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Klaus SchulzeBlackdance

Label:

Brain – brain 1051, Metronome – brain 1051, Brain – 1051, Metronome – 1051

Format:

Vinyl, LP, Album, Stereo

Country:

Germany

Released:

Genre:

Electronic

Style:

Experimental, Ambient, Berlin-School

Tracklist

A1Ways Of Changes17:50
A2Some Velvet Phasing8:30
BVoices Of Syn22:30
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Companies, etc.

  • Recorded AtDelta Acoustic Studio
  • Made ByMetronome Records GmbH
  • Pressed ByPhonodisc GmbH
  • Lacquer Cut AtTonstudio Pfanz

Credits

  • Bass Vocals [Bass Voice]Ernst Walter Siemon
  • Cover [Cover-Pictures]Urs Amann
  • Engineer [Toning]Helly Pohl
  • Mixed ByK. Schulze*
  • Producer, Synthesizer, Organ, Piano, Percussion, Trumpet [Phase], 12-String Acoustic Guitar, Orchestra, Composed ByKlaus Schulze

Notes

First pressing with 'Metronome' wording across the green labels.
Released in a gatefold cover.

Recorded at Delta Acoustic Studio, Berlin

All music was played on Farfisa-Equipment

p. 1974
A Product of Metronome Records GmbH

Runout side A and B are etched.

Barcode and Other Identifiers

  • Rights Society: gema
  • Matrix / Runout (Runout side A, variant 1): st-1051-A B2 2 0664.500 S12
  • Matrix / Runout (Runout side B, variant 1): st-1051-B 0664.500 S2 PF C1
  • Matrix / Runout (Runout side A, variant 2): br. 1051-A E 2 0664.500 S12
  • Matrix / Runout (Runout side B, variant 2): st-1051-B 0664.500 S2 PF 1C

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Title (Format)LabelCat#CountryYear
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Blackdance (LP, Album, Stereo)Caroline RecordsCA 2003UK1974
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Blackdance (LP, Album, Gatefold)VirginL 35295Australia1974
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Blackdance (LP, Album, Test Pressing)Virgin840045France1974
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Blackdance (LP, Album)Virgin, Virgin840 045, XBLY 840.045France1974
Blackdance (LP, Album, Repress)Virgin, Virgin840 045, XBLY 840.045France1975

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Reviews

  • flowerbed's avatar
    flowerbed
    It all sounds like the support band for Popol Vuh to me.
    When's the headline act coming on? (looks at his watch)
    • bell-end's avatar
      bell-end
      I felt it important to listen to this album because of 'some velvet phasing'.i love this effect and had previously thought that Jarre had done it first.apparently not.though to be fair JMJ used it to greater effect in my view.nonethless, Klaus did it first.
      • Expansive09's avatar
        Expansive09
        Edited 3 years ago
        From what Ive read most people write this off as boring, monotone and downright dark. While I think its progressively better that his first two drone like and experimental albums it was still relatively a new release in this soon to be pioneer of Germanic electronic space musicians catalog.
        What the "open" ended ear received is three long hypnotic compositions ranging from slightly psychedelic i.e. Ways of Change with its conga and 12 string acoustic arpeggios combined with phased organ and analog synthesizer accompaniment. By the last track Voice of Syn you are shellacked with a male vocalist singing in what I imagine is German against heavily phased sweeping Farfisa organ and synthesized percussion.
        The music IS minimalist and intentionally isnt based around three chord American blues rock music nor is it classical tho one can hear some morbid minor Wagner-esque organ like meanderings. Schulze was expressing the freedom not to conform to a particular style or the pressure to hook you the listener in with a ear-candy melody. Instead he chooses to use his primitive electronic instruments to create tone paintings with long broad strokes and darker hues like a long winter in the hinterlands. As a genuine artist he follows his own path and for that you cannot fault him.
        BD was never a release I felt a major strong point in his catalog especially having been introduced to his music via Timewind. I enjoy its genuine departure from making music to conform to any popular trend, style or sound.That in my book is why I cherish all his earlier music!
        • tom1963's avatar
          tom1963
          I like this album... over the years I've grown to like it & appreciate it more & more... some fans like it others aren't to keen on it... but I feel it's a good album that gets downplayed a bit unfairly....
          • Betabox's avatar
            Betabox
            Fairly boring piece imho where it sounds like he is only hitting the black note keys on his keyboard and here and there manages to play out of tune even. As another reviewer put it the poor relation to Timewind.

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