Schaltkreis Wassermann

Schaltkreis Wassermann was a pioneer group of electronic music. Founded in 1979 by Stella & PJ Wassermann (who still work together on several projects) Schaltkreis Wassermann featured a minimalistic approach that was dictated by the available means: ? an ARP 2600 Synthesizer, ? an ARP Avatar guitar synthesizer ? a Roland 100M modular synthesizer ? and a Sequential Circuits Prophet V synthesizer,

Schaltkreis Wassermann featured a minimalistic approach that was dictated by the available means:
? an ARP 2600 Synthesizer,
? an ARP Avatar guitar synthesizer
? a Roland 100M modular synthesizer
? and a Sequential Circuits Prophet V synthesizer,
all kept together by the Roland MicroComposer MC4 that was capable of playing four simultaneous monophonic synths but that was extremely complicated to program. Tape recording was done with a TEAC 4-track and later with an Otari 8-track tape machine.
It was a great and very psychedelic time. Stella & PJ spent days, weeks and months in their studio exploring sound and consciousness resulting in PSYCHOTRON a ground breaking album in 1982 showcasing a lot of what was to become mainstream in electronic music and then some.

PSYCHOTRON was sold all over the world as a vinyl album and made it to number 7 of the British synthesizer charts in Melody Maker, in the company of Kraftwerk, Klaus Schulze and Tomita.