Schneider TM "Zoomer"

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I don't think we've done this yet.

― zebedee, Wednesday, 4 September 2002 12:08 (twenty-three years ago)

I quite liked the first track when I heard it courtesy gabba.

― zebedee, Wednesday, 4 September 2002 12:10 (twenty-three years ago)

Someone played 'Frogtoise' in a club on Monday, and all uber-cool post-mullett pack jumped up and started 'voguing', or at least trying out some kind of no-wave jitter. Much as I love 'Reality Check', 'The Light' and the direction he's taking IDM, I'm really not that interested in the rest of SchneiderTM's actual output.

― nick.K (nick.K), Wednesday, 4 September 2002 12:53 (twenty-three years ago)

It's on its way to me in the mail & I'm very excited to hear it. The last three months of 2002 are going to bring a flood of great releases, I predict, and make this year even better than 2001.

― Mark (MarkR), Wednesday, 4 September 2002 13:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I really like this album. A lot.

― Mark (MarkR), Monday, 16 September 2002 16:58 (twenty-three years ago)

Hooray! Tell me more once you've caught yr breath.

― zebedee, Monday, 16 September 2002 17:05 (twenty-three years ago)

It's very pop, taking the Mouse on Mars-style squishy production (a lot of people don't like this stuff, but it "clicks" w/ me - ho ho) and combining it w/ Dirk's vocals, harmonies, etc. Quite a bit like the direction you might have imagined Air going in if they hadn't gone more wild & eclectic w/ 10kHz. Something like 2/3 of the tracks are proper songs. In the vein of the vocal tracks on Binokular (the singing is mostly processed), but I'm not going to claim D.D. is on par w/ Marr/Morrissey as a songwriter. Still, I'm really enjoying this album. Look for a Pitchfork review in the next week or so!

― Mark (MarkR), Monday, 16 September 2002 17:22 (twenty-three years ago)

Fun but not as amazing as I'd hoped it would be from Reality Check. But then Reality Check is (imo) great, so maybe hearing that before the album gave me unfair expectations. That would fit with the way I was more impressed with Moist, which I bought cheap second-hand without knowing anything about it except that I'd seen them compared to MoM, anyway. Think I'll go and dig out Moist right now and see whether I actually prefer it or whether it was just the newness of it all...

(I do really like all this crunchy idm meets jangly indie stuff, though. I'm actually not a huge fan of Mum, Manual, dntel, etc, but I've been listening to a lot of Schneider TM and Capitol K this summer and I'm pleased that people more talented than me are able to realise some of the sounds in my head. Of course I'm also jealous that I wasn't among them, but yay all the same. :)

― Rebecca (reb), Monday, 16 September 2002 22:22 (twenty-three years ago)

Here is Mark's review... complete with the "a" word near the end ;-):
http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/record-reviews/s/schneider-tm/zoomer.shtml

Have now bought this LP, and for the most part am enjoying it a lot. I too approve of the direction Dresselhaus is going in. Indeed it's the instrumentals that let the LP down a bit. Tracks 6 and 7 just wash over me. Also, even the lyric-based tracks tend to go on a bit too long. 3'30" rather than 5 minutes plus would have been a better length for many tracks (old IDM habits die hard?). Perhaps this should have been an EP. ;-)

Anyone else think 'Frogtoise' is reminiscent of early Prefab Sprout?

― zebedee (Jeff W), Thursday, 26 September 2002 12:11 (twenty-three years ago)

two years pass...

But the instrumentals are my favorite part!

― Lukas (lukas), Thursday, 11 August 2005 00:10 (twenty years ago)

first three tracks = classique, rest = nah.

― dog latin (dog latin), Thursday, 11 August 2005 00:14 (twenty years ago)

i picked this up nice and cheap. it's pretty, but reality check does stand head and shoulders above everything else on it

― jimmy glass (electricsound), Thursday, 11 August 2005 00:25 (twenty years ago)

x-post

the fact that your cutoff just barely excludes "DJ Guy?" is bizarre and troubling.

― Lukas (lukas), Thursday, 11 August 2005 00:26 (twenty years ago)

I lost my copy. :(

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 11 August 2005 04:04 (twenty years ago)

"Frogtoise" is the ultimate AR Kane tribute.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Thursday, 11 August 2005 05:51 (twenty years ago)

Jim's assessment is basically mine as well. I think besides "Reality Check" and maybe "DJ Guy?" if I'm in the right mood the tracks all run on about a minute or two too long.

― Vinnie (vprabhu), Thursday, 11 August 2005 13:40 (twenty years ago)

I pretty much love the whole album.
When i was trying to get him to come play a show here in 2003, in an email he mentioned that he would have a new album out in 2005. i thought a two year projection a little odd, but whatever. i wonder if he's still planning on keeping true to that schedule.

― Fetchboy (Felcher), Thursday, 11 August 2005 14:21 (twenty years ago)

Apparently, he's (also) been working on a project called Dr. Drek, which is (another) collaboration with Michael Beckett (kpt. michigan). A 7" will soon be released on Earsugar, the mp3s of which are streamed from the website. "More Time" is great motorik-sweetness with echoing electronics and a simply gorgeous "gimmegimmegimmegimmegimme more time" throughout the song. The b-side is pastoral miniature with a 'Cluster ca. Sowiesoso'-feel to it.

― willem (willem), Thursday, 11 August 2005 14:41 (twenty years ago)

(www.earsugar.com)

― willem (willem), Thursday, 11 August 2005 14:42 (twenty years ago)

this album = yawn

― weasel diesel (K1l14n), Thursday, 11 August 2005 14:43 (twenty years ago)

This album = yawesome.

― nabisco (nabisco), Thursday, 11 August 2005 14:48 (twenty years ago)

one year passes...

Peanut is classic.

― I know, right?, Sunday, 29 July 2007 21:58 (eighteen years ago)

one month passes...

The "Girl Who Cried All The Tears From Her Body"/"Sweet Divorcee" single (MWM001) with dude from Lustfaust is really really good.

― Curt1s Stephens, Wednesday, 29 August 2007 02:04 (eighteen years ago)

four years pass...

"Abyss" from this album is super classic, I've been rocking it all week

― frogbs, Friday, 30 September 2011 14:28 (fourteen years ago)

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Schneider TM "Zoomer" - any good?