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Code III

Code III was the project of Berlin sound engineer Manfred Schunke, a pioneer of the "artificial head" recording system. Code II featured "two American hippies" living in Berlin: Ed and Mary Key, according to Klaus Schulze. They only existed as a band for this album and a track on a compilation, with Klaus Schulze joining-in on one session, as he was there working on his Blackdance album at the time.

Code III was the project of Berlin sound engineer Manfred Schunke, a pioneer of the "artificial head" recording system. Code II featured "two American hippies" living in Berlin: Ed and Mary Key, according to Klaus Schulze. They only existed as a band for this album and a track on a compilation, with Klaus Schulze joining-in on one session, as he was there working on his Blackdance album at the time.

Planet of Man
Brothers Manfred and Wolfgang Schunke were pioneers of the Kunstkopf Stereophonie (artificial head, dummy head) binaural recording system. This recording technique was created in the Technical University of Berlin in 1974 with the aim to reproduce real stereo sound as the human ears perceive it. Human ears listen to the sounds in a concrete way that is affected not only by the sound frequencies themselves but also by the position of the listener in respect to the different sound sources. The Sch…
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