KONTINUUM

As much as I respect him as a pioneer of electronic music, I have to admit that by the end of the 1970s Klaus Schulze's material had become more than a little samey, and for the subsequent decades there seemed to be little improvement or variation. (His habit of apparently releasing every scrap of music he recorded didn't exactly help, flooding the market with mediocre Schulze albums which until recent reissues buried the gems in his back catalogue under their oppressive weight).

Kontinuum seems to be something of a return to form. The lead track of the album is the impressive Sequenzer (From 70 To 07), which seems to be intended as a summation of his career from its dawn to the present day. And It kind of works, since it begins sounding like a vintage piece from his early career and bit by bit incorporates more modern equipment and techniques to bring the listener to the present day. With two more epics of a standard suitable for his great pioneering albums of the 70s rounding off the album, it's a brilliant reminder of what Schulze can achieve if he puts his mind to it.