I have been working at odd hours on making digital copies of the vinyl I inherited from my friend George. So I have been listening to Edgar Froese, Synergy and Klaus Schulze lately. Schulze, an alumnus of Ash Ra Tempel and Tangerine Dream, is very well represented in George's collection, as is TD itself. I particularly enjoyed Schulze's two-record set Cyborg.

Synergy's Sequencer was one of the first albums I ever bought, at age 10 or 11 (another Passport Label favorite from that time being the art rock opera The Intergalactic Touring Band). I hadn't listened to anything by Synergy in more than a decade. Aside from its simplicity and coldness, both considered retrospectively, the music took me back to a time when I hunkered down in front of my first stereo and listened to music for hours. This time around, I preferred different compositions and found some of my old favorites to be maudlin even though evocative.

George's interest in electronics was for scoring his art installations. Many of you probably recall his ethereal vinyl webbing forms floating in fields of black light at galleries and clubs. So many of George's synthesizer albums came from Stevie Fever's Record Gallery that once hung over Lower Greenville like the lair of some musical Djinn, so I have been treated to a double layer of nostalgia.

Out of more than a dozen albums I have transferred so far, I can report a bare minimum of pops and only one skip. Listening to and transferring this collection has been an unexpectedly wonderful musical journey, one that fills in several gaps in my own collection.