Trancefer

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Trancefer

Studio album by Klaus Schulze
Released	October 1, 1981
Recorded	1981
Genre	Electronic music, Space music, Trance music
Length	37:23 74:41 (2006 Re-release)
Label	IC
Producer(s)	Klaus Schulze
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Klaus Schulze chronology
Dig It (1980)	Trancefer (1981)	Audentity (1983)

Trancefer is the fourteenth album by Klaus Schulze.

With a total running time of 37 minutes and 23 seconds, it is the shortest album in Schulze's canon. It features strong performances by Wolfgang Tiepold on cello and Michael Shrieve on percussion. Although it was his second album recorded with digital instruments, and has a great deal of treble, it is an example of the Berlin School genre which developed in the 1970's. The second track, "Silent Running", was inspired by the science fiction film of the same name starring Bruce Dern. Other works of science fiction awarded Schulze pieces were Dune and The Andromeda Strain.

Trancefer is quite unique in its sound and arrangements. It is quite different from what Schulze was doing in the 70's in the sense that it is not a composition that uses sequencers, transpositions, and a main melody line. Trancefer is more syncopated, and here the main focus is put on the dialog between the percussions and the chords Schulze is playing on the Yamaha CS-80 synthesizer.

There is a pre-release of Trancefer. This is called "Trancefer half-speed cut". There were 300 of those editions as 45 RPM normal cut, and 500 as 33 RPM halfspeed cut. The mix is different from the original album, as the main sequence, a bit identical to the one played on "Bellistique" on the ...Live... album, is more present in the half-speed cut.

It is interesting to notice that the track "Opheylissem" on the Audentity album sounds a bit like "A Few Minutes After Trancefer".