Carsten Schulz (C-Schulz) was born in Cologne in 1968 and has worked professionally as a musician and filmmaker since 1990. During his formative years he studied classical oboe, among other instruments, and a diverse array of musical theory. From 1996-2001, he studied audio-visual arts at the Academy of Media Arts, Cologne. Since 2002 C-Schulz has composed for the renowned Studio Akustische Kunst of the West German broadcasting service (WDR). Schulz’s music is influenced by Industrial music, contemporary classical music, krautrock, Musique Concrete, library music, early techno and the underground tape scene of the late 80s. Schulz has several releases on such labels as Extreme (Australia), Odd Size (France), Entenpfuhl + Sonig (Germany). C-Schulz rarely gives solo concerts and all of them are multichannel (5.1). He currently lives and works in Berlin, Germany.

FRÜHE JAHRE is the first time reissue of C-Schulz’s early work from late 1980s and early ‘90s.