Catching Up with Klaus Schulze

Since he first entered a recording studio in 1969, he has recorded more than 150 solo albums, many of them multi-disc sets. Why this one, and why now? I guess in 2018, when you are still an actively creating electronic artist who started in the late '60s and who has just celebrated his 70th birthday, and then puts out a new studio album that fans have been waiting for more than five years, that may be worth an interview! [Laughs.] It almost feels like sort of a comeback, even though that was not my idea or my feeling when I made the record. Most of my sound sources are external keyboards, expanders, and other boxes connected via MIDI and analog outputs into the mixing desk. If so, do you use it to create custom libraries? Since the more professional sampling started to make sense for me in the days of the early Akai samplers, that's when I began collecting libraries and also creating and saving my own sounds.