Klaus Schulze-An Icon of Electronic Music in Echoes Podcast

The 50th Anniversary of Timewind, the 1975 album by Klaus Schulze is coming up on August 25. In the Echoes Podcast hear a documentary on this legendary artist who helped launch a new genre not just in electronic music, but music period.

Klaus is one of the Icons of Echoes. He sadly left the planet in 2022.   Before Techno, Electronica, Synth-pop and Ambient music; before synthesizers were as commonplace as electric guitars, Klaus Schulze was creating a music unlike any that had been heard before. Over the course of six decades, he made over 50 proper albums, solo recordings with evocative Titles like Moondawn, Mirage, Timewind and Cyborg. There’s also been several collaborations and a trove of multi-CD box sets. These albums have influenced multiple generations beginning with artists like Steve Roach, Ian Boddy, and Mark Shreeve in the early 80s, then Moby in the late-80s and TV composers in the new millennium like Brian Reitzell of Mr. Robot and Kyle Dixon and Michael Stein of Stranger Things. In fact, whenever I play Klaus in the house my kids ask me if it’s the soundtrack to Stranger Things. He even influenced Lisa Gerrard of Dead Can Dance who collaborated with Schulze on a pair of albums. Klaus left the planet in 202.  We had two extensive interviews with Klaus in the 1980s and we’ve talked to many people in his orbit and those he influenced. We’ll hear them in a documentary that goes from Tangerine Dream to Trancefer,” Cosmic Couriers to truly cosmic music.  It’s an Echoes Podcast that takes you to another time pointing toward the future.