Ended the week and welcomed the weekend with Cluster (also reissued as Cluster 71) is the debut studio album by German electronic music outfit Cluster. It was recorded in 1971 and released the same year by record label Philips. It is also the only album on which producer Conny Plank is credited as a member.

The Wire placed Cluster's self-titled debut album in their list "One Hundred Records That Set the World on Fire". [and] wrote that Cluster "prefigures illbient by about 20 years, parts of it sounding uncannily like DJ Spooky", while crediting "patches of regular thudding thudding pulse" for conjuring up "a malformed techno". They praised the album for fusing new possibilities for "electronic noise production" with the "repetitions and resonances" of dub music, resulting in music that resembles "space music with a severe hangover." - Wikipedia

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cC7vjYN9o2o&list=RDcC7vjYN9o2o&start_radio=1

#Cluster #ConnyPlank #Ambient #Illbient #Kosmishe #HansJoachimRoedelius #DieterMoebius #Music

silence is sexy / einstürzende neubauten. 1998 _ (behind the scenes)

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Filmed in April 1998 at Cologne/Wolperath (Conny Plank’s Studio) during the “Silence is Sexy” album / “Total Eclipse Of The Sun” EP recording sessions.
00:00 • Redukt
11:00 • Sonnenbarke
21:15 • Helium
30:42 • Total Eclipse of the Sun

#nowplaying
Eurythmics "Never gonna cry again"

From their first album, In the Garden, 1982. Produced by Conny Plank, and featuring Holger Czukay and Jaki Liebezeit of Can.

#eurythmics #newwave #synthpop #postpunk #krautrock #ConnyPlank #Can

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5KLruiHP8U8

Excellent video from Alex Ball about how some KORG gear from 1978 (especially the SQ-10 analog sequencer) was used by 3 German EBM and New Wave acts.
Specifically DAF, Liaisons Dangereuses, and Pyrolator.

Enjoy 12½ minutes of reconstructing sounds, with lots of patch cables, amps, and reverbs.

#Korg #ConnyPlank #EBM

https://youtu.be/iWf8d5wEQwo