* * * * * * * kdm

The Iranian culture magazine "Aftabnet" contained a nice Klaus Schulze interview, called "With Suitcase in Shadowlands". (The "suitcase" is Klaus' old EMS synthi that he still uses).
.

.
I like to point out: very friendly people, the Iranians.
.
Here is a translation of the above's intro to the interview:
Music sounds have always attracted us and this has made musicians look for new methods of discovering new timbres and sounds. This is one the major reasons for birth of electronic music. Kind of music which based on technological evolution and various electronic devices has provided musicians with possibilities to create their own innovative and abstract music. At first, this kind of innovation, creation and experimentalism included only artistic music but later on, these methods and possibilities attracted many other musicians in Rock and Pop music as well and even led them into new genres. This division from the beginning, causes different point of views of each group : Electronic artistic genre and public genre. Before the presence of electronic music in Disco music in 80s, it was applied in Progressive Rock (which was based on classical theories) and Psychedelic Rock in which bands like Pink Floyd were pioneers or artists/bands like Tangerine Dream, Vangelis, Alan Parson, Kraftwerk and a new approach into electronic sounds was created and made electronic music genre which in many cases, got close again to its artistic form. Klaus Schulze, German musician, player and producer has a specific place in this period with his unique music ideas and a totally different approach. He who was born on August 4, 1947 has released more than 50 albums during the last 5 decades and is considered one of the most important and effective faces of artistic electronic music. Schulze is a smart, ambitious artist and of course with a strong sense of humor that usually causes him to avoid answering any question he doesn’t like specially when it comes to explain about his music in a very sweet way. In this interview, when we asked him about his reaction into repetition and cycling nature of electronic music, he answered: “Cycling? I don’t even have a bicycle!”