{"id":96642,"date":"2022-04-28T00:18:57","date_gmt":"2022-04-27T18:48:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/klaus-schulze-prolific-electronic-music-pioneer-dead-at-74\/"},"modified":"2022-04-28T00:18:57","modified_gmt":"2022-04-27T18:48:57","slug":"klaus-schulze-prolific-electronic-music-pioneer-dead-at-74","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/klaus-schulze-prolific-electronic-music-pioneer-dead-at-74\/","title":{"rendered":"Klaus Schulze, Prolific Electronic Music Pioneer, Dead at 74"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Klaus Schulze, the pioneering German electronic musician who helped shape the genre with both krautrock giants and Tangerine Dream alongside a prolific solo career, has died at the age of 74.<\/p>\n

The multi-instrumentalist\u2019s family announced<\/a> his death Wednesday, adding that Schulze died \u201cunexpectedly\u201d on April 26 following a long battle with an unspecified illness.<\/p>\n

\u201cHis music will live on and so will our memories,\u201d Schulze\u2019s family said in a statement. \u201cThere was still so much to write about him as a human and artist, but he probably would have said by now: nuff said! The farewell will take place in the closest family circle, just as he wished. You know what he was like: his music matters, not his person\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n

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\u201cWe were shocked and saddened to hear the news of Klaus Schulze\u2019s sudden death,\u201d his rep Frank Uhle added in a statement. \u201cWe lose and will miss a good personal friend \u2013 one of the most influential and important composers of electronic music \u2013 a man of conviction and an exceptional artist\u2026 His always cheerful nature, his innovative spirit and his impressive body of work remain indelibly rooted in our memories.\u201d<\/p>\n

Over a career that spanned more than 50 years and 60 albums, Schulze played an integral role in the musical movement that spawned krautrock as well as the revolutionary \u201cBerlin School\u201d electronic music scene that was the forerunner for ambient, new age and space rock genres.<\/p>\n

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Schulze\u2019s tenure in Tangerine Dream only lasted one album \u2014 as drummer on their 1970 debut LP Electronic Meditation<\/em> \u2014 before he departed to co-found his own group, the influential Krautrock outfit Ash-Ra Tempel alongside fellow pioneer Manuel G\u00f6ttsching.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

After the release of Ash Ra Tempel\u2019s 1971 self-titled album, Schulze left the group \u2014 though he\u2019d return sporadically over the ensuing decades \u2014 to embark on his solo career, which saw the keyboardist-percussionist release music almost annually\u00a0beginning with 1972\u2019s Irrlicht<\/em>.<\/p>\n

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Following his 1973 standout Cyborg<\/em> \u2014 released on the German label Cosmic Couriers \u2014 Schulze and his labelmates formed the Krautrock supergroup Cosmic Jokers and their eponymous debut album. That collaboration segued into the most vital period of Schulze\u2019s solo career, as the mid-to-late Seventies saw the release of electronic music classics like 1975\u2019s Timewind<\/em>, 1976\u2019s Moondawn<\/em> and 1978\u2019s \u201cX.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

Schulze continued to push the boundaries of electronic music in subsequent decades, both solo, in bands like Go, in collaborations with artists like Rainer Bloss and Pete Namlock (with whom he recorded 11 volumes of Pink Floyd reinterpretations on the Moog), and under his pseudonym Richard Wahnfried.<\/p>\n

More recently, Schulze collaborated with fellow electronic innovator and composer Hans Zimmer on \u201cGrains of Sand,\u201d a track from the \u201csketchbook\u201d soundtrack for Zimmer\u2019s Oscar-nominated Dune<\/em> score; Schulze subsequently recorded a Dune<\/em>-inspired LP, Deus Arrakis<\/em>, a follow-up of sorts to his 1979 album Dune<\/em>, also inspired by the sci-fi classic.<\/p>\n

\u201cKlaus Schulze\u2019s music has never been as relevant as it is now. The world has finally caught up to a true pioneer,\u201d Zimmer said last December. \u201cMore than ever is Klaus\u2019 work the perfect balance between the soul and technology\u2026 A master, an influence and influencer on countless others, still connecting us all with a deep sense of humanity and mystery.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Klaus Schulze, the pioneering German electronic musician who helped shape the genre with both krautrock giants and Tangerine Dream alongside a prolific solo career, has died at the age of 74. The multi-instrumentalist\u2019s family announced his death Wednesday, adding that Schulze died \u201cunexpectedly\u201d on April 26 following a long battle with an unspecified illness. \u201cHis […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":96643,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[101,3,105,106],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Klaus-Schulze-Prolific-Electronic-Music-Pioneer-Dead-at-74.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96642"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=96642"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96642\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/96643"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}