Born in Aachen, Germany, on May 20, 1955 Robert Schroeder made his first musical experiences on guitar. After initial attempts at various methods of electronic noise generation, he switched to a synthesizer. He then chose to goes solo after playing music with some local bands. He began to explore more and more the EM scene by experimenting parts of synths and other relative EM instruments. Soon he will learn how to build synths and instruments for musicians as well as recording studio equipment and finally his own synthesizers, having thus his own sound.
Being a huge aficionado of Klaus Schulze, he named his second son, born in 78, after him. He also managed to win his trust and has him as the godfather of baby Klaus. This is how Schulze and Schroeder connected their bonds. After having heard Schroerder’s music, Schulze proposed him a record contract with Innovative Communication (IC) which belongs to Schulze.
Schroeder ended his career as an electrical engineer with the publication of a generally comprehensible specialist book on the self-construction of a so-called step sequencer. From 1979 onwards, he devoted himself primarily to music, but also worked for other artists, especially Klaus Schulze, for whom he developed and built various devices.
He released his first album Harmonic Ascendant in 1979 with the help of Udo Mattusch on guitar and Wolfgang Tiepold on cello. The music had to be completely reworked as it did not appeal to the decision makers of the distribution company WEA . The album is characterized by the combination of electronic and acoustic elements. The second album entitled » Floating Music » was released in 1980 and has been rated by the press as one of the best productions in the electronic music of the year. With the third album Mosaique from 1981, the music of Schroeder was more rhythmic. Supported by Charly Büchel (guitar), Rob van Schaik (bass) and Fred Severloh (drums), he now also increasingly inspired experimental sounds.
For the Ars Electronica in Linz, Schroeder captured the radio signals of the galaxy Cygnus-A in the constellation Schwan from the then largest mobile radio telescope in the world in 1982 and converted to the audible frequency range by amplification. The so-called « white noise » formed the basis for Schroeder’s « Music Computer Symphony », which later emerged as the Galaxy Cygnus-A album. The event, which was broadcast on television, synchronized music and images on a large screen wall.
Paradise, released in 1983 with Guenther Beckers on acoustic guitars and synth guitar and Ecky Zillman on drums, became the very first commercial success of Robert Schroeder with the single Skywalker. The next album, Computer Voice, was released on the new Schroeder’s new record company, Racket Records. The album contained a selection of Schroeder’s best songs as well as some new titles. Always digging for new ideas, he produced a music for film with the so-called artificial head technology in 1985 with Brain Voyager.
He formed Double Fantasy in 1986. The album Universal Ave. was published on IC-Digit-Label. The main idea was to provide a more groovy tone to the music of Schroeder. The music was created during long improvised studio sessions with Charly Büchel and some of it reached the charts of L.A. radio stations in the United States and responded very well to this new invasion of EM in the States known as New Age or easy listening music. The Double Fantasy name stayed and created other albums which have no relation with Robert Schroeder.
Then came Timewaves, a very successful album. Driftin, which came one year later in 1988, was also quite successful. The electronic ballads on it have met the taste of the time, so that the music of Robert hit once again various radio broadcasts, such as the WDR.
Two years later, IC-Digit released an album, which was based on a production from 1982 and was originally to be published as music from several musicians for a science fiction novel. However, Schroeder never released it due to various differences. Pegasus came in 1990 as a pure Robert Schroeder album.
In 1991 Schroeder deserted Racket Records in order to form another label of his own; NEWS-music. The first album was Hamaja which was released on September. Robert tried to light our curiosity by giving to each title a name of which the first letter of the 6 tracks form the word Hamaja and if we pronounce all of the tracks one after one it gives this following phrase; Imagination, Music for the senses anytime you listen join your forces and you will find a place of refuge. Pretty awesome! The 1993’s album Mindwalk is the fruit of a concert that Robert gave in1990 which he re-recorded and rearranged the music. Charly Büchel can be heard on the guitar as well as Schroeder.
On 8 October 1994 Robert Schroeder played with guitarist Christian Guth and drummer Horst Schippers at the KLEM-Festival in Nijmegen, Holland. A rearranged version of this event was release appeared on the album Everdreams. After a hiatus of 4 years, the album D.MO Vol. 1, a compilation of older material, was released in the framework of Robert’s 20 years of music anniversary. It was released on the German label Cue Records. There was no reworks or remixes of the old material here, giving a nostalgic charm to this first chapter of D.MO (for Demo).
The next studio album of Robert Schroeder appeared in 2005, either more than 11 years after Everdreams. The album was BrainCHIPS and was released on another German label, the so prestigious Spheric Music. BrainCHIPS was released in two versions; one strictly musical and the other with vocals sung by Rahal Brimil. Since then, Robert Schroeder produces music a lot. His Berlin School albums are release on Spheric Music and his Groovy music, he has taken a part of Double Fantasy name as Food For Fantasy, is release on his label NEWS music.
To date, including Velocity, Robert Schroeder has make more than 35 albums and participated at numerous albums in the field of EM since the mid 70’s.
Schroeder ended his career as an electrical engineer with the publication of a generally comprehensible specialist book on the self-construction of a so-called step sequencer. From 1979 onwards, he devoted himself primarily to music, but also worked for other artists, especially Klaus Schulze, for whom he developed and built various devices.
He released his first album Harmonic Ascendant in 1979 with the help of Udo Mattusch on guitar and Wolfgang Tiepold on cello. The music had to be completely reworked as it did not appeal to the decision makers of the distribution company WEA . The album is characterized by the combination of electronic and acoustic elements. The second album entitled » Floating Music » was released in 1980 and has been rated by the press as one of the best productions in the electronic music of the year. With the third album Mosaique from 1981, the music of Schroeder was more rhythmic. Supported by Charly Büchel (guitar), Rob van Schaik (bass) and Fred Severloh (drums), he now also increasingly inspired experimental sounds.
For the Ars Electronica in Linz, Schroeder captured the radio signals of the galaxy Cygnus-A in the constellation Schwan from the then largest mobile radio telescope in the world in 1982 and converted to the audible frequency range by amplification. The so-called « white noise » formed the basis for Schroeder’s « Music Computer Symphony », which later emerged as the Galaxy Cygnus-A album. The event, which was broadcast on television, synchronized music and images on a large screen wall.
Paradise, released in 1983 with Guenther Beckers on acoustic guitars and synth guitar and Ecky Zillman on drums, became the very first commercial success of Robert Schroeder with the single Skywalker. The next album, Computer Voice, was released on the new Schroeder’s new record company, Racket Records. The album contained a selection of Schroeder’s best songs as well as some new titles. Always digging for new ideas, he produced a music for film with the so-called artificial head technology in 1985 with Brain Voyager.
He formed Double Fantasy in 1986. The album Universal Ave. was published on IC-Digit-Label. The main idea was to provide a more groovy tone to the music of Schroeder. The music was created during long improvised studio sessions with Charly Büchel and some of it reached the charts of L.A. radio stations in the United States and responded very well to this new invasion of EM in the States known as New Age or easy listening music. The Double Fantasy name stayed and created other albums which have no relation with Robert Schroeder.
Then came Timewaves, a very successful album. Driftin, which came one year later in 1988, was also quite successful. The electronic ballads on it have met the taste of the time, so that the music of Robert hit once again various radio broadcasts, such as the WDR.
Two years later, IC-Digit released an album, which was based on a production from 1982 and was originally to be published as music from several musicians for a science fiction novel. However, Schroeder never released it due to various differences. Pegasus came in 1990 as a pure Robert Schroeder album.
In 1991 Schroeder deserted Racket Records in order to form another label of his own; NEWS-music. The first album was Hamaja which was released on September. Robert tried to light our curiosity by giving to each title a name of which the first letter of the 6 tracks form the word Hamaja and if we pronounce all of the tracks one after one it gives this following phrase; Imagination, Music for the senses anytime you listen join your forces and you will find a place of refuge. Pretty awesome! The 1993’s album Mindwalk is the fruit of a concert that Robert gave in1990 which he re-recorded and rearranged the music. Charly Büchel can be heard on the guitar as well as Schroeder.
On 8 October 1994 Robert Schroeder played with guitarist Christian Guth and drummer Horst Schippers at the KLEM-Festival in Nijmegen, Holland. A rearranged version of this event was release appeared on the album Everdreams. After a hiatus of 4 years, the album D.MO Vol. 1, a compilation of older material, was released in the framework of Robert’s 20 years of music anniversary. It was released on the German label Cue Records. There was no reworks or remixes of the old material here, giving a nostalgic charm to this first chapter of D.MO (for Demo).
The next studio album of Robert Schroeder appeared in 2005, either more than 11 years after Everdreams. The album was BrainCHIPS and was released on another German label, the so prestigious Spheric Music. BrainCHIPS was released in two versions; one strictly musical and the other with vocals sung by Rahal Brimil. Since then, Robert Schroeder produces music a lot. His Berlin School albums are release on Spheric Music and his Groovy music, he has taken a part of Double Fantasy name as Food For Fantasy, is release on his label NEWS music.
To date, including Velocity, Robert Schroeder has make more than 35 albums and participated at numerous albums in the field of EM since the mid 70’s.
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