Bernd Kistenmacher - Wake Up in the Sun. 1987 Germany

Given that Klaus Schulze has released something like 500 albums worth of material, one wouldn't think there's much of a demand for copycats. And Kistenmacher is just that, but I have a soft spot for his early works. I first discovered the electronic artist real time in the 80s while I was still "early in the game", and even though I was quite familiar with Schulze by then, it was nice to have new music in this genre. But this was before Schulze unleashed his massive archives. In any case, if you can't get enough of Timewind styled Berlin School music, one could do worse than Wake Up in the Sun. Kistenmacher proves he's quite adept. I'm keeping it.

Ownership: CD: 1997 Green Tree. CD's like this give the medium a bad name. A single tray card with no info, and the "bonus" track was taken from Head Visions, an album they reissued at the same time! What bonus? Makes one question why they even bothered to reissue this in the first place (there were already 3 CD pressings in print at the time). Was part of a large collection buy in the late 90s.

4/9/20 (new entry)