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Klaus Schulze: Electronic Music Legend is a celebration of the magnificent, pioneering career of German electronic music legend Klaus Schulze. At the forefront of the development of music played on synthesizers, Schulze created a whole new style of music, beginning with his initial 1972 release, Irrlicht.
This book hails Schulze as the most important electronic musician [...]

The Spotted Peccary label has been consistently putting out great ambient, space and synth music albums. Their latest release, Below The Mountain, by Craig Padilla, is no exception.
We’ve reviewed a couple of other albums by Padilla, The Light In The Shadow & Genesis. While his last two releases had more of an ambient or space [...]

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p_c_w has posted a great collection of images of Jean Michel Jarre performing Oxygène at the Royal Albert Hall in London.

Jean Michel Jarre has personally authorized the publication of fair-use fan videos from his current Oxygene concert tour:
I, Jean Michel Jarre, hereby authorise anyone to broadcast on Youtube any videos filmed during my concerts on ” Oxygene in concert” tour, as long as it is a fair excerpt with the right credits which has been [...]

René van der Wouden’s Universal Quiet is a collection of retro synth music that is a treat for fans of 70’s Berlin School music.van der Wouden is a Dutch composer and synthesist who describes his style as retro, Berliner Schule and progressive. van der Wouden builds on Klaus Schulze’s pioneering mid-seventies sound, modernizing it and [...]

 

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Momentum, the latest release from UK artist David Wright, is a generous helping of lush symphonic electronica.
It’s another great release on the AD Label, which is home to Robert Fox, Code Indigo, Ashok Prema, Richard Bone and many others.
Momentum is a studio reworking of music Wright performed at a recent Gatherings concert in the US. [...]

UK’s The Mail on Sunday is giving away Oxygène, Jean Michel Jarre’s seventies synth music classic, to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the work.
To celebrate, Jarre revealed some of the history of Oxygène:
Oxygène was turned down by all the record companies. It was like a UFO – it was made in the middle of the [...]

Tangerine Dream is a seven-time Grammy nominated German electronic music group band, and a phenonemon of synth music.
The group, founded in 1967 by Edgar Froese, right, has gone through multiple changes over the years, but has managed to stay active and relevent in the world of synth music, releasing 100+ CDs, including studio, live and [...]