This is the 50th Anniversary re-issue of Cluster's legendary debut album Cluster now retitled Cluster 71 that they recorded after the band had changed its name from Kluster when the third member of the group Konrad Schnitzler left in 1970 leaving Dieter Moebius and Hans-Joachim Roedelius to continue on without him. The album was produced by another Kraut rock legend in the making a young Conny Plank.
This legendary lp opens with 07 42 the shortest track on this seminal album that was part of the golden age of Krautrock and also helped to invent Ambient music, minimal techno and House and has all sorts of weird and wonderful noises going on around the drumming and percussion that's often sparse and careful as everything else swirls around you.
The Second track 15 43 has all sorts of pulses and signals and weird sounds that would eventually being stolen by the likes of Sonic Youth and Glenn Branca, Wharton Tiers and Foetus among many others who took this album as a blueprint for what you could do with sound and how you created soundscapes that sounded a good 30 or 40 years ahead of there time if not more like 70 years as this changes the room ambience as it rises and falls and the sparse electronica pulsing and shimmering showing Electronic Audio Researches Sonic Boom the way forward before he could barely walk. As the tune progresses it becomes a lot spacier and then a thudding techno beat comes in that sounds like it has been sampled on 10000 house records.
The b-side contains just one tune the immense 21 32 that starts out like EAR's Thomas Koner Experiment that came out decades later with the pulsing electronics and swirling sounds ready to engulf the listener before they strafe sonic pulsars across your speakers that do all sorts of odd stuff to your mind making this perfect music to get royally stoned too. Eventually you reach the part where it sounds like they have sampled and manipulated the sound of Sea Lions yelping, in amongst the industrial soundscape, before falling away and letting the washes of sound writhe over you as they draw you out into deep space, as it sounds like they are manipulating the controls on the space ship and are ready to go to the furthest reaches of the sonic galaxy. Just in time for a crash landing the sounds get more other worldly with what sounds like an alarm going off towards the end.
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