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The pioneers of cosmic / minimal / electro are back again. There are two new Schaltkreis tracks that we produced together with electroking DJ Tony White. You can download "Red Alert" and "Zeitkapsel" at beatport.com.  Download of RED ALERT and ZEITKAPSELSoon coming live There's more to come. We are preparing to get back on stage with Schaltkreis Wassermann and currently we are in the studio to redefine the Schaltkreis style. It looks like we're going back to our original cosmic psychedelic feeling and analog synths. PSYCHOTRON PSYCHOTRON, the vinyl cult album from the early 80ies, is available again - this time as a CD. Schaltkreis Wassermann was the psychedelic electronic music project of Stella and PJ Wassermann in the eighties. The album 'Psychotron' reached the top ten of the English synthesizer charts. Style: cosmic / minimal / electro / synth pop. A nice compliment: in 2007 the London based underground label Piccadilly Records released a bootleg vinyl of the Schaltkreis track LUX.  Get PSYCHOTRON at cdbaby. Get PSYCHOTRON at iTunes.More info about today's activities of Stella & PJ Wassermann at www.hypermusic.ch mail to PJ Wassermann:  click here for secure online shoppingat our Kagi shop.  Background Schaltkreis Wassermann was a pioneer group of electronic music. Founded in 1979 by Stella & PJ Wassermann (who still work together with several projects) Schaltkreis Wassermann featured a minimalistic approach that was dictated by the available means: * 1 ARP 2600 Syntheseizer, * 1 ARP Avatar guitar synthesizer * 1 Roland 100M modular synthesizer * and 1 Sequential Circuits Prophet V synthesizer, all kept together by the Roland MicroComposer MC4 that was capable of playing four simultaneous monophonic synths. Tape recording was done with a TEAC 4track and later with an Otari 8track tape machine. It was a great and very psychedelic time. Stella & PJ spent days, weeks and months in their studio exploring sound and consciousness resulting in PSYCHOTRON a ground breaking album in 1981 showcasing a lot of what was to become mainstream in electronic music and then some. PSYCHOTRON was sold all over the world as a vinyl album and made it to numer 7 of the British synthesizer charts in "Melody Maker". More info about today's activities of Stella & PJ Wassermann at www.hypermusic.ch |
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| The Psychotron CD contains all the original tracks of the vinyl LP plus four bonus tracks, among them "Excursion", an previously unreleased collage of recordings from an LSD-Session of 1980. The album is packaged as a Digipak inclusive an 12-page booklet with lots of original material from the 80ies - a true collector's item! |
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| Feedback Finally the long lost Swiss synth-pop / minimal classic Psychotron by Schaltkreis Wassermann has been released on CD including bonus tracks. Psychotron is beside the album by Nachtraum the most sought after LP from this genre. (Robert Pally) Ich bin vor ein paar Tagen von der Tour zurückgekehrt ... ich wollte dir nur mitteilen, dass ich nach einem Konzert in Belgrad einen Fan von dir getroffen habe, sie hatte sogar die alte Psychotron Platte von euch. Weil wir aus der Schweiz kommen hat sie uns grad als erstes gefragt, ob wir das kennen, allerdings hat sie nicht gewusst, dass du immer noch Musik machst, Matterhorn sagte ihr auch nichts. Papiro, elektronischer Musiker, www.atreeinafieldrecords.com Ich verwende dieses Wort sonst nie, aber Euer Sound ist soooooooo GEIL..... Vor allem "Destiny" (von PJ's Solo-Album "Triple E"), aber auch "Excursion" (bin halt auch Fan der berliner Schule). Michael Buehler-Zeller If I'm not mistaken, it was the early 80's...a friend of mine gave me a cassette simply labled "psychotron"...it was a very good copy from vinyl, recorded with very good audio equipment on a very good tape...it had all the wonderful dynamics of the original vinyl....it immediately became one of my favorites, and got mislaid in a move 15 years later...7 years after that, it re-surfaced....by this time I've got 2 kids about 20 yrs. old, who love music and became fond of this recording....after lots of research, I found that it was you and Stella (my mom's name) who recorded it, I saw a photo of the album cover for the first time, found it was out of print, and read rumors of a re-release...after checking 5 or 6 times a year, I ran into this Kagi place, and the rest is history. I can't thank you enough for writing, and expressing an interest in my history with this album. Ric Desiena |
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