Klaus Schulze is often called the "Grandfather of Electronic Music", and once "Moondawn" begins, it is easy to see why - as it starts off with a kind of cheesy, 60's "this-is-a-computer-making-noise" sound. How primitive. It's a great album, though, and the primitiveness makes sense - the album was created in Germany in 1976 - a time in which the synthesizer was just making it big.
Once you get into "Moondawn" (this will probably happen late one night), you'll notice that the drums aren't synthesized, which may put you off a little, but is actually really cool once you get past that first bit of retro culture shock. Actually, now that I mention drums, I should also mention that Klaus Schulze played drums for Tangerine Dream's first album, "Electronic Meditation", and then went off to start Ash Ra Temple with his comrades. Somewhat surprisingly, though, Shulze isn't playing drums on "Moondawn", just everything else. Anyways, "Moondawn" is only two songs long, and each of the songs are over 25 minutes long, so you get a good amount of time to see what ole Klausey-poo is going for: epic build-ups.
I also have to admit that there is a skip around 8 minutes, which lasts for a few seconds (but could almost go with the song). I'll get a new version up sometime - with the needle going up and down cut out.
Once you get into "Moondawn" (this will probably happen late one night), you'll notice that the drums aren't synthesized, which may put you off a little, but is actually really cool once you get past that first bit of retro culture shock. Actually, now that I mention drums, I should also mention that Klaus Schulze played drums for Tangerine Dream's first album, "Electronic Meditation", and then went off to start Ash Ra Temple with his comrades. Somewhat surprisingly, though, Shulze isn't playing drums on "Moondawn", just everything else. Anyways, "Moondawn" is only two songs long, and each of the songs are over 25 minutes long, so you get a good amount of time to see what ole Klausey-poo is going for: epic build-ups.
I also have to admit that there is a skip around 8 minutes, which lasts for a few seconds (but could almost go with the song). I'll get a new version up sometime - with the needle going up and down cut out.
Lineup: Harald Grosskopf, Drums; Klaus Schulze, The Big Moog, ARP 2600, ARP Odyssey, EMS Synthi A, Farfisa Professional Organ, Farfisa Syntorchester, Crumar-keyboards, Sequenzer Synthanorma 3-12
Track Listing:
Side One
1.Floating
Side Two:
2. Mindphaser
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