sound somewhatunfinished, the sounds remain bizarre and there are enough strangetwists in the tracks to take the unprepared listener by surprise.The main attraction here, however, is of course the re-release of thelong unavailable 'Auf Dem Schwarzen Kanal'. Captain Trips hasadded a lyric sheet in English and Japanese, as well as an illustratedfold-out insert.
Conrad Schnitzler, Con 3 (Captain Trips Records)
Schnitzler's 1981 'Con 3' follows on from the previous year's 12"EP with an entire album of electropop for Germany's Sky Records.The sounds are still strange, but the cleanly recorded spoken wordvocals are now front and center in the mix. There are manypeople who will prefer his slightly bent electropop songs to the purerabstractions of his earlier (and later) work -- and for those who love'Auf Dem Schwarzen Kanal', this is definitely the album lengthfollowup. Perhaps slightly less strange, but still, with theoccasional track like 'Wer Sind Wir Denn', hardly normal. The CDadds six tracks of instrumental remixes of the album's tracks -- very,very minimal.
Conrad Schnitzler, Electrocon (Captain Trips Records)
The original CD release of 'Con' (as 'Ballet Statique') on SpalaxRecords in 1992 also featured five previously unreleased bonus tracksthat were just as beautiful as the album itself, each one exactly fourminutes long. Here at last is a release of the entire album theywere pulled from, also recorded at Peter Baumann's Paragon Studio from1980 to 1981. If you're a fan of 'Con', this is certainly a greatfollowup purchase. And this one definitely has my favoritecover of the entire series -- the man himself, dressed to ridecomplete with robotic helmet, posing atop a metal sculpture,brandishing his binaural head-shaped microphone at the end of a longpole. Thanking you!
― Milton Parker, Tuesday, 9 August 2011 08:02 (twelve years ago) link
2006 interview in The Wire:
http://thewire.co.uk/articles/7175/
― ban this sick stunt (anagram), Tuesday, 9 August 2011 16:03 (twelve years ago) link
Thanking you!
― I thought that I heard you loling, I thought that I heard you steen (crüt), Tuesday, 9 August 2011 17:18 (twelve years ago) link
Love this:
"I’m not soft eyes. I’m eyes with bananas in. I have Xs in my eyes."
― jon /via/ chi 2.0, Tuesday, 9 August 2011 17:24 (twelve years ago) link
nice piece on con by randy jones:
http://madronalabs.com/topics/987-conrad-schnitzler-remembered
― geeta, Wednesday, 10 August 2011 05:33 (twelve years ago) link
“Ja! I’m always trying to make sounds that aren’t normal. To avoid sounds that you can make real music with.”
Love this guy.
― The Pleasure Garden of Felipe Sagittarius (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Wednesday, 10 August 2011 05:38 (twelve years ago) link
Conrad Schnitzler tribute on WFMU right now (3-6 PM EST) with special guest GenKen, who knew him well:
http://wfmu.org
― geeta, Thursday, 18 August 2011 19:01 (twelve years ago) link
they're playing 'Gelb' right now
I'm told they'll soon be live mixing material from the cassette concerts--it's like a con-cert but on WFMU
― geeta, Thursday, 18 August 2011 19:10 (twelve years ago) link
thanks for the heads up! listening. d-_-b
― original bgm, Thursday, 18 August 2011 19:58 (twelve years ago) link
^^
― puerile fantasies (Matt P), Thursday, 18 August 2011 20:05 (twelve years ago) link
my epic 3000-word obituary on Schnitzler will be up at frieze.com, either later today or tomorrow--i'll post the link when it's up
― geeta, Thursday, 18 August 2011 20:07 (twelve years ago) link
here's the link to the obituary i wrote, for frieze:
http://www.frieze.com/comment/article/conrad-schnitzler/
― geeta, Sunday, 21 August 2011 23:27 (twelve years ago) link
The Live '72 double LP on Further is excellent.
― allday, Sunday, 21 August 2011 23:45 (twelve years ago) link