Reconfigures

Schneider TM's Dirk Dresselhaus owns one of the most warped visions of electronic pop nirvana in post-millennial music, seen to good effect on his earlier pair of absurd, catchy studio records that rival Mouse on Mars for pure musical joy. Reconfigures collects extra tracks from the good Mr. Dresselhaus, including his remixes for a host of disparate acts -- Lamb, the Faint, Lambchop, Ruby -- as well as a few collaborations. Perhaps because they're not part of the expectations game, the unknowns here work better than the name tracks; Schneider TM's meetings with sympathetic parties like Rechenzentrum, Phillip Boa & the Voodooclub, and something called Turtle Bay Country Club are excellent tracks of clubbed-up computer pop; "Heaven TM," his collaboration with the latter, sounds like the results of Prince growing up in Hamburg. Dresselhaus isn't just a fine originator of his own material; he also intuitively understands how to transform the sound of a song but retain its atmosphere, as heard on his lovely remix of Lambchop's "The New Cobweb Summer." ~ John Bush

〈ドイツのコーネリアス〉とは誰が言ったか知らず、ノルウェーのアーランド・オイエとも大きなメガネで繋がっている、シュナイダーTMのコラボレーション&リミックス集が到着!　一筋縄ではいかない多彩な音楽性（SKETCH SHOWがフェイヴァリットに挙げるほど!）はここでも遺憾なく発揮されており、なかでも北欧感たっぷりにクール&アコースティックなパルス・プログラミングとラムチョップによるリミックスにグッときます。
bounce (C)村上 謙太郎