Moebius
Dieter Moebius (1944 – 2015) was a Swiss-born German electronic musician and composer, best known as a member of the influential krautrock bands Cluster and Harmonia.
Dieter Moebius (1944 – 2015) was a Swiss-born German electronic musician and composer, best known as a member of the influential krautrock bands Cluster and Harmonia.
Aliases: Dieter Moebius
Another other places
An unlikely trio: Cluster's Moebius, Guru Guru's Mani Neumeier and Die Krupps' Jürgen Engler. 'Another Other Place' grinds electronics, percussion and industrial edge into taut, exploratory grooves, three generations of German sound in dialogue.
Zero Set
A summit of German sonic royalty: producer Conny Plank, Guru Guru drummer Mani Neumeier and Cluster's Moebius. 'Zero Set' is muscular, percussive electronic funk, dubwise, propulsive and years ahead. A krautrock supergroup in the studio.
Live in Vienna 1980
Caught onstage in 1980, Cluster improvise an evening into long, mutating electronic landscapes. The duo's live telepathy in full flow, sequencers churning, textures blooming and dissolving. A vivid document of kosmische in real time.
Cluster 71
The abrasive, epochal debut. Moebius and Roedelius push organ, guitar and homemade electronics through banks of effects into three untitled slabs of proto-ambient drift. Year zero for German electronic music, still startling fifty years on.
Apropos Cluster
Moebius and Roedelius reconvene decades on, and the old telepathy holds. 'Apropos Cluster' drifts through supple electronic sketches, playful, warm and abstract at once, proof the duo's improvised chemistry never dimmed.
After The Heat
The second Eno, Moebius and Roedelius summit. Brian Eno joins the Cluster duo for luminous ambient sketches and vocal pieces of eerie beauty, a keystone where British art-pop meets German kosmische, from the classic Sky Records era.
Japan Live
After Curiosum (BB 038CD/LP, 1981), the last Cluster album to be released on Sky, Roedelius and Moebius turned their attention to solo work. It was not until the early 1990s that Cluster returned to the electronic music stage with Apropos Cluster (BB 171CD/LP, 1990) and One Hour (BB 172CD/LP, 1994). The duo also took to the road for live shows in Germany and Europe, followed by tours across the USA and Japan. Some of these concerts were recorded in digital quality and offer compelling evidence o…
Deutsche Elektronische Musik 2 (Record A) (2LP)
First volume of the Soul Jazz's superb introduction to experimental German rock and electronic Musik from 1971 to 1983, a 2013 2LP set featuring A.R. & Machines, Can, Roedelius, Michael Rother, Popol Vuh, Michael Hoenig, Agitation Free, D.A.F., Harald Grosskopf, Amon Düül II, Conrad Schnitzler & Wolf Sequenza, Bröselmaschine, Eno Moebius & Roedelius, Gila, Wolfgang Riechmann.
Sowiesoso
** 50th anniversary Limited Edition ** The fourth full-length album by legendary German electronic music duo Cluster, originally released on Sky Records in 1976. Sowiesoso follows on from their most highly-acclaimed album, Zuckerzeit (1974). Michael Rother's influence was clearly audible on the latter, Cluster having already recorded two albums with him under the name of Harmonia. 1976 saw the duo looking for new musical forms. More than any other Cluster album, Sowiesoso represents the utopian …
Before And After Science (LP)
1977 Italian edition (with no prints) on Polydor of the 1977 solo album,, as all Eno's early albums an experimental rock masterpiece. Featuring Robert Fripp, Can's Jaki Liebezeit, Genesis' Phil Collins, Henry Cow's Fred Frith, Moebius & Roedelius.
Silberland Vol 3: The Ambient Side Of Kosmische Musik (1972–1986)
Double LP version. On their last trip to Silberland, hurtled along the chrome highways and glass skyways of the kosmische landscape, powered ever onwards in perpetual motorik motion. This time, however, the Hamburg imprint opt for an unhurried itinerary, coasting far beyond the familiar rhythmic terrain to immerse listeners in the ambient side of this alternative Allemagne. Building on the tape loops, tone poems, and minimalist compositions of the '60s avant-garde, these musicians utilized the s…
DeLuxe
Deluxe (50th Anniversary Edition) Orange vinyl, gatefold sleeve with unreleased archival photographs Fifty years ago, three musicians gathered in a German village and created something that would reshape electronic music's possibilities. Harmonia - Michael Rother, Hans-Joachim Roedelius, and Dieter Moebius - weren't trying to make a statement. They were following a vision, one that understood structure and spontaneity as complementary forces rather than opposites. Deluxe, released in 1975, marke…
II
Cluster can be counted among the most important international protagonists of the electronic avant-garde. Some credit them with having invented ambient music, others as pioneers of synthesizer pop, whilst to some they are firmly embedded in the krautrock universe. There is some truth in all of these notions. Cluster (or Kluster as they were in the beginning) were founded in 1970 in Berlin by Conrad Schnitzler, Hans-Joachim Roedelius and Dieter Moebius. A change in direction and musical differenc…
Highdelberg
Guitarist Ax Genrich began his career in 1970 with a brief stint with German prog-kraut rockers Agitation Free. There he was able to develop his improvisational style, but was soon poached by Mani Neumeier to join Guru Guru. Together with bassist Uli Trepte, Genrich and Neumeier enjoyed their first major successes and were soon regarded as the new figureheads of Krautrock, releasing Känguru in 1972, a milestone in the genre. After four years and four albums, Ax Genrich left Guru Guru because the…
Krautrock Eruption – An Introduction To German Electronic Music 1970-1980
Krautrock, what is it anyway? A genre, a derogative term, a song by Faust, … or: a welcome (and recurring) opportunity to talk about all of this. The music associated with the term in question has eagerly been canonized. From the enthusiastic and idiosyncratic ramblings of Julian Cope’s “Krautrocksampler” to encyclopaedic approaches like Alan and Stephen Freeman’s “Crack in the Cosmic Egg”, there are plenty of books to read and lists to discuss: Who’s in, who isn’t? The quarrels and disputes sur…
Cluster II
1973 second Brain pressing with green labels and gatefold sleeve of the superb second Cluster LP produced by Conny Plank.
Musik Von Harmonia
** 2025 Repress. Gatefold cover ** Once called 'the world's most important rock group' by Brian Eno, legendary minimalist avant-garde band Harmonia was formed in the early '70s by Michael Rother of Neu! and Hans-Joachim Roedelius and Dieter Moebius of Cluster. Although this supergroup produced only two studio albums - 1974's Musik von Harmonia and 1975'sDeluxe - they were very influential and perfectly embodied the Krautrock ideal. While leaning slightly towards Cluster's ambient sound, they wer…
Berlin 07
Berlin 2007 was a monumental performance for Cluster, marking their first live performance in Berlin since their 12-hour concert in the Galerie Hammer in the Europacenter in 1969. The performance was a massive success as a sold out crowd cheered loudly for Cluster to return to the stage. Fortunately, the concert was preserved for posterity and is proudly presented here on Important Records.
Packaged in a deluxe digipack.
Cluster was formed around 1971 when Roedelius and Moebius left Conrad Schni…