With Embrace The Arts, Snuffo sharpens imagination into a form of quiet rebellion. The album—born from Benedikt Schmidt’s belief that art can unsettle, liberate and provoke—sounds like the work of someone who refuses superficiality. Made through live hardware interplay in the heat of Mallorca, these ten tracks unfold with an instinctive fluidity, as if they were extracted rather than composed. The earliest recordings came “intuitive and unfiltered,” and that rawness becomes the pulse of the entire project.
What elevates the album is Schmidt’s multidisciplinary DNA. As a novelist, poet and experimental performer under Cellarkalt, his sensibility moves beyond club functionality. Each piece carries emotional and intellectual weight—moments of friction, flashes of comfort, small ruptures of doubt. Techno, electro and outsider house act as structural skeletons, but the musculature is deeply personal.
The production process, described as almost spiritual, translates into a tactile listening experience. You hear decisions made in real time, textures allowed to breathe rather than conform, melodic ideas that appear for seconds and fade like memory. Schmidt treats the studio as a space of self-immersion, and the result is an album that feels like a portrait of a mind in motion—playful, tense, hopeful, restless.
Embrace The Arts ultimately succeeds because it never tries to be definitive. It’s a snapshot, a vulnerable offering, a series of reflections built from instinct rather than design. In a landscape obsessed with perfection, Snuffo chooses presence instead—and that choice resonates.
Tracklist
- Pursuit of Happiness
- Escapist
- Cosmic Intervention
- Dry Spell (Hang In There)
- Every Now & Then
- Rituals
- Late Night Thoughts
- Dissent
- Whims
- Balm
