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Irrlicht
by: Klaus Schulze

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EAN: 6937230496256
Label: Inside Out U.S.
Manufacturer: Inside Out U.S.
Number Of Discs: 1
Publisher: Inside Out U.S.
Release Date: June 06, 2006
Studio: Inside Out U.S.
Sales Rank: 82329
MPN: 30496

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Album Description:
Irrlicht is the solo debut album from Klaus Schulze (originally released in 1972) and is an absolute masterpiece in cosmic, space music. Schulze omitted the use of synthetics for this recording, relying on organ with various electronic effects to produce an absolutely mesmerizing and minimalist body of sounds that transform the listener into a total abstracted world full of mysteries within its almost never-ending spiral. With no electronic pulse and rhythms, just a gloomy and distorted atmosphere this record can easily haunt and hypnotize. Considered by many to be his finest and purest body of work, the new and definitive Revisited Records version contains the 24 minute bonus track, Dungeon and comes packaged in a deluxe digipak with new liner notes and rare photos.

Klaus Schulze first attracted attention as a member of the German progressive rock band, Tangerine Dream. Following the release of their debut LP, Electronic Meditation, he departed for a solo career. Klaus' recorded work typically features extended pieces sometimes filling an entire album built around computer-generated synthesizers and other specially programmed electronic effects. Klaus Schulze remains a cult figure in the United States, where the bulk of his prolific output has until now been available only through the import bins. He is widely considered an avant-garde mainstay as well as a founding father of both the new-age space music and electronica genres.

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- This album taught me some things
I haven't found any electronic music like Irrlicht. Only Cabaret Voltaire came close to making music that intrigues me as much as Klaus Schultze's first album.

On paper it should sound awful. There are no synthesizers, just a screwed up organ that only made a low bass note and lots of fuzzy noises. The orchestra was recorded by Schultze on a cheap cassette recorder about a mile away, and the conductor insisted on TALKING to the orchestra during the whole recording despite Schultze begging him to shut up. The rest of the noises are cheap percussion and whatever else Schultze found laying around that made noise.

All this junk comes together to make "sound" that's completely unique and unsettling. The one-note bass organ gets your attention immediately. The fuzzy noises ... Read More

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- Great debut from one of the big names of electronic music
After appearing on the debut albums of Tangerine Dream and Ash Ra Tempel, he disembarked on a solo career. He was getting sick of what he felt was more time trying to get everyone in a band to decide on what to play than it was to actually play the music. Also he was losing interest in drumming so he switched to keyboards. Irrlicht was his first solo offering, and although he did periodically appear in other groups up until 1974, including The Cosmic Jokers (an unintended project with Wallenstein and Ash Ra Tempel members whose material got released behind their backs), Code III, and let's not forget the one-off reunion of the original Ash Ra Tempel at the end of 1972 that made up the album Join Inn (1973).

Irrlicht was originally released on the Ohr label with artwork by Schulze himself, ... Read More

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- This is where it all began.
Although I own all the albums from Klaus Schulze from the seventies, four of them truly stand out as my favorites. This is Klaus Schulze's first album from 1972. I had his albums in my library since the eighties since this is when I started collecting CD's and even early on in the dawn of the new compact disc era, I saw a few Klaus Schulze CD's as imports from Germany. Since I heard that Klaus Schulze use to be a member of Tangerine Dream, I took a chance and bought a CD from Klaus Schulze. My first CD from him was called "Dune." Since I was excited about owning practically anything on CD, I was pretty blown away on how Klaus Schulze had these very long, melodic, hypnotic soundscapes that was just more of this new sound I was starting to get into since I bought my first CD player. At first, I started ... Read More

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- Debut recording by premiere synthesizer master
Schulze's first ever solo recording (from 1972)strangely, uses no real synthesizers at all (quite a feat for someone known as the premiere synth player in electronic music in the last 30+ years), but rather features Klaus on Organ and various electronic devises (sound effects might be more appropriate here) along with an electronically enhanced real string orchestral section. Very difficult, the music suggests a slightly eerie, barren winter landscape, and for the more attentive listener, quite a treat. This music is not for Schulze's fans of his later rhythmically charged drum machine rock music, but for listeners of avante-guarde music, and the Stockhausen's and Cages of the world, this is really a masterpiece. Too bad Schulze didn't do more of this before moving into a more Progressive Rock arena.

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- Klaus Schulze's Classic Debut Remastered!!!
The year was 1972 when former Tangerine Dream and Ash Ra Tempel member Klaus Schulze embarked on his lengthy solo career which continues to this day.
Although it is considered to be a pioneering classic in Electronic music today, Schulze's solo debut "Irrlicht" was not well received when it was first released 34 years ago. Many listeners (as well as members of the orchestra which Klaus used on the album) didn't quite know what to think at the time. However, the listening public finally caught up with Klaus's crazy ideas and the album has since become a blueprint for the ambient/drone genre.
Although Klaus Schulze has long been regarded as a pioneer of synthesizers, "Irrlicht" was actually created without any synths whatsoever as Klaus did not own one yet. The instruments and tools that were used ... Read More

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