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Before Klaus Schulze started his solo career with the release of his first solo LP "Irrlicht" in 1972, he was
instrumental in the development of Krautrock and the Berlin School of electronic music.
Since then, he has continued his leading role in the field of electronic music as well as performing
in collaborations with important artists such as Solar Moon, the Cosmic Jokers, and Pete Namlook,
just to name a few.
This month's Special Focus on Klaus Schulze centers around the Deluxe Edition reissues being released by InsideOut Music's Revisited Records sub-label. (And you thought InsideOut only dealt with Progressive Rock!) Klause Schulze has previously been the Special Focus on Galactic Travels: |
| Date | Title |
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| 01/03 | Dosburg Online |
| 01/10 | Are You Sequenced? disk 1 |
| 01/17 | Are You Sequenced? disk 2 |
| 01/24 | Timewind disk 1 |
| 01/31 | Timewind disk 2 |
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Manikin Records is the home of many important artists. The disks played this month celebrate the tenth anniversary
of the label. That was in 2002!
Manikin Records has previously been the Special Focus on Galactic Travels: Click on the name, photo, or logo above to go to the label's website. |
| Date | Title |
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| 02/07 | First Decade 1992 - 2002 disk 1 |
| 02/14 | First Decade 1992 - 2002 disk 2 |
| 02/21 | Liquid Sound Volume 2 disk 1 |
| 02/28 | Liquid Sound Volume 2 disk 2 |
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Gert Composes music in a style which is somewhere between retro Electronic Music (Berlin School) and symfo.
His influences include Tangerine Dream, Ashra, Ennio Morricone, Hans Zimmer, Genesis, Manfred Mann, Wally
Badarou, Vangelis, Mike Oldfield, Ryuichi Sakamoto, Richard Barbieri.
To date, Gert has released ten solo albums and three albums in collaboration with Ruud
Heij (Free System Projekt).
All the Featured CDs at Midnight are on the Groove Unlimited label.
Gert's new album The Nearest Faraway Place - Volume 1 will be released in April. It's the first album of a trilogy of The Nearest Faraway albums. The style of the album is more like a mix between the Wave of Dreams and When Darkness Falls Upon The Earth albums, rather than the last two rather symphonic albums. Become Gert's friend on MySpace. Gert Emmens has previously been the Special Focus on Galactic Travels: Click on the name, photo, or logo above to go to the artist's website. |
| Date | Title |
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| 03/06 | Waves of Dreams |
| 03/13 | When Darkness Falls Upon the Earth |
| 03/20 | The Tale of the Warlock |
| 03/27 | A Boy's World |
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Create is Steve Humphries from the U.K.
The Create project was started in September 2002 when Steve took the plunge into making music for the very first time.
His influences are Tangerine Dream, Klaus Schulze, RMI, Airsculpture, Ron Boots and Ulrich Schnauss to name but a few!:)
Click on the name, photo, or logo above to go to the artist's website. |
| Date | Title | Label |
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| 04/03 | Kindred Spirits | none |
| 04/10 | Reflections From the Inner Light | Groove Unlimited |
| 04/17 | From Earth To Mars | Groove Unlimited |
| 04/24 | Biospherical Imagery | Groove Unlimited |
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Multi-instrumentalist Stephen Philips has been a musician for more than 30 years. He founded
Dark Duck Records in the late
'80s as a way to expose his musical endeavors to the general public.
Music has always been a way of life for Stephen.
He began his musical sojourns at the age of 8 with the Clarinet.
At the age of 13 his interest moved to the guitar, bass, piano, and synthesizer which led him into several pop
bands through his late teens.
He recorded 3 albums for the alternative/college band Troubled Thought before exploring electronic music in the early
'90s.
His fascination with the vast space of ambient music and an interest in the godfathers of ambient (Brian Eno,
Robert Fripp, Tangerine Dream, Klaus Schulze, John Cage, etc.) led him into full-on experimentation with ambient
music and an indepth study of the history, roots, and methods of ambient music composition.
His music places a strong emphasis on time and place, desiring to take the listener to a virtual location and/or to create an aural postcard or an aural description of a feeling or a mood evoked by a location. To obtain his trademark sound, Stephen Philips uses a variety of synthesizers, samplers, and effects as well as a vast array of electronic and acoustic percussion instruments. In the past he has rarely recorded under his own name rather choosing to record along side other artists under the names of Experimental Psychology, Excelsior, and Deep Chill Network. Most of Stephen's solo releases are very ambient, deep chill, and/or experimental. Click on the name, photo, or logo above to go to the artist's website. |
| Date | Title |
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| 05/01 | Mile High Chill 1 |
| 05/08 | Desert Landscapes |
| 05/15 | Cycles 4 |
| 05/22 | Cycles 6 |
| 05/29 | The Sobbing Stone |
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