This is the first volume of an expansive reissue project for the collaborations between influential German artists Klaus Schulze and Peter Kuhlmann. Kuhlmann, best known as Pete Namlook who passed away in 2012, was very prolific on his own and alongside many others, including Biosphere. His work with Schulze as "The Dark Side Of The Moog" began in 1993. Schulze was well-established as a leading figure within Berlin's ambient scene, while Kuhlmann was a relative newcomer who had started his now-seminal Fax label. There were no set plans for a series at first, and they rarely met in person, but their connection would lead to 11 sequentially-named albums for Fax, released from 1994 through 2008. The names of the records, like "Wish You Were There" and "Obscured By Klaus", were all twists on Pink Floyd titles, though "It's no homage to Pink Floyd and direct references don't exist. The name of the project came to my mind because the Moog synth was the connecting instrument of our work." (bron: Resident Advisor)
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)
Derde verzameling van samenwerkingsalbums door twee invloedrijke elektronica-artiesten. De seventies-synthesizerlegende Klaus Schulze en de in de jaren negentig opkomende, meer avantgardistische elektronica-experimentator Pete Namlook. Hun duo-albums hadden altijd ondertitels die verwezen naar Pink Floyd-albumtitels, evenals de hoofdtitel. Muzikaal zijn die verwijzingen er niet. Voor Schulze was het een aangename aanleiding om te experimenteren met de wat jongere generatie synthesizermuzikanten, voor Namlook een aanleiding om eens met meer traditionele synthesizermuziekvormen te spelen. Vol. 11 beslaat zelfs twee CD's, de bonus-CD bevat een 70 minuten lange opname die live gemaakt is op het Jazzfestival Hamburg, 1999.
De cover vermeldt het volgende over dit album: "The 7 parts of this album range from massive percussive rhythms to traditional Turkish Ottoman folk music to chill-out / ambient soundscapes at their best. This beautifull timeless piece of music is a tribute to the great Sultan Orhan". (GR Muziekbank).
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