Why don't people talk more about Klaus Schulze?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bSZL0DPmlkQ

Bought myself La Vie Electronique 5-8 this month - I think I'm gonna stop there, as I don't really expect to find the 80s material nearly as mind-warping as the 70s stuff. Plus, guest musicians are starting to pop up (drummers, saxophonists, even Arthur Brown singing), and that's not what I come to KS for. Gimme hour-long solo synth suites, or nothing.

I love me some '70s Schulze... I probably pull out Timewind and Body Love the most. I always get a charge when I find another Schulze in the used LP racks.

"Schulze's music definitely sounds more composed and less free form jammed out than TD."

In hindsight that probably wasn't an accurate statement but I think part of it is that Klaus Schulze's music, especially early on is just him. TD has a different vibe in that there are 3 members so that there are other lines cutting in around the pulsating sequencer lines building up the sound. In the early drone music, I think Schulze's music is less busy and it probably comes down to the fact it's a solo performance with some overdubs, where the Tangerine Dream is a trio putting down the base tracks.

Been listening to him quite a lot recently and... I still don't get it really. He's like Jefferson Airplane(!) in that regard, in that I keep listening to him/them in the hope that I'll be able to finally get what so many other people else seem to get, because it's exactly the sort of thing I usually like. Anyway, I keep picking up on the same faults, the pieces are too long - as I said upthread...

where TD have 18 minutes tracks, he has 28 minute tracks, for no apparent reason

... not just tracks, but sequences within tracks seem too long, not so long that they become perversely (or grimly) fascinating but so long (about one and half times too long) they become irritating, even when they start out good! Obv. his sense of musical time is out of kilter with mine. Also, no melodic sense, noodly soloing, RANDOM CHORD CHANGES, etc etc. "X" is pretty good though. Of course if Tangerine Dream had never existed I would probably appreciate him a lot more.

I've hit an impasse as well with him too - as you mention Tangerine Dream just feels more interesting, with compositions that make more sense and sounds that feel a bit fresher. I too love most of X (especially "Ludwig von Bayern") but find even the "good" albums like Timewind a bit of a slog (and he's a prick for ending "Bayreuth Return" that way). Maybe someday.

i think maybe i need to give this stuff another try

wish i could find affordable reissue of cyborg ...

i highly recommend "angst" if you're into jan hammer / tangerine dream early-80s synth soundtracks. it's tough.

fittingly angst is my new favorite

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got the cyborg reissue yesterday ... don't sleep!

what is that picture from?

is there a sign on that dummy saying 'not to scale'?

what cyborg reissue? i bought one about 5 years ago and have noticed the prices have doubled in the meantime.

what is that picture from?

Here I guess: http://dangerousminds.net/comments/where_will_frank_zappa_faust_and_other_progrockers_go_when_tokyo_wax_museum

cyborg cd reissue (i know, CDs lol)

http://www.amazon.com/Cyborg-Klaus-Schulze/dp/B0142YXX94/ref=ntt_mus_ep_dpi_1

oh, that is new, as in tomorrow 8) - "Audio CD (November 13, 2015)"

'currently unavailable' on amazon.co.uk, but there were some for approaching £30 last time i looked (like the irrlicht is on amazon.com) so reissues are welcome

all those 70s records are so freakin good

I interviewed Schulze (via email) for the new issue of The Wire and the response on the official KS website is maybe the greatest praise I've ever received as a writer.

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excellent!

Wow, really enjoying the 'Tonwelle' album he released as Richard Wahnfried in 1981. Very trance-y. Kind of like a more propulsive 'Dreamtime Return' with Manuel Gottsching noodling over the top (I like both those things). And it actually is Gottsching on the record too.

I was one of the unfortunate people who bought the not-actually-time-corrected "time corrected" 2xCD version so I've never actually heard this album the way it's intended to be heard

Wasn't there a rumor that Carlos Santana played on this? Likely started because of the involvement of Michael Shrieve, I assume

I've loved 'Time Actor' and 'Tonwelle' for so long, but never heard any Wahnfried albums from after that. Looking at discogs, I didn't even know there were so many others. Not completely enticed to try an album called "Drum 'n Balls" tbf

anyone picked up those "la vie electronique" sets? i am interested but dunno if they're worth bothering with.

― cut-off jeans, skinnydipping, and "getting weird" (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Tuesday, April 7, 2009 12:13 PM (twelve years ago) bookmarkflaglink

12 years late but volumes 3-6 are the ones I remember liking a lot at the time. I can't remember if 5 or 6 was my favorite, must revisit, but it was one of those. Bumping this because I found a reasonably priced copy of the vinyl reissue of Vol 1 and, eh, I'm just not as much into the early, pre-sequencer stuff, I guess. I don't especially enjoy the pre-Phaedra Tangerine Dream albums either, though, so I may not be the key demographic for zero gravity proto-dark ambient