Crazy! Small world. Thanks for reading my little rant.

I already told you this one you forgetful bastard:

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Oh yes; of course! Now I fully remember. Forgive me - I am notoriously forgetful. I'll have to explore it further.

Thanks again!

Hauntology is a topic we've been discussing in another music group, so I'm happy to see it come up here, too. The idea of a "false nostalgia" created by music is fascinating to me, though I've never experienced the phenomenon.

Awesome - WFMU just shared that Atlas Obscura published a feature just yesterday called, "Inside the World's Best Collection of Unintentionally Funny VHS Tapes" with this hilarious short!

A Holy Grail... free of charge.
 

This will only be a micropost, but the news is too amazing not to share.

A good friend tipped me off to a used record collection in town this morning so I took the chance and drove down to check it out. Mostly disco and jazz comps, nothing I needed, until I spotted one oddity among them.

This is the 1970 first US pressing of Parliament's debut album, Osmium on the Invictus label.

I have the Argentinian pic disc boot and got George Clinton to sign it for me, but never expected to find the original pressing, let alone in a garage.

I hadn't hit the ATM yet so I asked the owner how much cash I should take out.

He said, "just the one? Ahh, just take it. No charge."

First press PFunk debut for free. I can't believe it.

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I live for stories like this! :)

Update, please. This hellhole needs your intelligence.

Thanks, Zhanteimi! I hadn't planned on posting anything as there is a lot going on in my life right now, but I could resist honoring your humble request so here's a little something I put together for you.

Cluster: Shaping the Sound of Germany

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Moebius, Roedelius, and Plank, who performed together as Cluster, were each instrumental figures in the krautrock scene whose influence cannot be overstated. Between the three of them, they had their hands in the composition and/or production of over 300 albums of ambient and experimental electronic music that defined the German scene throughout the 1970s.

Hans-Joachim Roedelius has produced 115 releases to date with a new soundtrack pending. One notable work is his earliest recording finally issued in 2008 - Live at the Zodiak – Berlin 1968 which is a rare surviving example of work from the highly-influential West Berlin live music venue, Zodiak Free Arts Lab.

Conny Plank contributed to 122 albums during his lifetime, including influential releases by Kraftwerk, Can, Cluster, Guru Guru, Harmonia, Eno (for the 'Berlin Trilogy'), Neu!, La Düsseldorf, and other major figures in krautrock.

Dieter Moebius was another principle artist of the scene. Moebius studied in Brussels and Berlin where he met Roedelius and Conrad Schnitzler to found Kluster in 1969, and later Cluster and Harmonia with Michael Rother of Neu!. Moebius is connected to 65 releases I'll outline below.

I'd previously compiled a similar extended discography for the 178 releases by Tangerine Dream and its associated members’ solo projects, but this archive seems like it will offer a more dynamic range of sounds and shall make for most rewarding listening.

[Blogger's Note] My apologies here - I'd prepared a hierarchal roster of the extended discographies of each of the figures named above and spent a good hour attempting to teach myself how to translate the indented list into BBCode. Evidently, a list of this particular format does not lend itself to BBCode but I didn't want to deprive my readers so I've saved it as a shared Google Doc for anyone to peruse if they wish.

You can read it here. Cheers!

Thanks! I've added a couple Cluster albums to my wishlist just now.