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Klaus Schulze — 101, Milky Way
(SPV SPV 249792/1, 2009/2024, CD / 2LP / DL)

by Henry Schneider, Published 2025-03-02

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101, Milky Way is Klaus Schulze’s first posthumous album, though you might consider Deus Arrakis to have this honor since it was released three months after his passing. The difference is that Klaus wrapped up his work on Deus Arrakis just before he passed away, so Deus Arrakis is truly the last album he produced. The history of 101, Milky Way goes back several years to the end of 2008 with an inquiry from a German film production company asking Klaus to score a documentary about cyber criminals called Hacker. Klaus took the commission and scored nearly 90 minutes of music that the director Alex Biedermann chose to only use small excerpts as soft background music. That is unfortunate as the music is a real treasure from Klaus’ musical legacy incorporating bits and pieces of his compositional style spanning his decades-long career, and it truly deserves to be appreciated as an entire unit. The music is now available for the first time, and it is a cosmic tour de force sure to please even the most jaded of Klaus Schulze fans. Consisting of five instrumentals ranging from five to 33 minutes in duration, 101, Milky Way is chock full of classic Schulze sequencer-driven rhythms, slow washes of filtered white noise, tinkling electronics, floating synth chord changes, and percussive electronics conjuring up images of journeying across the cosmos propelled by pulsating warp drives as stars and cosmic dust drift past the spaceship. 101, Milky Way is truly a wonderful addition to Schulze’s massive discography, and this release is more than likely the first of much more unreleased music to come.

Filed under: New releases, 2024 releases, 2009 recordings

Related artist(s): Klaus Schulze

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http://klausschulze.bandcamp.com/album/101-milky-way

 

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