Robert Schröder: Floating Music

Here's another record on Klaus Schulze's Innovative Communication label, which I mentioned three weeks ago. I think I saw this while I was living in Munich in 1983, but didn't buy it until I was back in Surrey later that summer. I haven't listened to it for years and it sounds pretty good (like a lot of early IC records, it's an LP, over 36 minutes long, but plays at 45 rpm, and the sound reproduction is excellent). Side 2 really impressed me. Schulze mixed and produced the album, and you can hear his influence on the drum sound. This is a prime example of the kind of layered electronica that was coming out of Germany in the late 70s and early 80s — a period that seems to have slipped from view as the technology has moved on.

Discogs entry for this album