Schneider TM "Frogtoise", cds/12" (ltd. ed.) release date: July 29, 2002 CUTTING EDGE SURGERY ON NEW SINGLE FROGTOISE… SCHNEIDER TM returns to mess with your minds with the release of FROGTOISE, a limited edition 12" and cd single which features one of the stand out tracks from his forthcoming album ZOOMER. SCHNEIDER TM's legendary version of The Smiths There's A Light That Never Goes Out, entitled The Light 3000 and available on 2000's mini album Binokular, has slowly but surely gained a legion of fans for the Berlin based pioneer of song-based electronica, and at the recent Sonar Festival was almost ubiquitous. FROGTOISE, released by City Slang Records / Labels on July 29th, picks up where that hugely imaginative cover left off, mixing a fashionably warped take on electronic sounds with SCHNEIDER's traditional 'indie' songsmithery and a uniquely strange lyrical outlook. A video by the famed Japanese comic artist Katsuki Tanaka has just been completed. Inspired by a dream in which SCHNEIDER dreamt he had surgically spliced together a frog and a turtle, the single contains four radically different versions of the song. The lead Frogtoise Exploitation Edit blossoms vividly with a rich palette of sounds, a killer melody and a timbre that SCHNEIDER memorably described (flippantly, possibly) as "post-Timbaland". The Frogtoise Vredus Remix is a more electro-pop friendly version, drier and glossier and not a million miles away from a more avant-garde Pet Shop Boys! The Frogstears Schneider FM Remake sees SCHNEIDER TM take an acoustic approach to the song - something that he is also able to do with any of the songs on ZOOMER, and which he probably will - while Fruktos sees SCHNEIDER's live companion KptMichigan tear the song apart in a glitch and crackle style. ZOOMER, which will be released on September 2nd, has already elicited overwhelmingly positive responses from all who have been lucky enough to hear it, and a stellar cast is currently being lined up to remix the second single release. SCHNEIDER TM will celebrate his artistic coming of age with a European tour tentatively scheduled for October / November, 2002. He is promising a show that marries electronic wizardry and traditional rock theatre in much the same way as the superb ZOOMER succeeds. for the lyrics go to specials.