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Posted in music on August 9, 2011
Conrad Schnitzler, prolific German musician who was in early lineups of Kosmische (or krautrock, as the genre became known to English-speaking audiences) groups Tangerine Dream and Kluster, passed away due to [stomach] cancer on August 4. He was 74.Schnitzler was active all the way to end. He completed a new solo work 00/830 four days before he died. According to his website you can order a copy by emailing conpanie (at) yahoo (dot) com. RIP to Conrad.Schnitzler appeared on Tangerine Dream's first album, 'Electronic Meditation,' and he was a founding member of seminal krautrock group Kluster, along with Hans-Joachim Roedelius and Dieter Moebius. Three albums were released under the Kluster name before Schnitzler left in 1971 to work with his other group, Eruption. Moebius and Roedelius continued on as Cluster and actively recorded and toured on and off until 2010.
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would love to hear his last piece of work...good to hear he kept going till the end...I want to go that way
Posted by Anonymous | August 9, 2011 11:25 AM
Fucking legend. Very sad. But inspiring that he floored it til the fuel ran out. This is where it all began, all you oneohtrix-blah-blah kiddies.
Posted by Anonymous | August 9, 2011 1:03 PM
i heard kluster thanks to a german friend i didn't know at the time this band and its so funny at the beggining didnt like it but after few weeks listening randomly finally i found the sound what kluster wanted to say to this world
Another leyend is gone (Sad)
Posted by Kazukovox | August 9, 2011 2:19 PM
Looks like a sausage fest! Kraut rockers love the peen. : (
Posted by Anonymous | August 10, 2011 4:08 AM