ANGST (OST)

Angst is, to me, Schulze's first really compelling album of the 1980s. Although I don't think he managed to successfully integrate his long-form compositional style of the 1970s with modern equipment on his "serious" albums from around this time such as Audentity, on Angst he is confined to working with short pieces and consequently is compelled to edit - and on editing down his monolithic works to get at the root of a musical idea, his sound is enriched. Album highlights include Freeze, a spooky track on the verge of the dark ambient material Brian Eno would unleash on On Land, which would find use in Michael Mann's Manhunter.