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A phone call at nine on a Monday morning. Nanu? ...another fan asking me urgently for a copy of ANDROMEDA ? ... No.
A German woman's voice, "Albrecht. De-und-Ha," and if I can help. They don't know what connection I have to Klaus Schulze but they saw my name on the official website and maybe I can help them. Okay, I said, what is it?
They wanted to buy old titles from KS. "Old titles? What old titles? You mean from CDs?" I asked, and "what for?" Yes, they want to buy some old titles from KS. "Don't you know that the 'old titles' are released with big record companies?" I asked, "...and most of it is still available" - realising that the woman on the other side don't know too much about 'Klaus Schulze'. I tried to explain: "Schulze's recordings are released by record companies, you should ask them. You mentioned the official KS website, you must have seen this."
She was a bit puzzled that Schulze has not the rights to "sell" his early recordings to her company (of which I have never heard before): "But Schulze must be able to sell us his titles?! We make compilations, as we did, for instance, with 'Mythos', and others," she said a bit proudly. "Ach ja? One of those cheap oldies samplers?" I tickled her. "No, no," she answered, "we make high-grate samplers." Yes, she mentioned the word "hochwertig", and obviously she did not know one thing about the artist they want to release.
"On which labels he was, then?" she asked a bit sceptically. My reply was quickly: "WEA, EMI, Virgin, Universal..., and you should contact those companies, they have the recording rights, but not Schulze. And this is common procedure in this business, for samplers and for other use." I waited that she also asked me for the addresses of these (well-known) companies, but no such or any other question came. What came from her instead, were some bitter words, and I hung up. It seemed to me that she was pretty new in that music record business. ...
In the kitchen, while preparing my coffee, I thought this over, and found the story quite amusing. Of course not so amusing for the poor girl - Miss Albrecht - whose job it is to find and to call diverse (long-forgotten? she may think) artists and ask them for their early recordings and if they can buy it cheaply for re-release on samplers.

(entry in THE KS CIRCLE, March 2004 edition)

Ich gratuliere!
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Hier kann man nicht nur ein aktuelles sondern auch sehr entspanntes & schönes Interview mit meinem Freund Hans-Joachim Roedelius hören.
PS: Und hier auch, zwei Stunden in Olafs 'Elektro Beats'.

German, Italian and British Amazon list already... -- with the reservation: "not yet released" and (except for the Italians:) with no price given -- ...the coming historic concert recording on a double CD and double LP, called "Stars are Burning", produced again by yours truly. Readers of "The KS Circle" know more.
Yesterday I have seen the lay-out of the double LP cover, made some small corrections, and now things go their usual way. Hopefully, in a short time the album will be available, on double LP as well as double CD.

Oh, before I forget, for the dealers here's the cat.-no.: Mirumir MIR 100719 LP and MIR 100719 CD

PS:
27 October. Please note that the label has just changed the catalogue numbers:
Double CD = Mirumir MIR 100734 CDD
Double LP = Mirumir MIR 100735 DLP

"Unter den für das Buch ausgesuchten Porträts von Leuten zwischen Kottbusser Damm und Bergmannstraße befindet sich beispielsweise die Geschichte von Didi & Siggi, dem schwulen Pärchen aus der Kneipe "Sonne". Auch Klaus-Dieter Müller, Verkäufer der Obdachlosenzeitung Motz und bekennender Bayern-Fan, wird vorgestellt."
("Berliner Zeitung" über die Veröffentlichung des Buches "Kreuzberger. 15 Portraits" von Hans W. Korfmann ... vor ein paar Jahren)

Nein, nein, das bin ich NICHT! Ich hab' zwar in Kreuzberg meine ersten zwanzig Jahre gelebt, ...aber mit Fußball hab' ich doch nix am Hut!

"Hear anything lately about MH17? It's off the news cycle and you can bet it's because our guys shot it down. (By ours, I mean the CIA's Ukrainian cowboys, of course). The CIA has made as big a mess in Ukraine as they did in Libya and Syria, and if it's not even worse it's because of Putin." ...

...writes an American reader in wired.com ...where you can read Snowden's first mails to introduce his epic NSA leaks ...und das ist weitaus interessanter und wichtiger - & ehrlicher - als der tägliche oder wöchentliche Schmus in 'unseren' deutschen 'Qualitäts'medien.

...mit "Big in Europe Vol. 2 - Amsterdam"?

Ab Minute 45. Oder, falls wieder zensiert, dann hier

Ich seh' gerade, ich hab da noch einen klitzekleinen Stapel originale, fabrikneue Vinyl LP Erstausgaben von IDEAL auf IC von 1980 (KS 80 004), mit 45 RPM natürlich, wie alle Alben des ersten IC-Jahres.
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Und da Vinyl wieder "im Kommen ist", wie die Presse nicht müde wird, seit Jahren voneinander abzuschreiben... will ich doch mal sehen, wie groß das Vinyl-Interesse tatsächlich ist. Wer hat heute wirklich Interesse, eines dieser originalen LP Exemplare zu bekommen und ist auch bereit, entsprechend dafür zu bezahlen? Angebote bitte an kdm ÄT posteo D0T de (Nur die Interessenten mit den höchsten Angeboten werden benachrichtigt; falls es überhaupt welche gibt).
Oder wie wär's mit Manuel Göttschings Album E2-E4, die Originalausgabe auf INTEAM ID 20.004, auch Vinyl, auch original - ich hab' damals offenbar mehr Promo-Exemplare verschickt als verkauft wurden; erst später wurd's ein Insider-Hit. Zwei oder drei ungespielte Exemplare aus der Erstpressung im Erscheinungsjahr '84 sind noch vorrätig (E2-E4 is gone)