Johannes Schmoelling is an electronic musician and was a member of the prolific electronic music group Tangerine Dream

Tangerine Dream

Tangerine Dream is a German electronic music group founded in 1967 by Edgar Froese. The band has undergone many personnel changes over the years, with Froese being the only continuous member...

 from 1980 to 1986. A classically trained musician he began playing piano at the age of eight. By twelve he had begun playing the pipe organ and successfully mastered the instrument so well that he began to play professionally at various churches. By 1978 Johannes had graduated from college with a degree in sound engineering and secured a job working on live theater performances at the prestigious Schaubühne am Halleschen Ufer in Berlin. He ended his stint with Tangerine Dream

Tangerine Dream

Tangerine Dream is a German electronic music group founded in 1967 by Edgar Froese. The band has undergone many personnel changes over the years, with Froese being the only continuous member...

 in 1986 to pursue a solo career and has produced several solo albums as well as soundtrack music for numerous German television programs. In 2000 he created his own record label Viktoriapark records.

Tangerine Dream

Johannes met Tangerine Dream

Tangerine Dream

Tangerine Dream is a German electronic music group founded in 1967 by Edgar Froese. The band has undergone many personnel changes over the years, with Froese being the only continuous member...

 founder Edgar Froese

Edgar Froese

Edgar Wilmar Froese is a German artist and electronic music pioneer, best known for founding the electronic music group, Tangerine Dream. Although his solo and group recordings prior to 2003 name him as "Edgar Froese", his solo albums from 2003 onward bear the artist name "Edgar W. Froese".Froese...

 in 1979 and after his successful audition, was brought into the band as a replacement for Peter Baumann

Peter Baumann

Peter Baumann formed the core line-up of the German electronic group Tangerine Dream with Edgar Froese and Christopher Franke in 1971. While touring with the band, Baumann composed his first solo album in 1976...

 thus re-establishing the trio. His first album with Tangerine Dream was Tangram

Tangram (album)

-Personnel:Musical* Edgar Froese — keyboards, guitar* Christopher Franke — keyboards, electronic percussions* Johannes Schmoelling - keyboardsTechnical* Eduard Meyer - mixing engineer, Hansa Studios Berlin...

 and he successfully performed with the band through many studio albums like White Eagle, Logos Live

Logos Live

Logos Live is an album of electronic music released by Tangerine Dream in 1982. It is a live album from the concert at the Dominion Theatre in London, England...

, and Exit

Exit (Tangerine Dream album)

Exit is an electronic music album released in 1981 by the German group Tangerine Dream. The first track features an uncredited female voice chanting, in Russian, the names of the continents of the world and pleading to end the threat of "limited" nuclear war, which was a potential danger facing the...

. He was also a key performer during their prolific soundtrack years in the 1980s and has soundtracks to movies such as Thief

Thief (film)

Thief is a 1981 neo-noir film written and directed by Michael Mann and based on the novel The Home Invaders by "Frank Hohimer"...

, Risky Business

Risky Business

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, Legend

Legend (film)

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 and Firestarter

Firestarter (film)

Firestarter is a 1984 science fiction thriller film based on the novel of the same name by Stephen King. The plot concerns a young girl who develops pyrokinesis and the secret government agency which seeks to control her. The film was directed by Mark L. Lester, and stars Drew Barrymore and David...

 to his credit. In addition he performed several concerts with the band at various locations throughout the world.

Loom

After working with Jerome Froese

Jerome Froese

Jerome Froese is a musician who, in 1990, officially joined his father, Edgar Froese in the band Tangerine Dream. He remained a member until 2006; currently he is working on several other projects...

 with his record "Far side of the face", Johannes Schmoelling joined him and Robert Waters

Robert Waters

Robert Waters was an American educator and author born in Scotland. In 1842, he moved to Canada where his mother taught him to read and write. He worked as a type setter, and moved to the United States in 1851....

 for the Loom

Loom (disambiguation)

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project. So far they have performed at E-Live in Oirschot, Netherlands – October 15th 2011.

Solo discography

• Wuivend Riet (Erdenklang, 1986)
• The Zoo of Tranquility (Theta, 1988)
• White Out (Polydor, 1990)
• Lieder Ohne Worte - Songs No Words (Erdenklang, 1995)
• Der Zaubergeiger Settembrini (Deutsche Grammophon, 1995)
• The Zoo of Tranquility (re-recording, Erdenklang, 1998)
• White Out (re-recording, Viktoriapark, 2000)
• Laufen (Viktoriapark, 2002)
• Recycle or Die (Viktoriapark, 2003)
• Weltmacher - Weltmusik (Viktoriapark, 2004)
• Instant City (Viktoriapark, 2006)
• Images and Memory (2-CD compilation, Viktoriapark, 2007)
• Early Beginnings (recorded 1979-1985, Viktoriapark, 2008)
• A Thousand Times (Viktoriapark, 2009)
• Time And Tide (Viktoriapark, 2011)