J. Peter Schwalm

In 1996 Schwalm founded the label Poets Club Records, on which he released a series of 12" singles, as well as compilations of electronica, nu jazz and drum and bass.

His first album with Projekt Slop Shop,Makrodelia, was released on the label in 1998, and caught the attention of a number of significant musicians such as Brian Eno, Peter Kruder and Ryuichi Sakamoto.

[1] In order to promote their album Drawn from Life, Schwalm and Eno undertook a tour in 2002, which took them as far afield as Japan, Spain and Portugal.

The result Musikain, mixed a variety of music styles and incorporated the work of a number of guest vocalists, including Kari Kleiv, Imogen Heap and Eno himself.

Since 2008 Schwalm has worked frequently with the guitarist Eivind Aarset, including performances at the Punktfestival in Norway, the Enjoy Jazz Festival in Mannheim and in the Rolf Liebermann Studio in Hamburg In 2013 he was commissioned by the British ensemble Icebreaker to create a reworking of music by Kraftwerk, for their project Kraftwerk Uncovered,[2] which premiered at the Science Museum in London in January 2014,[3] before touring, accompanied by a new film by Sophie Clements and Toby Cornish.