The Ultimate Edition is a limited edition 50-disc CD box set released by Klaus Schulze in 2000 collecting his previous limited edition multi-disc box setsSilver Edition, Historic Edition, and Jubilee Edition, which contain unreleased archival recordings in addition to new studio material. A further five discs were added for this release. Several discs were altered and restructured from their original versions: discs 7 and 8 were extended by five minutes; discs 11, 13, 14, and 22 were slightly remastered; and discs 41 and 42 were restructured. Two tracks from Jubilee Edition were omitted. The discs are divided into five boxes of ten discs, housed in individual cardboard sleeves. Between 2009 and 2015, tracks from this set were reissued as La Vie Electronique, a series of multi-disc CD sets releasing all the material of The Ultimate Edition in chronological order.
Disc 1: Film Musik Disc 2: Narren des Schicksals Disc 3: Was War Vor der Zeit Disc 4: Sense of Beauty Disc 5: Picasso Geht Spazieren Disc 6: Picasso Geht Spazieren Disc 7: The Music Box Disc 8: Machine de Plaisir Disc 9: Life in Ecstasy Disc 10: Mysterious Tapes
Box 2
Disc 11: Zeitgeist Disc 12: I Sing the Body Electric Disc 13: Alles ist Gut Disc 14: The Future Disc 15: Leiden mit Manu Disc 16: The Andromeda Strain Disc 17: My Virtual Principles Disc 18: The Poet Disc 19: Schwanensee Disc 20: Der Lauf der Dinge
Box 3
Disc 21: Tradition & Vision Disc 22: Avec Arthur Disc 23: Budapest Disc 24: Borrowed Time Disc 25: Opera Trance Disc 26: Real Colours Disc 27: Cyborgs Faust Disc 28: Vie de Rêve Disc 29: Der Welt Lauf Disc 30: Die Kunst...
Box 4
Disc 31: Olé! Disc 32: Titanensee Disc 33: Angry Moog Disc 34: Die Erde ist Rund Disc 35: Deutsch Disc 36: Unplugged Disc 37: Mostly Bruxelles Disc 38: À la Mode? Disc 39: Interessant Disc 40: Stahlsinfonie
Box 5
Disc 41: Walk the Edge Disc 42: New Style Disc 43: Höchamtliche Sounds Disc 44: Planetarium London Disc 45: 'Nuff Said! Disc 46: Bologna Disc 47: Discoveries Disc 48: From the Attic Disc 49: The Cello Disc 50: Lone Tracks
Trailer
Prior to the release of The Ultimate Edition a compilation album was made available in 1999, containing excerpts from the set, as well as three exclusive tracks, one of which, while appearing here as an excerpt, was later reissued complete on Mirage in 2005, and another, was later reissued on La VieElectronique 14 in 2014.
