condition (record/cover): VG+ (light surface noise at the beginning of both sides) / VG+ (light wear)

Black labels.

Klaus Schulze had drummed in the first Tangerine Dream and in Ash Ra Tempel before striking out alone, and Irrlicht (1972) is where he began. Subtitled a quadrophonic symphony, it was made almost without synthesizers: Schulze recorded an orchestra, then filtered, slowed, and processed the tapes into vast organ-like drones, conjuring cosmic music out of broken and treated sound.

Bleak, glacial, and unlike anything around it, it is one of the genuine starting points of what came to be called the Berlin School. The 1972 debut in its Brain pressing, that label being the German home for so much of this music. For collectors weighing one issue of Klaus Schulze's first and strangest record against another.