Audentity

A double LP of highly experimental character, Schulze’s 1983 album Audentity was radically resequenced when it was reissued on CD; several short tracks from the first disc were moved to the second, in order to present three long suites, one after another. Audentity has several guests, including cellist Wolfgang Tiepold, percussionist Michael Shrieve (on Simmons electronic pads), and Rainer Bloss on glockenspiel and “sounds.” The music features a lot of sequenced rhythm patterns and pulsing synth voices, but the upper-register cello soars like a violin, creating lyrical, romantic melodies and the bass drum thumps shockingly hard for music of this vintage. It’s easier to draw a line from this to the dub techno of Basic Channel than to Schulze’s 1970s work.