“He opened possibilities for all future post-rock”: How Editors’ Russ Leetch discovered the deep, detailed world-building of Klaus Schulze, via Vangelis and an independent record store

Klaus Schulze and Russ Leetch of Editors.

It took Editors bassist Russ Leetch a while to discover that some of the music that means most to him was created before he was born. The 80s child discovered the deep, detailed work of the late German electronic composer Klaus Schulze in 2009 – and, in 2013, he told Prog he’d never looked back.

“I am forever indebted to Polar Bear Records in Birmingham for expanding my musical palette. Steve, the owner of this great independent store, insists that music for him stopped as soon as the 80s began.