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July 22, 2015 by Simon Sweetman

R.I.P. Dieter Moebius

Dieter Moebius has died, reportedly of cancer, aged 71. The Swiss-born Krautrock pioneer was a member of Kluster/Cluster and Harmonia, he worked with Brian Eno, Hans-Joachim Roedelius, Asmus Tietchens and Conny Plank among many others. He was a soundtrack composer, producer, engineer, musician – he was sound-engineer and conceptual aural-artists as musician. And his works […]
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged Asmus Tietchens, Brian Eno, Cluster, Conny Plank, Dieter Moebius, Eno, Eulogy, Hans-Joachim Roedelius, Harmonia, Kluster, Krautrock, Moebius, Moebius + Tietchens, R.I.P., R.I.P. Dieter Moebius ·

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September 8, 2014 by Simon Sweetman

Loscil & Fieldhead: Fury and Hecla

Loscil & Fieldhead Fury and Hecla Gizeh Records Here’s something very interesting – less a collaboration than a midpoint, Fury and Hecla is essentially two mini-EPs stitched together from two separate artists. So Loscil (that’s Vancouver-based Scott Morgan) creates “looping oscillator” – hence Loscil – music, soundscapes that seem to have arrived via Cluster and […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged Album Review, Brian Eno, Cluster, EP, Fieldhead, Fury, Fury and Hecla, Gizeh Records, Hecla, Loscil, Loscil & Fieldhead, Mark Orton, Paul Elam, Scott Morgan, Split EP ·

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July 12, 2014 by Simon Sweetman

Woo: When The Past Arrives

Woo When The Past Arrives Drag City It’s an album you swim through – as much as listen to. It’s a new collection by Woo – but that means it’s all old recordings, bits and pieces, leftovers even; for Woo is now a new-seeming act and this has been put together as a new album, on […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged Album Review, Cluster, Penguin Cafe Orchestra, When The Past Arrives, Woo ·

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January 26, 2014 by Simon Sweetman

Lloyd Cole/Hans-Joachim Roedelius: Selected Studies 1

Lloyd Cole/Hans-Joachim Roedelius Selected Studies 1 Bureau B After releasing 2001’s Plastic Wood, a foray into the worlds of Eno and Cluster and other ambient favourites, Lloyd Cole struck up a friendship with Hans-Joachim Roedelius, the two exchanging correspondence leading, eventually, to this pairing. You won’t hear anything resembling Rattlesnakes here – neither Cole’s vocals […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged Album Review, Ambient, Brian Eno, Cluster, Eno, Hans-Joachim Roedelius, Kluster, Lloyd Cole, Lloyd Cole/Hans-Joachim Roedelius, Plastic Wood, Rattlesnakes, Selected Studies 1 ·

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