Monday's Long Song

I featured Schneider TM almost exactly one year ago with The Light 3000 a cover version of The Smith's There Is A Light That Never Goes Out. This version showed the way Dirk Dresselhaus developed his sound from the early early indie-/noise-rock with his bands Hip Young Things and Locust Fudge from the late 80's to more and more electronic experiments. A few weeks ago he released a little masterpiece. An album with one song with three different versions. As far as I know it is his first collaboration with Elena Poulou, former member of The Fall and widow of MES. It sounds like the perfect evolution of Michael Rother's Flammende Herzen. Floating synth sound over an Krautrock floor makes this to one of the best releases this year so far for me.

Tuesday's Cover

A lot of courage already is necessary to seize one of the best songs of the early 80's and to play in a cover version which deals generally nothing more with the original. Schneider TM if is an experimental solo project of Dirk Dresselhaus which devotes itself to the electric and electronic music. When I first listened to this version of The Smiths song There Was A Light That Never Goes Out  I couldn't believe that this was possible and I asked myself several time if this version was good or not. Finally this version made me curious to this kind of music and I got deeper and deeper to electronic sounds and music.