Conrad Schnitzler & Pole

Conrad Schnitzler was a highly prolific, experimental electronic musician and a massively influential figure of the German avant-garde. An early member of Tangerine Dream and Kluster, he co-founded the Zodiak Free Arts Lab, a short-lived but groundbreaking venue for improvised music. Beginning with 1973's Rot (the first of several LPs containing stark, single-color covers), he frequently released challenging yet hypnotic records consisting of tape manipulations and expansive electronics, as well as countless homemade cassettes and later CD-Rs. Some of his work from the early '...