this is the other Klaus Schulze LP i picked up at Breakaway Records the other day. and it's a nice compliment to "Irrlicht" in that this one, "Trancefer" was released 10 years later in 1981 (also by Brain Records) and was the first Schulze album to feature digital recording and mixing.
this LP is a bit different from "Irrlicht" in that it features other musicians as well: percussion from Michael Shrieve and Cello by Wolfgang Tiepold. using primarily analog synthesizers through digital equipment gives it a different overall feel and ten years later we find Schulze more interested in sci-fi than kosmische. tons of arpeggiated synths float throughout with steady pulsing hi-hats and percussion. less space music and more sci-fi thriller. this is a few years after he did the soundtrack to Dune after all. and the B-side "Silent Running" is based on a recent sci-fi film of the same name starring Bruce Dern.
this kinda brings to mind how a lot of the earlier 70's/80's synth/space music seemed more foreboding and sinister. i mean we were in the beginning of the Cold War and Space Race and things seemed more threatening since space was such an unknown. i find it interested to see how a lot of this earlier music influenced a lot of current synth explorers yet the modern take on it is more etheral and lacks a lot of the dramatic feeling of the earlier stuff...
regardless this is yet another wonderful Schulze album, maybe not as mindblowing as "Irrlicht" but still highly enjoyable. listen to it here.
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