Good morning all! This was recorded a few weeks ago, prior to learning of Klaus Schulze passing, so there's no mention of it in this video. As per the April preview video (th-cam.com/video/PQevXhZPZDE/w-d-xo.html), this track was planned for today since last month. Its just unfortunate timing. Would love to read your thoughts about Mr. Schulze and his music here as an honor towards him and his legacy.
Schulze was (and still is) maybe the most influential musician to me. Back in 90s his music sounded nothing like you normally could hear on the radio or what my classmates used to listen. Totally different universe. Still diving into his vast discography.
btw, for "add the drums to it" listen to "Floating" from his next album, "Moondawn". Or any other Schulze track featuring Harald Grosskopf on drums - Nowhere Now Here, P.T.O., Sense, Friedrich Nietzsche etc.
Moondawn is his best album imo, especially side one. I have both albums on vinyl and I never play this one, because when I want me some Schulze, it's Moondawn I reach for. Real drums too. A stunning piece of German/Kraut Electronica. I prefer it to anything Tangerine Dream ever did, and that really is saying something.
@@masterpeace8539 Thanks. I'll check it out. I hadn't even read your comments before posting mine, but I see we are of one mind on the subject. It was 1984, and I was 17, when I saw Moondawn, second hand, on a market stall in England. Being a big fan of T Dream, I was drawn to the cover and German text, so I took a chance and bought it on spec. When I got it home, my mate came round for a shroom trip we were planning on doing that night (it was September - height of the shroom season - and we had been out picking them from a local horses field that morning). I put it on, pre-trip, just to see if it was going to be suitable, and it blew our minds. Needless to say, it was the soundtrack to that and many more evenings of fungal mind expansion. Happy days.
This review came just in time because Klaus Schulze (the "e" in his name is pronounced, by the way, and sounds like the two pronounced "es" in the word "desperate") just died 4 days ago on the 26th at the age of 74. Maybe you even recorded this video on the day of his death without being aware of it (now that would be kind of spooky). There are about 40 video obits to him on TH-cam and many more in the press. He will be sadly missed. His most highly rated album on ProgArchives, the 1977 release "Mirage", is in our opinion his masterpiece. The album is subtitled "eine elektronische Winterlandschaft" ("an electronic winter landscape") which is absolutely appropriate. The music makes you feel like you are walking through a foggy winter landscape with snow all around; you can't see far but hear strange noises coming from everywhere. Wrapping yourself in a warm blanket and drink some hot spiced wine while listening to that album is highly recommended; this music really feels cold. Not "cold" as in "unemotional" though, but it is definitely -30° on the Celsius scale (-22° Fahrenheit for you). And in that regard it is just the opposite of the 1975 album "Epsilon in Malaysian Pale" by Tangerine Dream founder Edgar Froese. This album makes you feel like you are in a jungle and the temperature is about 40° Celsius or 104° Fahrenheit. Strip naked when listening to this one and drink some piña colada with lots of ice while listening to this one.
This is so good to my ears Justin...this as blown me away tbh. It's soundscape, beauty...trance like feel...reminds me so much of Tangerine Dream at their best..I can't give this a bigger compliment than that It's superb electronica Justin. ❤❤❤. Thanks for this butty... awesome choice imho 👍👍👍🎹🎹🎹. Klaus Schulze..what a talent.❤
The ending of BEYREUTH RETURN gets me every single time even though I've been listening to it since its original release. You're hypnotized, you're drifting underwater, and all at once there's a galactic explosion.
Klaus’s music has been in my life for a long long time. One of the pioneers of longform electronic music. This album is one of my favorites. I remember we were visiting family in Amsterdam in 76 or so, when I saw this album in a local record store. I had heard about the record but I loved the cover art! It had to be a good album. It was. I played it at my uncle’s stereo and to my surprise they liked it too. I played it until the grooves wore out and saved up to buy all that was available at the time. Then after Dune I lost touch for a while and only very sporadically bought a release. Sad to hear he passed on. But boy, what a legacy he has left behind. Side note: JP you might like Picture Music and Moondawn too since they have percussion elements in it. Klaus started out as a drummer.
R.I.P. Klaus Schulze. Another immortal crossed the rainbow :-( - ... J.P. , I'd really like to see you react to Grobschnitt, Solar Music Live, but the whole thing in one session (bit more than an hour ;-) ) ...
RIP Klaus! I love this era of his music, Timewind is a cracking album along with my favourite, Moondawn. He had something special going musically, and his organic compositions always manage to put me in a trance on another plane of existence. There is deep feeling to these sounds once you can hook into the power supply. 🙃
When I was a kid, our local PBS radio station, which normally played European classical music, had a program called Music From the Hearts of Space on Sunday nights at 10. Klaus Schulze was a regular. This brings me back.
I've been trying to comment that the weekly transmission of Hearts of Space with Stephen Hill is still going strong. But anytime I mention where it's available, TH-cam appears to be censoring my comment. It's available online and is as amazing as ever.
@@Azabaxe80 My attempts at linking are still getting deleted. Try using the first letter of each word of *H*earts *o*f *S*pace, all in lower case, and adding the standard url ending to get to the browser version. I use the Android app, though. So, I can't say how user friendly the browser interface is.
That sounds cool! There used to be a program on the radio here called "Echoes", which was music like this, new age, electronica, anything nocturnal, spacey and airt.
@@JustJP If interested, here's the host's, Stephen Hill's, description of this week's transmission: This week on Hearts of Space: 'PLANETARY UNFOLDING'-MICHAEL STEARNS' profound 1981 classic of California electronic journey music. It was remastered and re-released in 2022 by Projekt Records. Plus Stearns' THE SOFT TOUCH OF MORNING LIGHT & WITHIN: THE NINE DIMENSIONS.
Ah the days of analog! Our first electronic music lab, circa '80s had those maximoogs with all the wires, like a phone operator of old, and ARP synths with mostly slides. The trick was to turn on the record, and explore, making changes ever so incrementally. One take, like you said. To this day I try to make the first take count. Most efficient, and you can keep moving forward, progressing. Walter Carlos (Wendy) was the first synthesist I knew of, and then Tomita, ELP and all the rest. Klause and Edgar Froese were doing some great sounds out of Germany, as was Stockhausen, but for a more hardcore audience. My first half dozen synths were all analog. I saw Moog and Kurzweil roll out the first Kurz at MIT and lusted it for years, but lacked the 10k, which was real money in in the mid '80s. Wound up spending (3+k) it on the aboriginal Macintosh instead, and getting the Kurz once the price came down. Yamaha's Motif is one I'd like now, if you're thinking about Christmas. This is good chess playing, or library reorganizing, music. Almost Impressionistic, like Debussy, Ravel, Faure, yet German. But all brand new sounds to the ear.
Klaus has been in my life since the seventies. Love to drift away on his soundscapes. In the past months his music turned out to be great to edit my photos and videos to. So sad to hear he’s gone. Thanks Klaus for al these wonderful inspirational moments. I know, JP, his pieces can be long but his early albums are all different. Bodylove or Dune (with Arthur Browne!) have more variation. I sure hope you will try them.
Klaus is an aquired taste and on my first listen years ago i thought it was boring crap but have now come to love his tracks and found the beauty in the long drawn out explorations of sounds and how it affects us 😊 RIP Klaus and thank you 😊
In a word: hypnotic. I nearly fell asleep, but that's not necessarily a bad thing. Different music for different things and this is good for relaxing and contemplating. Definitely similar to Tangerine Dream.
This and Moondawn were always my "goto" Schulze albums... I remember traveling to Florida from UK in 1990 and this was on constant rotation on my walkman... at the time in 80s and 90s this stuff was very much out of vogue (it was recorded in 1975) but I, and no doubt many others, loved it... the style is very much his... you can hear how this must have influenced Jarre.. and now the music here is quite contemporary again. The abrupt ending always woke me from my daydream/sleep... there is an abrupt part on the second side too... and yes it took me out of it.. I remember playing Descent2 back then and yes this kind of music would be perfect for it... for me it was the soundtrack I put on when I played Ocean's F29 Retaliator... those resonant sound fx were popular back then... they're all over Edgar Froese's Aqua too... and yes they aren't very nice..
Lot of comments about the lack of emotion in this music.. I don't agree. for me it's filled with emotions because I listen to this music since early childhood. Klaus Schulze is a Pioneer for all electronics in music and he's a master of building landscapes with his synths.. Of course it's not easy listening but imagine to hike trough a beautiful landscape and listen to that😊🎶 feels like heaven... Dont forget Gandalf
I bought this in mid 1978 when I was 17 and had my first full time summer job so I had $ to spend on sonic therapy! I had already heard Shulze's work on Yamashta's Go projects, and had bought all the Tangerine Dream albums by then. A friend had taped for me Mirage, Moondawn & Bodylove 1, and I had bought Bodylove 2 (having to hide THAT cover from my parents!) & another. After my friend & I left the record store downtown, we saw a horror movie that had really scared me- and when I got home I listened to this on headphones and it was so soothing! BUT I agree with you about the ending- so on my cassette and later mp3 I faded Bayreuth out early to avoid it! I enjoy all the tones, and still consider it his ambient best.
Timewind and Mirage are two of my big favourites too, but my top favourite is "X". That album is an absolute masterpiece! My second favourite would be Mirage, and my third is Moondawn.
I saw KS at that time (must have been 1974-75) in Strasbourg. Maybe the most strange concert I saw. He was sitting on the stage, in a lotus position if I remember well, turning his back from the crowd and he had in front of him a wall of computers and synths. He was really quiet, no movements except his hands that went on the keyboards and buttons. We were all sitting on the floor too. Of course you could smell strange smoke odors… On on piece he stood up and left the stage, I think it must have been for at least 10-15 minutes. The music continued without him repetitively. Really something from another time and world. I can't imagine that today. No crowd would have the patience to just sit and listen for 2 hours… But I must admit I'm not a big fan of that kind of music although I regularly listen to the 2 albums I have from him (this one + Blackdance that came out just before).
Your timing is so eerie. RIP Klaus. Schulze's music around this era we called 'floating' music or 'space' music. Both Klaus' and Tangerine Dream's music evolved in the mid-late 70's into sequencer & drum-driven almost trance-like masterpieces. ( Klaus was with TD very early in that band's history, but TDs heavy sequencer stuff was definitely from Ricochet on). Klaus' Moondawn ( and 'Floating' from that album ) are sill my go-to work background soundtrack .
Can’t wait to listen to your reaction to this. I just listened to this album yesterday. If you haven’t already, consider doing a reaction video for the Record Store Day 2022 release of Tangerine Dream’s Edgar Froese’ “Epsilon in Malaysian Pale”. Thanks.
Funny to hear you say that you missed the drums, because Klaus started as a drummer first, before he went on to electronic music. He was the drummer in the very early days of Tangerine Dream - another band you may return to someday, as you’ve already commented on TD’s Phaedra album (Force Majeure and Rubycon would be good choices for a next listen to TD.) Klaus is a pioneer of the moog synthesizer. I like his music - the loops he uses are pure meditation. I also love the music he‘s done together with Lisa Gerrard - she puts some extra salt into his music with her amazing voice.
Had to keep pinching myself, to be sure I was not joining Mr. Schulze in the hereafter! Good thing? If I can tell you after completing the journey, I will! Peace & Love.
I saw KS at Coventry Cathedral on his Audentity tour. Wonderful, very spiritual. The venue seemed very fitting with KS being German. The old Medieval cathedral was bombed during the war, and a new one was built next to the ruins in the early 1950s. It was if if KS was acknowledging peace and forgiveness.
Bayreuth is where Richard Wagner lived for a long time in Germany, where he got his own opera house - and there's a Wagner Festival there every year. Track two on the album bears the name of his house there: Wahnfried (1883). Ths was my first exposure to KS. I can't remember which day it was, it was a long time ago, but the radioprogramme started at 11 pm. After a few introductory remarks, they played the album (or just this track, my memory fails me, all the way through, no interruptions, just the music. Bliss. The vinyl's gone but I've got two CD versons: the orrininal record←ng ant the remastered and extended double CD. He has a large catalogue - I haven't heard them all but Audentity is a must, followed closely by Silhouettes from 2018 (Quae Simplex is just great.). Just before his death it was announced that a new album is to be released in June.
I got into Klaus Schulze Timewind while at university in the mid 70's. Great music to do assignments with. So this music is very familiar and of course I like it. It has it place. I was playing EVE-Online while listening here. I fits so very well. It is great meditation music. Klaus made dozens of albums over the years. On a sad note Klaus Schulze past away on April 26. Glad you finally found Timewind it is very different music but fits so many situations. For me this includes study, mediation, game playing, night driving and chill out times. RIP Klaus Schulze.
Timewind is still one of my most favourite Klaus Schulze albums, and I've been listening to his wonderful music for over a decade by now. This particular track, Bayreuth Return, is such a interesting experience. Even though it takes about 30 minutes, it really doesn't feel that long to me because I get so lost in it that I kind of lose track of time. It's like you are floating somewhere in a unknown universe or something... just fascinating!
I often play this kind of floating electronic music as background while I'm doing other things. You should also try putting it on at bedtime. It makes for some weird dreams.
The crash jumpscare is totally normal LOL. I'd know, I've been enjoying Bayreuth Return for five years. I got jumpscared five times before I got used to it.
@@auroramartell Happy to hear 😊 To elaborate on my hypothesis: Wagner spent the last decade or so of his life in Bayreuth (hence “Bayreuth Return”, maybe), and then died of a heart attack in 1883 and was buried at his villa which he had named “Wahnfried” (which seems like a plausible explanation for the title “Wahnfried 1883”, which therefore might be dedicated to his death). The crash sits right between the two.
Try "Mindphaser" from the album "Moondawn". The Lord's Prayer in Arabic opens up the track. My favourite Klaus Schulze track though is "Velvet Voyage" from the album "Mirage". My absolute favourite! But for great Klaus Schulze albums, you cannot loose with "Beyond Recall" . The track "Gringo Nero" is very accessible.
Afternoon, Justin. Dave from a spring-like London (sun's out and so are the Bluebells). I am happy to play this for relaxation - I'm with you on this, JP. As a piece of music to listen to, I feel it is rather generic and much too long. Still, given that Klaus left us a few days ago, there is a eulogic quality to it. P.S. My song ref Bluebells is by Moon Safari.
You get it right saying it develops organically. The best mindset for this kind of music is to get comfortable, start the music and let yourself go whereever it draws you, with its landscape of emotions. It's okay as a simple background, but this music is intented for active listening.
One of my all time favorite meditative journeys. Anytime I travel I go for it. Two fun facts: all recorded live on to two track tape recorders in Schulzes bedroom, and the noise at the end was included because the track went on for quite a while longer than an LP side allowed and it needed to be cut short. Rest In Peace to the master of Moog and the grandfather of most current trance music!
This is actually the shortened version, since he couldn't fit the piece onto one side of a vinyl on the year that it came out, hence the abrupt ending. Apparently, Klaus Schulze did this in one take with no overdubs.
@@JustJP Please also review the track Echoes of Time, which you can find on the second disc of the 2006 2-cd version. That is my all-time favorite Klaus Schulze track.
I don’t mind this kind of music at all, it’s cool to mind surf mental images to. Sometimes see patterns, imaginary mechanisms, and so on, so forth. It’s also great to do dishes to, and figure shtt out. Which I’m doing a lot of these days and the case today. Recorded live to 2 track, very cool. I record music sometimes, and I like to keep the track count as low as possible. Early recordings were sometimes only 2 tracks and if they have enough creativity in them, they hold up still. Most don’t have drums… I like you, want to lay some drums on them and see where it goes. I hadn’t heard much Klaus, if any, but I felt I knew what was coming. I’ve heard and read blurbs here and there, so I had an idea. The Dalíesqe cover was a perfect choice. Peace and relax and float downstream Music
Klaus Schulze is an example of why my preference is more towards Jean-Michel Jarré and Vangelis. But, that is not to denigrate Schultze's contribution as a pioneer of electronic music. The genre may have never evolved into ambient or IDM without his influence. Just my preference in what to listen to. *edit* hmm... Now I'm wondering if this is one of Mr. Schulze's albums I've listened to previously. I'm definitely enjoying this much more than the other pieces of his I have heard.
Sorry, I'm reacting on the fly to your end commentary. Schulze is a drummer. He has albums with drums. So does Froese from Tangerine Dream, Then there's Herald Grosskopf, Ashra, etc. Achim Reichel is sooper-dope, too.
In the era this was created a lot of research was done with (electronic) music as therapy and meditative methods pe. in mental illness research and mood control (anti aggression) with inmates etc, white and pink noise, plus brainwave and heartbeat mimicing and almost hypnoticaly piggybagging on the clients heartbeat, lowering them with slow suggetive modifications in the sequencer tempo etc. where needed assosted with drugs like LSD. If you really let a masterful work like Bayreuth Return work in and "grab" you, it may put you to sleep, calm you down but at least show you how powerful music as a therpeutic aid can be.
Missed that he passed away. Sad... that genious had more music in him left. I like many of his albums, but my 3 favs is.. X.. Moondawn and Timewind. His album with Lisa Gerrard (Farscape) is also great. Now it's gonna be a Klause Schulze bonanza for a couple of days. Think i got 30 or 40 albums with him...
I see Wiki says he wanted to invoke a timeless state in the listener, so avoiding as much musical ticking and tocking (and otherwise accenting) would be required. That would make it hard to sit down and focus on (although there are "use cases" like that), but great to have something that overrides a lot of ambient sound, has some pulse (yet somehow is timeless?) and doesn't intrude on your own thoughts. Some music comes and imposes its composer's thoughts on your mind; this music is a bit like Brian Eno's Music for Airports. It stays out of the way. You get to do the thinking round here, instead of being a follower of what the music "thinks". The "use case" for focusing in on the music would be to help if you try spending some time deliberately "thinking nothing". Nothing verbal. If something like a word begins to form in your mind, suppress it; and the easiest way to do that is to have something non-verbal available to pay attention to. Might sound a bit trippy-hippy, but it's actually quite easy to do, and gives one a break from judging, weighing, and evaluating everything. The instruction manual is really that simple: "Don't think anything." Postpone the annoyance of ideas, and just be a living mammal within your environment for a little while. If you're stubborn enough about it eventually it can put you in a nice "cow mind" (just because "sheep" have too much bad propaganda against them, really). You feel the warm thing up there. You see some of the blue stuff up above. You see grass in front of you. Maybe some other cows. And maybe eat some grass. Or lie down and chew some cud. Or just stand there a little while, being alive and in place, in some world. With eyes to see. (It "opens your eyes" because you're not permitting your verbal mind to do all the seeing, the way it usually insists on doing. Instead you just directly see with your eyes. If that's what you think you just ordinarily do, you are wrong. Generally your eyes are consigned to data-gathering, with the data being instantaneously assigned to pre-defined thought constructs you have. If you switch that off, you can get yourself into a nice, direct mode of perception. Where things just are. But also where you sometimes see things you miss by deciding what they're going to be in advance. You tend to see a lot more when all you allow yourself to do is see. And that means shutting up this interminable bloody inner dialogue. Mind, just shut up will you?!! Shut off the dialog, shut off the prejudgements, and force yourself down to just having eyes to see. The way some more innocuous fellow mammal, like a cow, for instance, just has eyes to see, right now. And music like this is just the thing to send that interfering verbal mind off to when the thoughts start to form when you're taking a break and thinking nothing.)
Aarrh.. and Jean's middle name sounds almost exactly like "Michelle". (Michelle is the feminine form of "Michael"). (But your "Jean" and your "Jarre" are pretty good AFAIK.) Zhong MEE-Shell Zhaar. Wagner. ... W has a "vuh" sound, for starters. I don't think there's an equivalent of the English "W" in German. Might be done with "U" or something, like the Romans did. So it's VAAAAH ... Vaagner. (I think it means "Waggoner", though, so semantically you're good. :-) )
@@pentagrammaton6793 Glad I managed to make it past your TL;DR filter. :-) (I tend to be a bit wordy, I know. It's down to laziness. If I took a bit more care I could probably prune it all down to the essentials. Anyway, thanks.)
For those interested, I've been trying to comment that the weekly transmission of Hearts of Space with Stephen Hill is still going strong. But anytime I mention where it's available, TH-cam appears to be censoring my comment. It's available online and is as amazing as ever.
I am very divided on Klaus Schulze. I find some of his pieces too repetitive and not varied enough but at the same time not floating and restful enough to suit me as background music. If I want pure ambient then I prefer Brian Eno or Steve Roach for example and if I'm looking for electronic music mixing dreamlike atmospheres, sequenced loops and a few melodic hooks I'll rather listen to Tangerine Dream or Manuel Göttsching/Ashra. It's not that Timewind is an unpleasant album, but I don't think there's much going on there. Moondawn, Mirage and X are more to my liking. Speaking of electronic music, Justin I hope you will do Tangerine Dream's Rubycon and Stratosfear albums !!! 😉
Exactly. Timewind is more famous but it's entry level Schulze. it's a transitional album. Now Irrlicht (1972) and Mirage (1977) are much deeper, serious , dramatic albums. Absolutely not "ambient", even though they are also expansive and droning.
Electronic music from the 60s/70s was often long format ethereal/atmospheric/etc. music, usually taking whole album sides. I love old electronic music, but even I have to be in the mood for this type vs. more energetic W. Carlos, Synergy, Rick Wakeman, etc. May want to avoid any Wendy Carlos reactions, though, as she is super-protective of her copyrights. I think only the original TRON soundtrack might be OK, since Disney supposedly owns it instead of her.
If you want to take a look on his equipment, please search for Köln WDR live 1977, a ten minute long piece :) But watch out for the secquenser light.. o O o O o o ;) The sound quality isn't the best but reasonable. On the album "Moondawn", there is a real drummer Harald Grosskopf. You can hear the influence on modern day ambient music. As for the 90's, I happen to have the 1993 Jam & Spoon album "Tripomatic Fairytales 2001" and even though the pieces are more to dance rhytm (and the album itself two decades old) , there are plenty of same elements. "Who Opened The Door To Nowhere" is a good example.
ch i c a n e c a m e from wrexham. "offshore" tuned me into the 90s. then i tuned out. where am i now? on the way to the ice cream parlour. i should be gardening. diolch!
The e in Schulze is spoken. So sad he died. I know Klaus Schulze for about 45 years and still regularly listen to his music. Klaus was for a short time member of Tangerine Dream and this band too is worth to listen to. Don’t start with the earliest albums though. Stratosphere, Ricochet are better places to start. I have all albums of Schulze. Timewind, Moondawn, X, Dune belong to his best works. The album Digit is a very dynamic album.
R.I.P. Klaus. He has always been an inspiration to me - just listen to this track I recorded with my band in the early 80:s: th-cam.com/video/WjnBPLRdwzA/w-d-xo.html
Klaus Schulze was one of the pioneers of sequenced, synthesised electronic music and, in my opinion, just as good as Tangerine Dream (he of course, was in that band in their early days) This sort of music may be too static, soulless or unexciting for some but as a listening experience or even as ambient background music, this takes me to a place I want to be. RIP.
Believe it or not, I used to play this on the campus radio station in the late 1970s. IMO it is his best. He uses the sequencer to good effect. On later recordings I think he, like Tangerine Dream and other electronic musicians, became too reliant upon it and the music suffered. Schulze was one of the original members of Tangerine Dream. He purchased the synthesizer Florian Fricke used on the first two Popol Vuh albums. It was one of the first synthesizers in Germany. Using that synthesizer TD changed from an early Kraut rock band to the electronic group. On that note, you might check Froese's solo album Epsilon in Malaysian Pale. Very good.
This emotionless electronic stuff if so far past its 'sell by date'. You have to be in a really singular frame of mind for this stuff, one i'm so seldom in these days. This I found musically uneventful, vapid, and by about the 10 minute mark I'd lost all interest. Quite the testament to my powers of endurance that I made it to the end.
Nonsense! I guess you never heard of people like Steve Roach or Robert Rich. But I understand that if you go into this unaware you might not be understanding or appreciative.
Good morning all!
This was recorded a few weeks ago, prior to learning of Klaus Schulze passing, so there's no mention of it in this video. As per the April preview video (th-cam.com/video/PQevXhZPZDE/w-d-xo.html), this track was planned for today since last month. Its just unfortunate timing.
Would love to read your thoughts about Mr. Schulze and his music here as an honor towards him and his legacy.
Schulze was (and still is) maybe the most influential musician to me. Back in 90s his music sounded nothing like you normally could hear on the radio or what my classmates used to listen. Totally different universe. Still diving into his vast discography.
btw, for "add the drums to it" listen to "Floating" from his next album, "Moondawn". Or any other Schulze track featuring Harald Grosskopf on drums - Nowhere Now Here, P.T.O., Sense, Friedrich Nietzsche etc.
Moondawn is his best album imo, especially side one. I have both albums on vinyl and I never play this one, because when I want me some Schulze, it's Moondawn I reach for. Real drums too. A stunning piece of German/Kraut Electronica. I prefer it to anything Tangerine Dream ever did, and that really is saying something.
@@emdiar6588 Remastered version of Moondawn from 1994 is even better, with added Mellotron and more rich sound.
@@masterpeace8539 Thanks. I'll check it out. I hadn't even read your comments before posting mine, but I see we are of one mind on the subject.
It was 1984, and I was 17, when I saw Moondawn, second hand, on a market stall in England.
Being a big fan of T Dream, I was drawn to the cover and German text, so I took a chance and bought it on spec.
When I got it home, my mate came round for a shroom trip we were planning on doing that night (it was September - height of the shroom season - and we had been out picking them from a local horses field that morning).
I put it on, pre-trip, just to see if it was going to be suitable, and it blew our minds. Needless to say, it was the soundtrack to that and many more evenings of fungal mind expansion. Happy days.
This review came just in time because Klaus Schulze (the "e" in his name is pronounced, by the way, and sounds like the two pronounced "es" in the word "desperate") just died 4 days ago on the 26th at the age of 74. Maybe you even recorded this video on the day of his death without being aware of it (now that would be kind of spooky). There are about 40 video obits to him on TH-cam and many more in the press. He will be sadly missed.
His most highly rated album on ProgArchives, the 1977 release "Mirage", is in our opinion his masterpiece. The album is subtitled "eine elektronische Winterlandschaft" ("an electronic winter landscape") which is absolutely appropriate. The music makes you feel like you are walking through a foggy winter landscape with snow all around; you can't see far but hear strange noises coming from everywhere. Wrapping yourself in a warm blanket and drink some hot spiced wine while listening to that album is highly recommended; this music really feels cold. Not "cold" as in "unemotional" though, but it is definitely -30° on the Celsius scale (-22° Fahrenheit for you). And in that regard it is just the opposite of the 1975 album "Epsilon in Malaysian Pale" by Tangerine Dream founder Edgar Froese. This album makes you feel like you are in a jungle and the temperature is about 40° Celsius or 104° Fahrenheit. Strip naked when listening to this one and drink some piña colada with lots of ice while listening to this one.
This is so good to my ears Justin...this as blown me away tbh.
It's soundscape, beauty...trance like feel...reminds me so much of Tangerine Dream at their best..I can't give this a bigger compliment than that
It's superb electronica Justin.
❤❤❤.
Thanks for this butty... awesome choice imho 👍👍👍🎹🎹🎹.
Klaus Schulze..what a talent.❤
The ending of BEYREUTH RETURN gets me every single time even though I've been listening to it since its original release. You're hypnotized, you're drifting underwater, and all at once there's a galactic explosion.
Klaus’s music has been in my life for a long long time. One of the pioneers of longform electronic music. This album is one of my favorites. I remember we were visiting family in Amsterdam in 76 or so, when I saw this album in a local record store. I had heard about the record but I loved the cover art! It had to be a good album. It was. I played it at my uncle’s stereo and to my surprise they liked it too. I played it until the grooves wore out and saved up to buy all that was available at the time. Then after Dune I lost touch for a while and only very sporadically bought a release. Sad to hear he passed on. But boy, what a legacy he has left behind. Side note: JP you might like Picture Music and Moondawn too since they have percussion elements in it. Klaus started out as a drummer.
A big influence on my own music. RIP Klaus Schulze.
R.I.P. Klaus Schulze. Another immortal crossed the rainbow :-( - ... J.P. , I'd really like to see you react to Grobschnitt, Solar Music Live, but the whole thing in one session (bit more than an hour ;-) ) ...
RIP Klaus! I love this era of his music, Timewind is a cracking album along with my favourite, Moondawn. He had something special going musically, and his organic compositions always manage to put me in a trance on another plane of existence. There is deep feeling to these sounds once you can hook into the power supply. 🙃
When I was a kid, our local PBS radio station, which normally played European classical music, had a program called Music From the Hearts of Space on Sunday nights at 10. Klaus Schulze was a regular. This brings me back.
I've been trying to comment that the weekly transmission of Hearts of Space with Stephen Hill is still going strong. But anytime I mention where it's available, TH-cam appears to be censoring my comment. It's available online and is as amazing as ever.
@@IllumeEltanin Really? Same programming? I'll look it up.
@@Azabaxe80
My attempts at linking are still getting deleted. Try using the first letter of each word of *H*earts *o*f *S*pace, all in lower case, and adding the standard url ending to get to the browser version.
I use the Android app, though. So, I can't say how user friendly the browser interface is.
That sounds cool! There used to be a program on the radio here called "Echoes", which was music like this, new age, electronica, anything nocturnal, spacey and airt.
@@JustJP
If interested, here's the host's, Stephen Hill's, description of this week's transmission:
This week on Hearts of Space: 'PLANETARY UNFOLDING'-MICHAEL STEARNS' profound 1981 classic of California electronic journey music. It was remastered and re-released in 2022 by Projekt Records. Plus Stearns' THE SOFT TOUCH OF MORNING LIGHT & WITHIN: THE NINE DIMENSIONS.
Ah the days of analog! Our first electronic music lab, circa '80s had those maximoogs with all the wires, like a phone operator of old, and ARP synths with mostly slides. The trick was to turn on the record, and explore, making changes ever so incrementally. One take, like you said. To this day I try to make the first take count. Most efficient, and you can keep moving forward, progressing. Walter Carlos (Wendy) was the first synthesist I knew of, and then Tomita, ELP and all the rest. Klause and Edgar Froese were doing some great sounds out of Germany, as was Stockhausen, but for a more hardcore audience. My first half dozen synths were all analog. I saw Moog and Kurzweil roll out the first Kurz at MIT and lusted it for years, but lacked the 10k, which was real money in in the mid '80s. Wound up spending (3+k) it on the aboriginal Macintosh instead, and getting the Kurz once the price came down. Yamaha's Motif is one I'd like now, if you're thinking about Christmas. This is good chess playing, or library reorganizing, music. Almost Impressionistic, like Debussy, Ravel, Faure, yet German. But all brand new sounds to the ear.
A true pioneer in electronic music.My favourite albums of Klaus Schulze are "Moondawn" & "Mirage".
RIP Klaus.
One of the best in the Electronic music scene. RIP KLAUS. greetings Dirk Belgium.
Entering the Astral Realm. Beautiful soundscapes. Love the textures.
I'm hoping for more Vangelis. 'Albedo 0.39' or 'China' would be great : )
'Spiral' too :)
@@masterpeace8539 yes 🙂
Klaus has been in my life since the seventies. Love to drift away on his soundscapes. In the past months his music turned out to be great to edit my photos and videos to. So sad to hear he’s gone. Thanks Klaus for al these wonderful inspirational moments.
I know, JP, his pieces can be long but his early albums are all different. Bodylove or Dune (with Arthur Browne!) have more variation. I sure hope you will try them.
One of my favorites. I bought this on vinyl in 1975!
Klaus is an aquired taste and on my first listen years ago i thought it was boring crap but have now come to love his tracks and found the beauty in the long drawn out explorations of sounds and how it affects us 😊 RIP Klaus and thank you 😊
In a word: hypnotic.
I nearly fell asleep, but that's not necessarily a bad thing.
Different music for different things and this is good for relaxing and contemplating.
Definitely similar to Tangerine Dream.
This and Moondawn were always my "goto" Schulze albums... I remember traveling to Florida from UK in 1990 and this was on constant rotation on my walkman... at the time in 80s and 90s this stuff was very much out of vogue (it was recorded in 1975) but I, and no doubt many others, loved it... the style is very much his... you can hear how this must have influenced Jarre.. and now the music here is quite contemporary again.
The abrupt ending always woke me from my daydream/sleep... there is an abrupt part on the second side too... and yes it took me out of it..
I remember playing Descent2 back then and yes this kind of music would be perfect for it... for me it was the soundtrack I put on when I played Ocean's F29 Retaliator...
those resonant sound fx were popular back then... they're all over Edgar Froese's Aqua too... and yes they aren't very nice..
Lot of comments about the lack of emotion in this music.. I don't agree. for me it's filled with emotions because I listen to this music since early childhood. Klaus Schulze is a Pioneer for all electronics in music and he's a master of building landscapes with his synths.. Of course it's not easy listening but imagine to hike trough a beautiful landscape and listen to that😊🎶 feels like heaven... Dont forget Gandalf
I bought this in mid 1978 when I was 17 and had my first full time summer job so I had $ to spend on sonic therapy! I had already heard Shulze's work on Yamashta's Go projects, and had bought all the Tangerine Dream albums by then. A friend had taped for me Mirage, Moondawn & Bodylove 1, and I had bought Bodylove 2 (having to hide THAT cover from my parents!) & another. After my friend & I left the record store downtown, we saw a horror movie that had really scared me- and when I got home I listened to this on headphones and it was so soothing! BUT I agree with you about the ending- so on my cassette and later mp3 I faded Bayreuth out early to avoid it! I enjoy all the tones, and still consider it his ambient best.
Timewind is my favorite KS album. He put out about 60 albums in his lifetime, and I have about a dozen of them, mostly from his early years.
Mine too
@Bookhouse Boy Yeah, Mirage's Crystal Lake is awesome.
Timewind and Mirage are two of my big favourites too, but my top favourite is "X". That album is an absolute masterpiece! My second favourite would be Mirage, and my third is Moondawn.
@@classicalmusic3334 Yes, “X” is great. I have an original vinyl pressing of that one.
I saw KS at that time (must have been 1974-75) in Strasbourg. Maybe the most strange concert I saw. He was sitting on the stage, in a lotus position if I remember well, turning his back from the crowd and he had in front of him a wall of computers and synths. He was really quiet, no movements except his hands that went on the keyboards and buttons. We were all sitting on the floor too. Of course you could smell strange smoke odors… On on piece he stood up and left the stage, I think it must have been for at least 10-15 minutes. The music continued without him repetitively. Really something from another time and world. I can't imagine that today. No crowd would have the patience to just sit and listen for 2 hours… But I must admit I'm not a big fan of that kind of music although I regularly listen to the 2 albums I have from him (this one + Blackdance that came out just before).
I loved it. It reminds me of Neuronium's "Chromium Echoes" album.
Your timing is so eerie. RIP Klaus. Schulze's music around this era we called 'floating' music or 'space' music. Both Klaus' and Tangerine Dream's music evolved in the mid-late 70's into sequencer & drum-driven almost trance-like masterpieces. ( Klaus was with TD very early in that band's history, but TDs heavy sequencer stuff was definitely from Ricochet on). Klaus' Moondawn ( and 'Floating' from that album ) are sill my go-to work background soundtrack .
Can’t wait to listen to your reaction to this. I just listened to this album yesterday. If you haven’t already, consider doing a reaction video for the Record Store Day 2022 release of Tangerine Dream’s Edgar Froese’ “Epsilon in Malaysian Pale”. Thanks.
Funny to hear you say that you missed the drums, because Klaus started as a drummer first, before he went on to electronic music. He was the drummer in the very early days of Tangerine Dream - another band you may return to someday, as you’ve already commented on TD’s Phaedra album (Force Majeure and Rubycon would be good choices for a next listen to TD.) Klaus is a pioneer of the moog synthesizer. I like his music - the loops he uses are pure meditation. I also love the music he‘s done together with Lisa Gerrard - she puts some extra salt into his music with her amazing voice.
Had to keep pinching myself, to be sure I was not joining Mr. Schulze in the hereafter! Good thing? If I can tell you after completing the journey, I will! Peace & Love.
Nothing happens, but in a relaxing and soothing way.
I saw KS at Coventry Cathedral on his Audentity tour. Wonderful, very spiritual. The venue seemed very fitting with KS being German. The old Medieval cathedral was bombed during the war, and a new one was built next to the ruins in the early 1950s. It was if if KS was acknowledging peace and forgiveness.
Bayreuth is where Richard Wagner lived for a long time in Germany, where he got his own opera house - and there's a Wagner Festival there every year. Track two on the album bears the name of his house there: Wahnfried (1883).
Ths was my first exposure to KS. I can't remember which day it was, it was a long time ago, but the radioprogramme started at 11 pm. After a few introductory remarks, they played the album (or just this track, my memory fails me, all the way through, no interruptions, just the music.
Bliss.
The vinyl's gone but I've got two CD versons: the orrininal record←ng ant the remastered and extended double CD.
He has a large catalogue - I haven't heard them all but Audentity is a must, followed closely by Silhouettes from 2018 (Quae Simplex is just great.).
Just before his death it was announced that a new album is to be released in June.
I got into Klaus Schulze Timewind while at university in the mid 70's. Great music to do assignments with. So this music is very familiar and of course I like it. It has it place. I was playing EVE-Online while listening here. I fits so very well. It is great meditation music. Klaus made dozens of albums over the years. On a sad note Klaus Schulze past away on April 26. Glad you finally found Timewind it is very different music but fits so many situations. For me this includes study, mediation, game playing, night driving and chill out times. RIP Klaus Schulze.
Timewind is still one of my most favourite Klaus Schulze albums, and I've been listening to his wonderful music for over a decade by now.
This particular track, Bayreuth Return, is such a interesting experience. Even though it takes about 30 minutes, it really doesn't feel that long to me because I get so lost in it that I kind of lose track of time. It's like you are floating somewhere in a unknown universe or something... just fascinating!
I often play this kind of floating electronic music as background while I'm doing other things. You should also try putting it on at bedtime. It makes for some weird dreams.
The crash jumpscare is totally normal LOL. I'd know, I've been enjoying Bayreuth Return for five years. I got jumpscared five times before I got used to it.
I suspect, especially given the next track, that it might be meant to represent the heart attack from which Richard Wagner died.
@@TangerineTux I never knew that. I knew Klaus was a Wagner fan, but not much else. Love your channel, BTW.
@@auroramartell Happy to hear 😊
To elaborate on my hypothesis: Wagner spent the last decade or so of his life in Bayreuth (hence “Bayreuth Return”, maybe), and then died of a heart attack in 1883 and was buried at his villa which he had named “Wahnfried” (which seems like a plausible explanation for the title “Wahnfried 1883”, which therefore might be dedicated to his death). The crash sits right between the two.
@@TangerineTux Ooh, now the titles make way more sense.
Love it so much! Epic!
Try "Mindphaser" from the album "Moondawn". The Lord's Prayer in Arabic opens up the track.
My favourite Klaus Schulze track though is "Velvet Voyage" from the album "Mirage". My absolute favourite!
But for great Klaus Schulze albums, you cannot loose with "Beyond Recall" . The track "Gringo Nero" is very accessible.
Ty Jack!
You meant Floating right? Because Mindphaser opens up with the sound of sea waves, not with the Lord’s Prayer in Arabic.
@@jorgebohyn Yes, apologies.
This is Klaus Schulze : Man-heart to machine. His death is hitting really hard.
He was a drummer, played with so many musicians. Love his music.
Klaus Schulze was a Electronic music genius and pioneer. All his Seventies albums are classics.
Afternoon, Justin. Dave from a spring-like London (sun's out and so are the Bluebells). I am happy to play this for relaxation - I'm with you on this, JP. As a piece of music to listen to, I feel it is rather generic and much too long. Still, given that Klaus left us a few days ago, there is a eulogic quality to it. P.S. My song ref Bluebells is by Moon Safari.
You get it right saying it develops organically. The best mindset for this kind of music is to get comfortable, start the music and let yourself go whereever it draws you, with its landscape of emotions. It's okay as a simple background, but this music is intented for active listening.
One of my all time favorite meditative journeys. Anytime I travel I go for it. Two fun facts: all recorded live on to two track tape recorders in Schulzes bedroom, and the noise at the end was included because the track went on for quite a while longer than an LP side allowed and it needed to be cut short. Rest In Peace to the master of Moog and the grandfather of most current trance music!
This is actually the shortened version, since he couldn't fit the piece onto one side of a vinyl on the year that it came out, hence the abrupt ending.
Apparently, Klaus Schulze did this in one take with no overdubs.
Thank you for reviewing his music. Without his music, I would be nowhere.
I'm very happy to; thank you Adeptus
@@JustJP Please also review the track Echoes of Time, which you can find on the second disc of the 2006 2-cd version. That is my all-time favorite Klaus Schulze track.
I don’t mind this kind of music at all, it’s cool to mind surf mental images to. Sometimes see patterns, imaginary mechanisms, and so on, so forth. It’s also great to do dishes to, and figure shtt out. Which I’m doing a lot of these days and the case today.
Recorded live to 2 track, very cool. I record music sometimes, and I like to keep the track count as low as possible. Early recordings were sometimes only 2 tracks and if they have enough creativity in them, they hold up still. Most don’t have drums… I like you, want to lay some drums on them and see where it goes.
I hadn’t heard much Klaus, if any, but I felt I knew what was coming. I’ve heard and read blurbs here and there, so I had an idea.
The Dalíesqe cover was a perfect choice.
Peace and relax and float downstream Music
Myst yea! Was great and some sounds I can place there
I was absolutely hooked on MYST. The first MYST game has the best game music ever made, composed and recorded by Robyn Miller.
Klaus Schulze is an example of why my preference is more towards Jean-Michel Jarré and Vangelis. But, that is not to denigrate Schultze's contribution as a pioneer of electronic music. The genre may have never evolved into ambient or IDM without his influence. Just my preference in what to listen to.
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hmm...
Now I'm wondering if this is one of Mr. Schulze's albums I've listened to previously. I'm definitely enjoying this much more than the other pieces of his I have heard.
OH DAMN. Gettin' into that nasty stuff. RIP Klaus Schulze. We share the same birthday.
And dude, Myst rules. Great game, needs to be made for VR.
Sorry, I'm reacting on the fly to your end commentary. Schulze is a drummer. He has albums with drums. So does Froese from Tangerine Dream, Then there's Herald Grosskopf, Ashra, etc. Achim Reichel is sooper-dope, too.
Really surreal -- kind of makes the mind dream of tangerines.
Couldn’t have put it better.
To me, this is his greatest masterpiece.
In the era this was created a lot of research was done with (electronic) music as therapy and meditative methods pe. in mental illness research and mood control (anti aggression) with inmates etc, white and pink noise, plus brainwave and heartbeat mimicing and almost hypnoticaly piggybagging on the clients heartbeat, lowering them with slow suggetive modifications in the sequencer tempo etc. where needed assosted with drugs like LSD. If you really let a masterful work like Bayreuth Return work in and "grab" you, it may put you to sleep, calm you down but at least show you how powerful music as a therpeutic aid can be.
A must to listen
Manuel Göttsching -"E2 -E4" or "Inventions for Electric Guitar"
Michael Hoenig & Manuel Göttsching - Warly Water
Great T-shirt!!!!
Mirage is another KS classic.
RIP Klaus Schulze.
try departure from the Northern wasteland by Michael Honig
This and Tangerine Dream's Encore are my favorite albums for music when I'm going to sleep.
Missed that he passed away. Sad... that genious had more music in him left. I like many of his albums, but my 3 favs is..
X.. Moondawn and Timewind.
His album with Lisa Gerrard (Farscape) is also great. Now it's gonna be a Klause Schulze bonanza for a couple of days. Think i got 30 or 40 albums with him...
“Most people wouldn’t know good music if it came up from behind and bit them on the ass.” - Frank Zappa
JP, check out his project with Steve Winwood, Al Di Meola & Stomu Yamashta called GO - the first album - two long suites. The first one is amazing.
I see Wiki says he wanted to invoke a timeless state in the listener, so avoiding as much musical ticking and tocking (and otherwise accenting) would be required. That would make it hard to sit down and focus on (although there are "use cases" like that), but great to have something that overrides a lot of ambient sound, has some pulse (yet somehow is timeless?) and doesn't intrude on your own thoughts. Some music comes and imposes its composer's thoughts on your mind; this music is a bit like Brian Eno's Music for Airports. It stays out of the way. You get to do the thinking round here, instead of being a follower of what the music "thinks".
The "use case" for focusing in on the music would be to help if you try spending some time deliberately "thinking nothing". Nothing verbal. If something like a word begins to form in your mind, suppress it; and the easiest way to do that is to have something non-verbal available to pay attention to. Might sound a bit trippy-hippy, but it's actually quite easy to do, and gives one a break from judging, weighing, and evaluating everything. The instruction manual is really that simple: "Don't think anything." Postpone the annoyance of ideas, and just be a living mammal within your environment for a little while. If you're stubborn enough about it eventually it can put you in a nice "cow mind" (just because "sheep" have too much bad propaganda against them, really). You feel the warm thing up there. You see some of the blue stuff up above. You see grass in front of you. Maybe some other cows. And maybe eat some grass. Or lie down and chew some cud. Or just stand there a little while, being alive and in place, in some world. With eyes to see. (It "opens your eyes" because you're not permitting your verbal mind to do all the seeing, the way it usually insists on doing. Instead you just directly see with your eyes. If that's what you think you just ordinarily do, you are wrong. Generally your eyes are consigned to data-gathering, with the data being instantaneously assigned to pre-defined thought constructs you have. If you switch that off, you can get yourself into a nice, direct mode of perception. Where things just are. But also where you sometimes see things you miss by deciding what they're going to be in advance. You tend to see a lot more when all you allow yourself to do is see. And that means shutting up this interminable bloody inner dialogue. Mind, just shut up will you?!! Shut off the dialog, shut off the prejudgements, and force yourself down to just having eyes to see. The way some more innocuous fellow mammal, like a cow, for instance, just has eyes to see, right now. And music like this is just the thing to send that interfering verbal mind off to when the thoughts start to form when you're taking a break and thinking nothing.)
Aarrh.. and Jean's middle name sounds almost exactly like "Michelle". (Michelle is the feminine form of "Michael"). (But your "Jean" and your "Jarre" are pretty good AFAIK.) Zhong MEE-Shell Zhaar.
Wagner. ... W has a "vuh" sound, for starters. I don't think there's an equivalent of the English "W" in German. Might be done with "U" or something, like the Romans did.
So it's VAAAAH ... Vaagner. (I think it means "Waggoner", though, so semantically you're good. :-) )
@@sicko_the_ew man that was a fat comment, but I agree completely. Lose your conscious mind for a time!
@@pentagrammaton6793 Glad I managed to make it past your TL;DR filter. :-) (I tend to be a bit wordy, I know. It's down to laziness. If I took a bit more care I could probably prune it all down to the essentials. Anyway, thanks.)
@@sicko_the_ew haha, no worries.
For those interested, I've been trying to comment that the weekly transmission of Hearts of Space with Stephen Hill is still going strong. But anytime I mention where it's available, TH-cam appears to be censoring my comment. It's available online and is as amazing as ever.
God I used to listen to this when I was around 13, when it came out, great album.
I am very divided on Klaus Schulze. I find some of his pieces too repetitive and not varied enough but at the same time not floating and restful enough to suit me as background music. If I want pure ambient then I prefer Brian Eno or Steve Roach for example and if I'm looking for electronic music mixing dreamlike atmospheres, sequenced loops and a few melodic hooks I'll rather listen to Tangerine Dream or Manuel Göttsching/Ashra.
It's not that Timewind is an unpleasant album, but I don't think there's much going on there. Moondawn, Mirage and X are more to my liking.
Speaking of electronic music, Justin I hope you will do Tangerine Dream's Rubycon and Stratosfear albums !!! 😉
Rubycon 👍
@@antitheist2000 An electronic Masterpiece !
Exactly. Timewind is more famous but it's entry level Schulze. it's a transitional album. Now Irrlicht (1972) and Mirage (1977) are much deeper, serious , dramatic albums. Absolutely not "ambient", even though they are also expansive and droning.
Fitting since he passed away this week. When did you record this?
Very meditative. I like this from time to time. 🪐🪐 Sounds closer to Jarre than for instance Tangerine Dream.
Timewind is a great album, but my favourite Schulze album is "X" (especially Ludwig II. von Bayern, maybe you can react on that one too?)
Electronic music from the 60s/70s was often long format ethereal/atmospheric/etc. music, usually taking whole album sides. I love old electronic music, but even I have to be in the mood for this type vs. more energetic W. Carlos, Synergy, Rick Wakeman, etc. May want to avoid any Wendy Carlos reactions, though, as she is super-protective of her copyrights. I think only the original TRON soundtrack might be OK, since Disney supposedly owns it instead of her.
If you want to take a look on his equipment, please search for Köln WDR live 1977, a ten minute long piece :) But watch out for the secquenser light.. o O o O o o ;)
The sound quality isn't the best but reasonable. On the album "Moondawn", there is a real drummer Harald Grosskopf.
You can hear the influence on modern day ambient music. As for the 90's, I happen to have the 1993 Jam & Spoon album "Tripomatic Fairytales 2001" and even though the pieces are more
to dance rhytm (and the album itself two decades old) , there are plenty of same elements. "Who Opened The Door To Nowhere" is a good example.
The music of KS is very especial for me.It is unrepeatable. We losted a golden musician.
I like your shirt! :) BTW, Have you ever heard of Hawkwind?
Yes, mispronunciation big time. In reference to Wagner, the "W" is pronounced as a "V". :)
@@dragonan5674 more Hawkwind!
Klaus' Body Love soundtrack albums have drums in with the sequencer, at least Volume 2, if memory isn't totally trashed...
Both Body Love albums do have drums indeed. Also on Moondawn and X.
Don't dream it, be it. ( rocky horror picture Show. )
KS must have been a big influence to Deadmau5 (Strobe) and other electronic trance artists.
ch i c a n e c a m e from wrexham. "offshore" tuned me into the 90s. then i tuned out. where am i now? on the way to the ice cream parlour. i should be gardening. diolch!
The e in Schulze is spoken. So sad he died.
I know Klaus Schulze for about 45 years and still regularly listen to his music. Klaus was for a short time member of Tangerine Dream and this band too is worth to listen to. Don’t start with the earliest albums though. Stratosphere, Ricochet are better places to start.
I have all albums of Schulze. Timewind, Moondawn, X, Dune belong to his best works.
The album Digit is a very dynamic album.
R.I.P. Klaus. He has always been an inspiration to me - just listen to this track I recorded with my band in the early 80:s: th-cam.com/video/WjnBPLRdwzA/w-d-xo.html
Klaus Schulze was one of the pioneers of sequenced, synthesised electronic music and, in my opinion, just as good as Tangerine Dream (he of course, was in that band in their early days) This sort of music may be too static, soulless or unexciting for some but as a listening experience or even as ambient background music, this takes me to a place I want to be. RIP.
My friend says to me that this album gives him nightmares
Nightmares to some, dreams to other :D
5 minutes longer than I made it...
RIP Klaus Schulze "Blanche" est une des plus belles choses que j'ai entendu th-cam.com/video/U5LOMK-ZHHw/w-d-xo.html
F@$k'n love Klaus Schulze!! Original drummer for Tangerine Dream in the late 60's!!!
Believe it or not, I used to play this on the campus radio station in the late 1970s. IMO it is his best. He uses the sequencer to good effect. On later recordings I think he, like Tangerine Dream and other electronic musicians, became too reliant upon it and the music suffered. Schulze was one of the original members of Tangerine Dream. He purchased the synthesizer Florian Fricke used on the first two Popol Vuh albums. It was one of the first synthesizers in Germany. Using that synthesizer TD changed from an early Kraut rock band to the electronic group. On that note, you might check Froese's solo album Epsilon in Malaysian Pale. Very good.
Ring des Nibelungen… Funny I bought this Saterday a cd with the best pieces of Wagner. Sad that Schulze died.
KS at his best
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Boring in first listen
This type of music needs a different mindset.
This emotionless electronic stuff if so far past its 'sell by date'. You have to be in a really singular frame of mind for this stuff, one i'm so seldom in these days. This I found musically uneventful, vapid, and by about the 10 minute mark I'd lost all interest. Quite the testament to my powers of endurance that I made it to the end.
@@Katehowe3010 Cheers, you're likely right 🙂
@@Katehowe3010 I admire you and jfergs for the commitment to endure to the end. I bowed out early.
Nonsense! I guess you never heard of people like Steve Roach or Robert Rich. But I understand that if you go into this unaware you might not be understanding or appreciative.
@@maxxkarma yeah you have to be able to tap in to the spacey state of mind, and then it all unfolds.
@@jaybird4093 It was a struggle but sometimes one has to suffer for the sake of art 🙂
Oh, this is so boring 😒😴
This kind of music is not for everyone.
You hear his background as drummer...few if any had such an ability to make sequenced music swing