The dark side of the moog - Boxset 2 Vol.5-8 (2016)/ Klaus Schulze & Pete Namlook

In 1994, Klaus Schulze was able to look back on a long, successful and highly influential career, but he was also able to embrace the new. He was in the midst of his digital phase, fascinated by sampling technology, and had a clear idea of where he could go with the technology, which resulted in albums like "Beyond Recall", "The Royal Festival Hall Recordings", "The Dome Event" and even to an extent his opera "Totentag". By contrast Peter Kuhlman a.k.a Pete Namlook had just started. In 1992 he had founded the seminal Fax label, which was both a vehicle for his own recordings and a chance to collaborate and release recordings from like-minded musicians from around the world: Robert Görl of DAF; Geir Jenssen of Biosphere fame; the ever-eclectic Bill Laswell; and Klaus Schulze. Pete Namlook in an interview from 2002 remembered: 'I didnt want to do just a remake of seventies space-music I intended to meld it with the beats and sounds of todays electronic music, and I think we succeeded.'(bron: MIG)