Ulrich Schnauss

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Ulrich Schnauss (2018)

Ulrich Schnauss (* 1977 in Kiel ) is a German musician and music producer . His music can be classified between ambient , electronica , shoegazing and indietronic .

Life

Schnauss, who was born and raised in Kiel, moved to Berlin in 1996. There he published 77 different pieces of music from ambient to drum and bass to electronics under pseudonyms such as View to the Future and Ethereal . Schnauss produced several releases of Frank Müller's Beroshima project and other releases on his Müller Records label .

Under the pseudonym Ethereal 77 , Schnauss released the album Landscapes in 1999 . In 2001, the first widely acclaimed debut album Far Away Trains Passing By was released on the electronica label City Center Offices . In 2003 his second album A Strangely Isolated Place followed , which was able to build on the success of the previous one.

In 2005 the Playstation 2 game Gran Turismo 4 was released , which includes its title "A Million Miles Away" as a soundtrack. At that time, this title could be freely downloaded from Ulrich Schnauss' homepage. Part of the track "On my own" , which appeared on the album A Strangely Isolated Place , can be heard in an episode ( "Under The Influence" ) of the popular TV series CSI: Miami . The title "Passing By" underlines a scene in the film Elizabethtown with Kirsten Dunst and Orlando Bloom . His third album, Goodbye , was released in June 2007.

In 2012, after working with Mark Peters, he released his first solo album in five years: A Long Way To Fall , which Schnauss released on his own label, Scripted Realities .

Schnauss has been a member of the German electronics group Tangerine Dream since 2014 .

Litigation

In October 2009, the label behind Schnauss sued Interscope-Geffen because of two possibly illegally used song fragments from the titles Wherever You Are and A Strangely Isolated Place in Guns N 'Roses song Riad And The Bedouins .

Discography

Albums
  • 2001: Far Away Trains Passing By ( City Center Offices )
  • 2003: A Strangely Isolated Place (City Center Offices)
  • 2007: Goodbye (Independiente)
  • 2010: Epic (with Jonas Munk, Pedigree Cuts)
  • 2012: Underrated Silence (with Mark Peters, Bureau B )
  • 2012: A Long Way To Fall (Scripted Realities)
  • 2016: No Further Ahead Than Today (Scripted Realities)
  • 2017: Passage (with Jonas Munk) (Azure Vista (Cargo Records))

Web links

Commons : Ulrich Schnauss  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. Guns N 'Roses sued for copyright infringement at guardian.co.uk, accessed January 14, 2013