KLAUS SCHULZE Irrlicht LP PDU 1974 ITA orig+foc TANGERINE DREAM-ASH RA TEMPEL
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KLAUS SCHULZE
As both a solo artist and member of groups including Tangerine Dream and Ash Ra Tempel, Klaus Schulze is acknowledged as one of the founding fathers of contemporary electronic music. His epic, meditative soundscapes helped pave the way for new age and ambient music, and his sequencer-driven rhythmic explorations anticipated the rise of techno and trance. Making his solo debut with 1972's visionary Irrlicht, recorded using tape machines and an electronic organ, Schulze began using synthesizers soon afterward, producing classics such as 1975's Timewind and 1976's Moondawn.
"IRRLICHT"
A Cosmic Couriers Production1974 LP PDU RECORDS Pld. SQ 5095 Quadro Stereo Mono MADE IN ITALY ORIGINAL PRESSING LAMINATED GATEFOLD COVER
NOTES: First published in Germany 1972, released for the first time in Italy 1974
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LABEL: PDU - BLACK LABEL w/ARTWORK on Side A - SILVER/BLACK TEXT
Catalog on cover: Pld. SQ 5095 Catalog on label (Side B only): Pld. SQ. 5095 [(P. 025285) (P. 025286)]
Matrix / Runout (Side A, Etched): P-025285 - 4-9-74 TZ Matrix / Runout (Side B, Etched): P-025286 - 4-9-74 TZ
On labels (Side A): Die Kosmischen Kuriere (Side B): rim text reads "Riservati tutti i diritti..........Fabbricato e distribuito dalla EMI Italiana S.p.A. -Made in Italy-" P. 025285 S.I.A.E. (boxed) PDU Quadro-Stereo-Mono P. 025286 A Cosmic Couriers Production: Ohr Musik
Rights Society: S.I.A.E.
On Front Cover: (top left corner): PDU Quadrifonico Quadro Stereo Mono Pld. SQ 5095 (top right corner): Ohr [logo/text] On Inside Left Panel: Tracklist & Credits Published by PDU On Back Cover: (top left corner): COSMIC MUSIC THE SOUND OF THE COSMIC COURIERS COSMIC MUSIC (bottom, left edge): Distrib. EMI made in Italy
tracklisting
Side A: SATZ: EBENE - SATZ: GEWITTER (ENERGY RISE-ENERGY COLLAPSE)
Side B: SATZ: EXIT SILS MARIA
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RECORD VG+ but (please, read above description)
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Restless mastermind Klaus Schulze had already done time in early Krautrock bands Tangerine Dream, Cosmic Jokers, and Ash Ra Tempel by the time of his 1972 solo debut, Irrlicht. Schulze had worked mainly as a drummer in most of these bands, but his innovative approach to synthesizers that unfolded over the course of his dense, prolific, and always forward-reaching solo albums throughout the '70s and '80s would set the tone for almost every genre affiliated with electronic music. Irrlicht was in some ways even more ahead of its time than his work with electronics, seeing Schulze creating ambient drones and highly experimental cosmic sounds made completely without the use of synths. Even as soon as the 1973 follow-up Cyborg he would be deeply immersed in chains of synthesizers, sequencers, and other early electronic instruments, but the sounds on Irrlicht had a lot more in common with the philosophies of musique concrète, with Schulze manipulating tapes he made of an orchestra practicing and stirring those sounds into swelling sheets of electric organ and cosmic ping-pongs of delay and other effects. These raw elements were boiled down into three lengthy pieces of a science fiction symphony: the shifting, desolate "Satz Ebene"; a brief, somewhat terrifying respite with "Satz Gewitter"; and the darkly meditative 21-minute album closer, "Satz Exil Sils Maria"...(AllMusic)
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