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Klaus Schulze

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• • >Klaus Schulze (born August 4, 1947 in Berlin) is a German electronic art music composer and musician, who also used the alias Richard Wahnfried and also known as Wahnfried on the last albums. He was a cofounding member of electronic bands Tangerine Dream and Ash Ra Tempel before a pioneering and prolific solo career of 40+ albums (totalling 110+ CDs) in 30+ years.
    
    

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In 1969, Klaus Schulze was the drummer of one of the early incarnations of Tangerine Dream for their debut album ''Electronic Meditation''. In 1970 he left this group to form Ash Ra Tempel with Manuel Göttsching. In 1971, he chose again to leave a newly-formed group after only one album, this time to mount a solo career.In 1972, Schulze released his debut album ''Irrlicht'' with organ and a recording of an orchestra filtered almost beyond recognition. Despite the lack of synthesizers, this proto-ambient work is regarded as a milestone in electronic music. The followup, ''Cyborg'', was similar but added the EMS Synthi A synthesizer.He has had a prolific career, with more than 40 original albums to his name since ''Irrlicht'', some highlights being 1976's ''Moondawn'', 1979's ''Dune'', and 1995's double-album ''In Blue'' (featuring one long track with electric guitar by his pal Manuel Göttsching of Ash Ra Tempel). He often takes German events as a starting point in his compositions, particularly on his album ''"X"'' (the title signifying it was his tenth album) in 1978 which was subtitled 'Six Musical Biographies,' including such notables as Ludwig II of Bavaria, Friedrich Nietzsche, and Wilhelm Friedemann Bach. His use of the pseudonym Richard Wahnfried indicates his interest in Richard Wagner, which also informs other albums of his music, notably 'Timewind.'Throughout the 1970s he worked mostly in the musical vein of the above-mentioned Tangerine Dream, albeit with far lighter sequencer lines and a more reflective, dreamy edge, not unlike the ambient music of contemporary Brian Eno. Klaus Schulze had a more organic sound than other electronic artists of the time. Often he would throw in decidedly non-electronic sounds such as acoustic guitar and a male operatic voice in ''Blackdance'', or a cello in ''Dune'' and ''Trancefer.'' Schulze developed a Minimoog technique that sounds uncannily like an electric guitar, which is quite impressive in concert. In the 1980s Schulze moved from analog to digital instruments, and his work accordingly became less experimental and more accessible. A highlight of this era was ''En=Trance'' with the dreamy cut
'FM Delight.' The album ''Miditerranean Pads'' marked the beginning of very complex percussion arrangements that continued into the next two decades.Starting with ''Beyond Recall'', the first half of the 1990s was the notorious "sample" period, when Schulze used a variety of pre-recorded sounds of screeching birds and sensuous female moans in his studio albums and live performances. Sampling was such an unpopular diversion that when ''In Blue'' was released in 1995 without samples it was hailed as a return to form.