PJ Wassermann is a composer, sound-designer and producer of electronic music and he plays guitar, preferably of the electronic kind with his Roland VG-99 guitar synthesizer or the Axe FX Ultra guitar processor. He has been working as a professional musician since the early eighties when he had his first releases under the name of Schaltkreis Wassermann, together with his partner Stella. Today Schaltkreis is considered to be one of the pioneering electronic groups.
After several decades of work only in the studio PJ is happy to have gone back to playing live again. Schaltkreis Wassermann had its stage comeback in August 2008, this time as multimedia live act, and since played a series of Swiss and international concerts, for instance at SYNCH festival Athens in 2009 and in Ibiza and Formentera.
Another one of his live projects is Eternal Bliss. The first psyTrance album of Eternal Bliss called "Pyramids" was released 1996. Now there's a completely new set of full-on tracks that PJ performs as "live guitar psyTrance".
The commercially most successful project of Stella & PJ Wassermann has been Matterhorn Project with the top ten hit "MUH". It's still a classic for children and lovers of tongue-in-cheek humor.
For 20 years PJ has worked as a fulltime professional composer, musician and producer. On the one hand, together withStella Wassermann, on their diverse musical projects - on the other by creating music for videos and films and jingles for all kinds of companies, for instance he did the station IDs for the largest Swiss radio stations DRS1 and DRS3.
Since the mid nineties PJ has also developed computer software and in the last years he specialised in developing databases with FilemakerPro. One of the most interesting projects in this sector is fontastix.ch, the Swiss nonprofit distribution platform for independent musicians, producers and labels, supported by Swiss Performers Society SIG.
In the summer of 2007 Stella's & PJ's publishing and production company hypermusic closed a worldwide subpublishing deal with the renowned Berlin publisher Budde Music that is to provide a new foundation for marketing their music all over the world.
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Curriculum, ultra-short • Composer, guitarist, electronic musician, producer
• Owner of hypermusic (music publishing and production)
• Database developer (FilemakerPro)
• Ex-Journalist, teacher's diploma
• Co-Founder and developer of fontastix.ch, the Swiss online distributor for independent musicians, producers and labels, supported by Swiss Performers Society SIG.
Charts positions: • Nr. 3 of the German indie charts with "Sex is out" by Schaltkreis Wassermann, ca. 1980 • Nr. 7 of the English synthesizer charts with "Psychotron" by Schaltkreis Wassermann, ca. 1981 • Nr. 2 of the Swiss charts with MUH! by Matterhorn Project, 1985
• Nr. 8 of the Swiss charts with Yo-Lollo-Diuh by Matterhorn Project, 1985 • Nr. 26 of the Swiss charts with Matterhorn Project by Matterhorn Project, 1985
• Nr. 5 in South Africa with MUH! by Matterhorn Project, 1986
• Nr. 74 of the German single charts with "Knut ist gut!" by Der Eisbär, 2007
