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Originally Posted by Zhanteimi
Update, please. This hellhole needs your intelligence.
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Thanks, Zhanteimi! I hadn't planned on posting anything as there is a lot going on in my life right now, but I could resist honoring your humble request so here's a little something I put together for you.
Cluster: Shaping the Sound of Germany
Moebius, Roedelius, and Plank, who performed together as Cluster, were each instrumental figures in the krautrock scene whose influence cannot be overstated. Between the three of them, they had their hands in the composition and/or production of over 300 albums of ambient and experimental electronic music that defined the German scene throughout the 1970s.
Hans-Joachim Roedelius has produced 115 releases to date with a new soundtrack pending. One notable work is his earliest recording finally issued in 2008 - Live at the Zodiak – Berlin 1968 which is a rare surviving example of work from the highly-influential West Berlin live music venue, Zodiak Free Arts Lab.
Conny Plank contributed to 122 albums during his lifetime, including influential releases by Kraftwerk, Can, Cluster, Guru Guru, Harmonia, Eno (for the 'Berlin Trilogy'), Neu!, La Düsseldorf, and other major figures in krautrock.
Dieter Moebius was another principle artist of the scene. Moebius studied in Brussels and Berlin where he met Roedelius and Conrad Schnitzler to found Kluster in 1969, and later Cluster and Harmonia with Michael Rother of Neu!. Moebius is connected to 65 releases I'll outline below.
I'd previously compiled a similar extended discography for the 178 releases by Tangerine Dream and its associated members’ solo projects, but this archive seems like it will offer a more dynamic range of sounds and shall make for most rewarding listening.
[Blogger's Note] My apologies here - I'd prepared a hierarchal roster of the extended discographies of each of the figures named above and spent a good hour attempting to teach myself how to translate the indented list into BBCode. Evidently, a list of this particular format does not lend itself to BBCode but I didn't want to deprive my readers so I've saved it as a shared Google Doc for anyone to peruse if they wish.
You can read it here. Cheers!