Dieter Moebius, Electronic Music Pioneer, Dead at 71

Posted by timothy on Tuesday July 21, 2015 @04:39AM from the old-school-compared-to-kraftwerk dept.

New submitter Lawrence Bottorff writes: Dieter Moebius, who is credited as a founder of the late-sixties Berlin 'Krautrock' scene, has died at age 71. Krautrock, of course, was hardly rock music, but the protoplasm of a uniquely German avant-garde industrial ambient electronica. Probably his best-known work was with Brian Eno on their famous Cluster collaboration albums. Many believe Cluster (Moebius, Hans-Joachim Roedelius, Conny Plank) cemented Eno's path on his laconic, melancholic, New-Age-free ambient sound back in the mid- to late-seventies.

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Correction by Anonymous Coward · 2015-07-21 05:40 · Score: 3, Informative

Cluster (and Dieter) are Krautrock and Dusseldorf School, not Berlin. Dusseldorf is Can, Cluster, Kraftwerk, et al. Berlin School is a more ambient/spacey scene that included Tangerine Dream, Klaus Schulze and that crowd.