Author: HerrSchneider

STROMKULT is our platform to release updates and latest news on selected hardware synthesizers, sequencers, competent drummachines, analogue modular systems, Midi tools, controllers, converters and related stuff of any kind. For supersmall manufacturers and inventors of such electronic musical instruments SCHNEIDERSBUERO has been founded back in 1999 as distribution and a common marketing platform. Products has been shown online, in our showrooms and on the'SUPERBOOTH', we made workshops and uncounted reviews has been managed in magazines all over europe. Now these very special instruments and tools quite often can be bought from resellers over europe, all of them directly from our webshop SCHNEIDERSLADEN worldwide.

Happy New Year & ..

..all our best wishes for you and yours. Thank you for your ongoing partnership looking forward to meet you again this year.

Mario Hammer @SUPERBOOTH17

During SUPERBOOTH17 we recorded a lot of great concerts and Performances. From now on once a week we release one of them on the web shown here and on SchneidersBuero at least.

Mario Hammer, who made the very first so called Gesprächskonzert for AKAI, that was the official release of AKAIs new sampler and same time the release of his new record „Je l’ai caliseé la“ as „Mario Hammer and the lonely robot„. .. is online now. More to follow asap ..

KORG Performance @ SUPERBOOTH17

One of the uncounted real synth concerts and a really smart performance on SUPERBOOTH17 was the Gespraechskonzert  for Korg and Arp in the Cinema (open this link to find their complete 2016-performance, too).
Jörg Sunderkötter – Sound&Recording’s earlier chief editor, on keyboards – and his studio partner Joker Nies – an expert for circuit bending – had some problems to find on stage but then it became like this .. turn it on to listen yourselves, please.

Jean-Michel Jarre was here ..

“Il faut retourner a parler francais et allemand maintenant” was common sense in a chat with Jean-Michel Jarre and his Band inside SchneidersLaden reflecting the upcoming Brexit and the crazy Mister President of the americans yesterday. I invited JMJ to talk about this on next years Superbooth in a so called Altherrenabend, he was very sorry to not have been on SUPERBOOTH17 already but as a compense I am invited to his open Air Concert in Spandau Zitadelle Berlin today – looking forward to this. The attached picture is from his last visit in the shop where he met with Boris from Yello by accident.

Freqs of Nature now

Freqs_festival_impressionsOn 2016th Freqs of Nature SchneidersLaden was already present with half of the staff, so it is kind of clear that this time we will be there with some more cases using even more than just some Bastl units. Feel free to find Patrick offstage somewhere doing workshops explaining ways of modulars, see ZV_K or Kabelstecker and plenty others onstage as one of the uncounted good examples of modular music now.

Freqs of Nature, Festival: July, 5th – 11th in 14913 Niedergörsdorf gutes Wetter!

You can find our short story on Freqs of nature here.

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Not just XAOC..

XAOC comes Berlin.. will be coming to Berlin for the upcoming SUPERBOOTH17, but they have definitely the coolest ad that I have seen on the web so far.

Who is next? See you soon.

The hondes Martenot ..

photo1-881b4324the french invention of the hondes martenot led into plenty of classical compositions for an early electronic musical instrument that is still 50 years later needed quite often nowadays for concerts. So owners of those few units that still work fine are often booked. For all others now there is hope from Japan, where Ondomo is producing a fine remake looking like something nearer to the original compared with the available french connection by Analogue Systems or Doepfers very affordable solution called R2M/A-189. Check this out on a date in their room Orbitall on the upcoming Superbooth soon.

Feeding Concerts ..

singing_kitchen-45882f05will be held  inside Superbooth17 next to the seaside stage every day starting at 1pm. Feel free to help out with cutting down your onions on the beat and listen to the bacon, that sounds best .. as the artist told us!

could happen ..

Mario Hammer and the lonely Robot for a smart sunset on the seaside stage to finish a weird day with an earlier gig of FUCKETYBUCKETY on the K1 quadrophonical stage? ..saw great guys called Ricardo and Max, one of the Ramsteiners and others. Colin Benders was performing live, sailing back home finally? Listening  to Carlos African Beats on a boot shuttle down the river, fell into the C-Base, Robert Lowe could be the name of a guy making a generative patch on a rotating installation with six modulars, a very special place. some sleep. Next day back to the FEZ with the S-Bahn arriving Wuhlheide. The Park Train took me around for free. Friday afternoon d´Voxx performing outdoors, directly afterwards I had this workshop and built myself a very first DIY eurorack case; understood: Now I am a junkie! Many nice talks about it afterwards, Alissa deRubeis as 4MS had some good hints for us, I will join for the girls workshop tomorrow. Monika Werkstatt, another smart lady from the UK and finally Matt Didemus from Junior Boys together with Mark Verbos rocked the remaining friday, a Boat shuttle with Tangerine Dream was sold out, but there was a second one, luckily – C-Base again, Friday night.
Saturday half past one: Synths4girls just for girls, well done. Listening to different speakers – audio monitors, two three speaker lounges, now I know what to listen to. 4 oclock: live composing, no .. listening to skinnerbox, Mouse on Mars. Meeting Mike Shannon. Frank Bretschneider? #INSTANTBONER on the boat, great party starty, taking over the OHM for the final countdown: Jackie Houser-Brown – funny, plenty of modular heroes, Daniel Miller and again, the end of times in the C-base? perhaps. It could have been the superbooth.

Monika Werkstatt..

Monika Werkstatt – as a hardware jam on thursday and friday around 9pm at SUPERBOOTH – will be one of our dearest events showing a female view on our passion.
All informations are online now!

And for the other end of the range we also welcome fuCKeTybUckEtY alias Ken Macbeth and Friends
giving us an insight on how to use HIS synths.

Skinnerbox @ SUPERBOOTH ..

endorphines_shuttleSkinnerbox will play a so called Gesprächskonzert on SUPERBOOTH17-Saturday afternoon 5pm in the theatre hall for endorphin.es. Probably Skinnerbox will perform on one of their first complete shuttles, now – here you can find their last years details.

.. btw. 13 DIY-Workshops will be held during superbooth with limited places available (now online). Soldering icons and everything else will be there, you just need to book your place now and arrive in time, there is plenty of time left for the rest of the show if you will be in town for more than one day (!). Look here.

DIY workshops now online

bom_gpa-c6c6db14During SUPERBOOTH17 there will be up to six DoItYouselves-Workshops available every day for a limited number of participants – who would like to understand how to solder such little wonders yourself. You do not even need a ticket to enter the show but you have to book the kit including a place with a soldering icon and help for a certain day in advance, places are limited.  A list with all available options can be found here now.

RE upcoming Superbooth..

Our partner Cashmere Radio is opening up their archives presenting some rare recordings and interviews from last years SUPERBOOTH16 introducing their visions for this years convention. First episode is an interview with HerrSchneider to be heard on Monday 12:15 on Cashmere Radio here.

Cashmere will be streaming again plenty of artist interviews AND exclusively the daily aftershow events on board of the C-Base that can be reached with the boat shuttle leaving FEZ after 9pm and at midnight each day.

Und Manchmal Artet es aus

.. in Musik! also “Manchmal artet es in Musik aus” ist der Titel der Langen Nacht über den Intermedia Künstler Conrad Schnitzler, der leider viel zu früh vor wenigen Jahren verstorben ist. Als Kunde von SchneidersLaden hat er sich gern immer wieder mal einen neuen Synth “gekauft”, den er bevorzugt nicht besonders gut zu verstehen gewillt war, um sich von dessen Klang und Geräuschebringenden Exzessen selbst immer wieder neu überraschen zu lassen während er diese aufnahm und zu immer wieder neuen Werken in seinem Kellerstudio kombinierte.
In seinem unglaublichen Nachlass gibt es somit Werke die ausschließlich mit z.B. einer Sherman Filterbank oder dem Cwejman S1 oder dem großen M5 von Macbeth (im Foto links: Dank an Max Joy) gemacht sind, die Instrumente sind seinerzeit immer wieder zu gunsten weiterer neuer Produkte zu uns zurück gekommen. Seine eigentlichen Werke allerdings waren wohl die Kassettekonzerte und sein Auftreten gegenüber dem konservativen Mainstream der (berliner) westdeutschen Nachkriegszeit z.B.in der Frankfurter Oper oder im Stechschritt auf dem Kuhdamm. Ich bin gespannt.

Diesen Samstag auf Deutschlandradio Kultur ab 00:05 Uhr
oder auf http://www.deutschlandradiokultur.de “Manchmal artet es in Musik aus”
Eine Lange Nacht über Conrad Schnitzler

SOOPERNEWS ..

the SUPERBOOTH17 exhibitor list is nearly completed now. Just four little tables reserved for some slow decider from the waiting list. If you have been forgotten, please remind us NOW or just join as an exhibitor on superbooth18.

NAMM AFtershow..

AAEAAQAAAAAAAAttAAAAJGFmYjIxNGM5LWYwZjktNGM3Ni04ZTQ2LWVjYjRiMzJjMjJlYQThe view from amerika onto some european modular makers is quite interesting stating out here that we care for features and sound quality in not just high end but higher end modules, so .. thank you for the flowers and ..  what’s going on with the products of our american collueges then? Read the whole article here and join www.superbooth.com for deeper knowledge not just on this.

little funk operator?

A real virtual chicken little funk operator – MADE IN USA now (god bless the Amerikafürst) – is indeed available just from the very very best of synthesizershops all over the world..

.. presented here by lovely Marketing Manager Anabelle Spencer for Super Sonic Sound System. To create your own mainframe just visit ussss online and .. conduct your own custom symphony!
..3 year warranty! .. go supersonic now!

NAMM 17 .. OVER ..

975_1325so .. lets make europe even greater then, ..
or what was it all about?

NAMM 2017 is over now, there is still plenty of news to be released here so stay tuned, please.

We all will hopefully meet again on the upcoming SUPERBOOTH17 in april at FEZ-Berlin to see how great the USA became in between. I wish us all the best not just for this but first of all lets try even harder to keep some peace in the world here and there.

NAMM 17 – Doepfer

IMG_4757The inventor and most classical eurorack brand Doepfer now released their version of a mixing desk inside the system in a definitely modular form. Plenty of their modules are also available now as a so called vintage version in black so they are getting back to the classical shine of a (moog-style) modular taking it to the complex possibilities of nowadays modulars. The existing Doepfer products in silver aluminium are classical themselves in between, still built in a very high quality for mostly very affordable prices.

The earlier combination of A-138-O/A-138-P as a simple four- to sixteen-channel Mixer can very soon be expanded by the A-135-4-A/B/C to have the 4 to 16 channels added with CV-controlled AUX, PAN, LEVEL and MUTE parameters. The modular component 135-4C is a four channel envelope follower opening a new horizont of level control in eurorack systems. Apart from this, Doepfer was presenting the comeback of their high end VCO that had to be discontinued once their curtis chips was no longer available (as far as I know). Now the “new” A-111-2 is available in a wide and a very small version, see all details shown by Patrick Detampel in this Video:

NAMM2017 started today

IMG_4738.. and there are plenty of modular manufacturers getting together again. Elektron released an update on their drummachine in a new casing, Pittsburgh shows his passion for slotmachines and Harvestman is offering a huge synth together with Malekko? This is just the little impression that I got from yesterdays look down thru the links on twitter. The biggest news today will be the funny new president (sorry, not funny) but still there will be other news n stuff to be shown over here in pictures and links… btw we learned to make pictures available in big again, so please feel free to just clic on the small ones..
lets make truth big again?.

IMG_0468Running around on NAMM there are Carlo Krug, Sebastian Baumann and Henning Schonvogel for SchneidersLaden with the job to buy. For the Alex4 distribution company there are Rene Margraff and Jan Mueller with the job to sell, there are plenty of manufacturers themselves around them with the passion to play and finally there is Patrick Detampel with the passion to explain.
So if you have questions regarding the upcoming SUPERBOOTH17 end of april probably Patrick could help you best.

Please have a good time all together, be a peaceful and constructive community to get together again very soon here in berlin, europe for a warm welcome of our spring. I am very much looking forward to welcome YOU on board making the wonderful ride on the river again. And there is plenty of other reasons to participate again.
With warmest regards, HerrSchneider, Berlin

DOEPFER FAEHRT AB

Anzeige_Vintage_LokomotiveNot just their best VCOs ever but also a complete Mixer system with smart black frontplates and nicer knobs are now available by our most classic european eurorack brand DOEPFER. All their lastest news and products can be seen and tested on the NAMM show in Anaheim (CA) now, visit booth #4911 (Alex4).

Nightlife at NAMM?

LA_modularmekka_2017With the upcoming NAMM show this week theres not just makers and inventors of modulars and other synthesis products meeting each other in the LA area, plenty of mostly american artists and musicians will be around. Some of the most experimental users of modern modulars – Alessandro Cortini, Richard Devine and Surachai – are doing an evening on Sunday together with seemingly well choosen visual artists to make this trade show probably an outstanding get together of the scenery.

.. if I understood everything right,  it will be a commercial event on sunday night in Lot 613, LA downtown. Please find further informations here.

 

ALEX4 has Moved

ALEX4You mostly dont have to take care about this, but the doepfer and others-general distributor ALEX4 moved to a new adress in the north of berlin where they have a bigger stock room and a nicer office to let our musical instrument shops over europe get the stuff they need from. But even there .. you can not find them next week because they will all be on NAMM showing the modular world to those freaks in the Los Angeles area who are not moving to washington to celebrate their new president at the same time. So if you are one of those living in the US and meet us in Anaheim near Disneyland to check for the latest news of AJH Synth, Audio Damage, Birdkids, Doepfer, E-RM, Endorphines, Frap Tools, Haken, Kenton, Sherman, Verbos, Vermona and others .. see you.

thank you..

2016 was a wonderful year, we had a very good time with each other, a good mood in the company and many nice private moments. The world is going crazy and many people are anxious of the future but first of all I would like to say thank you for the past and even more for the present. We are at the lucky end of the world and we should share a bit more carefully the goods we have keeping a respectful relation with those who are not that lucky now and in the future.

I am very much looking forward to another great meeting on 2017s SUPERBOOTH to also talk about such with you and yours. I hope to meet you all up again soon wishing you a good start into 2017.
with warmest regards from all of us,

SchneidersLaden, Alex4 distribution and SUPERBOOTH17

Modular System for X-mas?

.. synthesizers could make one happy, too! If you plan to order something that you would like to have under or instead of a christmas tree – lightning could be even better – we strongly recommend to plan it and ask for availability in time. Usually this is not done in a day and we will recommend you to oversleep your indivdiual selection and constellation, but .. please call in or come in or start reading about it – if, then –  now.

the truth and the real one..

modeldsNext to our Minimoog demo in the showroom Berlin, we have placed and original Minimoog with an extra portion of patina and the smell of 40 years of stage carreer. Please be very careful comparing the original with the remake.

Personally I still wonder that people go for such an expensive remake when there are so many interesting new possibilities to make music in the market, but thinking further  .. in the end .. playing a keyboard on an ipad? .. no.

Modular Promotions

dsc_0034To explain the idea of modulars and let more people understand the possibilities of such instruments to make music, to learn about maths, frequencies sounds and moods over low voltages and to meet old and new friends we are often on the roads in europe visiting festivals, synth meetings, musical instrument shows and other retail stores over years already.
Yesterday evening I stood in the berlin based schneidersLaden showroom and reflected that at the same time Patrick Detampel is on his way to Munich to explain the latest news of the Doepfer black magic there while Holger Zapf is on the ferry to the UK to explain the source of eurorack on two festivals this weekend. So if you would like to learn more about what we do over here dont hesitate to ask for help, we could be around.

Next Workshop at SchneidersLaden: (?) Dec, 1st or 8th
Workshops in Munich (bei Just Music)  .. and learn
more about Analogue Systems in the UK on the
sines and squares festival in Manchester now.

Friday afternoon..

After his gig in Berlin Jean-Michel Jarre visited our showoroom in SchneidersLaden and met Boris Blank from the Band Yello here. Boris was looking for some modulars picking up a black Doepfer System and the TomOberheim Twovoice Synth for his shows in Berlins Kraftwerk.

Amsterdam dance event

alex4_on_amsterdam_dance_eventIF you are in Amsterdam or around you coud meet up with Patrick D. on the Amsterdam Dance Event to play on some modulars and learn more about what we are doing over here.

ADE – Compagnietheater | Kloveniersburgwal 50, Amsterdam  – noon til 7pm, free admission

SUPERBOOTH17 NEWS

_mg_1759-copy SUPERBOOTH17 will happen in April directly after Easter again. This time we will celebrate the FEZ Berlin, a building made for kids and the youth with many wonderful functional rooms, located in a great family park not far from last year’s venue. It was built in 1979 by the GDR and is in perfect condition. Again you can start the trip with a boat shuttle from “Jannowitzbrücke” in the morning or (new!) you get there with S-Bahn (suburban train) all day long.

Potential exhibitors will have an invitation this weekend, ticket sales will start in November. A new website has been released now.

We are safe!

SchneidersLaden.de is SSL certificated again and safe for your purchase per credit card if you like. Still you are even more welcome to come in person and see the showroom with all the modulars in, but … enjoy the wonderful weather first.

HAETTE, HEATTE, FAHRRADKETTE

If you dont own a modular so far and IF you would like to know about it and IF you understand the german language, here is the latest issue of an intensive introduction on how do I get this started.. with Patrick Detampel as a guest of Non-Eric alias Muso-Talk ..

SAT: Veteranenstrassenfest

When I came to Berlin once, my whole life was just concentrated around Veteranenstrasse in Mitte for a few weeks: There is the ACUD, the Zionskirche and those days there was the wonderful Galerie Radio Berlin. Some of the “Veterans” are still there, so now  Jim Avignon and many others will perform on an event in Berlin Mitte initiated by Mike Riemel, that probably is different to the usual “Berlin Mitte”.

Saturday, September, 3rd, 2pm til late: Heinrich Heine Stage (opposite Veteranenstr. 27), ACUD macht Neu, Playground (Veteranen 18), Zionschurch and around there .. here is some more information about it, enjoy.

Solder workshop

To solder yourself a little synth may be an interesting experience for electronic musicians: Leaf Audio will realize another of their DIY workshops where you can learn such inside the KRAKE festival on the afternoon of July, 30st – Saturday. To participate please register asap via this side: If I got it right, you just go there to solder it together yourselves and sooner or later you will get it done and have your first own little synth – handmade, selfmade and to go.

workshops on a regular base at SL

Workshops_schneidersLadenSynthesizer-Workshops am Eurorack-Modularsystem machen wir jetzt regelmäßig monatlich für Anfänger und Fortgeschrittene in SchneidersLaden. die genauen Termine und Themen erfahrt Ihr hier oder auf Anfrageper email von Thomas.

Synthesizer workshops for newbees and runaways will be held on eurorack modular systems monthly from now now. The exact dates and further infos can be found here or on demand per email from Thomas.

English humor ..

.. is not like german and the other way round. Sorry – I really dont like english hooligans, but many others indeed. I am sad that too many “english old farts” voted for leave, don’t you?

Regular workshops

Once for starters and once for runaways we will have monthly workshops about eurorack and synthesizer topics inside SchneidersLaden from now on. They will always start at 6pm and your admission per mail is more than welcome.

Monday closed – Whitsun

Pfingsten is a Bank Holiday in Germany. So all us stayed home today and I hope your inquiries can wait for tomorrow? Enjoy the rest of the day. (May, 16th 2016)

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