asp's classic albums # 80: klause schulze - timewind
 

Posted about this on the Emeralds thread, but after repeated listening for days upon days, I can safely say this thing is an essential masterpiece of early Electronic new age synth trance music.

http://www.mediafire.com/?ktzotmmc1zj

"Dedicated to Richard Wagner, Timewind is a 60-minute electronic expedition that is broken up into two half-hour tracks, "Bayreuth Return" and "Wahnfried 1883." The first 30 minutes involves icy pulsations and lengthy tonal flights that unnoticeably converge into each other. While one rhythm gains momentum, the other one slowly fades into a bubbly electronic bath of bright swirls and meandering keyboard waves. Similar to early Tangerine Dream, the music here rises and falls above a distant sonic horizon, and the effect is truly mesmerizing. One specific flow can last for minutes, while small, detailed noises adhere themselves to the main electronic run. On the second track, more of the same far-off synthesized altering takes place, but the washes of keyboard become inoculated with a sharper, more precise sound. Longer notes build into resilient pieces with the same comforting result. This album will sketch a barren wasteland in the mind through the wispiness of the wind-like effects. Timewind serves as splendid mood music, and the ears are forever kept busy following Schulze's electronic wandering."

I could be wrong, I think this came out in 1974.

Lemme know how your synth tape goes! Would like to hear...

i should probably reevaluate this one soon. i listened to it last about three years ago when i was first getting into schulze and thought it was pretty poorly dated and bland.

i like "irrlicht" and "cyborg" an awful lot.

i listened to mirage. i like crystal lakes a lot. it sounds like... em... some dated futurist art museum soundtrack. i don't know how to say what i want to get across, it has this artificial quality that reminds me of something, like something i encountered years ago and can't remember that seemed dated even then, but i don't mean that in a bad way!

http://www.demonoid.com/files/detail.../001399281981/

21gb of klaus!

One of those records that's amazing at the time of the evening when everyone should've gone to bed a few hours ago, there's no more booze and drunk corpses are slowing gathering around you.

Otherwise, it's a sack of new-age horsecock.

Schulze and a lot of that kosmiche stuff had more of an impact on stuff like this (which is utterly awesome) than anything else: discuss.

You've just described every night for 3 years of my life.

BLADKCANCE might be a little better than this, now that I'm hearing it for the first time.

I'm basically going to just buy a stack of cd-r's and burn klaus schulze's "ultimate edition" this week I think.

It's official: This guy has released more quality music (not noise, not "Free jazz freakoutz", not "droneeeeeeee"; yeah, yeah, some of this stuff is SOMEWHAT ambient and droney but this stuff is a lot more involving and changes too frequently and has more layers than almost any drone I've seen...) -- as in, melodies and rhythms and stuff -- than any other musician ever. A couple hundred hours of great music!

goddamn this guy rules. Just blowing my mind. My favorite musician ever.