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"Not quite a normal Schulze-Album. This album is one of Klaus' sideline ideas, a "Wahnfried" release. And certainly not exactly a genuine and typical 'Schulze', if such a character does exist at all. In the '90s there was a new musical dance fashion, called Techno, Trance, Ambient or Chillout, and most of its champions called Klaus and Kraftwerk respectfully the 'Fathers of Trance and Techno'. Parts of former Schulze discs were being played in dance halls, and Techno producers used Klaus' music for their own creations. Fashionable groups such as The Irresistable Force, Future Sound of London or The Orb asked for their use of Klaus Schulze samples, plenty of others just used them. New musical heroes such as Sven Väth or William Orbit talked with Klaus about a maybe musical cooperation... Klaus seemed to like it, or at least some of it. The situation was curious. Klaus Schulze was once described as 'pioneering, single-minded and influential, a musician with taste for adventure.' No one else can claim to have been so important a force behind the music that becomes known as 'New Age' or the later subcultural 'Ambient-House'. His greatest triumph as a musician is the almost single-handed creation of synth-sequencer music and the related genres 'Cosmic Music' or 'Teutonic Synth', which later composers and musicians all over the world have latched on to 'Sure enough!' After doing his own crazy innovative music for a quarter of a century, suddenly some young pop musicians use freely what he did all those years, and sell it as their new invention. And people enjoy and dance to it. The obvious idea for Klaus Schulze was, to do a 'Trance' album himself. It promised some fun. Because this is a bit apart from his own musical direction, Klaus did it under his alter ego Wahnfried, as always not as the only driving force as in any Schulze production, but just one artist among others."
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MIG 1452CD
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"This is the re-issue of the Wahnfried/Klaus Schulze album Trance 4 Motion, which was originally released in the year 2000 as part of the strictly limited and long deleted Contemporary Works boxset. For over two decades, Klaus Schulze's alter- ego Richard Wahnfried has been making memorable and timeless music and there are no signs of it stopping yet. The tense, rhythmic counterplay of 'Local Scanning' sets the tone for the album; early versions of the track, containing electric guitars and vocals, are cast aside and the music proceeds with minimal sequences, heavy percussion and the sort of effective filter modulations that only a Moog wizard like Wahnfried is able to create. The next track 'Aphrodesire' takes the same tone as 'Local Scanning', yet builds on it and and excites with hypnotic effect. For the last track, 'Global Midication', Cologne-based collective Solar Moon (with engineer Tom Dams) collaborate with Klaus to add an air of relentless, timeless modernity. Another pearl from the huge Schulze Cosmos."
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MIG 1342CD
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"Original Release: 1997. 'Drums'n'Balls' contains what a lot of Ambient descendants have never learned: deepness without razzle-dazzle, beauty without knickknack platitudes... (quotation from the German magazin 'Musikexpress' / February 1998). Starting from the end of the 70s Klaus Schulze has performed every now and then as Richard Wahnfried. A homage to Richard Wagner, who is Schulze's huge ideal. Some of those 'Wahnfried' - releases will now be re-released, too." [Collector Scum alert: Made In Germany is re-packaging old Klaus Schulze SPV/Revisited CDs, so this is the same content as the 2006 issue on SPV, not a newer edition]
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