Valentin Schuster

Drummer and Teacher

WHO AM I?

I am a drummer from Austria who sometimes sings or plays a bit of synth and also likes to make silly faces while doing that. After studying jazz drums and instrumental teaching at the Kunstuniversität Graz (A), I moved to Berlin in 2011, where I have been living, playing music and teaching ever since.

In addition to pursuing my own projects like the chamberpunkjazz trio Edi Nulz or the prog-metal duo PeroPero or my newest band WOBBLE8, I have played in numerous other bands, like the elevator-punk outfit CRUTCHES, collaborated with actors like Adele Neuhauser and given team building workshops with the company „Groovin’ Organization“.

I also have the honour to be the artistic director of the music workshop „Nordic Grooves“ in Austria for over 10 years and since 2024 I am operative director of the label „Boomslang Records“ and the festival „Bezau Beatz“ together with mastermind Alfred Vogel.

Detailed biography (PDF)

WHAT AM I DOING?

PROJECTS

CRUTCHES

“Tongue-in-cheek acrobatic punk with metric ambivalence coming your way to sandblast well settled habits of reception.”

Jan Frisch — guitar, bass, compositions

Olga Reznichenko — keytar, bass synth, FX

Laure Boer — monochord, telephone, FX

Valentin Schuster — drums, pocket synth

WOBBLE8

Does the world seem stranger and stranger to you, with each passing day? Fear not: WOBBLE8 are here to sonically explore the most famous models humanity has invented so far to explain our weird world.

Wobblites, unite! Bandleader Valentin Schuster (drums) combines forces with Sofia Salvo (baritone saxophone), Sebastian Pfeifer (synths, cursed cymbal) and Dan Peter Sundland (Bass VI, voice), to create a metal-influenced, experimental new genre of electrified darkness. A doomy, moody meddle of wobbly patterns with haunting melodies on top — sometimes pulling against each other, feeling like being spaghettified by a black hole.

It’s a collage of elements: both analogue & digital, like the rusted metal and ancient parchment on the cover art that adorns their debut album “The Moon is not there when nobody looks.” (out September 18th on Boomslang Records) An ever-changing slide puzzle with moving parts that shift in and out of place.

“Our universe is inherently wobbly,” some very smart quantum physicist once said, so it is about time to make music that represents that!

Edi Nulz

“Mangy chamber punk jazz”

What seems to be pure anarchy is in fact carefully choreographed music that constantly pulls the rug from under you: the bass clarinet can be anything from a bass instrument to a solo singer, the guitar takes the rhythm but also the bass or solo parts, while the drums deftly link all these elements.
This is devil-may-care music, a hilarious tightrope walk between insanity and precision.  Edi Nulz: Grand audio drama, baby.

Siegmar Brecher – bass clarinet
Julian Adam Pajzs – guitar
Valentin Schuster – drums

www.edi-nulz.com

The True Harry Nulz

Just imagine one of Switzerland’s finest jazz bands merging with its Austrian counterpart: the result would be a first-class transalpine music event with front-row seats for everyone in the auditorium.

But wait a moment: Why “would be“? This conglomerate already exists, and it’s well on the way to gaining cult status. The Swiss quartet “The Great Harry Hillman” plus the Austrian trio “Edi Nulz” add up to the septet “The True Harry Nulz”: two bass clarinets, two guitars, two drumsets and an electric bass guarantee brainy arrangements, unisono stereo effects and improvisational eruptions (or rather disruptions?)…

Austro-Helvetian power at its finest! “Servus pfiat di“ and “Ade messi“!

Siegmar Brecher (bcl), Nils Fischer (bcl), Julian Adam Pajzs (g), David Koch (g), Samuel Huwyler (eb), Valentin Schuster (dr), Dominik Mahnig (dr)

www.thegreatharryhillman.ch/truenulz/

PeroPero

PeroPero is a progressive-metal duo hailing from Austria and based in Berlin.
Their complex songs combine driving drums and gordian guitar playing with savage analogue synthesizers all supporting an explosive mixture of chants and screams about conspiracies and doomsday scenarios.
All completely serious and not at all ironic — or is that fake news? The only way to find out is to listen to their records and hear for yourself.
In any case, bring your tinfoil hats!
All hail Grognar, galactic overlord!!!

Julian Adam Pajzs – guitar, lead vocals, synth programming
Valentin Schuster – drums, backing vocals

https://www.facebook.com/perosounds

Boomslang Records/Bezau Beatz

“A wild and wooly musical plunge into the unusual” (NYC Jazz Record)

Since 2024 I have been helping out mastermind Alfred Vogel with his label “Boomslang Records” and the yearly summer festival “Bezau Beatz” — check it out!

https://www.bezaubeatz.at

Groovin’ Organization

Company Coaching through Music

We help organizations to become more naturally agile, productive and resonant  – with music as a metaphor, model and transformative power, other creative methods and up-to-date consulting know-how.

www.groovin-organization.com

Nordic Grooves Musikworkshop

Since 2011 I am the artistic director of the workshop „Nordic Grooves“ in Lower Austria. I also teach ensemble classes and drums there.
„Nordic Grooves“ is ideal for all those that want to rock hard, sing their favourite pop tune or get the blues. Funky riffs and swinging jazz-standards are also on the menu – as long as it is fun and it grooves!

www.nordic-grooves.at

TEACHING

I am currently teaching drums as well as coaching a heavy metal band at the “Musikschule Reinickendorf” in Berlin.
I also sometimes give private lessons in my cute rehearsal space.
Any level of drumming skills or subject to work on is welcome! I am super curious to dive into whatever it is you want to do… 🙂

Price on request, drop me a line here.