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Infobox musical artist | name = Ulrich Schnauss| image = Ulrich Schnauss.jpg| caption =| image_size = | background = non_vocal_instrumentalist| birth_name =| alias =| birth_date = birth year and age|1977|df=y| death_date =| origin = Kiel, Germany | instrument =| genre = Indietronica , ambient techno , shoegazing | occupation = Musician , record producer , remixer | years_active =| label = Independiente Records / Domino USA | associated_acts = A Shoreline Dream Longview (British band)|Longview Engineers (band)|Engineers | website = http://www.ulrich-schnauss.com/ www.ulrich-schnauss.com Ulrich Schnauss (born 1977) is an electronic musician and producer based in Germany .
Biography
Ulrich Schnauss was born in the northern Germany|German seaport of Kiel in 1977. He became interested in a range of music: My Bloody Valentine (band)|My Bloody Valentine , Slowdive , Tangerine Dream , Chapterhouse , and early bleep & breakbeat tracks. There was not much opportunity to see his musical influences in Kiel, so he moved to Berlin in 1996.
Ulrich's musical output began under the pseudonyms of View to the Future and Ethereal 77. These electronica and drum-driven pieces were noticed by Berlin electronica label CCO (City Centre Offices), to which Schnauss sent CD's on a regular basis. Ulrich developed these submissions to CCO into his first album under his own name, Far Away Trains Passing By , released in Europe in 2001, and in the United States in 2005.
His next album, 2003's A Strangely Isolated Place , showed the influence of My Bloody Valentine (band)|My Bloody Valentine 's Kevin Shields and Cocteau Twins ' Robin Guthrie . Schnauss has said of this album, "When you've worked with computers and Keyboard synthesizer|keyboards for a number of years, they become not so fascinating of themselves anymore. I gained confidence after people began to discover Far Away Trains Passing By , 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."Ulrich Schnauss, http://www.ulrich-schnauss.com Website biography. Accessed July 28, 2007.
Since the release of both albums Ulrich has been asked to work with and remix with artists, including Port-Royal , Mojave 3 , Airiel , A Shoreline Dream , Asobi Seksu , Televise , Long-view , Johannes Schmoelling, The Zephyrs, Lunz (Rodelius), and others.
He also plays keyboards for UK indie band Long-view , whose singer Rob McVey was featured on Ulrich's next album, Goodbye . In an interview he said: "I have always loved music that has both elements: melancholy and sadness as a description of the current situation you are in, but at the same time a hopeful, utopian element that reminds you of the possibility of a different life." http://www.undertheradarmag.com/ulrich.html
His third album, Goodbye (Ulrich Schnauss album)|Goodbye , was completed in early 2007. It was released in Europe by Independiente Records on June 25, 2007. The United States release followed on July 10 under Domino Records. Regarding this album, he said: "The overall idea was pretty much the same. I just wanted to merge the indie songwriting elements and electronic instrumentation. After the previous album I still had a feeling like there was more room to take these ideas to an extreme level when it comes to layering and laying down as many tracks as possible." http://surfingonsteam.blogspot.com/2007/10/interview-ulrich-schnauss.html
On June 12, 2007, Ulrich released an EP named "Quicksand Memory." It contains two remixes by Robin Guthrie of previous releases, a mix by Rob McVey of a previously unreleased track, and an edit of a track appearing on his latest album.
In the spring of 2008, Ulrich remixed two tracks by the Manchester based shoegaze band Daniel Land and The Modern Painters. On October 27, 2008, the two tracks, 'Within The Boundaries' and 'Benjamin's Room', were released as a double A-side 7" single by the independent record label Sonic Cathedral - the labels 11th release.
In July 2008, the Stars EP was released to support his June/July US tour. A co-produced/co-written track with A Shoreline Dream titled "neverChanger" was released on an EP of the same name. Ulrich traveled out for a short tour with the band in Texas and Colorado to promote this effort, and performed this track with A Shoreline Dream during his performances.
In the fall of 2008, Ulrich collaborated on three new tracks with A Shoreline Dream entitled "hypermode", "departure" and a live version of "neverChanger" which all appear on the A Shoreline Dream album Recollections of Memory – officially released on February 10, 2009.
In October 2009, Schnauss' record labels, Independiente Records|Independiente and Domino Records|Domino , lawsuit|sued Guns N' Roses , alleging that the band had committed copyright infringement by using portions of Schnauss' compositions in the track "Riad 'n the Bedouins" on the album Chinese Democracy . http://www.billboard.com/#/news/guns-n-roses-sued-for-copying-songs-1004018829.story Guns 'N Roses Sued for Copying Songs. Billboard magazine|Billboard , October 6, 2009.
In 2010, Schnauss was involved in the mixing of Exit Calm's self titled debut album.
Rachel Staggs and Carlos Jackson of All in the Golden Afternoon began work in the studio with Schnauss in June 2010. The song entitled "The Long Goodbye" is a result of this collaboration, and marks its debut on a compilation for Rocket Girl Records.
Ryan Policky of A Shoreline Dream visited Ulrich Schnauss in July 2010 to work on a new collaboration entitled "London". With the exception of live drums performed by Sean Merrell (also of A Shoreline Dream ) the song was fully produced, engineered and mixed by Schnauss/Policky, and marks its debut on a compilation for Rocket Girl Records.Rocket Girl Records https://rocketgirl.co.uk/label/release/rgirl74. " Rocket Girl Records ", 24 January 2010
Schnauss also provided keyboards and backing vocals on Engineers (band)|Engineers ' third album, In Praise Of More .
In other media
"Monday Paracetamol" from A Strangely Isolated Place was used as one of the Background music#Anime.2C_video_game_and_blog_music|BGM s for the 2007 version of popular global EA Sports video game franchise Tiger Woods PGA tour .
Later in 2007, the "On My Own" track from A Strangely Isolated Place was used by Pontiac in its "Cars" TV commercial.
GMC (automobile)|GMC 's Superbowl commercial|Super Bowl commercial in 2008 ("Mountain Top") featured "Blumenwiese Neben Autobahn" from Far Away Trains Passing By .
"A Million Miles Away" was featured in the PAL territory version of the PlayStation 2 video game Gran Turismo 4 .
"...Passing By" from the album Far Away Trains Passing By featured in the 2005 movie Elizabethtown (film)|Elizabethtown and its accompanying Elizabethtown (soundtrack)|soundtrack
In the CSI: Miami Season 3 episode, "Under the Influence", the song, "On My Own" can be heard playing in the background as the newest addition to Horatio Caine's team, Ryan Wolfe played by Jonathan Togo is busy searching through Kenwall “Duke” Duquesne's car for evidence.
"On My Own" from "A Strangely Isolated Place" was featured in the Spring Summer 2012 collection for Emanuel Ungaro.
Pseudonyms and groups
Ulrich Schnauss
Ethereal 77
View to the Future
Hexaquart
Police in Cars with Headphones
Hair (with Alex Krueger)
Longview (British band)|Long-view (Keyboardist)
Engineers (band)|Engineers (Keyboardist)
Discography
Releases
Release title
Released as
Release type
Label
Year
Broken
View to the Future
12" single
White Label
1995
Wegwerfgesellschaft
Police in Cars With Headphones
CD album
FSP
Journey to the Other World
View to the Future
12" single
VTTF
1996
Purity
Alphakid Recordings
1997
Music Is Music
Airdrops
We Rule the 80s
Hair (With Alex Krueger)
12" EP
Müller
The 7th Seal
View to the Future
CD album
Alphakid Recordings
Unicorn
12" single
Case Invaders
1998
Hair 2
Hair (With Alex Krueger)
12" EP
USM
Spring Rmx
Ethereal 77
12" single
Base Daddy
1999
Landscapes
CD album
Ignorance
Junkie Sartre Vs Hexaquart
12" EP
Force Tracks
2000
Exploitation
Hexaquart
Lifetime
2001
Far Away Trains Passing By
Ulrich Schnauss
CD / LP
City Centre Offices
Zero Gravity
Ethereal 77
12" single
Looking Good
2002
A Strangely Isolated Place
Ulrich Schnauss
CD / 2xLP
City Centre Offices (Europe) / Domino (US)
2003
Quicksand Memory EP
CD/ EP
Independiente (Europe) / Domino (US)
2007
Goodbye
CD/ LP
Stars
CD/ EP
2008
neverChanger
A Shoreline Dream
CD/ EP
Latenight Weeknight
2008
Recollections of Memory
CD album
2009
Ulrich Schnauss and Jonas Munk
Ulrich Schnauss and Jonas Munk
CD album
Pedigree Cuts
2011
Underrated Silence
Ulrich Schnauss & Mark Peters
CD album
Bureau B
2012
Remixes
as Ulrich Schnauss
* Death Cab For Cutie - Home Is A Fire (Ulrich Schnauss Remix) - (Atlantic)
*Halo (Ulrich Schnauss Remix) - Lang Remixed (Preco)
* Madrid - Out To Sea (YYZ Records)
* Port-Royal - Stimmung (Resonant Recordings)
* The High Violets - "Chinese Letter" (Reverb Records)
* Howling Bells - Setting Sun (Bella Union)
*Johannes Schmoelling - Icewalk (Viktoriapark - Collaboration With Robert Wässer)
http://www.themusicfix.co.uk/content/feature/9323/ulrich-schnauss-interview.html Ulrich Schnauss interview with TMF in 2010 prior to release of Missing Deadlines
Persondata | NAME =Schnauss, Ulrich | ALTERNATIVE NAMES = | SHORT DESCRIPTION = | DATE OF BIRTH = 1977 | PLACE OF BIRTH = | DATE OF DEATH = | PLACE OF DEATH = DEFAULTSORT:Schnauss, Ulrich Category:Ambient musicians Category:German electronic musicians Category:1977 births Category:Living people Category:German experimental musicians
