Version 1.0 - July 1, 1996
The "Ohr" release of "Irrlicht" contained a leaflet in LP-cover size with a chart on which KS explained the way of creating the album ("Music is aesthetisized frequency"). This leaflet is reprinted in the book "Klaus Schulze - eine musikalische Gratwanderung", p. 39.
Two different versions of "Cyborg" exist. On the original LP, the order of the tracks was:
Disc 1: Side A - "Synphaera", Side B - "Conphaera"
Disc 2: Side A - "Chromengel", Side B - "Neuronengesang"
For unknows reasons, there is (at least) one CD release
(by French label AVI) on which the tracks had been
"shuffled":
Disc 1: "Chromengel" and "Conphaera"
Disc 2: "Synphaera" and "Neuronengesang"
The "official" order ist of course that of the original LP
release.
TyH was a promotional album sent for free as a New year's Greetings gift for friends. About 500 copies exist, and it's very hard to get a copy. It's not clear whether KS was involved in producing the album, but as it is a sampler similar to "Sci Fi Party" and "Gilles Zeitschiff", probably parts of his "Ash Ra Temple" music were used.
Yes and no. The original CD release by Metronome-Brain is shortened because they used an LP instead of the master tape and shortened the track's endings to cut out some background noise. But a complete CD recording is now available from Manikin Records, Berlin.
I don't think so. I tried to get a copy, but was told that it's very hard to get porn movies older than 3 - 5 years.
The "X" album was accompanied by a 16-page booklet in LP-cover size. It contained color and b/w photos, an autobiography by KS, an essay by Klaus D. Mueller, and some pages from the score of "Ludwig II. von Bayern".
Yes. I think KS likes the "Dune" novels. The working title of the track "Shadows of Ignorance" was "Arrakis", and the lyrics of that track also do remind of the novels.
Yes, but I am not sure how this poster looked like. Probably it is the poster sometimes used by Manikin Records as a gift; this poster shows the "Live" cover photo.
Indeed, it's on of these "hard-to-gets". - In 1980, KS
gave an interview to someone who pretended to do this
for a German radio station. Two years later, the interview
(along with some KS music) was released on the album "Der
Deutsche E-Musiker Klaus Schulze", distributed by a German
science fiction magazine. As KS did not agree with the
release of the interview, this album has to be treated as
a bootleg.
In 1995, a CD version of that interview was released,
bearing the title "Das Interview". And suddenly, lots of
copies of the original LP version appeared on German
record fares, smelling as if they had been stored in a
dark cellar for years...
These rumours have now been confirmed by Klaus D. Mueller
in his "KS Circle". A slightly different version of the
music was released on a pre-release of 800 albums (300
as 45 RPM normal cut, and 500 as 33 RPM halfspeed cut).
These albums were released in plain white covers with a
sticker and were also containing two photos and a 5-page
leaflet.
As Klaus D. Mueller stated, the first minutes and the
endings of both tracks of the pre-release are slightly
different from the final version published on LP and CD.
I've recently checked this on my own pre-release copy
(which now appears to be a collector's item...), and it
is actually true, even with only coinasseurs finding the
difference.
I don't know how this could happen. The master tape
version of that title was 8:20 long, as printed on the
LP cover, but they used only 7:07 for the LP release.
The East German release of "Dig it" (for another unknown
reason released as "Elektronik-Impressionen") contained
the complete track, which made this record a must for KS
collectors until the CD version of "Dig it" (which
contains the complete track as well) was released.
The LP-release of "Aphrica" was available for a short time only. The album has never been released on CD, due to a legal conflict between Ernst Fuchs (who wrote the lyrics) and the musicians KS and Rainer Bloss.
As Klaus D. Mueller stated in "KS - The Works", IC argued that "Megatone" was not released seperately because the music was of bad quality. KDM assumed that the true reason was money: IC would have had to pay KS extra fees if they had released "Megatone" seperately. - Nonetheless, the complete "Megatone" album is available on CD from the UK label Thunderbolt Records.
Well, "Floating" is a bootleg, a private concert recording
illegally released on CD. The recording is from a 1981
concert in Nijmegen, The Netherlands (the date "1982"
given on the cover is wrong).
Some KS discographies list the release date of "Floating"
as 1991, which is probably wrong. For two reasons, it has
to be assumed that the release of "Floating" actually was
in 1993: First, the album did not appear on record fares
etc. until 1993 (at least here in Germany), and second, a
judgement passed by the European Supreme Court in 1993
led to the fact that bootlegs made in or after 1993 are
"definitely" illegal, whereas bootlegs made earlier are
only "quite" illegal (so the release date of the bootleg
probably has been incorrectly to prevent legal
consequencies).
This album is a bootleg, too, and it is not a recording
from a 1983 concert (actually, KS never played in the
USA), but from the 1992 London concert. Another
(official) recording from that concert is available as
"Royal Festival Hall", Vols. 1 & 2, with much better
sound quality, but no such "concert athmosphere" as on
"United States '83".
The release date of "US 83" is often given as 1992, which
is probably incorrect (please refer to the "Floating"
section to find out why the album probably was released
in 1993).
KS had recorded some classical pieces during the early nineties because he enjoyed to do it. Well, and if you record something you like, you tend to release it. That's all about it!
Actually, it was his record company who was interested in earning some easy money. After German boxer Henry Maske chose Vangelis' song "Conquest of Paradise" as "ouverture" for his fights, the song became quite popular in Germany. As there was no CD single of the original version, KS' record company asked KS to record a cover version. He answered that he disliked the idea and would only do it if he would receive a really big sum of money to overcome his displeasure. And he received it.
No. Until now, the studio recording of "Totentag" made for release on CD is the only "performance". The opera has never been performed on stage yet.