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Klaus Schulze
German electronic musician, a founding figure of the Berlin School alongside a solo discography of more than 60 albums.
Klaus Schulze (1947–2022) drummed on Tangerine Dream’s 1970 debut Electronic Meditation before leaving to co-found Ash Ra Tempel with Manuel Göttsching in 1970, departing after its one self-titled album to begin a solo career that ran to more than 60 releases across six decades. His debut, Irrlicht (1972), built from organ and a heavily filtered orchestral recording, dispensed with synthesizers almost entirely and is widely regarded as a founding document of the “Berlin School” of electronic music; Cyborg (1973) added the EMS VCS3, and later albums such as Timewind (1975), Moondawn (1976), and Mirage (1977) established the sequencer-driven, side-long electronic form the label came to describe. From 1994 he collaborated extensively with Pete Namlook on FAX, beginning with The Dark Side of the Moog, a series that grew to eleven volumes released between 1994 and 2008. Fans and critics alike came to call him the “Godfather of Trance” for the influence of his hypnotic, sequenced electronic music on the genre.
Works in the Library
Klaus Schulze ALBUM 1973
Klaus Schulze's 1973 second album, adding the EMS VCS3 synthesizer to the approach of Irrlicht.
SOUND TIME
Klaus Schulze ALBUM 1972
Klaus Schulze's 1972 solo debut, built from organ and heavily filtered orchestral recordings, without synthesizers.
SOUND TIME
Klaus Schulze ALBUM 1977
Klaus Schulze's 1977 album, a darker, choir-and-synthesizer-textured entry in his run of Berlin School records.
SOUND TIME
Klaus Schulze, Pete Namlook ALBUM 1994
The 1994 debut collaboration between Klaus Schulze and Pete Namlook on FAX, dedicated to Bob Moog and the start of an eleven-volume series.
SOUND TIME
