Official release 1981
In the year 1980 Klaus Schulze got his first computer specially built for playing and recording music, the G.D.S. The original liner notes of DIG IT stated that "all music" on this album was "played on the G.D.S." and there is certainly something true about it. Schulze said about this release "Die Zeit der Rollstuhlelektronik ist vorbei" (The time of wheelchair electronics is over) and "Die Achtziger sind elektronisch!" (The eighties are electronic!), which was also used as slogan to promote DIG IT, then. And indeed it was Klaus Schulze's (if not Germany's) first full digital album. Later, a Canadian radio DeeJay even called this KS release a "Desert Island Classic."
The digital rhythms of DIG IT disturbed one or another of Schulze's old followers at the time. For them it was too much "disco", as they complained then. Half a decade later these rhythms and sounds were in fashion and are called "Techno".
The long bonus track is from the original session tapes from the DIG IT recordings. But a very special bonus is the DVD witch shows Klaus Schulze performing at the "Ars Electronica" in Linz, Austria, back in 1980. On September 8th he opened this festival following an invitation of the ORF (Austrian TV). He played in the big hall of the Brucknerhaus, and from the outside sounds were transmitted which were made by the steel workers of the steel works VOEST-ALPINE.
Like the first four Klaus Schulze re-issues, Dig It will be released in a stylish deluxe digipak, with bonus track and bonus DVD and enhanced booklet with new liner notes and photos.
The bonus DVD is the first live DVD ever that is available showing Klaus Schulze performing on stage.
"Stereoplay"/Germany, February 1981: With this record you are not just buying Schulze's best album, and not just a convincing demonstration record for showing the possibilities of the Crumar music computer but also a reference recording for synthesizer productions.
Tracklist:
CD
1. Death of an Analogue 12:15
2. Weird Caravan 05:16
3. The Looper isn't a Hooker 08:30
4. Synthasy 22:53
Bonus Track:
5. Esoteric Goody DVD
Klaus Schulze "Stahlsinfonie" ["Symphony in Steel"] total: 62:22
NTSC,
Region code free
