The German Electronics artist Robert Schroeder (discovered 1978 by EM pioneer Klaus Schulze) has produced numerous excellent solo CDs as well as his success album Double Fantasy / Universal Ave., which reached the US Charts in the end of the 80s. The music of Robert Schroeder is various, but always soulful. He combines spherical synthesizer sounds with modern rhythm-mical contrasts, often supplemented by spacey guitars and sometimes also by piano, cello or voices. Schroeder's music spectrum includes Electronic, Ambient, Chill-Out, Lounge, Adventure and Trip-Hop. Electronic Music in the widest sense is the musical style of this artist who has his roots in the music of Klaus Schulze, Can and Pink Floyd. Robert Schroeder: quot;I am happy !quot; Happy, because I can present you the CD version of the legendary Galaxy Cygnus-A now. And also I am happy, because this CD is a re-recording which sounds much better than the Original. But not different! Galaxy Cygnus-A is still Galaxy Cygnus-A, each tone and atmosphere is exactly copied, only the production sound is much more dynamic and clear. Nothing of the composition is changed or lost, but there are something surprising and new additional. So for example the main theme is much more integrated in the whole work. Melodies from the first title are been included in other tracks too. This was also done in the Original version, but now it is much better worked out. The treatment sounds equal, nothing from the authentic admission is lost, but it sounds all somewhat more fully, more approximately, more clearly. It is still an exciting adventure journey on the way to the far Galaxy Cygnus-A. A musically SF-history, which produces fantasy pictures with the listener. For those who are not familiar with it: Galaxy Cygnus-A was already recorded and live performed in 1982 as contribution to the world well known ARS Electronica in Linz/Austria (with TV-transmission in Austria and FRG and a special transmission in 'Aspekte') and published as LP on the IC label, at that time owned by Klaus Schulze. Galaxy Cygnus-A was developed on the basis of received signals (acoustically white noise) from the 1.05 billion light-years removed radio galaxy Cygnus-A in the constellation swan. Caught and noted were these signals with the worldwide largest mobile radio telescope of the Max-Planck-Institute in Effelsberg (Eifel, FRG). These signals were the basic and inspiration for Schroeders galactic work - finest traditional electronic music. Best tracks: 1, 2, 4, 5, 7 (CD includes bonus tracks) Please read the excellent album review by Sylvain Lupari from gutsofdarkness & synth&sequences. If Harmonic Ascendant put Robert Schroeder's name on the map, Galaxy Cygnus-A concretized the immense talent and creativity of the Aachen synthesist. Initially conceived for a science fiction project, Galaxy Cygnus-A consisted in getting sound waves coming from galaxies with the help radio telescope placed in high altitude. Robert Schroeder edited and sampled these galactic tones on a music that he performed during a big event in sounds and images, because that a big screen broadcasted images of cosmos during this concert presented within the framework of the prestigious ARS-Electronica in Linz, Austria in 1982. Released on Klaus Schulze label (Innovative Communication), Galaxy Cygnus-A got lost in CD reeditions and was never released on this format. We had to wait until last December when Spheric Label presented a reworked version of this small mas
