Cluster - II (50th Anniversary Edition)Cluster can be counted among the most important international protagonists of the electronic avant garde. Some credit them with having invented ambient music, others as pioneers of synthesizer pop, whilst to some they are firmly embedded in the krautrock universe. There is some truth in all of these notions. Cluster (or Kluster as they were in the beginning) were founded in 1970 in Berlin by Conrad Schnitzler, Hans Joachim Roedelius and Dieter

“There was one at 8:00 pm and one at midnight [about 27 hours later]

Rolling Stone

' 'drain you') are its lifeblood

Of course it does – you’re listening to a new Bill Callahan record

He began his career as a DJ at the pioneering Liquid Love parties at Chi-town’s legendary Power House (home of Ron Hardy’s Music Box) around 1989

jazzy constellation

A beautiful piece of Japanese smooth fusion-jazz with elements of traditional Greek music and Balearic grooves

but this prejudice has since been revised: some of those sweet fizzy songs were about date-rape

It shoots off in every direction

Of all the musicians that emerged from the jazz avant-garde of the late Fifties and the Sixties

Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds

goodtime and bodacious