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Conrad Shnitzler / Tangerine Dream, Cluster, Kluster

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Conrad Schnitzler: CON BRIO conrad schnitzler (1937-2011) was a german soundesigner, musician, foley artist and performing artist. he played tape-recorder, cello, violin, keyboard and drums. he was active in the years 1960-2011 in the genres of krautrock and electronic music. record-cover-motive: Raoul Hausmann, Mechanischer Kopf (der geist unserer zeit, 1920)

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David Bowie and Hans-Joachim Roedelius, 2003 by Tim Story

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Every Record I Own - Day 694: Kluster Eruption

Originally released in 1974 as a Conrad Schnitzler solo album, Eruption captures the final live performance of Kluster at Göttingen Universitat in May 1971. Much like their earlier studio work, Eruption finds the trio of Schnitzler, Roedelius, and Moebius mining strange electric drones, hums, rattles, and racket into an ominous storm cloud of anxiety-inducing proto-ambient sound design. Anyone that’s been to a noise show has probably heard something in this general realm of music, but the fact that this was completely uncharted territory back in ‘71 and that these guys were churning up all these caustic tones and unsettling soundscapes out of violin, cello, organ, and found objects as opposed to a laptop or an oscillator run through an effects chain makes this all the more impressive.

When I listen to music, I always like to think about the circumstances surrounding the recording---the time, the place, the people involved. And imagining being a student back in West Germany in 1971 and seeing these weirdos mangle these traditional instruments into nightmarish groans and drones must’ve been a serious trip. 

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Cluster -- Self-titled [1971]

Vinyl Connection blog

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Cluster (Hans-Joachim Roedelius and Dieter Moebius). Source

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Malmö, Sweden -- Pump up your Monday morning with Kluster’s newest track “Over My Head”. This vibrant indie rock track has a bit of math rock on the guitar that really gives the song really cool sound textures and rhythm. At its core, “Over My Head” is still an indie rock track with its hefty reverb on the guitar and the “tsk”-ing on the drums. Kluster brings everything together in a nice package with Linnea Hall’s soft, melodic vocals gliding across the track. It’s honestly just a song that absolutely shreds from start to finish.

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