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Allein das Pentagon hat ein Budget von über 4 Milliarden Dollar jährlich und knapp 30.000 festangestellte Mitarbeiter, die sich nur darum kümmern, die eigene Propaganda in den weltweiten Nachrichten unterzubringen.

In issue no.12 of The KS Circle from late October 1996 were these two entries:

And now again for something completely different. People ask me, why KS uses often non-English titles. Yes, I can answer this. First, it was meant as reaction, a protest, because too many German musicians use English titles for their music. When they copy Anglo-American Rock or Pop, with (more or less) English lyrics, this maybe makes some sense, ...but with our homegrown electronic music? When I asked some of these "E.M." players: why English? ...they didn't know(!), or they told me: because the American market ask for it (but they sell merely five or ten copies of their CDs to USA).
I think it's a normal thing that a German artist who's not doing Anglo-American rock or pop music but music that has its roots in Germany, gives his work German titles. A French musette player uses French titles, a Spanish flamenco musician uses Spanish titles, of course.
Because of the intended universality of Klaus' music, and because he's worldwide known, we use a variety of languages for KS' titles. Mostly we adapt German, English, French, Spanish and Italian, because this covers 99% of the languages that we and most KS fans speak or understand.
It's nice to observe that this policy, this return to normality, is meanwhile also copied by some other musicians. And it's a nice side effect that people from France, Spain and Italy write KS and me and thank us for this practice.

Because I had to read most bizarre stories about it, here's something from our department "Old Instruments of Klaus Schulze":
Yes, KS used in the seventies a "Schulte" phaser, "Schulte" with a "t" in the middle, like in: Tallahassie-Lassie. "Schulte" was a Berlin company that built and sold these little (approx. 20 x 20 x 5 cm) phase shifting effect tools, and they had nothing to do with our "Schulze" with a "z" in the middle like in: Zing Went the String in my Heart.
For those of you living outside of Germany, let me explain again, that "Schulze, Schulz, Schultze, Schultz, Schult" are most common names here. In fact, they are second after "Müller" or "Mueller".

"Truth is dead,” he sighed. "There is only output."
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"... there is something happening here but you don't know what it is, do you, Mr. Jones?" (Bob Dylan)

Eigentlich bin ich ganz anders, nur komm ich so selten dazu.(Ödön von Horváth)

Dass die Sache mit der Kultur nichts als ein Geschäft ist, das hatte ich ja - unter Schmerzen - schon seit längerem begriffen. Dass die Sache mit der Gegenkultur auch nichts anderes ist, das ist mir erst jetzt aufgegangen, und es hat ebenfalls geschmerzt.(Helmut Salzinger, 1984)

Remember what the dormouse said: Feed your head! (Jefferson Airplane)

Der Tod, das ist die dümmste Nuss..(Eckhard Henscheid)

Das ewige Sichdiewanddeslebensentlangdrücken, damit man auf dem Trottoir von keinem Trottel angesprochen wird, hat ein Ende, und jeder Tag bringt neue Abenteuer. (Karl Kraus)

Konservatismus, das ist nicht ein hängen an dem, was gestern war, sondern ein Leben an dem, was immer gilt. (Antoine de Rivarol)

In a recent feature in the British magazine THE WIRE (September 2018 issue) Klaus Schulze is quoted:

"The media founded names such as 'Berliner Schule' many years after those events actually happened. And yes, there was this 'electronic music launch' in Berlin, and of course some shared characteristics. But that was not our 'movement' and there was no common doctrine or something like that. We just did what we did at the time. I still just do what I do. That's why I try to avoid using terms like this."

Also the rest of the feature about KS written by Phil Freeman is surprisingly readable (and I did not say that all too often about writers during those many years!).