Musician & Composer. He was often called the godfather of techno music, had a seismic influence on decades of electronic music, was considered part of the Berlin School of electronic music, and credited with being an inspirational figure in ambient and IDM (intelligent dance music). Schulze's tenure in the group Tangerine Dream only lasted one album — as drummer on their 1970 debut LP Electronic Meditation — before he departed to co-found his own group, the influential Krautrock outfit Ash-Ra Tempel alongside fellow pioneer Manuel Göttsching. Following his 1973 standout Cyborg — released on the German label Cosmic Couriers — 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's solo career, as the mid-to-late Seventies saw the release of electronic music classics like 1975's Timewind, 1976's Moondawn and 1978's "X." 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. More recently, Schulze collaborated with fellow electronic innovator and composer Hans Zimmer on "Grains of Sand," a track from the "sketchbook" soundtrack for Zimmer's Oscar-nominated Dune score; Schulze subsequently recorded a Dune-inspired LP, Deus Arrakis, a follow-up of sorts to his 1979 album Dune, also inspired by the sci-fi classic. His final album Deus Arrakis has a release date of June 10 2022.
Musician & Composer. He was often called the godfather of techno music, had a seismic influence on decades of electronic music, was considered part of the Berlin School of electronic music, and credited with being an inspirational figure in ambient and IDM (intelligent dance music). Schulze's tenure in the group Tangerine Dream only lasted one album — as drummer on their 1970 debut LP Electronic Meditation — before he departed to co-found his own group, the influential Krautrock outfit Ash-Ra Tempel alongside fellow pioneer Manuel Göttsching. Following his 1973 standout Cyborg — released on the German label Cosmic Couriers — 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's solo career, as the mid-to-late Seventies saw the release of electronic music classics like 1975's Timewind, 1976's Moondawn and 1978's "X." 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. More recently, Schulze collaborated with fellow electronic innovator and composer Hans Zimmer on "Grains of Sand," a track from the "sketchbook" soundtrack for Zimmer's Oscar-nominated Dune score; Schulze subsequently recorded a Dune-inspired LP, Deus Arrakis, a follow-up of sorts to his 1979 album Dune, also inspired by the sci-fi classic. His final album Deus Arrakis has a release date of June 10 2022.
Bio by: Bradley M.
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