His music is directly and indirectly inspired by Velvet Underground, TV's Magum, cheap champagne, drumming in a rock band for several years and living in the countryside.

In fact, this is what happens when you become so obsessed with sounds that you can’t sleep because you’re so intrigued by the different tonal qualities of every drop of rain on the window and every squeak the bedsprings make.
This is what happens when instead of going to sleep you sit up until dawn with only a cheap bottle of champagne and a home recording studio for company.

It's time to blast preconceptions of electronica as cold, minimal, distant knob twiddling to oblivion once and for all, and Dirk Dresselhaus, aka Schneider TM, is just the man to do it. His second full length album, Zoomer, harnesses a sublimely modern depth of musical vision to the hard won wisdom of life experience. A proper album, developed over the course of three years, Zoomer is the sound of electronica, at last, with something to say.

"You've got to keep your heart open" Dirk says straight up, with his typical bulls-eye brevity. "When you're in a certain heightened state of sensitivity, you feel all the different sounds, melodies, and words. The trick then is to keep your ears open for the right moment when it all just happens to fall together and then get it on the hard drive. That's one of the main points of this record."

What about genuinely crafted songwriting? Check. Pop hooks? Check. Catchy vocal melodies? Check. Wry humor? Check. Schneider TM brings a singer-songwriter sensibility for words and music to the ambitions of a sonic explorer. He calls it "chemical listening", being able to hear layers of ear-teasing, soul tickling sounds, threaded personal beliefs and hopes. The more you listen, the more you discover. It's hard to think of another artist in the field of electronica who has yet done come up with the goods as he does with blinding success.

Over the past three years, Schneider TM has remixed in inimitable style the likes of Lambchop, Labradford, High Llamas, Quarks and Ruby among others. A noise-record with Pansonic's Ilpo Vaisanen is in the can and Norwegian folkster Erlend Oye (Kings of Convenience) has asked him to collaborate on his forthcoming solo project. Dirk is also a member of the outfit Paincake with girlfriend Hanayo (a former J-Pop star, now visual artist, who also records for Digital Hardcore), and plans to turn their wild live show into an album.

But that's all in the tantalising future. With Zoomer, Schneider TM defies expectations of aural wallpaper electronica with a grace, passion, & wit that are the mark of a songwriter whose talents are in full bloom. Right now, Schneider TM has just detonated an electronic pop bomb. Watch it explode.