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***Swiss-born Dieter Moebius studied art in Brussels and Berlin, where he met Hans-Joachim Roedelius and Conrad Schnitzler. In 1969 the three founded Kluster, which after two years and three records, Roedelius and Moebius continued as Cluster, whose work is easily as earth-shaking and relevant today as that of Can, Tangerine Dream, Neu!, Faust, Kraftwerk and company. Moebius has always been more interested in straightforward motorized or handmade rhythms and the use of electronic, eccentric and unpredictable machine noises. Blotch, his second solo album (following Tonspuren, released 16 years ago) was produced in March and April of 1999 in Moebius' minimal studio in Berlin. Performed with a Korg Prophecy and an EMU Orbit, it was recorded with a Yamaha eight-track cassette recorder and finally perfectly mastered in Ohio by Tim Story, who duets with Moebius on the album's finaltrack. |
