Schulze, Klaus -& Pete Namlook-
The Dark Side Of The Moog, Vol. 5-8 (5cd)
The work on the 'The Dark Side Of The Moog' series initially began without any specific intention and was not planned as a series. Pete Namlook's influence on Klaus Schulze's entire work in the mid-'90s cannot be underestimated, because he loved exactly those elements that were less present in his own music. Namlook encouraged Schulze to return to the analog charm of his earlier albums and supported him in midifying his analog instruments, which ultimately led to the epochal Schulze album 'Are You Sequenced?' released in 1996. For Pete Namlook, Schulze's curiosity and working at eye level were one of the driving forces. More or less unplanned, 'The Dark Side Of The Moog' grew into an impressive eleven-part series between 1994 and 2008, which was only ended by the death of Pete Namlook on November 8, 2012. Even in retrospect, it is incredibly exciting to experience the rapprochement, the exchange, the growing together - but also the fruitful friction.