Moebius & Plank Material (Vinyl)

‘Material’ is the second album of playful studio experimentation from Konrad ‘Conny’ Plank and Cluster’s Dieter Moebius.

It was produced in 1981 at Conny’s studio and features the two long-standing friends and collaborators (Plank had worked as engineer on practically all of Moebius’ records) in an endearingly explorative mode.

The throbbing rockabilly send-up ‘Conditionierer’ makes a crazy start to the album, and much like the rest of their work at this time, strangely predates the techno culture of Germany by a decade or so.

From here we pass through drowsy dub-tronica on ‘Infiltration’, to the exhilarating arpeggiations of ‘Tollkuehn’ and a pair of loungey off-world electronica tracks fixing kosmiche with dub techniques and an unimpaired imagination for new forms and styles.

Vinyl, LP, Reissue

Tracklist:
A1 Conditionierer 8:47
A2 Infiltration 7:40
B1 Tollkhn 6:11
B2 Osmo-Fantor 4:27
B3 Nordstliches Gefhl 7:15