http://soundcloud.com/qluster/externsteine
Qluster are here…new album….x
Kip Uhlhorn and Simon Wojan began collaborating under the moniker Cloudland Canyon in 2000. Both have toiled in various music scenes (hardcore, psych and punk) since the last century.
Uhlhorn, touring Europe with Panthers in 2002, met up with German multi-instrumentalist Simon Wojan, tapes were exchanged and a handful of improv performances across the Atlantic forged a promising creative pairing, one that would take shape when Wojan made the trek to Brooklyn later that year. Through a week’s worth of 12 hour days in the recording studio, armed with as many instruments and computers as they could find, the two assembled the basic tracks for Requiems der Natur 2002 – 2004: rattling, sprawling experiments that fused their musical discoveries, which take the shape of its container, then rapidly spill out and fill whatever size of space they’re given.
2007 sees the release of Silver Tongued Sisyphus, a secular call to prayer with humming, looping and loping ambient passages interspersed with bursting rhythmic energy and agitated guitar lines.
Recent collaborations with Kranky artiste Lichens and others have taken the duo into transcendental musical territories.
Cloudland Canyon has toured throughout the United States and Europe. The group is in the final stages of mixing a new full length release to be made available early in 2008, also on Kranky.
(if the player doesn’t work click this - http://soundcloud.com/fractalskulls/the-transitional-phase)
Out on the Reverb Worship Label. Here’s what they say.
I would like to introduce you to the second release by The Fractal Skulls.The Fractal Skulls II is a cassette release containing four excellent tracks.A musical move which takes on a kosmiche~electronic krautrock stance from the previous release.
Side one begins with “The Transitional Phase” which gradually evolves with drifting electronic patterns into a blissed out ambient bass drone.“Foreign Bed” the second track pulses along with a lovely analogue fueled organ refrain.Side two commences with “Patterns” a track which echoes the minimalistic drifting sitar droned theme of the debut release.This is followed by “Operator” an engaging, throbbing motorik stomp.These cassettes are pro-dubbed and come with cassette shells in dark blue, green, red and orange.The inlays have a muliple image of a phrenology head.Each cassette is individually hand numbered and come with an insert.Available now in a limited edition of 100 copies split with the artist.
GET IT 
Conny Plank’s Mixing Desk
One day I will have a studio as cool as this.
Konrad “Conny” Plank (frequently spelled Planck) (May 3, 1940 – December 18, 1987) was a German record producer and musician. He was born in Hütschenhausen. His creativity as a sound engineer and producer helped to shape some of the most important and innovative recordings of postwar European popular music, covering a wide range of genres including progressive, avant-garde and electronic music. Plank was as much responsible as anyone else for defining the broad genre now known as krautrock and is arguably the unifying link between most of its disparate productions. His work has also greatly influenced studio production and engineering techniques worldwide.
Harmonia is the only good thing that Michael Rother did aside from Neu! “Watussi” is the best song from their best album, 1974’s Musik Von Harmonia. This our first offering of a few choice krautrock selections in the coming weeks. After this record came out, Brian Eno called Harmonia the “most important band in the world,” but he’s a pretty huge dick and you should take anything he says with a big fat sea salt crystal. Still, this is a beautiful and deceptively simple composition that belongs on any background music playlist. Viva la kraut!
Cool track I had never heard by Harmonia. The description on YouTube states that the images were applied from Archive.org, so I doubt this is the original video (if there was one). I found this via someone that added me recently on Facebook, via this site, I’m assuming. Very cool motorik/Kraut vibe here.
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