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... at the end of April 1993, I had finished the work for the first of our CD sets, SILVER EDITION, containing ten CDs with recent studio recordings of Klaus Schulze and a few older concert recordings. All previously unreleased.

Yep, at the end of April 1993 I had informed the press with an interest in this kind of music, which was at this time mostly the many e.m. fanzines in all corners of the world = I knew 58 different ones, from Agitasjon to Zenith. Also I informed a few hundred individual fans. I had many files filled with our collected letter exchanges; remember: this was a time without websites and mails. I had send them all a personal letter with the info about our SILVER EDITION offer. In some of the e.m. fanzines I also I booked (and paid for) a one-page advertising for SILVER EDITION. It was the very first time that in our genre such a set was released.

We have deliberately omitted the middlemen in this CD selling business: distributors and retailers. We delivered only to single people and to a handful of longtime friends who run a small 'private' mail order service (hello, Archie!). At this time we didn't know if our effort will be successful, if we will really find 2000 people willing to pay the circa 200 DM (100 € today) for such a special release. Luckily we were successful, even if the last - roughly one hundred - sets took a few weeks to find their customers... By the way: 85 copies of this set we have sent for free to journalists, some friends and a few musical collegues. Oh, I nearly forgot to mention: It was a huge success, critics and fans were thrilled !

Two years later I repeated this 10-CD set idea, this time with formerly unreleased historic recordings from Klaus Schulze's concerts or his studio, hence the title: HISTORIC EDITION. And another two years later I even produced a 25-CD set of unreleased music...

And now it's the 25th anniversary of SILVER EDITION.

The back of the 48-pages booklet

I just have asked Lennart, to replace the current photo of Klaus (on the official website's opening page) with a better one, even if it's not new but according to our motto: "Alt schon. Aber gut."

Hauptsache es schmeckt und man friert nicht.

Reklame in den Internet-Zeitungen des Springer-Konzerns sind "unentbehrliche Finanzierungsgrundlage, ... weil sie selbst auch Nachrichten sind." sagt Springers Anwalt zur Grundsatzentscheidung des BGH, die Reklameblocker erlaubt.
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Reklame und Zeitungen sind also dasselbe. Nicht nur bei Springer. Manche ahnten es, viele haben es seit "Ukraine" und dann noch Ärgerem mitbekommen und längst ihre Konsequenzen gezogen: man informiert sich eben woanders.
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File under: You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time. (Abraham Lincoln)

Wenn Politiker, Lobbyvertreter und Medien etwas ganz besonders anpreisen, sollte man die Fensterläden schließen und von drinnen laut NEIN rufen. . . . . . . . . . . . (Kommentar beim Don, einst)

Man darf sich nicht einschüchtern lassen von Zuschreibungen, die das Denken verhindern sollen. . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . (Rüdiger Safranski)

The life of the creative man is lead, directed and controlled by boredom. Avoiding boredom is one of our most important purposes. . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .(Saul Steinberg)

Gerade kam ein freundlicher UPS-Mensch und brachte mir ein großes, schweres Paket voller Platten: die Doppel-LP "Venite Visum" von ANDREAS GROSSER (je 500 Gramm!) und dazu einen Stapel der (Einzel-) CD des gleichen Albums. Es ist die taufrische Wiederveröffentlichung eines 1981er (!) Solo-Albums vom alten Freund Andy (ich erinnere auch gerne an: "Babel", das Klaus Schulze/Andreas Grosser-Album aus dem Jahr 1987).

Apropos "taufrisch": Die offizielle Doppel-LP Veröffentlichung ist am 27. April. Man kann aber günstig vorbestellen, siehe den Link oben (bei Vinyl ist Amazon -noch 1 Euro teurer nun hat Amazon nachgezogen: gleicher Preis wie JPC)
Siehe Kommentare = Als CD ist das Album bereits seit Ende März erhältlich.