Ulrich Schnauss & Mark Peters

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Sublime stuff from the master of "shoegazer indietronica" Ulrich Schnauss, and Mark Peters, guitarist and songwriter with Engineers. These are two musicians blessed with the ability to create beautifully transporting music and 'Underrated Silence' finds them at their best. With an acute attention to creating the most delicate, soul-suspending moods and atmosphere, their collaborative output recalls the most memorable themes of classic electronica by Boards Of Canada, The Orb, Cocteau Twins or Slowdive, peering over lush pastoral scapes of almost bacchanalian degrees, to the kind of sonic environments we could happily book a two week holiday to, if such a thing were possible. Ultimately it's life-affirming and deeply positive music, maybe not quite deliriously happy, but content and warmly comforting, sensitively balancing melancholy moments like the Stereolab-like swoon of 'Forgotten' with the heart-melting harmonic wow and flutter of 'Yesterday Didn't Exist', always keeping something even sweeter and more lovely up its sleeve. (2) A somewhat mysterious producer from Berlin, Germany, Ulrich Schnauss debuted under his own name in 2001 with Far Away Trains Passing By. Released by City Centre Offices, the album seemingly came from nowhere and wound up on several journalists' year-end favorites lists, impressing many with a beguiling level of charm that referenced the shimmer of the Cocteau Twins and the beat mining of the Black Dog. Released in 2003, A Strangely Isolated Place,

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Underrated Silence

tomorrow is another day

For Nihon

Destiny Waiving

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Underrated Silence Bonus Version

Possibilities of Circumstance

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Groove Salad: a nicely chilled plate of ambient beats and grooves. [SomaFM]

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Tomorrow Is Another Day [BB148] CD

Destiny Waiving Köln Versionen EP (feat. Jan Philipp Janzen)

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Musikexpress 1213 - Der Soundtrack Zum Heft

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For Nihon Disc 2

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Balcony Sunset ⁄ Sonnenaufgang 4:46 Uhr

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