Kollektion 05: Conrad Schnitzler (Compiled and Assembled by Thomas Fehlmann)

36 years ago the art student Thomas Fehlmann (The Orb, Palais Schaumburg) attended a guest lecture by one of Germany's most important experimental electronic musicians Conrad Schnitzler (Tangerine Dream, Kluster). Schnitzler demonstrated to the students how the "extended definition of art" established by Joseph Beuys could be applied to music. This proved to be a crucial element in Fehlmann's decision to become a musician. Now things come in full circle: Fehlmann compiled our fifth "Kollektion", arranging, in uniquely harmonious fashion, sixteen pieces from the early 1980s by the man who broadened his horizons. The gateway to Conrad Schnitzler's sonic cosmos has been flung wide open.
Bureau B's excellent Kollektion series elects Thomas Fehlmann to select his favourite Conrad Schnitzlers. This 5th instalment, like the others, affords some contextual grasp on one of the largest, slipperiest catalogues of electronic music in the late 20th century. And poignantly so as Fehlmann, a legend of Teutonic electronics in his own right, was first prompted to make electronic music as a student after witnessing Schnitzler demonstrate "how the "extended definition of art" established by Joseph Beuys could be applied to music." Across 16 songs he touches on the breadth and depth of Schnitzler's output, from pulsing space music of his 'Contempora' pieces thru to wigged-out pop songs made with his sohn, Gregor, to the strangely feathered electronic fancies of 'Fata Morgana' and the darker disco lust of 'Das Tier' or the Berlin-skooled freedoms of 'Komm mit nach Berlin' or '19.8.86'. Recommended!!!

Tracklist

00:00:00 Contempora 11
00:04:18 Contempora 09
00:07:59 Tanze im Regen
00:12:38 Con 3.3
00:16:09 Conrad & Sohn 02
00:21:03 Conrad & Sohn 01
00:24:56 21.8.86
00:27:58 Fata Morgana
00:33:06 Contempora 04
00:34:34 Contempora 07
00:36:55 Das Tier
00:40:44 Contempora 13
00:44:32 Copacabana
00:49:40 Tape 5
00:53:13 Komm mit nach Berlin
00:56:16 19.8.86