Recorded in 1981, a foundational record of Techno and EDM ('80s and '90s) music genres. Exudes that hypnotic chill-out vibe that would become pervasive in '90s dance music. Gottsching has some classical training on guitar but turned to improvisatory rock in the 1970s, forming Ash Ra Temple with Klaus Schulz (Tangerine Dream) in 1971. More pioneering krautrockers. If you like minimalism or Eno and Byrne's My Life in the Bush of Ghosts, 1981, same year as this record, you will like this. High-speed electric train to Nirvana. Om or Aum!
Carl Craig is second wave Detroit Techno. I really don't know the first wave much beyond Derrick May and Juan Atkins; or the Bellevue Three. But second wave means after Cybotron, Big Fun, and above all "Strings of Life," the first wave peak of 1989-90. The second wave takes off in '91 and maybe peaks here in 1994. Craig tops most second wave lists, anyway; and doubles down on Detroit techno's hardcore tradition of spacey abstracted instrumentals. Here Craig remixes Manuel Gottsching's 1984 classic "E2-E4." Gottsching was one of '70s Krautrock's most celebrated guitarists, behind the group Ash Ra Tempel and playing a vanguard intersection of Krautrock and experimental minimalism. Mesmerizing repetition unspooling like a bullet train traversing an urban grid; a quasi spiritual quest after extended moments of flashing lights and melodic ASMR zen. Or ambient techno; noir disco; death disco without the dread. Blacktronica. Detroit Techno meets Krautrock.
Bonus track: Juan Atkins "Session 4" off The Berlin Sessions (2005). More ambient techno in the Detroit style.