1989 dragged Scotsman Tobias Schmidt out of his native foothills and into the sleaze of Brighton‘s sunlit shores. Originally a key-player from the Edinburgh camp of Neil Landstrumm and Dave Tarrida, Schmidt‘s own style has exploded from mohawked Amiga-hack to one of the UK‘s most stylishly abrasive dancefloor talents to date.

Schmidt‘s first material came out via No Future Management but his seven years on the scene have built a fortress of twelve-inch releases with multiple appearances on the Tresor, Mosquito, Scandinavia, Drought, Sativae and Telepathic labels. Additionally a unique, live-only musician, Schmidt has grabbed a notorious reputation for stunning performances throughout the UK, Europe, the US and Japan and proven his creative flexibility with a number of guises, recording and appearing not only as himself but with longtime friends Neil Landstrumm (as Sugar Experiment Station) and Dave Tarrida, each project warped with entirely separate character but tinted with distinct Schmidt contributions.

1999: Tired of the vagueness and drugs of the Techno scene, he decided to make some more tangible music and re-invented himself as le Chimp Atomique (Scandinavia). "Its all about girls" he‘s said, singing Sex Pistols and Stax lyrics over demonic yet playful Chicago grooves. The album put fun and humour back into Techno, passing through such influential places as Marc Stewart, Small Faces, Al Green, Jimi Tenor... Summer of 1999‘s „Dark of Heartness“ album (Tresor.125) culminated eighteen months of effort originally inspired by Glasgow‘s infamous Test club. Dark and bass-heavy, combining Hip-Hop, Disco, arena size-Techno grooves and de-evolution, it properly put „DJ tool“ monotony in a corner and beat it to a pulp.

Next step for Schmidt came in Winter 2001 with his "Destroy" LP; the penultimate statement on silicon with hairy linings. "Destroy" literally punched out the wall of sound, combining tracky Chicago grooves, Dub, Funk, and Schmidt‘s own vocal tradition a la Chimp Atomique. Assured and suave while edgy (like the artist himself), the album was backed with extensive touring throughout Winter 2001 and the debut of Schmidt‘s new Nest sublabel.