Let's hear it for this guy!
I asked for some recommendations for electronic music last year here and got some good replies, but nobody mentioned Klaus Schulze.
I don't think I need to look any further into electronic music.
He is just one tiny miniscule strand of this massive form of music. You could choose to not "look any further" but by doing so you are removing the chance that you might find something much better, someone who took those old ideas and did something fresh and more interesting with them.
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That's true enough, I'm not one to ever stop finding new stuff to listen to anyway.
But right now I have 5 3-CD sets from this guy, 15 CDs with over 70 minutes of music on each one... So the next discovery will have to wait.
Reading interviews with him from the CD notes I admire the fact he always did his own thing without any thoughts toward what was trending in music. He also touched on a theme close to me when he mentioned he liked having some darkness in some of his tracks because it makes the light and the joy stand out more in contrast.
I like a fair bit of his stuff, but I find him too samey and monotonous to spend much time on. His album Dune has been a favourite of mine for a long time now.
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