Dieter Moebius Poll 1978-2011

& here's the chronological list for posterity once the results skew it

Liliental - Liliental (1978)
Moebius & Plank - Rastakraut Pasta (1980)
Moebius & Plank - Material (1981)
Moebius & Beerbohm - Strange Music (1982)
Moebius - Tonspuren (1983)
Moebius & Beerbohm - Double Cut (1983)
Moebius / Plank / Neumeier - Zero Set (1983)
Moebius - Blue Moon (Soundtrack) (1986)
Moebius & Renziehausen - Ersatz (1990)
Moebius & Renziehausen - Ersatz II (1992)
Moebius & Plank - En Route (1995, recorded 1986)
Moebius / Neumeier / Engler - Other Places (1996)
Moebius / Plank / Thompson - Ludwig's Law (1998)
Space Explosion - Space Explosion (1998)
Moebius - Blotch (1999)
Moebius & Neumeier - Live In Japan (2003)
Moebius - Nurton (2006)
Moebius & Neumeier - Zero Set 2 (2006)
Moebius - Kram (2009)
Moebius - Ding (2011)

― Milton Parker, Friday, 20 January 2012 21:41 (1 year ago) Permalink

ha ha ha

― geeta, Friday, 20 January 2012 21:45 (1 year ago) Permalink

hey when's the Moebius/Tietchens lp coming out?

― nerve_pylon, Friday, 20 January 2012 22:03 (1 year ago) Permalink

it should be coming out around christmas! that's what moebius told me, anyhow

― geeta, Friday, 20 January 2012 22:07 (1 year ago) Permalink

oof christmas! thought it'd be soon. on the other hand, what's the rush?

― nerve_pylon, Friday, 20 January 2012 22:18 (1 year ago) Permalink

they are taking their sweet time

― geeta, Friday, 20 January 2012 22:22 (1 year ago) Permalink

ok, i have only heard Rastakraut Pasta--where should i go next since i have a month to hear all of these?

― rob, Friday, 20 January 2012 22:31 (1 year ago) Permalink

i would hit zero set/double cut/tonspuren next

― geeta, Friday, 20 January 2012 22:38 (1 year ago) Permalink

For me, Double Cut, Tonspuren and Zero Set are the cream of the crop after Rastakraut. They aren't as funny though (none of them are!)

Double Cut is scary as hell and minimalist lo-fi with Beerbohm doing cool simple things with some kind of drum synth, overall it sounds like it should be the soundtrack to some crazy good sci fi horror film. This is one of my favorite albums ever, ultra simple but with some serious depths.

Tonspuren is a Moebius solo and reminds me a lot of Zuckerzeit; short little song worlds, pretty melodies and great shimmery production. A truly great album albeit simplistic, it's very painterly and all of Moebius' weird pet sounds are perfectly placed and realized.

Zero Set is the one that comes off like an early techno experiment, and all the songs are kinda samey (in a good way!) but Mani's live jungle jazz drums are like a human heart beating behind the twitchy synth blurps. Very cool.

For the more recent things, Kram is the clear winner. It sounds like a jungle on an alien planet with pulsing sound creatures flying all around neon swamps. Very quirky and quite busy with hidden loveliness amidst all the shifting strangeness.

I have to say the real surprises of the catalog for me were the Renziehausen albums. They kind of sound like the theme song of the tv show Nightrider (or some such cheesy 80s tv show!) All the songs are sort of slick and tend to blend together in my memory, but they are still really very strong and get a lot more plays than I would've thought. They're better than the 90s Cluster albums anyway! Definitely worth a listen (I say this because they seem to get overlooked)

― liam fennell, Friday, 20 January 2012 22:52 (1 year ago) Permalink

And I'd like to chime in again and say that the interview is really great. It's so nice to finally get some insight into this stuff.

― liam fennell, Friday, 20 January 2012 22:56 (1 year ago) Permalink

thanks liam. i like your descriptions!

though to me every song on 'zero set' sounds completely different! the first time i was introduced to it (ten years ago or thereabouts, via stirmonster) all i really knew was 'all repro' which stir would occasionally mix into a dj set

the next few times i listened to it i was obsessed with 'pitch control', the obvious favorite, which also mixes well into dj sets, but now the more i listen the more i am fascinated by 'load' and 'recall' and 'search zero'

― geeta, Friday, 20 January 2012 23:02 (1 year ago) Permalink

just finished the interview--he comes across as such a lovely person, thanks geeta! liam's descriptions are kind of haunting me now.

― rob, Friday, 20 January 2012 23:15 (1 year ago) Permalink

nice descriptions liam

I agree the two Ersatz records are totally fun. Using extremely standard 80's/90's digital sounds but in the most ludicrous, malfunctioning & broken ways. I'm hearing a lot of things now that sound like these records, but retro-coated in nostalgia -- so the fact that the Ersatz records were doing something similar but while the equipment was still contempoary gives them a really bizarre edge (ok, I'm thinking of Ferraro's Far Side Virtual, which did send me right back to Ersatz II right after I heard it

― Milton Parker, Friday, 20 January 2012 23:38 (1 year ago) Permalink

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& I don't have much to say about the first seven albums on the list because it should just be a given, if you like any one of them you'll like the other six

― Milton Parker, Friday, 20 January 2012 23:38 (1 year ago) Permalink

eventually

― Milton Parker, Friday, 20 January 2012 23:39 (1 year ago) Permalink

aw hell & Blue Moon too. it's a casual record w/ a lot of amazing casio synth on it but the track 'Am See' is as good as anything moebius and/or roedelius ever did

― Milton Parker, Friday, 20 January 2012 23:41 (1 year ago) Permalink

milton voted for 'select all'

― geeta, Friday, 20 January 2012 23:46 (1 year ago) Permalink

should have given myself that option

almost included this comp, pretty good 10 minute percolator in the vein of 'Infiltration' from Material or the last (best) two tracks from Blotch: http://www.discogs.com/Various-Electroacoustic-Music-Vol-V/release/276348

― Milton Parker, Saturday, 21 January 2012 00:00 (1 year ago) Permalink

the fifth track on an obscure comp that was only released in russia?

― geeta, Saturday, 21 January 2012 00:02 (1 year ago) Permalink

<3

― geeta, Saturday, 21 January 2012 00:06 (1 year ago) Permalink

Yes.

But in the end, I did not include it. That would have been insane. But it is worth mentioning & hunting down.

He put out a 4 track mp3-only ep on his site in 2009, but rolled different versions of those tracks onto Qua & Blotch & Ding so I didn't include that either.

For real fanatics, rare non-album Cluster compilation track, an outtake from Curiosum: http://www.discogs.com/Various-What/release/2412910

― Milton Parker, Saturday, 21 January 2012 00:10 (1 year ago) Permalink

Would feel a bit of fraud voting in this, as I only know nine of these, I imagine that's nine more than most people though! "Liliental" is prolly the one that I've got most pleasure out of... that and "Rastakraut Pasta" but I don't know how much of that is down to Moebius. In which case I should probably vote "Tonspuren". Cannot share the enthusiasm upthread for "Double Cut"!

― Charles Kennedy Jumped Up, He Called 'Oh No'. (Tom D.), Monday, 23 January 2012 17:28 (1 year ago) Permalink

how does Zero Set 2 compare to the first one?

― sarahell, Monday, 23 January 2012 17:46 (1 year ago) Permalink

I haven't heard any of these records yet, just wanted to chime in to say that was a really great interview. What's the best entry point?

― frogs you are the dumbest asshole (frogbs), Monday, 23 January 2012 18:10 (1 year ago) Permalink

probably Rastakraut Pasta / Tonspuren / Zero Set

Zero Set 2: The sounds are there, the drumming is still great, but that extra layer of completely abstracted real-time sound mixing is missing. out of the three remix 12"s, the 33 minute Villalobos mix is great, it sounds like Villalobos but you can hear something of Plank in all the weird little detailed sounds that only happen once or twice

― Milton Parker, Monday, 23 January 2012 20:00 (1 year ago) Permalink

still worth hearing and I'm not selling my copy:

― Milton Parker, Monday, 23 January 2012 20:06 (1 year ago) Permalink

wow, great cover!

― sarahell, Monday, 23 January 2012 20:07 (1 year ago) Permalink

thanks that Villalobos is great!

― nerve_pylon, Monday, 23 January 2012 20:24 (1 year ago) Permalink

oh okay since no one would ever publish something like this

Liliental - Liliental (1978) - In 1976, Harmonia splintered into solo projects. Roedelius & Rother began recording their first solo albums, while Dieter booked six days at Conny Plank's studio to record a project with longtime friends Asmus Tietchens and Okko Becker. The band Kraan had just finished recording, and the sax and bass players get on well enough to hang out for an extra week, Conny joins in on guitar, and the new six piece band puts together six new tracks starting from scratch. The sounds aren't very weird in and of themselves, and the billowy sax and rhodes put this very close to 1970-1975 era Pink Floyd. For years I only had this on cassette, and it only grabbed me once it came out on CD; the production is pristine and there are a lot of layered tiny details when you listen, and each side rewards you by ending with a straight-up tune. Not really solo Moebius by a long shot, but the ad-hoc nature of the group's formation tells you a lot about his M.O.

Moebius & Plank - Rastakraut Pasta (1980) - What to even write about this one -- when Moebius and Plank started writing a Krautrock dub record, the title produced itself. The basic grooves are incredibly simple and don't evolve like traditional songs, but are covered with dozens, hundreds of bizarre little sonic details, acoustic and electronic instruments that wait their turn, make one incredibly odd sound, and then vanish, noises turned inside out by Plank's hot-rodded mixing desk. Most bands would capture one loop from any of these tracks and find them sufficient for a five minute track, Moebius and Plank just pile the sound design on. And even if these aren't normal songs, they are tunes; 'Two Oldtimers' makes it clear that Roedelius was not the only one writing beautiful melodies on those Cluster records.

― Milton Parker, Wednesday, 8 February 2012 22:41 (1 year ago) Permalink

Moebius & Plank - Material (1981) - Surfing right off the success of that one, this kicks off with a full tilt surf number 'Conditionierer' that promises a crazy Shadows guitar lead. Which never arrives; the music goes on forever like a backing track before the psychedelic layers slowly start to turn up -- by the time the guitars finally take over, you're lucky if you can count to eight. The rest of side one is even better, a ten minute bass line that keeps getting reenforced by a particularly great manifestation of Mobi's trademarked synthetic menagerie. Perhaps this lacks the can't miss focus given the previous one by its title; side two is just as strong, but unlike Pasta this album stops more than ends.

Moebius & Beerbohm - Strange Music (1982) - Moebius must have been getting sick of the meticulous hi-fi studios. After recording Cluster's Grosses Wasser with Peter Baumann and the two records with Plank, the last Cluster record Curiosum was all murky home recordings, and practically sounds like a Moebius solo record; Roedelius' tunes are there, but only played on the most detuned analog synths imaginable. Moebius plays with his friends, and Beerbohm is a guy who just plays whatever (usually drums) with maximum enthusiasm and energy. This record doesn't have the meticulous layering of the Plank records; it sounds like maybe each track gets one or two overdubs of strange sounds, run throughout, then a mixdown. Once a track starts, it doesn't evolve. But the processing here is so extreme that it doesn't matter; when it takes you 90 seconds to figure out that the lead instrument is probably just a saxophone, this really is strange music, and you can tell these guys are just going for it. This record was not liked by many Cluster fans; it's not pretty and very brutal, but once people started getting into noise and Black Dice got dancey, I started hearing this record played around at local experimental shows a bit more, everyone caught up.

― Milton Parker, Wednesday, 8 February 2012 23:01 (1 year ago) Permalink

Moebius - Tonspuren (1983) - The first actual solo album, and more home recordings; out of all of them, probably the closest to Zuckerzeit in that each track not only has its own synth-patch sound design, but they're playing interlocking riffs and tunes. Super motorik, catchy but still incredibly bizarre, soothing sounds for baby that shouldn't really be soothing at all. Zuckerzeit might have higher highs but I often prefer this one as a complete album, and it'd be an easy one to vote for because it really works as a true solo album, it clearly shows you everything he's adding to every other group project he's ever participated in.

Moebius & Beerbohm - Double Cut (1983) - "Recorded 1982 in Minimalstudio" -- this is another one that might have seemed too rudimentary or easygoing back then, but post-Basic Channel, post-Villalobos, and post-Minimal Techno, the twenty minute long side two of this record seems more like ground-zero. Those monolithic Monoton records are good too, but this track I have just gotten lost in; two note bassline, 2/4 synth drums handplayed by Beerbohm, and bewilderingly lo-fi layered synth solos slowly weaving in and out, absolutely nothing is happening here and yet the second it ends you start it over again. A guy in a Seattle record store dubbed this for me onto a tape with 'Curiosum' and I dubbed side two of this onto a another 90 minute tape four times. Side one is plodding bass & synth tunes which are beyond primitive; I understand why this would not be everyone's cup of tea in that none of this was hard to make and would only leave you asking 'why', but for me this is beyond 'why' they just nailed it to the wall.

― Milton Parker, Wednesday, 8 February 2012 23:13 (1 year ago) Permalink

Moebius / Plank / Neumeier - Zero Set (1983) - I am just assuming everyone has heard this one. Same cascade of infinitely detailed sound design and bizarre little noises that never repeat, but adding Guru Guru drummer Neumeier to the mix takes the techno over the top, and the live drumming pushes this into man-machine hybrid music that makes its own argument, no one has ever done this better. I'm still curious as to how this record was made -- it's pretty early for them to have clocked the sequencers slaving to Neumeier, but that is what it sounds like Plank did. He is a Liebzeit-level robot engineer of a drummer but Neumeier really sounds like he's leading the mix. Every twenty seconds the sounds change and explode out of the speakers, the drums are always getting louder, and they keep dropping the groove into new pockets, this is everything we've gotten used to living without in the age of Ableton Live and settling for conformed loops and this record still sounds like the future or at least I sure fucking hope so.

― Milton Parker, Wednesday, 8 February 2012 23:21 (1 year ago) Permalink

Moebius - Blue Moon (Soundtrack) (1986) - Have never seen this film but I'll bet you the music works perfectly for it. Eleven short handplayed tracks, many of which don't change or evolve that much; some of them are mostly motorik rhythmic beds with patented Moebius sound-design, but the last track on each side once again gives you classic-era Moebius tunes, particuarly 'Am See'. I think the main instrument is a Casio CZ-101 (aka the cheezy-101, first MIDI keyboard that went on sale for under a thousand dollars, but as the digital programming architecture was laid out in a way that encouraged a lot of weird atonal seasick analog sounds it shouldn't be a surprise if Moebius did take to it). Kind of a dividing line in the discography; things shift considerably after this one.

― Milton Parker, Wednesday, 8 February 2012 23:28 (1 year ago) Permalink

slow day at work?

― geeta, Wednesday, 8 February 2012 23:38 (1 year ago) Permalink

if the 200k sine tone in these headphones glitch even once, the test fails, but otherwise I'm free for twenty minutes at a time with a lot of things to think about

― Milton Parker, Thursday, 9 February 2012 00:20 (1 year ago) Permalink

this should have gone in before Blue Moon - made a mistake upthread, it was recorded 1983 after Zero Set, not 1986

Moebius & Plank - En Route (1995, recorded 1983) - The first album that goes full on digital, this is basically Moebius & Plank meet the Emulator digital sampler. There's a good reason why Kraftwerk, Jarre, Schulze pretty much all simultaneously began to release horribly unimaginative music precisely in the mid-80's: the learning curve on programming the 80's machines needed to sufficently evolve the sounds beyond the presets suddenly became very steep, and even if you got there, the interfaces made it a lot more difficult to do so in real time. You couldn't tweak your sounds with multiple faders as you played them on the keyboard; everything was isolated on seperate screens, each submenus deep. You can tell why En Route didn't come out until 1995; these sound like unfinished demos that missed a final trip through Conny's mixer to weird up the sounds, but the digital sequencer has also left all the sounds unusually stiff & hanging on the grid, and a lot of the drum and pad samples are all factory presets. If you can handle the occasional shakuhachi sample, this is still fairly strange music and I'm happy Cluster superfan Russ Curry put this out, but do not expect something on the level of the first three Moebius & Plank records.

Moebius / Plank / Thompson - Ludwig's Law (1998) - Released three years later on Drag City, finally En Route made a bit more sense; they were demos for this album, which had been completed in 1983, and rejected by Sky Records: a collaboration with Mayo Thompson of the Red Crayola, who took the instrumentals and recited spoken / sung poetry over the top of them, as well as adding guitar to one or two tracks. Your mileage is really going to vary with this one; this definitely now seems like a finished album, it's simply left to you to decide if you enjoy what was added. For me I find a few of the tracks are maniacal enough if you hit them as one-offs in iTunes.

― Milton Parker, Thursday, 9 February 2012 00:40 (1 year ago) Permalink

Moebius & Renziehausen - Ersatz (1990) & Moebius & Renziehausen - Ersatz II (1992) - These are the first true digital-era Moebius albums, recorded in collaboration with visual artist Renziehausen, whose sonic contribution I am still not entirely clear on; for all the new equipment, this still sounds exactly like Moebius. There are a still lot of typical 80's sample-library sounds and presets, but all warped and deployed in the most unintuitive and ridiculous ways possible, in ways that turn the stiff sequencing into a conceptual advantage. The humor is really turned up to 11 on this record. It also truly understands minimalism; it won't be everyone's cup of tea, but it truly is the case that things that are not interesting for one minute slowly become very interesting over eight. And once again; as with Strange Music, over the last five years a lot of twisted records that return to this era of sound are starting to pop up -- when I try to listen to those records I usually end up taking them off and putting these on.

― Milton Parker, Thursday, 9 February 2012 00:49 (1 year ago) Permalink

Moebius / Neumeier / Engler - Other Places (1996) - Expanding the trio with Neumeier to include Jürgen Engler of the industrial / EBM band Die Krupps, these tracks were improvised in real time to stereo over a few days. Neumeier is in a much freer and jazzier mode, and Moebius & Engler lock in on their digital synths in very complimentary ways. The tracks are long and don't sound edited, and some of them perhaps wander a bit; also, if the 80's were a bad time for synth design, the 90's were worse; there are moments where the sound design is not as distinctive as you'd expect it to be. The album starts strong and as they say, the energy is good.

Space Explosion - Space Explosion (1998) On paper, this looks too good to be true: an expansion of the trio of the previous record to include Chris Karrer of Amon Duul II and Zappi & Peron from Faust. All veterans of free-wheeling total improvisation; it is more in the vein of those 70's side-long Amon Duul II freakouts, or the 90's live Faust records, than anything else in Moebius' discography. I listened to it twice when it came out, and once two weeks ago after starting this thread and I've always had trouble engaging with it; I'm a fan of truly freeform music but in some important ways this really is one of those utterly predictable jams where everyone's perfectly competent but it never quite clicks in.

― Milton Parker, Thursday, 9 February 2012 01:09 (1 year ago) Permalink

Moebius - Blotch (1999) - Only his second solo album, 16 years after Tonspuren, largely textural sketches that set a drony little mood for a few minutes and then fade -- no melodies on the whole, a very well named album. Underwhelming at first, but towards the end, the 11 minute 'Kohlzug' creeps in and takes over like a modern update of Cluster's 'Rote Riki', and then Tim Story contributes a prepared piano melody to the last track 'Balisong' giving it a lovely ending.

Moebius & Neumeier - Live In Japan (2003) - I would have loved these concerts and they were well recorded. As a record, it wanders a bit.

Moebius & Neumeier - Zero Set 2 (2006) - Like Other Places, sounds like it was recorded live in the studio. Even on the original record, the tracks aren't that structured; they obviously just got into a rhythm and tracked it for five minutes, then began recording and processing the layers. Here, the engine is still present, but calling this a sequel really makes you miss those layers. But this engine still gave the remixers more than enough to work with for the 12" series that followed.

― Milton Parker, Thursday, 9 February 2012 01:35 (1 year ago) Permalink

Moebius - Nurton (2006) - This one is actually my favorite of the whole later period, where the technology finally caught back up to what people had to work with in the 70's, but with an extra level of control. The simple tunes are back, and the sounds are all distinctively authored again, and everything's just back to being very strange. There might be a lot more people making oddball electronic home recordings these days, so this is no longer as automatically progressive sounding as it used to be, but it is in some ways one of his more personal-sounding records, and coming this far into his discography, someone who's managed to take the fourth decade of consumer electronic music equipment and make it sound like him ends up being a really valuable example. The last third of this record is the strongest.

Moebius - Kram (2009) - German for 'Stuff' -- definitely a random sounding assortment, piled down with layers that initially don't make very much sense but open up after you listen a few times. Sounds like he is getting much deeper into using software to sequence & structure. The pureed 'library of funk' samples on the last track 'Markt' come off as deeply strange surrealism.

Moebius - Ding (2011) - Going even deeper into computer editing and modern digital sounds; there is even a glitch track. He also dives into self-sampling on this one, building some tracks around samples from the Moebius & Plank records and pushing them to different places. Makes for an even wider variety of sounds this time, and the free-form abstract collages this time are really confusingly lovely. The ten minute track 'Ding' was offered for free on Soundcloud and sounded a little bit too minimal coming over computer speakers, but on headphones or on a good system, the tiny, static changes are reasonably powerful.

― Milton Parker, Thursday, 9 February 2012 01:57 (1 year ago) Permalink

Moebius & Tietchens - 20110812 Dockville Festival, Hamburg - Live versions of their forthcoming duo album, already finished, awaiting release, first time they've worked together since Liliental and they are not slacking. Hard to tell who is doing what in this one; I love it when Tietchens does weird rhythmic pop as much as his completely abstract stuff, and some of these rhythmic loops sound like the recent Hematic Sunsets albums he does, sometimes in collaboration with Felix Kubin & Michael Rother; in any case, they are totally thinking as one with this project and I can't wait to hear the studio version

http://redbullmusicacademyradio.com/shows/4308/ (thanks geeta for forwarding this; there are two shows from the last & final Cluster tour up there as well)

― Milton Parker, Thursday, 9 February 2012 02:02 (1 year ago) Permalink

OK am I the only one who keeps reading this poll as Doctor Morbius 1978-2011

― Darin, Thursday, 9 February 2012 02:45 (1 year ago) Permalink

Good work, Milt! Hope people vote!

― Charles Kennedy Jumped Up, He Called 'Oh No'. (Tom D.), Thursday, 9 February 2012 09:42 (1 year ago) Permalink

thanking you mr parker, gonna use this as a listening guide

― demolition with discretion (m coleman), Thursday, 9 February 2012 10:11 (1 year ago) Permalink

\(^o^)/ now do the roedelius discog

― am0n, Thursday, 9 February 2012 15:28 (1 year ago) Permalink

I simply don't own all of the Roedelius albums

The tone of these reviews is probably a little presumptuous and annoying for ILM but there isn't another website in the world that would publish this

― Milton Parker, Thursday, 9 February 2012 18:37 (1 year ago) Permalink

In honor of Milton's reviews, here's a Spotify playlist featuring everything it has on this list. I was almost inclined to keep off all the post-1983 stuff just bc I'd rather listen to the earlier material. But hey, voting is still open.

http://open.spotify.com/user/124420673/playlist/4a06spCB0v9KzH52VgXtuj

― Naive Teen Idol, Thursday, 9 February 2012 20:34 (1 year ago) Permalink

Incredible. Thanks to Milton and NTI in excelsis.

― wiki weimar germanyu (Call the Cops), Friday, 10 February 2012 12:38 (1 year ago) Permalink

Thank you for those reviews!

― Brad C., Friday, 10 February 2012 12:56 (1 year ago) Permalink

The tone of these reviews is probably a little presumptuous and annoying for ILM but there isn't another website in the world that would publish this

― Milton Parker, Thursday, February 9, 2012 1:37 PM

no more than the reviews in this thread: s/d popol vuh and thats one of the best threads on ilm. way more into reading someone's reviews of an artist's discog than "rolling garbage 2kfart"

p.s. this entry looks pretty empty - http://allmusic.com/artist/dieter-moebius-p19379/discography ... maybe ned can get your foot in the door there ; )

― am0n, Friday, 10 February 2012 21:53 (1 year ago) Permalink

also got around to reading that interview, nice one geeta

― am0n, Friday, 10 February 2012 22:03 (1 year ago) Permalink

I almost mentioned that Cubic Yellow album, except it's actually by two other people and moebius is only on two tracks? Allmusic should certainly not be listing that as a solo moebius album.

Amazon has the mp3s for sale, I checked out the samples, my completism only goes so far

― Milton Parker, Friday, 10 February 2012 23:14 (1 year ago) Permalink

― Milton Parker, Tuesday, 21 February 2012 19:02 (1 year ago) Permalink

haha, yeah those reviews are quite tame and tempered compared to my purple prose fanboy monstrosities in the Circle thread! <3

― liam fennell, Wednesday, 22 February 2012 15:39 (1 year ago) Permalink

I almost mentioned that Cubic Yellow album, except it's actually by two other people and moebius is only on two tracks? Allmusic should certainly not be listing that as a solo moebius album.

Yeah, by that reckoning "Highdelberg" and "Mani und Seine Freunde" could be classed as Moebius albums!

― Charles Kennedy Jumped Up, He Called 'Oh No'. (Tom D.), Wednesday, 22 February 2012 15:45 (1 year ago) Permalink

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

― System, Wednesday, 29 February 2012 00:01 (1 year ago) Permalink

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

― System, Thursday, 1 March 2012 00:01 (1 year ago) Permalink

wow

I am very proud of the person who voted for Space Explosion

― Milton Parker, Thursday, 1 March 2012 00:29 (1 year ago) Permalink

My husband gave me the Moebius+Tietchens for an anniversary present! <3<3<3

― rods & cones (doo dah), Friday, 13 July 2012 13:57 (10 months ago) Permalink

now there's a great husband! this record is almost too much of a dream team match up for me; i'm afraid to listen to it!

― nerve_pylon, Friday, 13 July 2012 14:02 (10 months ago) Permalink

I'm listening to it now at work! It's great!
AT is one of the reasons we got together ;)

― rods & cones (doo dah), Friday, 13 July 2012 14:04 (10 months ago) Permalink

and what Milton said above about hard to tell who is doing what.

― rods & cones (doo dah), Friday, 13 July 2012 14:07 (10 months ago) Permalink

find it pretty weird to "poll" one of ILX's active members, especially on ILM

― funny-skrillex-bee_132455836669.gif (s1ocki), Friday, 13 July 2012 14:49 (10 months ago) Permalink

?

Love the new Moebius/Tietchens cd, it stays pretty laid back & sparse for the first 15-20 minutes but from track 4 on, crazy. It's not melodic like 'tonspuren' or the first four Tietchens lps on Sky but the sense of rhythm is stranger and more powerful than ever

― Milton Parker, Friday, 13 July 2012 21:23 (10 months ago) Permalink

http://events.947thewave.cbslocal.com/losangeles_ca/events/negativland-moebius-/E0-001-049588160-2

― Milton Parker, Tuesday, 21 August 2012 22:17 (9 months ago) Permalink

― Milton Parker, Friday, 31 August 2012 21:25 (8 months ago) Permalink

find it pretty weird to "poll" one of ILX's active members, especially on ILM

― funny-skrillex-bee_132455836669.gif (s1ocki), Friday, July 13, 2012 7:49 AM (1 month ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

lol

― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Friday, 31 August 2012 21:27 (8 months ago) Permalink

i've been strongly considering the show with negativland, but i haven't bought tickets yet.

― pastoral mellotron soaked epic gnome and wizard shit (get bent), Friday, 31 August 2012 21:37 (8 months ago) Permalink

the poster is beautiful!

― geeta, Friday, 31 August 2012 22:12 (8 months ago) Permalink

didn't even know about this tour - Rother / Moebius, Tokyo 1999

― Milton Parker, Tuesday, 4 September 2012 18:05 (8 months ago) Permalink

so incredible

― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Tuesday, 4 September 2012 20:39 (8 months ago) Permalink

so tomorrow geeta and moebius will be at space4art in san diego. anyone want to come join us?

― the late great, Tuesday, 4 September 2012 20:41 (8 months ago) Permalink

thank you milton 15 minutes in is melting my brain

― the late great, Tuesday, 4 September 2012 20:44 (8 months ago) Permalink

was listening to "one of them" yesterday to get pumped

― the late great, Tuesday, 4 September 2012 20:45 (8 months ago) Permalink

― Milton Parker, Wednesday, 5 September 2012 06:01 (8 months ago) Permalink

did i just play frisbee with moebius and milton parker or did i dream that?

― the late great, Thursday, 6 September 2012 21:04 (8 months ago) Permalink

whooooa

― your naïve bacon (mh), Thursday, 6 September 2012 21:05 (8 months ago) Permalink

argh Im broke but prob going to this

― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Thursday, 6 September 2012 21:21 (8 months ago) Permalink

xpost hey thanks for bringing those frisbees and next time write down that gnosis who knows you could be right

― Milton Parker, Friday, 7 September 2012 08:58 (8 months ago) Permalink

did i just play frisbee with moebius and milton parker or did i dream that?

Yeah, I think my brain just melted.

― Naive Teen Idol, Monday, 10 September 2012 03:58 (8 months ago) Permalink

i didn't vote in this but put me down for "zero set" for "pitch control" alone

― the late great, Monday, 10 September 2012 04:07 (8 months ago) Permalink

Objectivity!

http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/so-much-strange-music/Content?oid=14723164

― Milton Parker, Wednesday, 12 September 2012 16:34 (8 months ago) Permalink

I'm playing 'CHOONZ in between Wobbly and Moebius's sets at the Seattle show tonight. Fun!

― ma ck ro ma ck ro (mackro mackro), Wednesday, 12 September 2012 22:41 (8 months ago) Permalink

milton do you have a blog or write anywhere else or anything?

― Crackle Box, Thursday, 13 September 2012 12:10 (8 months ago) Permalink