''Mindphaser'' is a sampler or "best of" album of songs previously released by

Klaus Schulze Klaus Schulze (4 August 1947 – 26 April 2022) was a German electronic music pioneer, composer and musician. He also used the alias Richard Wahnfried and was a member of the Krautrock bands Tangerine Dream, Ash Ra Tempel, and The Cosmic Joke ...

. It was issued by

Brain Records Brain was a Hamburg-based record label prominent in the 1970s releasing several important Krautrock records by bands such as Neu!, Cluster and Guru Guru. Many of its more prominent records are currently being reissued on CD by Repertoire Re ...

in Germany in 1981, three years after Schulze had moved on and created his own label, Innovative Communications. The second track, "Mindphaser", was actually an excerpt of "Floating" from ''

Moondawn ''Moondawn'' is the sixth album by Klaus Schulze. It was originally released in 1976, and in 2005 was the thirteenth Schulze album reissued by Revisited Records. ''Moondawn'' is Schulze's first album that was performed in a full Berlin School st ...

''. The other tracks were from LPs which were not made available in the United States for years. The album's cover art and layout copied the style of recent IC releases. As a result, many Americans thought the album was a new solo effort with original material.

Track listing

References

External links

''Mindphaser''
at Unofficial Klaus Schulze discography (archived) * {{Klaus Schulze Klaus Schulze albums 1981 compilation albums