Trancefer features strong performances by Wolfgang Tiepold on cello and Michael Shrieve on percussion.

Although it was his second album recorded with digital instruments, and has a great deal of treble, it is an example of the Berlin School genre which developed in the 1970s.

It is quite different from what Schulze was doing in the 1970s in the sense that it is not a composition that uses sequencers, transpositions, and a main melody line.

Trancefer is more syncopated, and here the main focus is put on the dialog between the percussion and the chords Schulze is playing on the Yamaha CS-80 synthesizer.

Two pre-release versions of Trancefer were produced as test pressings before the release of the album.