Track Listing

1. A Few Minutes After Trancefer
2. Silent Runnin
3. A Few Minutes After Trancefer (bonus 33 r.p.m. halfspeed master)
4. Silent Running (bonus 45 r.p.m. master

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #169044 in Music
• Released on: 2007-01-16
• Number of discs: 1
• Dimensions: .20 pounds

Album Description
Originally released in 1981, Trancefer is a one of the most highly regarded recordings of the Klause Schulze catalogue. Featuring Michael Shrieve on percussion and Wolfgang Tiepold on cello, Trancefer is as the title suggests, full of atmospheric metallic textures and cold timbres that sounds as fresh today as it did in it's pre-digital day. Clocking in at only 37 minutes, Revisited have tacked on additional versions of the two tracks from the original alternate mastering formats that were released in low quantities for friends and press that have since become highly sought after collectors items. The definitive version of Trancefer is remastered and housed in a stylish digipak with deluxe booklet with new liner notes and is numbered for collectors.

Klaus Schulze first attracted attention as a member of the German progressive rock band, Tangerine Dream. Following the release of their debut LP, Electronic Meditation, he departed for a solo career. Klaus' recorded work typically features extended pieces sometimes filling an entire album built around computer-generated synthesizers and other specially programmed electronic effects. Klaus Schulze remains a cult figure in the United States, where the bulk of his prolific output has until now been available only through the import bins. He is widely considered an avant-garde mainstay as well as a founding father of both the new-age space music and electronica genres.

Customer Reviews

Arguably Schulze's most timeless effort...
When this album came out it was viewed as a unique tour de force of music. Schulze, Michael Shrieve (of Santana) and Wolfgang Tidpold (on cello) playing nearly 40 minutes of highly rhythmic, droning music. But unlike a lot of space music or prog rock of the time, there was almost no melody or chord changes or even consistent rhythm here. Just a lot of hypnotic, trance-like, sequencer like, machine like (though almost entirely hand played) music.

Now, over 20 years later, it sounds as amazingly unique as it did back then. Unlike much other music by Schulze in this vein that didn't have the same energy, or his older efforts which sound much more dated, this album has a certain timeless quality to it.

I can't guarantee that if you buy it you'll love it. But I can guarantee that if you buy it you won't listen to it and have to take yourself back to 1985.