Dune - Klaus Schulze

Advantages: Nice hypnotic grooves and soloing.
Disadvantages: Overlong, can be boring in parts.

...Klaus Schulze has released so much old material in boxed sets or re-issues in the past 10 years that it almost passed my notice that he hasn't released a straight forward new studio album for ages. And here it is, supposedly a "fan pleasing" album featuring a mix of his famed 70s sequencer style with his more rhythmic contemporary sound. The end result is rather a joyful upbeat album for Schulze. The standard overlong tracks are still there, but if you adjust your listening head to just float along, they pass by remarkably quickly. The 30 minute "Playmate In Paradise" is really a track in two halves. The first is his standard contemporary style of rhythmic backbeats with only very sparse soloing. The track is built up very slowly (as is Schulze's style, why rush?) Just as you think it is going on for far to long, it is enhanced... Read review

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Advantages: A unique entry in Toto's career and a very effective one at that
Disadvantages: Slow and low causes moments to be boring

...INTRODUCTION What must be one of the greatest flops in Hollywood history has in the intervening 20 years become a cult favorite of many. David Lynch's Dune was one of those instances where a director had a vision of an epic rendering of a beloved sci-fi classic, but ended up getting an incohesive and mutilated edit of a story that nobody liked. Lynch reportedly shot something like six hours of material but had to edit it down over and over again to something like three hours, after which the film was in shambles. What began as a labor of love for Lynch (he had turned down Return of the Jedi for Dune) became a nightmare that eventually caused the director to turn his back on the entire endeavour. Even the acting was sub-standard at best, even though the cast read like a whose who in Hollywood, with Kyle McLachlan, Patrick Stewart... Read review

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Advantages: Glorious early 90s electronica by two genuine pioneers
Disadvantages: Might be hard to find

...Brain child of Pete Namlook (aka Peter Kuhlman) and Richie Hawtin, From Within was one of the first albums that alerted me to the joys of electronica and thus has a very special place in my musical heart. Pete Namlook, for those that have never encountered him, is a virtual electronica factory, at one point churning out an album almost once a fortnight and released on his independent Fax label. His work is wide and occasionally inconsistent. He has collaborated with innumerable musicians, many of which are of the highest order, such as the grandmaster of krautrock Klaus Schulze, Geir Jensen (aka Biosphere), Bill Laswell, Tetsu Inoue, Bobby Bird (aka HIA) and Jonah Sharp (and the list goes on and on). Pick up a Namlook CD and you can find yourself listening to anything from world music to experimental, minimalist ambient to early... Read review

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