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Palais Schaumburg were formed in Hamburg by Holger Hiller (who had already
published a solo single and EP) and Swiss keyboardist Thomas Fehlmann
The band debuted with the singles
Macht Mich Glucklich Wie Nie, Telephon,
Rote Lichter and Wir Bauen Eine Neue Stadt, mostly compiled on
Das Single Kabinet. Their style was a bizarre kind of dance music.
Hiller left after
their debut album, Palais Schaumburg (Phonogram, 1981).
Fehlmann led the band through two more albums,
Lupa (1982) and
Parlez Von Schaumburg (1984).
Holger Hiller released the solo album Ein Buendel Faulnis in der Grube/ A Bunch of Foulness in the Pit (Ata Tak, 1983 - Mute, 1985), a frenzied, non-stop carnival of "lo-fi" pop and sampling, the "vietnamese" EP Hat Voi Quehuong (Zick Zack, 1983) and the mini-opera Guten Morgen Hose (Ata Tak, 1983). The album Hyperprism (Wave, 1985), reissued as Oben Im Eck (Mute, 1986), upped the ante by employing samples, besides keyboardist Izumi Kobayashi and vocalist Kaori Kano, to mercilessly deconstruct the song format. The EP Ohi Ho Bang Bang (Mute, 1988) explored the manic aspect of the art of sampling (both the music and the video are made of cut-ups of a home video about making noise with house furniture). As Is (Mute, 1992) was an eclectic mess of pop, dance, industrial, electronic and world music. Mainly, this album adapted Hiller's extreme aesthetics to the scene of techno music. Demixed (1993) is a remix album. Little Present (1995) is an audio documentary about his son. Holger Hiller (Mute, 2000) continues his experiments with sampling. After disbanding Palais Schaumburg, Thomas Fehlmann converted to techno with the album Uro Breaks (Wau Mr Modo, 1986), credited to Ready Made. Felhmann became a respected Berlin-based techno and house producer, and joined Orb. Good Fridge (Apollo, 1998) is an anthology of assorted tracks. The albums credited to Fehlmann in person, One To Three (R&S, 2000), Visions Of Blah (Kompakt, 2002) and Lowflow (Plug, 2004), reaffirmed Fehlmann's leadership in the German "microhouse" scene (a fusion of house music and glitch music). Honigpumpe (Kompakt, 2007) documented his ambient/cosmic soul. Moritz Von Oswald, better known as Maurizio, a percussionist of the last incarnations of Palais Schaumburg, went on to become one of the most influential producers of techno music, first as 3MB (with Thomas Fehlmann) and then as the co-founder of Basic Channel Records (with Mark Ernestus), whose various releases (Cyrus' Inversion, 1994; Quadrant's Dub, 1994; Phylyps, Radiance, etc, all aliases for Von Oswald) specialized in dub-inflected Detroit techno. Von Oswald mutated into Maurizio with Ploy (M, 1993). Basic Channel (EFA 11110, 1995) is a compilation of the Basic Channel releases. Maurizio (EFA 22222-2, 1997) is a compilation of the Maurizio releases.
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