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Death of a Schulze

James Schulze | 12/12/2001

(2 out of 5 stars)

"The introduction of digital technology into the hands of Klaus Schulze has led to a musical drought that has lasted almost the entirity of his career (with the exception of the fantastic Dark Side of the Moog series). The huge, spacious, warm, and ethereal sound of his classic period were gone with the introduction of this album, and in their place we find dull, flat instrumentation and painfully cheesy solos. In essense, all the horrid 1980's instrumentation our modern ears have learned to despise are packed into this album, creating a landscape of neon and bad hair. The only listenable track is Death of an Analogue, which comes across like a funeral march, but with an eerie vocoder thrown in. But that's not enough to redeem what is one of Schulze's worst albums."