Tuesday Weld
Tuesday Weld were formed somewhere around 1991 in Sinsheim by kptmichigan (then still known as MIchael Beckett), Dirk Kretz, Bob Schätzle and Haggy. Being the times they were, the boys were influenced by Dinosaur, Sebadoh, Hüsker Dü, Notwist (when they still kicked ass) and so forth. Along came a Norwegian Horde known as Motorpsycho (also when they still kicked ass) and made it quite clear that a broader sense of musical taste = better music.
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Mr. Schmuck`s Farm
Hildur Gudnadottir and Dirk Dresselhaus met each other at Club Transmediale 2004 in Berlin and started to hang out, party, play boccia and record improv-sessions at Dirk’s Constructionsite Studios. They soon found out that the combination of Hildur’s skills on acoustic instruments (cello, zither, saw, accordion etc.) and Dirk’s ways of electronic manipulation (effect-feedbacks, realtime sampling, modular system, filtering etc.) offers a foundation for deep musical communication and organic soundworlds, that are freefloating, time-transcending and morphable in many different sonic directions.
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Super Reverb
Super Reverb were formed in 2004 after Ken Dyber of Aesthetics asked kptmichigan if he knew anyone he would like to do a collaboration album with. He had been impressed by the second album of a Belgian guy called Köhn (who would soon become a close friend) and thus Super Reverb were born.
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Angel
Ilpo Väisänen (of Pan sonic) and Dirk Dresselhaus (of Schneider TM) have been playing freeform noise with a tendancy to drone things out since 1999. The whole thing is quite a noman`s landish affair : somewhere between and in the middle of industrial, dub, new music, indierock, blues and science fiction soundtracks. From 2004 on they were joined by icelandic cellist/multiinstrumentalist Hildur Gudnadottir (Lost in Hildurness, Mum etc.) on a regular basis.
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Kptmichigan
British on paper, confused by nature. Kptmichigan, then known as Michael Beckett, had been messing around with the drone/noise/songs idea for quite a while, in his NEU! meets Dinosaur Jr. indie rock band Tuesday Weld, aswell as on his own with a 4 track cassette recorder and an array of cheap instruments. After Tuesday Weld split in 1999
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SchneiderTM
While still working as singer, songwriter and guitar player with bands such as Hip Young Things and Locust Fudge, Dirk Dresselhaus started Schneider TM (named after his nickname Schneider) in 1996. He started messing around with a borrowed drummachine and other electronic devices which he sent through his guitar pedals and recorded sessions on 4-track cassette tape. After releasing the first Schneider™ 12“ on Payola (a Weilheim-based Label connected to the scene around The Notiwst) Dresselhaus got the offer to record the first album Moist for City Slang in 1997.
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