Recycle or Die is Johannes Schmoelling 7th Solo album, since leaving Tangerine Dream in 1986. This is primarily a collection of tracks composed during the last 10 years for theatre and film productions. Furthermore "Recycle Or Die" is a hommage to people, who affected Schmoellings musical life lastingly (here in particular its two former colleagues Christoph Franke & Edgar Froese of TANGERINE DREAM and the very much appreciated Johann Sebastian Bach). The CD is introduced by the rather minimalistic piece "L'Atelier", which has its origin in the theatre production "Das Atelier" from Jean Claude Grumberg, which had premiere on 20 October 2000 at the Renaissance-Theater in Berlin. From the music accompanying the play now a stand-alone composition was created. "Explosive Game"shows Schmoelling from a completely different side: originated from music for the German crime television serial "Ein Starkes Team" (A Strong Team), this piece has a pressureful, aggressively mentionable, dramatic character. One hears and experiences the tension of the story also without seeing the pictures. Also "Recycle Or Die" originally came from the TV series already mentioned, shows up however from a completely different side. Here one hears Schmoelling, how fans and friends of electronic music know and love him! To spherical sounds he arranges an economically used drumloop, in addition sensitive, romantic melodiese, whereby this piece gets already nearly a catchy tune. (tip for playing!) As track