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Originally Posted by Savage Clone
Harmonia are so great! Cluster is a wonderful rabbit hole. Have fun!!
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listened to both cluster 71 and cluster ii. it was brilliant, and superrelaxed. maybe a little too relaxed but that's sorta the point of ambient or whatever it was they called it back then. anyway, looking forward to working my way up to their new ep.
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Originally Posted by The Soup Nazi
one of my problems with Tangerine Dream is that the approach and feeling...
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i don't know, i first heard them in their new agey incarnations etc, and while it was a peculiar sound i didn't enjoy the aesthetics of it so i never returned.
but the earlier stuff ive heard is very different--some of it is almost horror movie soundtrack stuff. and they're so prolific it's kinda hard to pin them down. so i try to listen with an open mind until the gag reflex ensues (eg right around tangram)
(i used to have this john cale cassette from the 80s that was awful. sure, it was john cale! but that one, not for me. and i love lou reed but... the raven???)
in any case the label i find shocking is not kraut anything but the "rock" part. there's nothing rock or rockist about almost anything i've heard in those early records.often there's not even a beat. i think their "kosmische" label was a better fit, although the "space music" that some of that grew into ain't exactly my favorite--pseudospiritual shit for old hippies.
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Originally Posted by The Soup Nazi
Of course, some people would have run as far away from Cluster and Harmonia as possible had I posted that.
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flies, vinegar, something something?
but yeah, open invitations work well--one has to let the ears hear the music. and taste the tasties
not every dish there is gonna be to everyone's taste, but the principle is that there will be
something for everyone in there. so please keep them coming...