SCHNEIDER TM - Zoomer

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Zoomer
(201922) City Slang 2002
08 Tracks. 45mins50secs
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Schneider TM’s beautiful Zoomer is a rather enchanting anachronism. Electronic is said to be soulless and cold, while pop is mindless and decadent. Zoomer is electronic, pop, and yet, captivating, charming, and intelligent. So, where did it all go right for Dirk Dresselhaus? A former rhythm-section member in a variety of German rock bands, Dresselhaus finally went alone at the end of the nineties, releasing a series of 12’ and a first album, Moist released on City Slang, adopting a similar quirky approach to electronic music as compatriot Mouse On Mars or To Rococo Rot. Followed a series of collaborations, and three years down the line, this second album.
Zoomer is in essence an electronic album, complete with glitches, clicks and blips. But underneath lie a collection of catchy melodies and hooks evoking in turns the Beach Boys, Beck or early seventies avant-pop. Defying the aridity or his electronic constructions by injecting acoustic guitars, Dresselhaus develops his songs in a rather eccentric way, taking an oblique view on classic song writing. This results in a series of chirpy songs, from the exquisite guitar-led Reality Check, reminiscent of the Air of Moon Safari, with the added bonus of tongue-in-cheek lyrics, to Cuba TM, which closes the album, where Dressalhaus dresses up his syncopated beats and electronic oddities with strings. In between, he alternates between proper songs and instrumentals, remaining faithful to this mix of traditional and post-modern forms. Frogtoise is like the Beach Boys exchanging tips with New Order and Autechre, while DJ Guy could be the thumping soundtrack of a rave club on Mogadon and heard through drain pipes. Further down, Turn On features the rapping excellence of Max Turner, and Hunger drapes analogue bubble wrap around a dry electro-funk beat.
Not so much a pastiche of early eighties synthe-pop as a disrespectful two-fingers up at vacuous pop and over-zealous abstraction, Zoomer is a welcome addition to the growing trend that has seen Tarwater or more recently, Cursor Miner, shacking up the establishment to impose a new order in modern music.

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TRACK LISTING

01	Reality Check	05	Turn On
02	Frogtoise	06	Hunger
03	Abyss	07	999
04	DJ Guy?	08	Cuba TM

SCHNEIDER TM DISCOGRAPHY

SCHNEIDER TM MOIST City Slang 1999 Buy it on line now _	Moist Moonboots Masters Raum Im Ort Up-Tight Eiweib Starfuck The Kid Camping _
SCHNEIDER TM & KPT.MICHI.GAN BINOKULAR City Slang 2000 Buy it on line now _	Chotto Matte Testton Onnanoko Ray Nox Dynamike The Light 3000 _
SCHNEIDER TM ZOOMER City Slang 2002 Buy it on line now	Reality Check Frogtoise Abyss DJ Guy? Turn On Hunger 999 Cuba TM _

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