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Lieber Klaus Schulze! Schreiben wollte ich Ihnen schon lange...jetzt bin ich seit drei Monaten wieder online TTHEHE KSKS CCIRCLEIRCLE und...hier ist meine kleine Story: Im Jahre 1980, Sie hatten dieses Auftragswerk in Linz, hatte ich einen Job

als Sicherheitsorgan im Linzer Brucknerhaus. Auf Grund der mir selber auferlegten 16th Year April! April! 2011 Issue no. 170 lockeren Arbeitsdisziplin genehmigte ich mir einen nervenschonenden Schlaf so zwischen ein und vier Uhr nachts, ausgeführt auf den hierfür wunderbar geeigneten

weichen Bänken des Foyers. In der nämlichen Nacht wurde ich in einer nie vergessenen Weise geweckt: von den mystisch-sphärischen Synth-Klängen von Ihnen Bom dia! Bonjour. ¡Buenos días! Ciao! Dag! Dzie ½ Dobry. Hei. Hello. Ola. Privet! im großen Saal des Brucknerhauses! Diese Stimmung... das abgedunkelte ΓΣΙά σας . Servus & Guten Tag. Brucknerhaus... verschlafen-übernächtig... Ihre Musik... dies alles hat sich unauslöschlich eingebrannt! Zudem war ich ja schon jahrelang Fan der elektronischen Musik und selbst auch Freizeitmusiker in div. Bands. Also, das ging N ATIONALITY ? echt tief und ich erinnere mich nach nunmehr über dreißig Jahren noch gerne daran, Hi Klaus, vor allem, wenn ich Ihre Musik mir zu Gemüte führe, die ich bis heute auch aktuell verfolge (Großartig das Konzert in der Loreley und Big in Japan). Thank you for your time in reading this e-mail question. Sehr geehrter Herr Klaus Schulze, abschließend ein spätes Dankeschön für I've been a long time fan of Klaus Schulze and German electronica since the mid 70s. dieses geschilderte inspirierende nächtliche Erlebnis und ich verbleibe in der and would like to ask your opinion as to why electronic music found such fertile Hoffnung, daß Ihre Gesundheit noch so manchen kreativen Output zuläßt... ground in your country. The breadth and quality of work over the last 40 or so years Herzliche Grüße, Peter (Österreich) is, as far as I'm concerned, not really matched by any other nation. My question is do you think that there is something in the German psyche, character or culture that – makes you and your fellow countrymen more intuitively open to the scope and the possibilities of electronic music in a way that others countries do not? KS hat in der Nacht vor dem Konzertabend am 8. September 1980 tatsächlich in der With best wishes, Bosko Halle heftig geprobt und gespielt, schließlich war sein Eröffnungs-Konzert für die Festspiele am nächsten Abend recht aufwendig geplant: mit Filmeinspielungen, Live- – Schaltungen, ein Perkussionist auf der der Bühne gegenüberliegenden Seite, Puppen (Repliken der beteiligten Stahlarbeiter) im Publikum, Fernsehkameras, Radioleute... Nonsense :-) KS bekam natürlich diesen Brief von mir und er war - nun ja, "ergriffen" This is not a "nationalistic" thing, but a MUSICAL thing. Klaus Schulze started his wäre zu hoch gegriffen - er war erfreut. Und er erinnerte sich gerne daran: Er hat music not because he is a "German". There are other musicians, who play other, or damals natürlich nicht mitbekommen, dass da ein Nachtwächter "heimlich" ein better, or worse, or similar music, ...in many many many countries. minimales Publikum abgab. And now for something completely different: i You should look for another mail server. Normally all mails coming from "@hotmail" go automatically into the mail filter of my server and will be deleted after Nette Webdesigner versuchen es immer wieder und ich muss ihnen jedes Mal - mal one day, without opening or reading or even reaching me; because there is too much schroff, mal nett - absagen: SPAM coming via HOTMAIL. Your mail above was an exception: I found it by accident when I had a curious look into my server's "spam mail" department. Normally Hallo I do NOT look there, it was the first and last time. So, if you intend to write again, and you write via @hotmail, don't wonder Schönen Dank für Dein Interesse. Du bist allerdings nicht der erste und wirst sicher if you get NO answer. That's modern times. auch nicht der letzte sein, der uns anmahnt, doch bitte schicker, moderner, cooler in der Webseiten-Präsentation der KS-Website zu sein. Best regards, Klaus Manch' Reklame-Fuzzis können sich offenbar nicht vorstellen, dass wir sowas GAR i NICHT wollen, sondern dass wir Information einer vordergründigen Optik vorziehen.

- 1 - - 2 - Mein Webmaster bezeichnet solch Angebote von Webdesignern immer (und I found a sentence in an old newspaper clipping meist zurecht) als unerwünschten SPAM. Nun, ich bin nicht ganz so streng, vor allem wenn das Angebot - wie hier & jetzt - sehr nett und freundlich gemeint ist :-) A 15 years old book review starts with "Sooner or later, every young man decides for Also: Vielen Dank für das Angebot, aber: Nein. himself to concentrate on the most important for his life." I found this clipping in a much older book (about operas), when I was PS: looking for something completely different in this book. But when I looked at this old Ich war gerade auf Deiner Website. Hm. Genau sowas wollen wir eben nicht: Da newspaper and read these first lines, I recollected immediately: yes indeed! When I kommt nach dem Aufruf ein schön gestaltetes abstraktes Bild in der Mitte ...und weiter was a young man I also had decided about my own purposes and intentions in future nix. Keinerlei Info. Also klickt man irgendwo hin, in der Hoffnung, nun kommt life. How did the journalist know that? He doesn't know me at all. endlich die Information. Es kommt tatsächlich was Neues, aber auch das ist nicht sehr But he was right. At least in my case. And one other person comes to my informativ. Klick ich erneut "irgendwo hin" - ich muss es ein paar Mal versuchen, weil mind, a friend I know well and for a long time. He also had decided once, to set ein hilfreicher Fingerzeig immer noch fehlt - dann kommt tatsächlich was: allerdings himself a target, ...and - yes - he has reached it. Not exactly as planned, for his 30th will man nur, dass ich mir irgendein Programm runter lade... Also: Tschüss. birthday, but two years after when he was 32. Which is now well over 30 years ago. Siehst Du, genau solch überflüssige Umwege wollen wir nicht, ...und sowas will kein His starting position was of course different from mine, and his desires - he was normaler Nutzer, der schlicht nach z.B. einer Adresse sucht oder nach sonstigen speaking freely and witty about them - were also different from mine. A little bit I Information oder Neuigkeiten (über KS zum Beispiel). could be of help to reach what he required. He helped me too, not exactly with & for my wishes, because they were beyong his realm of facility. But else. Nix für ungut. Schoene Gruesse Klaus D. Mueller I should not forget to ask my son Max, if he also had already decided for one i or another "goal" in his life. i » Musiker sind oft sehr lustig. Weiß auch nicht warum. Da wird Gott wieder seine Hände im Spiel gehabt haben. Musik ist ja irgendwie abstrakt und wunderbar A question - or better: a remark - about ARE YOU SEQUENCED? reached me from sinnbefreit - erreicht aber jeden. Vielleicht ist das die Verbindung zur Komik. « an Englishman who just had bought and listened to it for the very first time: (Schauspieler Matthias Matschke; Partner von Pastewka, Engelke ) I was a little afraid of Are You Sequenced? After all, Klaus doing Techno? i Hello Of course this long track is not "Techno"! It's not "boom-boom-booom-zschick! A fan from the Ukraine put my attention on an existing " prolonged version " of the boom-boom-boom-zschick!", instead we hear a wonderful "tricky" and catchy album TIMEWIND , including not only the two classic tracks BAYREUTH RETURN rhythmic beginning and this fine rhythm stays for a long time. and WAHNFRIED 1883, but also the bonus tracks ECHOES OF TIME and SOLAR I don't remember if I have mentioned it in the booklet: this long track is more WIND (but not "Windy Times") from the re-release in November 2006: or less the same music which Klaus played at his concert in Derby, in April 1996. It Bayreuth Return ... 60:38 ... (original: 30:32) was the first time that Klaus played just ONE LONG track in a concert. Before, and Wahnfried 1883 ... 57:06 ... (original: 28:38) after, he plays in his concerts always two pieces of 30 to 40 minutes, with a pause Echoes Of Time ... 67:08 ... (original: 38:42) between (...and at the end: short encores). Solar Wind ... 20:05 ... (original: 12:35) Also, the publicity material for the release, as shown in the booklet, shows a posing Someone edited the tracks by using a computer programme and first I thought that he Klaus looking all modded up. I bet he enjoyed that! simply doubled the duration, without changing the pitch (Yes, this is possible. But the sound of the rhythm is awful then). I would not bet on it. At least I hate such kind of photos. Because it's not the real KS. To check it, I downloaded the long (mp3) tracks and it's indeed the original It's made-up, forced, and it shows the artiness. The "producers" were two nice men music from the TIMEWIND album, at the same pitch and speed, but just twice as long. working successfully in the "Techno" music business. And the record label did - in It seems and it sounds as if part(s) of the the original track were copied and added into 1996 - a lot of promotion hullaballoo. We never got so much press coverage before, this (same) track, until the piece was nearly twice as long as in original. If this makes for a new album. We also were invited to a radio station, and being interviewed in a any sense, I don't know. But I can image that the fan who did this strange work, had live broadcast for two hours. I had made a CD-R with the essence of this broadcast and some fun with it. And I bet: now he knows the four tracks by heart. have given it to members of "The KS Circle", then. (Don't ask for it. It's too late now).

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- 3 - - 4 - Klaus Schulze had some technical problems with one of his LPs in the Now the good part! seventies: PICTURE MUSIC. If you played the LP and switched the HiFi In a stereo recording, some of the sounds are recorded on the left channel, and some equipment to mono, the whole rhythm was gone! I don't know if the "Picture are recorded on the right channel. However, because of the mixing done during the Music" CDs work the same curious way (sadly, I have no "Mono" button recording process, some sounds are on BOTH channels. It is very common in modern nowhere on my equipment). 25 years after the PICTURE MUSIC release I stereo recordings, for example, for the instruments to be in stereo (different) on both found a very good explanation for this strange effect. It's called: sides, and the vocal to be "in the middle", by having it mixed into both channels. Now, if you took one of the channels of the above example and combined it OUT OF THE OOPS EFFECT PHASE (plus to minus and minus to plus) with the other channel, whatever was THE SAME in both channels would cancel out, and you would hear only what was What is OOPS? DIFFERENT in both channels. In our example, you would cancel the vocal, and hear only the instrumental accompaniment. OOPS stands for "Out Of Phase Stereo". It is a simple technique used to process the two channels of modern stereo recordings into a "new", third channel, enabling us How to hear OOPS: uncover "hidden" sounds in stereo recordings. The resulting OOPSed signal is a single channel, mono signal. This requires the use of a computer that can record and play back sounds, and associated software that can manipulate these sound files. This process is also known as "Left Minus Right". When Quadraphonic recording was the rage in the seventies, OOPS or Left Minus Right was used as a cheap way of First, record all or part of the stereo recording you want to hear in OOPS on your creating a new, third channel to increase the stereo listening experience. computer in stereo, and save it as a file. The OOPS effect can be used on all of your stereo recordings to hear them in a way Next, use your sound editing software to read the file. The first thing you need to do is you've never heard them before. The OOPS process has also been used by some select one channel only, so that the next change will be made to one channel and not unscrupulous bootlegers to create and sell "new mixes" of previously available the other. Then select the "editing" or "special effects" option known as "invert", and material. invert the selected channel. Next, reselect both channels, and use the function in your software to pan both Why OOPS works channels into one, making it into one mono signal. Since one of the channels was inverted before you did this, when you listen back to this mono signal, you'll now hear The speakers (or headphones) of your stereo system convert an electrical signal into the track with the OOPS effect! sound, by moving the speaker cone in relation to the positive and negative waves in the signal. In the simple example of a pure tone, the electrical signal makes the speaker "oscillate" Used by kind permission of Dave Haber from: www.getback.org/boops.html (move back and forth rapidly) by moving one way, outwards for example, on the Here you can find more practical hints how to get the effect without a computer. positive (+) halves of the electrical waves, and move back the other way on the Especially if you are interested in the good old Beatles. "Get Back", ...got it? negative halves. The speaker cone movement makes the air in front of it move, and this – frequently oscillating air reaches your ears as sound. This single wave is a "frequency" (how frequently the sound moves back and forth) and you hear it as a tone. This article above is taken from Circle # 53 which came out ten years ago. I found it Recorded sound is made up of many of these elecrtrical waves in various combinations interesting then, and I find it still interesting to look back to the vinyl era. I remember relating to the frequencies in the sounds being recorded. very good the cutting of PICTURE MUSIC at a Frankfurt cutting studio, ...and the Now, imagine two signals that are identical, except they are "out of phase" with each effect when switching the LP sound to MONO: the rhythm was gone. I cannot try it other, that is, that when one signal is having a postive wave peak, the other is having out these days, my last record player was worn out and I dumped it some years ago. an identical negative peak. Maybe some of you guys can try the trick, with the Picture Music vinyl LP and can tell me if it still works. If these signals are mixed together, they will cancel each other out. The positive peak of the first signal tries to make the speaker move out, but as it does, it is counteracted i i i by the equal but opposite negative peak from the second signal, which tries to pull the speaker cone back in, so no sound results. þ Another older article I found in Circle #22, about covers of LP albums þ

- 5 - - 6 - How Covers Are Done ...and Other Related Thoughts happened on D OSBURG ONLINE , although the photographer here was a different one. In real life nobody ever noticed a similarity of both, KS and Lindenberg. It's only on by Catsmeat Potter-Pirbright these few photos. Covers have mainly two functions and they are at the mercy of various influences. The Sometimes this also happens with the photos that kdm did. He has one where functions are: An eyecatcher for the record-buying customers, and: an artistic KS looks like the late Keith Moon. These photos are good for a private smile, but statement. Sometimes both come together. absolutely not suited for professional use. Influences : The graphic designer of the record company has another taste than the A&R manager, and the marketing director tries since years to suply some work for his I don't want to interpret the "results" of our little TOP 10 covers game (**). As said wifes's girl-friend who says she's a surrealistic painter. I have not even mentioned the above, the general knowledge about beauty and about visual rules is sparse. Why musician's fondness... And the visual taste of the CD shop owners and the customers: should it be better among listeners of Schulze music? Opinions are as many as there After all it's them who are urged to buy the product. are covers. Typical example: The image of Silver Edition. Some of you say it's among Mostly, none of those (company, artist, distribution, customers) have much the worst cover they ever saw, others say it's one of the best. knowledge about visual standards, not to mention aesthetical laws. But their rudimentary expertise does not hinder them to join the conversation, to give their If some of you want to know more about the enigma "What makes a human act a piece opinions, to make suggestions and decisions and to criticize, as it is done in art of art?", if some of you want to know more about art , about its what and why - there generally, because it seems so easy; there are no obvious rules; nobody knows the is a wonderful book that I can recommend for reading. It was written by Ernst H. existing rules... (Imagine other professions: pilot, surgeon, architect... do laymen dare Gombrich: "The Story of Art". It has also many colour pictures. There is a German to open their mouths?!). version "Die Geschichte der Kunst", and I know that there are translations in most But, how else should it work? An expert in visual arts is most probably a novice other languages available... because it's a classic in its field. Main point: It's easy to in music and selling music. A good visual designer of covers knows about his value read, because Gombrich is famous for using a language that is understandable. and therefore he's very expensive for the label. Also there is the danger of overfeeding; – the customers are very quick sick of it (The too many Roger Dean or Hypgnosis covers in the seventies. At least I can't stand them anymore). PS anno 2011: Therefore, the good, the mediocre, or the bad covers are mostly the results of all these (*) deeds, this search in the dark. Most covers happen accidental. The best covers I know The rear inlay photo was not used in the re-release version of DOSBURG ONLINE on were all done when just one person decides: This way and no other (and all others keep the SPV label. It's only in the original WEA release from 1997. their mouths shut). This person must have the chance to do his job over a log period of time, for the same artist or for the same label. You all know the ECM albums. Some of (**) you maybe have heard of the Blue Note covers in the fifties made by Reid Miles with The mentioned results of the COVER POLL at the end of 1998 were, in short: photos by Francis Wolff. Photographers do often a good job if they know about the music, if they know about the musician because they followed his path for a couple of THE BEST COVERS : THE UGLIEST COVERS : years. For instance, in Germany there is the photographer Jim Rakete. He did a few Timewind (by Amann) 13 points Dreams (by Metronome) minus 11 points excellent covers. Silver Edition (by kdm) 12 points 2001 sampler (by "2001") minus 7 points Even if one of those few experts is hired by the label, the result of his technically Moondawn (by kdm) 10 points Historic Edition (by kdm) minus 7 points wonderful work could be totally wrong if the designer or photographer knows not much about the artist he wants to expose and not much about his art. For example: The rear inlay photo of Klaus Schulze in D OSBURG ONLINE (*). Technically great, but the i i i wrong type of photo. It's just not Klaus Schulze. (Of course a photo is a photo is a photo ...and not the person KS. What I mean is: The photo shows not the image of David Lynch Klaus Schulze that we all have from hundreds of other photos - or personally - of Klaus. D OSBURG ONLINE shows the image of another well-known German artist: the There are no special news about Klaus' work on that track that DAVID LYNCH had pop singer Udo Lindenberg.) sent him for doing new music to a vocal track by Mr. Lynch's singing partner Chrysta There is a series of the same type of photos of Klaus that was never used. A Bell. Except for the little fact that, technically, there was something "wrong" with the professional photographer made these pictures in 1981. She knew not much about track he received, but Klaus could repair it in his studio. Klaus and nothing about his former photographical image. And it shows. Klaus looked on her photos (again) like this German singer Udo Lindenberg. And exactly the same i

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Richard Wahnfried

Ein Redakteur des Magazins DER SPIEGEL erkundigt sich bei mir nett, ob es die Schulze-Alben noch gibr, die KS als "Richard Wahnfried" gemacht hat, oder ob's die als Re-release gibt, oder - wenn nicht - ob irgendwann mit Wiederveröffentlichungen zu rechnen ist. Ich konnte ihm ausführlich antworten:

Hallo ...und vielen Dank für das Interesse an Klaus Schulze. Diese alten Alben sind seit (gefühlten) 120 Jahren leider ausverkauft, vergriffen, weg, nicht vorhanden, deleted. Ob die eine oder andere noch ein Händler führt, das sollte man bei den Händlern selbst in Erfahrung bringen: amazon, jpc, etc.

Werden die wieder aufgelegt? Damit ist wohl nicht zu rechnen. Jedenfalls ist uns nix bekannt und es ist nix geplant. i i i Die Plattenfirma SPV hat ja mal (anno 2005 bis 2009) viele der alten KS-Solo-Alben wiederveröffentlicht und als die Sache am Laufen war, fiel ihnen ein, man könnte doch auch die WAHNFRIEDS mit reinnehmen. Zu zwei dieser WAHNFRIED-Alben hat's LA VIE ELECTRONIQUE gereicht, dann war SPV aber "in Insolvenz" und die Re-release-Serie war zu Ende (...und wir bekommen seit einigen Jahren kein Geld mehr dafür). After a long break the next volume in the series has been released, Vol. 9. The catalogue number is: MIG 00182 3CD. It contains music from the period 1982 to Die beiden bei der SPV wiederveröffentlichten Alben waren: 1985. Its first release was in the 1997 set JUBILEE EDITION, and then again in THE WAHNFRIED: TRANCE APPEAL ULTIMATE EDITION, exactly 135 months ago. (1996, Metronome) & 2007: SPV/Revisited Records 78822 CD 1982 Ludwig Revisited ...... Live . . . . . JUBILEE CD 3 “Budapest” ...... 21:30 WAHNFRIED: DRUMS 'N' BALLS (THE GANCHA DUB) 1982 Peg Leg Dance ...... Live..... JUBILEE CD 3 “Budapest” ...... 39:21 (1997, Metronome) & 2006: SPV/Revisited Records 305522 CD 1982 Die spirituelle Kraft des Augenblicks Live . . . . . JUBILEE CD 3 “Budapest” ...... 15:32 = 76:33 Die anderen - also die, die nicht nur Sie suchen - sind: 1983 Seltsam statisch ...... Studio ... JUBILEE 18 “À la mode?” ...... 21:32 1984-85 Verblüffe Sie! ...... Studio ... JUBILEE 18 “À la mode?” ...... 34:22 RICHARD WAHNFRIED: TIME ACTOR (1979, IC) (deleted) 1984-85 Kompromisslose Invention ...... Studio . . . JUBILEE 18 “À la mode?” ...... 15:50 RICHARD WAHNFRIED: TONWELLE (1981, IC) (deleted) & Interview 1984 (deutsch) ...... JUBILEE CD 14 ...... 07:10 RICHARD WAHNFRIED: MEGATONE (1984, Inteam) (deleted) = 79:14 RICHARD WAHNFRIED: MIDITATION (1986, Inteam) (deleted) WAHNFRIED: TRANCELATION (1994, Zyx) (deleted) 1984-85 National Radio Waves ...... Studio . . . JUBILEE 20 “Interessant” ...... 53:05 (Wahnfried # 8 “Trance 4 Motion” ist die CD 3 im ebenfalls vergriffenen Zehn-CD set 1984-85 The Midas Touch ...... Studio ... JUBILEE 20 “Interessant” ...... 20:12 "Contemporary Works I" aus dem Jahr 2000) & Interview 1984 (deutsch) ...... JUBILEE CD 20 ...... 04:00 = 77:34 Schoene Gruesse, Klaus D. Mueller The release of volume 10 is announced for the 24 June, hopefully in the year 2011. i i i

- 9 - - 10 - Long ago, when I prepared the LA VIE ELECTRONIQUE set, I gave the graphic Men in Black 2 designer plenty of photos; below are two from the era 1982 to '85 for use in LVE 9. Not all photos were used. The "eating" pic here at the top was made in Hongkong, the Agent J: other (by me) in Klaus' studio. "Just about everybody who works in this post office is an alien." Deutsche Synchronisation: "So gut wie jeder, der bei der Post arbeitet, ist ein Alien." kdm: Das erklärt so manches. / That explains some things. i

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Klaus D. Mueller Dessauerstr.13 D-12249 Berlin [email protected] www.klaus-schulze.com www.kdmueller.com/surprise.htm www.Jeeves.blogger.de © 2011 Klaus D. Mueller Tea & Sympathy: Julia in Berlin & KS in Hambühren

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