Rowpieces

Robert Schmidbauer, known professionally as Rowpieces, is a German producer and DJ working in drum and bass, jungle and liquid funk. He is based in Munich, Germany. The name Rowpieces first appeared publicly on June 10, 2010 when he founded the digital label Soul Bros.

Schmidbauer began making music in the mid-1990s. Public records show a long gestation of studio work before the Rowpieces name and the Soul Bros label appeared in 2010. Since then he has maintained an active online presence on SoundCloud and in music databases such as MusicBrainz, documenting releases and metadata for his catalog.

As a producer, Rowpieces’ sound leans toward liquid and melodic drum and bass with clear jungle influences. His productions frequently use edited breakbeat patterns and rolling break arrangements paired with warm, sustained pads and chord work typical of liquid funk. On the low end he favours tight, layered sub-bass design rather than overly distorted bass; on the top end his tracks emphasise clean hi-hat articulation and restrained, spatial reverb/delay to keep atmospherics clear. Signature elements in his output include smooth melodic motifs, concise break edits, and a focus on full-spectrum clarity in the mixdown.

Rowpieces releases music through his Rowtown Records Bandcamp presence and has issued collections such as "25 Years Of Making Music" on that platform. He has appeared on or worked with drum & bass outlets including Good Looking Records, Fokuz and Celsius Recordings. The founding of Soul Bros on June 10, 2010 is a concrete milestone in his cataloguing and release activity, and his Bandcamp and SoundCloud pages are primary places where his material and longer-form collections are distributed and heard.

Public information about specific artist-by-artist influences is limited, but Rowpieces’ credits and label associations — including appearances tied to Good Looking Records, Fokuz and Celsius Recordings — place his work within the melodic/liquid and jungle-adjacent streams of drum and bass. His online profiles on SoundCloud and MusicBrainz provide the most complete, verifiable record of releases, dates and label appearances for anyone researching his output.