Kontinuum [Digipak] - 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 by... Read review

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Advantages: Wacky story, superb acting
Disadvantages: Some aspects of the treatment and direction

...They don?t make TV programmes like they used to, do they? Mind you, nothing?s what it was ? education, health service, yoof. No proper standards any more. As for the banks! Well, point proven. Now when I was young ?. By now everyone over 50 is nodding in agreement and everyone under 25 has tuned out. Actually, I don?t buy into that rosy-glowed view of the past stuff. Many things are better now, and much of the rest is simply ? different. Except for the banks, obviously. And TV drama. Good, made-for-TV drama, as opposed to corsages-and-carriages adaptations, is hard to find these days, and that strange hybrid, comedy drama, is virtually extinct. One member of the species that Mr C and I are fond of reminiscing about is Private Schulz, first broadcast in six episodes in 1981. A couple of years ago I went on-line to see if it... Read review

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...Klaus Baumgart. I bought a hardback copy and as I said paid 20p for it! The price on the back cover is £9.99 but I'm sure you can find it for less! Please ignor the critea below as both it,and the picture are wrong!... Read review

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