Schiller

With 8 number 1 albums and numerous gold & platinum awards, Schiller mastermind Christopher von Deylen is Germany’s number 1 electronic artist. On his new album Illuminate, von Deylen consistently continues his musical path, which has recently led him back towards edgy electronic beats with catchy melodies. Like “Morgenstund”, “Summer in Berlin” and “Epic”, the new album with 18 selected songs will be available on Blu-ray Disc with Dolby Atmos mixes and a video track.

Opus is a Schiller album whose shades and textures are inspired by classical music. It owes its freedom and melodic concentration to Christopher von Deylen s defined sense of being at home in the electronic world. His imaginative thinking does not lead to disorientation, but rather to an expanded, clear and panoramic view of the emotionalizing world of accentuated sounds, and rhythmic passions. Crossover is a term often used to refer to musicians and artists who diversify, and work in alternative genres. Christopher von Deylen clearly knows only too well that labels, and tags, only tell some of the story, and that the quest for compromise can lead to a dangerously seductive over-simplification. With Schiller, he has defied categorisation for some 15 years…

With Voyage, Schiller combines the elation and clarity of Chicane, Banco de Gaia, and German trance with the low-key tenor of major-label new age. The music is largely painted with rich hypercolor, lots of fertile blues and jades, but stacked with vocalists who, like Kim Sanders in the pop-leaning "Dancing With Loneliness," tend to weigh down the plush ideals of the band's not unpleasant energies. When the instrumentals take precedence, Schiller reasserts itself as a self-important electronic act that really should be nothing else. "Solitude," and in fact much of the album, may as well be Enigma's "Sadeness" with island trimmings instead of Gregorian frost.

Featuring some of Schiller’s most restrained, stripped-down production output, the largely dreamlike "Sehnsucht" is formatted like his other studio albums, with vocal and instrumental tracks both part of the makeup. However, several tracks are ambient in the truest sense, consisting strictly of atmospheric wash and no beats. The album features collaboration with several established artists like Xavier Naidoo, Jaël, Kim Sanders, and Klaus Schulze among others.

This release contains parts from the original pre-show soundtrack from the legendary Schiller Live events. All tracks by Schiller under various names.
Almost an album and almost a compilation. Sleepingroom consists of material specially written for Schiller’s gigs, which were grandiose, with sophisticated lights and singers from the albums. While all the equipment was being tuned, a beautiful instrumental piece of music with crickets was played for about nine minutes in the venue. Other people explain why: in order to make the wait less boring and more pleasant for the audience. Sleepingroom comes from the name of the label, which was formed after the success of the first single by Christopher von Deylen and Mirko von Schlieffen, who were a duo back then…