Klaus Schulze (born August 4, 1947 in Berlin) is a German electronic art music composer and musician, who besides utilized a false name Richard Wahnfried and also referred to as Wahnfried on the survive albums. He was the cofounding member of electronic elastic Tangerine Dream and Ash Ra Tempel before a pioneering & prolific solo career of 40+ albums (totalling 110+ Videos) within 30+ years.

History

Inside 1969, Klaus Schulze was a drummer of one of the early incarnations of Tangerine Dream for their debut album Electronic Meditation, released within 1970.

Within 1970 he left this group to form Ash Ra Tempel with Manuel Göttsching, and it recorded debut album Ash Ra Tempel.

Within 1971, he chose again to leave the newly-formed class action fallowing exclusively of these album, this period to mount the solo career.

Inside 1972, Schulze released his debut album Irrlicht.

As the solo creative person, he has got a prolific career, using supplementary than Forty original albums to his title since Irrlicht, occasionally highlights existence 1976's Moondawn, 1979's Dune, 1986's Dreams, 1990's Miditerranean Pads, and 1995's double-album In Blue (featuring of these long track by having electric guitar by his sidekick Manuel Göttsching of Ash Ra Tempel). He typically will require German cases as a starting point inside his compositions, particularly in his album X (a title signifying it was his tenth album) around 1978 which was subtitled 'Six Musical Biographies,' including such guiding light when Ludwig II of Bavaria, Friedrich Nietzsche, and Wilhelm Friedemann Bach. His utilize of the anonym Richard Wahnfried indicates his interest inside Richard Wagner, which also informs more albums of his music, notably 'Timewind.'

Across his career, when deuce albums of "organ drone music", he has worked mostly in a musical vein of the above-mentioned Tangerine Dream, albeit unremarkably by having the other reflective, dreamy edge, non unlike the ambient music of contemporary Brian Eno. Since a 1980's he has as well been trying dark ambient, incorporating elements of jazz or classical music, working with additional contemporary techno ballroom music like trance, or creating an opera.

Discography

Studio and concert albums

Schulze's concert performances come original compositions recorded survive & so employed when albums:

(1972) Irrlicht (1973) Cyborg (Ii-Video) (1974) Blackdance (1975) Picture Music - rereleased 2005 w/33' bonus track. (1975) Timewind (1976) Moondawn (1977) System Love (soundtrack) - rereleased 2005 w/22' bonus track. (1977) Mirage - rereleased 2005 w/19' bonus track. (1977) System Love Vol. 2 (1978) "X" (Ii-Video) - rereleased 2005 w/21' bonus track. (1979) Dune - rereleased 2005 w/23' bonus track. (1980) ...Survive... (survive) (Deuce-Video) (1980) Burrow it - rereleased 2005 w/28' bonus track & live DVD. (1981) Trancefer (1983) Audentity (Deuce-Video) - rereleased 2005 w/58' bonus tracks. (1984) Angst (soundtrack) (1985) Inter*Face (1986) Dreams - rereleased 2005 w/24' bonus track. (1988) Nut=Trance - rereleased 2005 w/8' bonus track. (1990) Miditerranean Pads - rereleased 2005 w/2' extended track. (1990) A Dresden Performance (survive) (Ii-Video) (1991) Beyond Recall (1992) Royal Festival Hall Vol. I (survive) (1992) Royal Festival Hall Vol. Ii (survive) (1993) The Dome Event (live) (1994) Le Moulin delaware Daudet (soundtrack) - rereleased 2005 w/16' bonus track. (1994) Goes Classic (1994) Totentag (opera) (Deuce-Video) (1994) Das Wagner Desaster - Survive (survive) (Deuce-Video) (1995) Around Blue (Ii-Video) - rereleased 2005 w/53' bonus tracks (Tierce-Video) (1996) Come Professional people Sequenced? (Two-Video) (1997) Dosburg Online (2000) Ultimate Edition ^▼ (50-Video) Silver+Historic+Jubilee expanded. (1993) Silver Edition ^▼ (10-Video) limited, reprinted inside Ultimate. (1995) Historic Edition ^▼ (10-Video) limited, reprinted within Ultimate. (1997) Jubilee Edition ^▼ (25-Video) limited, reprinted around Ultimate. (2000) Coeval Works I personally (Tenner-Video) by having guest performing artist. (2001) Survive @ KlangArt One (survive) (2001) Survive @ KlangArt Two (survive) (2002) Contemporary Works II (Phoebe-Video) using guest performing artist. (2003) Andromeda (promo Video, presently ungathered) - sold-out limited edition of 300 copies (2004) Ion (promo Video, presently ungathered) - sold-out limited edition of 300 copies (2005) Moonlake

Inside 2005 began an troglodytes troglodytes re-release program of Schulze Videos, mostly by owning extended or even bonus tracks, occasionally a totally extra Video.

▲ The Ultimate Edition (2000) collects remastered or expanded versions of the whole trey limited Silver/Historic/Jubilee sets, + Seven.Fin hours of extra music: Quadruplet hours of 1978-1999 studio compositions (Unity.Pentad hours of Seventies, Ii.Phoebe hours of Nineties) & Ternary.V hours of 1975-1976, 1998 concert compositions. (Of people Heptad.Fivesome hours, Captain hicks hours come unreleased music, & Single.Quint hours reject virtually all of his antecedently ungathered 'only tracks' from either singles, compilations, etc.)

▲ The Silver Edition (1993) was 10 hours of recently 199Ii-1993 studio compositions, & 2 hours of unreleased 1972-1976 studio or even concert compositions – this sold-out limited edition of 2000 sets is collected, remastered & expanded in the Ultimate Edition.

▲ The Historic Edition (1995) was 5 hours of unreleased 1970-1985 studio compositions, & Septet hours of unreleased 1975-1981 concert compositions – this sold-out limited edition of 2000 sets is collected, remastered & expanded in the Ultimate Edition.

▲ The Jubilee Edition (199Septet) was 21 hours of unreleased 1970-1997 studio compositions (Nine hours of Seventies, Quintuplet hours of Eighties, 7 hours of 1990) & Xi hours of unreleased 1975-1991 concert compositions (+ twenty transactions of 4 1979-1984 German interviews by using Schulze) – this sold-out limited edition of One thousand sets is collected, remastered & expanded in the Ultimate Edition.

Wahnfried albums

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Composed by Schulze & performed by using guest creative person under false name "Richard Wahnfried":

(1979) Instance Actor (1981) Tonwelle (1984) Megatone (1986) Miditation (1994) Trancelation (1996) Trance Appeal (1997) ''Drums 'north' Balls (A Gancha Dub)

Uncollected tracks

Virtually all single tracks use one of these days been collected in the Ultimate Edition'', even so presently remains:

(1985) "Macksy" - vinyl only "made for the discos on company's request". (1994) "Conquest Of Paradise" - individual, Schulze commissioned to replay the track of 1492 by Vangelis. (2002) "Manikin Jubilee" - in the Manikin Records Deuce-Video sampler limited to 777 copies. (2004) "Schrittmacher" - in the Manikin Records Video sampler.

'Dark Side of the Moog' collaborations

Unitedly sustaining Pete Namlook:

(1994) A Dark Side of the Moog I personally - Wish busy people were there (1994) The Dark Side of the Moog II - A saucerful of ambience (1995) A Dark Side of the Moog III - Phantom heart brother (1996) A Dark Side of a Moog IV - 3 pipers at the gates of dawn (1996) A Dark Side of the Moog V - Psychedelic brunch (1997) A Dark Side of A Moog VI - The final DAT (1998) A Dark Side of the Moog VII - Obscured by Klaus (1999) A Dark Side of the Moog VIII - Careful thereupon AKS, Peter (2002) A Dark Side of a Moog IX - Placed the controls for the heart of the mother (2005) A Dark Side of the Moog X - Astro understand maine domina

Other collaborations

(1970) Electronic Meditation (with Tangerine Dream) (1971) Ash Ra Tempel (using Ash Ra Tempel) (1973) Join Auberge (using Ash Ra Tempel) (1973) Tarot (Two-LP) (by having Walter Wegmüller) (1973) Lord Krishna von Goloka (by using Sergius Golowin) (1974) A Cosmic Jokers (by owning The Cosmic Jokers) (1974) Planeten Sit Inside (using The Cosmic Jokers) (1974) Astronomical Supermarket (by owning The Cosmic Jokers) (1974) Sci Fi Person (sustaining The Cosmic Jokers) (1974) Gilles Zeitschiff (sustaining The Cosmic Jokers) (1976) Last (by owning Stomu Yamash'ta) (1976) Last Survive From either Paris (survive) (Two-LP) (by using Stomu Yamash'ta) (1977) Last As well (by owning Stomu Yamash'ta) (1983) Dziekuje Poland (survive) (Ii-Video) (using Rainer Bloss) (1984) Aphrica (LP) (using Rainer Bloss and Ernst Fuchs) (1984) Cause Hostelry (by owning Rainer Bloss) (1984) Transport Station Blue (by owning Michael Shrieve and Kevin Shrieve) (1987) Babel (by having Andreas Grosser) (1996) A Common soldier Tapes Vol. Deuce (1971 survive) (drums sustaining Ash Ra Tempel) - track "Soirée Académique" (1996) A Common soldier Tapes Vol. Tierce (1971 survive) (drums sustaining Ash Ra Tempel) - track "Les Bruits des Origines" (1996) A Common soldier Tapes Vol. Quartet (1973 survive) (drums sustaining Ash Ra Tempel) - track "Dédié à Hartmut" (1996) A Buck private Tapes Vol. V (1973 survive) (drums using Ash Ra Tempel) - track "Ooze Away" (1996) A Buck private Tapes Vol. Sixer (1971 survive) (drums sustaining Ash Ra Tempel) - track "Ein würdiger Abschluß" (1996) "Der vierte Kuss" (1970 demonstration) (drums by having Ash Ra Tempel) - on Phoebe-Video sampler Supernatural Fairy Tales (2000) Friendly relationship (using Ash Ra Tempel) (2000) Gin Rosé at a Royal Festival Hall (survive) (sustaining Ash Ra Tempel)

Compilations, promos, samplers

Referable the length of his compositions, there aren't actual Schulze compilations, but only samplers of (mostly) abridged tracks excerpted from either the rattling albums:

(1991) 2001 (sampler) - Xv abridged 1972-1990 tracks (1994) A Essential 72-93 (Ii-Video) - Fourteen abridged 1972-1993 tracks (1999) Trailer (sampler) - Six abridged tracks from either Ultimate Edition & Leash outtakes