Art & Creativity Quote by Klaus Schulze

“Most of today’s music is done electronically” lands less like a complaint than a matter-of-fact epitaph for an old argument. Coming from Klaus Schulze - a composer who helped invent the vocabulary of electronic music in the 1970s - the line carries a sly double charge: he’s both witness and architect. When someone like Schulze says it, he’s not marveling at a novelty; he’s noting that the future he and his peers prototyped has quietly become infrastructure.

The intent feels corrective. Electronic isn’t a genre anymore; it’s a production condition. Schulze is flattening the prestige hierarchy that still treats “real instruments” as authentic and laptops as suspect. In 2026, pop vocals are comped, drums are sampled or replaced, guitars are re-amped and time-aligned, orchestras are augmented with libraries, and distribution itself is digital-first. Even “organic” records are edited inside the grid. Schulze’s phrasing - “done electronically,” not “made with synths” - widens the frame to include the studio as instrument, and the computer as the default mediator between idea and sound.

The subtext is also a quiet provocation aimed at nostalgia: if electronic methods are now ubiquitous, then purity tests about “real music” collapse. What remains worth arguing about isn’t whether electronics are involved, but how they’re used - to standardize and smooth, or to take risks, to create texture, time, and space in ways the old toolkit couldn’t. Schulze’s career makes that last point unavoidable: electronic isn’t the shortcut; it’s the canvas.