Dark Side Of The Moog Vol. 1-4 (CD)

Details: Complex re-release of the most remarkable and worldwide sought afterSeries "The Dark Side Of The Moog" by German electronic pioneers Klaus Schulze and Pete Namlook (aka Peter Kuhlmann) in three slip lid boxsets, each with 5 CDs, incl. Bonus material and new linernotes. The first box contains Vol. 1 to Vol. 4 and the "Best Of"-Album "The Evolution Of The Dark Side Of The Moog". Their relationship between Klaus and Pete and the exchange of ideas was unorthodox from the beginning of their co-operation, in that they rarely met personally. The most remarkable contacts they had were outside of their studios, for instance their concert of April 1999 at the Jazz Festival in Hamburg, which was released as an edited version on 'Dark Side Of The Moog, Vol.8' (will be released in the second Boxset) - the interplay and chemistry between them is clearly evident, and it becomes even clearer on the un-edited version of the concert (which will be released as bonus CS on the third boxset). 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?" And so a legendary series of recordings was born. 'Dark Side Of The Moog' grew more or less unplanned to a sprawling, stately-sized series of eleven volumes recorded between 1994 and 2008, only ending with the early, tragic death of Pete on November 8th 2012.

Tracklist:

1. Wish You Where There - Part I
2. Wish You Where There - Part II
3. Wish You Where There - Part III
4. Wish You Where There - Part IV
5. Wish You Where There - Part V
6. Wish You Where There - Part VI
7. Wish You Where There - Part VII
8. Wish You Where There - Part VIII
9. Wish You Where There - Part IX
10. Wish You Where There - Part X
11. A Saucerful Of Ambience - Part I
12. A Saucerful Of Ambience - Part II
13. A Saucerful Of Ambience - Part III
14. A Saucerful Of Ambience - Part IV
15. A Saucerful Of Ambience - Part V
16. A Saucerful Of Ambience - Part VI
17. A Saucerful Of Ambience - Part VII
18. A Saucerful Of Ambience - Part VIII
19. A Saucerful Of Ambience - Part IX
20. A Saucerful Of Ambience - Part X
21. A Saucerful Of Ambience - Part XI
22. A Saucerful Of Ambience - Part XII
23. Phantom Heart Brother - Part I
24. Phantom Heart Brother - Part II
25. Phantom Heart Brother - Part III
26. Phantom Heart Brother - Part IV
27. Phantom Heart Brother - Part V
28. Phantom Heart Brother - Part VI
29. Three Pipers At The Gates Of Dawn - Part I
30. Three Pipers At The Gates Of Dawn - Part II
31. Three Pipers At The Gates Of Dawn - Part III
32. Three Pipers At The Gates Of Dawn - Part IV
33. Three Pipers At The Gates Of Dawn - Part V
34. Three Pipers At The Gates Of Dawn - Part VI
35. Three Pipers At The Gates Of Dawn - Part VII
36. Three Pipers At The Gates Of Dawn - Part VIII
37. Three Pipers At The Gates Of Dawn - Part IX
38. Intro
39. Wish You Where There - Excerpt
40. A Saucerful Of Ambience - Excerpt
41. Phantom Heart Brother - Part III/3
42. Phantom Heart Brother - Part III/4
43. Three Pipers At The Gates Of Dawn - Part IV/7
44. Three Pipers At The Gates Of Dawn - Part IV/8
45. Psychedelic Brunch - Part V/8
46. The Final DAT - Part VI/6
47. Obscured By Klaus - Part VII/6
48. Careful With The AKS Peter - Part VIII/2
49. Careful With The AKS Peter - Part VIII/6