The Dark Side Of The Moog 7 - Klaus Schulze & Pete Namlook with Bill Laswell

Released March 9, 2020

Obscured By Klaus
1. Part I 00:00
2. Part II 05:01
3. Part III 12:26
4. Part IV 31:27
5. Part V 38:03
6. Part VI 41:47

Pete Namlook & Klaus Schulze: all sounds
Bill Laswell: additional sounds (#3)

produced by Peter Kuhlmann

written by Pete Namlook, Klaus Schulze & Bill Laswell (#3)

recorded at Klanglabor,
Traben-Trarbach/Mosel, Moldau Musik Studio, Germany &
Greenpoint Studios, Brooklyn, NY
engineering (Greenpoint): Robert Musso

Klaus Schulze: “The whole series was a very unpretentious project. Because I had always kept total control with my own albums, I let Pete take it off my hands and could make compromises. That was juicy for me, ‘cause I don’t work with other electronic musicians usually. It was a total different chemistry compared to say Manuel Goettsching, who I understand completely. From that point of view it was a real challenge. I never could work with somebody like me, I’d rather do it on my own. The few people I have worked with, like Rainer Bloss, had to have strong egos to prevent themselves being dominated by me. Namlook once said, my music was often too emotional from his point of view. Namlook is much more rational than me, that’s why I always kidded him with the nickname ‘the banker’ – but this oppositional aspect made it exciting for me. I need people who work contrari-wise.

Work on ‘Dark Side Of The Moog’ started without any solid intention and wasn’t planned as a series at all. There was only the aim that it didn’t sound like ‘Schulze’ only, so I decided that Namlook had to make the final mix.”
The influence Namlook had on Klaus’s music in the middle of the nineties should not be taken lightly, because although Klaus dearly loved those early-analogue elements from his own music, they had become, to an extent, lost. It was Pete who fortified him to go back to the analogue charm of his early albums and it was Pete who supported him in the modification of his analogue instruments, leading finally to the epoch-making Schulze album from 1996 - “Are You Sequenced?”