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.
Hans-Joachim Roedelius Extended Discography (115-Release Catalog)
In Bands
In Human Being
2008 : Live at the Zodiak – Berlin 1968 (live album)
In Kluster
1970 : Klopfzeichen (studio album)
1970 : Zwei-Osterei (studio album)
1971 : Eruption (live album, originally released as Kluster und Eruption)
In Cluster
1971 : Cluster ’71 (studio album)
1972 : Cluster II (studio album)
1974 : Zuckerzeit (studio album)
1976 : Sowiesoso (studio album)
1979 : Großes Wasser (studio album)
1980 : Live in Vienna (live album)
1981 : Curiosum (studio album)
1984 : Stimmungen (compilation album)
1990 : Apropos Cluster (studio album, credited to Moebius + Roedelius)
1994 : One Hour (live album)
1997 : Japan 1996 Live (live album, credited to Roedelius Moebius on some editions)
1997 : First Encounter Tour 1996 (live album)
2008 : Berlin 07 (live album)
2009 : Qua (studio album)
In Harmonia
1974 : Musik Von Harmonia (studio album)
1975 : Deluxe (studio album)
2007 : Live 1974 (live album)
In Aquarello
1991 : Friendly Game (studio album, credited to Roedelius, Capanni, Alesini)
1993 : To Cover The Dark (studio album)
1998 : Aquarello (live album, credited as Roedelius solo album)
In Global Trotters (Kenji Konishi, Susumu Hirasawa, Alquimia, David Bickley, Felix Jay, Alex Paterson)
1999 : Drive (studio album)
1999 : GLOBAL TROTTERS PROJECT volume I – DRIVE (remix album)
In Qluster
2011 : Fragen (studio album)
2011 : Rufen (live album)
2011 : Antworten (studio album)
2013 : Lauschen (studio album)
2015 : Tasten (studio album – three pianos project)
2016 : Echtzeit (studio album)
Solo Work
1978 : Durch die Wüste (studio album)
1979 : Jardin Au Fou (studio album)
1979 : Selbstportrait (studio album)
1980 : Selbstportrait – Vol. II (studio album)
1980 : Selbstportrait Vol. III “Reise durch Arcadien” (studio album)
1981 : Lustwandel (studio album)
1981 : Wenn Der Südwind Weht (studio album)
1981 : Offene Türen (studio album)
1982 : Flieg’ Vogel fliege (studio album)
1982 : Wasser im Wind (studio album)
1984 : Auf leisen Sohlen (compilation album)
1984 : Geschenk des Augenblicks – Gift of the Moment (studio album)
1984 : Begegnungen (compilation album)
1985 : Begegnungen II (compilation album)
1986 : Wie das Wispern des Windes (studio album)
1987 : Momenti Felici (studio album)
1989 : Bastionen der Liebe – Fortress of love (studio album)
1990 : Variety of Moods (studio album)
1991 : Der Ohrenspiegel (studio album)
1991 : Piano Piano (studio album)
1992 : Cuando… Adonde (studio album)
1992 : Frühling (studio album) later re-released as Romance in the Wilderness
1993 : Tace! (studio album)
1994 : Sinfonia Contempora No. 1: Von Zeit zu Zeit (studio album)
1994 : Theatre Works (studio album)
1995 : Selbstportrait VI: The Diary of the Unforgotten (studio album)
1995 : Vom Nutzen der Stunden – Lieder vom Steinfeld Vol. I (studio album)
1995 : 61sechzigjahr (compilation album, released privately)
1996 : Sinfonia Contempora No. 2: La Nordica (Salz Des Nordens) (studio album)
1996 : Pink, Blue And Amber (studio album)
1999 : Selfportrait VII: dem Wind voran – ahead of the wind (studio album)
1999 : Amerika Recycled by America Inc (studio album)
1999 : Vom Nutzen der Stunden – Lieder Vom Steinfeld Vol.II (studio album)
2000 : Roedeliusweg (studio album)
2001 : Roedelius 2001 – Orgel Solo (studio album)
2001 : Das Verwirrte Schaf – Wort-Klang Collage zum Aschermittwoch (studio album) 2002 : Selbstportrait VIII – Introspection (studio album)
2003 : American Steamboat (studio album)
2003 : Counterfeit (studio album)
2003 : Lieder vom Steinfeld Vol.III (studio album)
2003 : Roedelius 1969–2002 (compilation album)
2006 : Works 1968–2005 (compilation album)
2007 : Snapshots/Sidesteps (studio album)
2008 : Back Soon (compilation album)
2010 : Ex Animo (studio album)
2016: Manchmal (1 track on 4 tracks compilation EP “past forward”, vinyl release only
2017 Release of Roedelius’ autobiography “Roedelius – Das Buch”
2017 Music for the soundtrack of Nick Cave for the film “War Machine”
2018 Music for the film “Symphony of Now” to be released February 14th
2018 Music for the film “Die Rueden”from director Connie Walther ( not yet released )
Collaborations
With Brian Eno, Dieter Moebius and Michael Rother
1997 : Tracks and Traces (credited to either Harmonia ’76 or Harmonia and Eno ’76)
2009 : Harmonia & Eno ’76 Remixes (remix album)
With Brian Eno and Dieter Moebius
1977 : Cluster & Eno (credited to Cluster & Eno)
1978 : After the Heat (studio album)
1985 : Old Land (compilation album) (credited to Cluster and Brian Eno)
With Brian Eno and Dieter Moebius on Eno’s solo album
1977 : Before and after Science (studio album)
Track: “By This River”
With Alexander Czjzek
1987 : Weites Land (studio album)
With Aqueous
1994 : Grace Notes (studio album)
1997 : Meeting The Magus (studio album)
With Richard Barbieri and Chianura
1998 : T’ai (studio album)
With Alquimia
2000 : Move and Resonate
With Tim Story (sometimes collectively referred to as Lunz)
2000 : The Persistence of Memory (studio album)
2002 : Lunz (studio album)
2005 : Lunz-Reinterpretations (remix album)
2008 : Inlandish (studio album)
With Conrad Schnitzler
2001 : Acon 2000/1 (studio album)
With Fabio Capanni, Felix Dorner, Hirishi Nagashima and Robin Storey
2001 : Evermore
With Lynn
2001 : Act of Love (studio album)
With Nikos Arvanitis
2002 : Digital Love (studio album)
With Noh 1
2003 : Imagine Imagine (soundtrack album, released as Roedelius and Fratellis)
2009 : Fibre (studio album)
With Morgan Fisher
2005 : Neverless (studio album)
With David Bickley
2008 : Bonaventura (studio album)
With Kava
2008 : The Gugging Album (studio album)
With Tim Story and Dwight Ashley
2008 : Errata (studio album)
With Alessandra Celletti
2009 : Sustanza di cose sperata (studio album)
With Christopher Chaplin
2012 : King of Hearts (studio album)
With Andrew Heath and Christopher Chaplin
2017 :Triptych in Blue (live album)
With Lloyd Cole
2013 : Selected Studies Vol. 1 (studio album)
With Leon Muraglia
2015 : Ubi Bene (studio album)
With Mateo Latosa and Cesar Gallegos (aka TKU Tecamachalco Underground)
2016 : Latitudes (music installation for photography exhibition, 2014/studio album release, 2016)
Conny Plank (122-Release Extended Discography)
Plank was involved with the following chronological list of albums, either as a direct contributor or because his studio facilities were used. The dates refer to the year of first release.
1969
The Living Music (Alexander von Schlippenbach)
Tone Float (Organisation)
1970
Just A Poke (Sweet Smoke)
Klopfzeichen (Kluster)
Kraftwerk (Kraftwerk)
1971
Zwei-Osterei (Kluster)
Legend (Parzival)
Eloy (Eloy)
Cluster (Cluster)
1972
BaRock (Parzival)
Mournin’ (Night Sun)
43 Minuten (Os Mundi)
Kraftwerk 2 (Kraftwerk)
Neu! (Neu!)
Cluster II (Cluster)
Echo (A.R. & Machines)
Lonesome Crow (Scorpions)
Kan Guru (Guru Guru)
Together (Jane)
I Turned to See Whose Voice it Was (Gomorrha)
Kollektiv (Kollektiv)
Supernova (Ibliss)
1973
Guru Guru (Guru Guru)
Neu! 2 (Neu!)
Ralf und Florian (Kraftwerk)
1974
Autobahn (Kraftwerk)
Zuckerzeit (Cluster)
Free Improvisation (Wired)
1975
Neu! ’75 (Neu!)
Andy Nogger (Kraan)
La Leyla (Ramses)
Hoelderlin (Hoelderlin)
Let It Out (Kraan)
Bröselmaschine (Bröselmaschine)
Mani und Seine Freunde (Guru Guru)
1976
Sowiesoso (Cluster)
Clowns & Clouds (Hoelderlin)
You Won’t See Me (Helmut Koellen)
La Düsseldorf (La Düsseldorf)
1977
Before and after Science (Brian Eno)
Cluster & Eno (Cluster and Brian Eno)
Flammende Herzen (Michael Rother)
Pompeii (Triumvirat)
Rockpommel’s Land (Grobschnitt)
1978
After the Heat (Eno, Moebius, Roedelius)
Ambient 1: Music for Airports (Brian Eno)
Flyday (Kraan)
Durch Die Wüste (Roedelius)
Question: Are We Not Men? Answer: We Are Devo! (Devo)
Out of Reach (Can)
Liliental (Liliental)
Sterntaler (Michael Rother)
Systems of Romance (Ultravox)
Welcome (SBB)
1979
Katzenmusik (Michael Rother)
Selbstportrait (Roedelius)
1980
Crann Ull (Clannad)
Rastakraut Pasta (Moebius & Plank)
Die Kleinen und die Bösen (DAF)
Three into One (Ultravox)
Hunger (The Meteors)
Tournee (Kraan)
Vienna (Ultravox)
Luminous Basement (The Tourists)
1981
Material (Moebius & Plank)
Phew (Phew, with Holger Czukay, Conny Plank & Jaki Liebezeit)
Alles Ist Gut (DAF)
Gold und Liebe (DAF)
Les Vampyrettes (Conny Plank and Holger Czukay)
Stormy Seas (The Meteors) Dutch band
In the Garden (Eurythmics)
Rage in Eden (Ultravox)
Der Ernst des Lebens (Ideal)
Edelweiß (Joachim Witt)
1982
Revelations (Killing Joke)
Latin Lover (Gianna Nannini)
Strange Music (Moebius & Beerbohm)
Für Immer (Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft)
1983
Zero Set (Moebius, Plank, and Neumeier)
The Fireman’s Curse (Hunters & Collectors)
Listen (A Flock of Seagulls)
Schlagende Wetter (Kowalski)
1984
Der Osten ist Rot (Holger Czukay)
Belfegore (Belfegore)
Begegnungen (Eno Moebius Roedelius Plank)
Les Rita Mitsouko (Rita Mitsouko)
The Collection (Ultravox)
Puzzle (Gianna Nannini)
Should Have Been Greatest Hits (The Tourists)
The Jaws of Life (Hunters & Collectors)
1985
Humpe Humpe (album) (Humpe Humpe)
Begegnungen II (Eno Moebius Roedelius Plank)
Tutto Live (Gianna Nannini)
Old Land (Cluster and Brian Eno)
Dein ist mein ganzes Herz (Heinz Rudolf Kunze)
Company of Justice (Play Dead)
1986
U-Vox (Ultravox)
Profumo (Gianna Nannini)
1987
The Prophecies of Nostradamus (Bollock Brothers)
Rome Remains Rome (Holger Czukay)
Savage (Eurythmics)
Mein Schatz (Heiner Pudelko) = his final production; finished by Annette Humpe
Posthumous
Laugh? I Nearly Bought One! (Killing Joke, 1992)
Box II (Brian Eno, 1993)
If I Was: The Very Best of Midge Ure & Ultravox (Midge Ure and Ultravox, 1993)
Rare, Vol. I (Ultravox, 1993)
Rare, Vol. II (Ultravox, 1994)
En Route (Moebius & Plank, recorded 1986, released 1995)
Space Ship (The Best Of, Part 1) (Guru Guru, 1996)
The Best of Ax Genrich (Ax Genrich, 1997)
Greatest Hits (The Tourists, 1997)
Guru Guru & Uli Trepte (Guru Guru and Uli Trepte, 1997)
The Michael Schenker Story Live (Michael Schenker, 1997)
Chronicles, Vol. 1 (Michael Rother, 1998)
Ludwig’s Law (Moebius, Plank, Thompson, recorded 1983, released 1998)
Music For Two Brothers (Rolf & Joachim Kuhn, 1998)
Best (Scorpions, 1999)
The Very Best of Guru Guru (Guru Guru, 1999)
La Luna (Holger Czukay 2000, expanded 2007)
Into The Arena 1972–1995 [Highlights and Overtures] (Michael Schenker, 2000)
Pioneers Who Got Scalped (Devo, 2000)
More Nipples (Peter Brötzmann Group, 2003)
Dieter Moebius Discography (65-Album Map)
As Cluster
Studio albums
1971 Cluster
1972 Cluster II
1974 Zuckerzeit
1976 Sowiesoso
1977 Cluster & Eno (with Brian Eno)
1978 After the Heat (by Eno, Moebius and Roedelius)
1979 Grosses Wasser
1981 Curiosum
1991 Apropos Cluster (by Moebius and Roedelius)
1995 One Hour
2009 Qua
Live albums
1980 Live in Vienna – Recorded with Joshi Farnbauer
1997 Japan 1996 Live
1997 First Encounter Tour 1996
2008 Berlin 07
2015 USA Live
Compilation albums
1984 Begegnungen (with Brian Eno, Conny Plank)
1984 Stimmungen
1985 Begegnungen II (with Brian Eno, Conny Plank)
1985 Old Land (with Brian Eno)
2007 Box 1 (boxed set)
As Kluster
1970 Klopfzeichen (studio album)
1971 Zwei-Osterei (studio album)
1971 Eruption (live album)
2008 Vulcano: Live in Wuppertal 1971
2008 Admira
2008 Kluster 2007: CMO (studio album)
2008 Kluster: 1970-1971 (Box Set)
2009 Kluster 2008: Three Olympic Cities Mix (studio album)
2009 CMO 2009: Three Voices (germany-usa-japan) (studio album)
2011 A unique remix of the material from Kluster 2007 featured in the Compilation CD VOL K compilation by Zelphabet Records.
2011 Kluster CMO 2010 (studio album)
As Harmonia, with Michael Rother and Hans-Joachim Roedelius
1973 : Musik Von Harmonia
1975 : Deluxe
1997 : Tracks and Traces (recorded 1976 with Brian Eno)
2007 : Live 1974 (Previously unreleased works)
As Cosmic Couriers, with Mani Neumeier and Jürgen Engler
1996 : Other Places
2014 : Another Other Places
With Brian Eno and Hans-Joachim Roedelius
1977 : Cluster & Eno
1978 : After the Heat
With Liliental
1978 Liliental
Solo albums and collaborations
1980 Rastakraut Pasta (with Conny Plank)
1981 Material (with Conny Plank)
1981 Strange Music (with Gerd Beerbohm)
1982 Zero Set (with Conny Plank and Mani Neumeier)
1983 Tonspuren
1983 Double Cut (with Gerd Beerbohm)
1986 Blue Moon (Original Soundtrack)[7]
1990 Ersatz (with Karl Renziehausen)
1992 Ersatz II (with Karl Renziehausen)
1995 En Route (with Conny Plank; recorded in 1986, additional mix in 1995)
1998 Ludwig’s Law (with Conny Plank and Mayo Thompson)
1999 Blotch
2002 Live in Japan (with Mani Neumeier)
2006 Nurton
2007 Zero Set II (with Mani Neumeier)
2009 Kram
2011 Ding
2012 Moebius & Tietchens (with Asmus Tietchens)
2014 Snowghost Pieces (Moebius, Story, Leidecker)
2014 Nidemonex
Posthumous Albums
2017 Musik Für Metropolis
2017 Familiar (Moebius, Story, Leidecker)
2017 Kunsthalle Düsseldorf (Live) (12″) (Moebius, Schneider)
And for those interested in the aforementioned Tangerine Dream library, you can peruse the index below.
Tangerine Dream (178-Disc Catalog)
Bootmoon Series
2004 – Aachen – January 21st 1981 – 2CD
2005 – Brighton – March 25th 1986 – 2CD
Studio Albums
1970 – Electronic Meditation
1970 – Electronic Meditation/Electronic Meditation
1971 – Alpha Centauri
1972 – Ultima Thule (2008) – 2CD
1972 – Zeit
1973 – Atem
1975 – Rubycon
1976 – Stratosfear
1978 – Cyclone
1979 – Force Majeure
1981 – Exit
1982 – White Eagle
1983 – Hyperborea (2008 HQCD)
1985 – Dream Sequence – 2CD
1985 – Le Parc
1986 – Green Desert
1986 – Underwater Sunlight
1987 – Tyger
1988 – Optical Race
1989 – Destination Berlin
1989 – Lily on The Beach
1990 – Melrose
1992 – Quinoa
1992 – Quinoa (2009)
1992 – Rockoon
1993 – Dream Music (the movie music of Tangerine Dream)
1994 – Tangents 1973-1983 (BOX) – 5CD
1994 – Turn of the Tides
1995 – The Dream Mixes – 2CD
1995 – TimeSquare Dream Mixes II
1995 – Tyranny Of Beauty
1996 – Goblin’s Club
1997 – Towards The Evening Star (Orb Remix)
1998 – Ambient Monkeys
1998 – The Analogue Space Years 1969-1973 – 2CD
1999 – Atlantic Bridges
1999 – Atlantic Walls
1999 – Dream Encores
1999 – Mars Polaris
1999 – The Hollywood Years Vol 1
1999 – The Hollywood Years Vol 2
2000 – Antique Dreams
2000 – The Seven Letters From Tibet
2001 – Dream Mixes III
2002 – Journey Through a Burning Brain – 3CD
2003 – The Bootleg Box Set Vol 1 – 7CD
Set 1 – Sheffield – Oct 29th 1974 – City Hall
Set 2 – London – April 2nd 1975 – Royal Albert Hall – 2CD
Set 3 – Live at Croydon Fairfield Halls – 23rd October 1975
Set 4 – Bilbao – Jan 31st 1976 – Pabellion de la Casilla – 2CD
Set 5 – Electronic Rock at the Philharmonics – Berlin – June 27th 1976
2004 – Dream Mixes IV
2004 – Purgatorio – 2CD
2005 – East
2005 – Jeanne D’Arc
2005 – Space Flight Orange
2006 – Blue Dawn
2006 – Metaphor
2006 – Nebulous Dawn [The Early Years] – 3CD
2007 – Booster – 2CD
2007 – Canyon Cazuma (2009)
2007 – Cyberjam Collection
2007 – Madcap’s Flaming Duty
2007 – One Times One
2007 – Silver Siren Collection
2007 – Springtime In Nagasaki
2007 – Summer In Nagasaki
2007 – Tangines Scales
2008 – Autumn In Hiroshima
2008 – Booster Vol 2 – 2CD
2008 – The Anthology Decades
2008 – Views From A Red Train
2009 – A Cage in Search Of A Bird
2009 – Flame
2009 – Plays Tangerine Dream
2009 – Winter In Hiroshima
Live Albums
1982 – Pergamon (Live)
1984 – Poland (Live)
1988 – Live Miles (Live)
1993 – 220 Volt (Live)
1998 – Tournado (Live)
1998 – Valentine Wheels (Live)
1999 – Sohoman (Live)
2000 – Soundmill Navigator (Live)
2002 – Inferno (Live)
2003 – Rockface (Live) – 2CD
2004 – Live in America (Live)
2005 – Rocking Mars (Live) – 2CD
2006 – Paradiso (Live) – 2CD
2007 – Bells Of Accra (Live)
Soundtrack Albums
1977 – Sorcerer (OST)
1981 – Thief (OST)
1983 – Risky Business (OST)
1983 – Wavelength (OST)
1984 – Firestarter (OST)
1984 – Flashpoint (OST)
1985 – Heartbreakers (OST)
1985 – Legend (OST)
1987 – Near Dark (OST)
1987 – Three O’Clock High (OST)
1988 – Shy People (OST)
1989 – Miracle Mile (OST)
1990 – Dead Solid Perfect (OST)
1991 – Canyon Dreams (OST)
1991 – Rumpelstiltskin (OST)
1991 – The Park Is Mine (OST)
1994 – Catch Me If You Can (OST)
1996 – Zoning (OST)
1997 – Oasis (OST)
1997 – The Keep (OST)
1999 – Great Wall of China (OST)
1999 – Transsiberia (OST)
1999 – What A Blast (OST)
2003 – Mota Atma (OST)
Solo Artists
Christopher Franke
1991 – Pacific Coast Highway
1992 – The London Concert
1992 – Universal Soldier
1993 – New Music for Films – Vol 1
1994 – Enchanting Nature
1995 – Klemania
1996 – Perry Rhodan – Pax Terra
1996 – The Celestine Prophecy
1999 – Epic
Peter Baumann
1979 – Trans Harmonic Nights
Johannes Schmoelling
1986 – Wuivend Riet
1988 – The Zoo of Tranquillity
2009 – A Thousand Times
Edgar Froese
1974 – Aqua
1975 – Epsilon In Malaysian Pale
1979 – Stuntman
1983 – Pinnacles
1995 – Beyond The Storm – 2CD
2003 – Ambient Highway Vol 1-4
2003 – Introduction To The Ambient Highway
2004 – Dalinetopia
Singles
2007 – One Night In Space (CD-Single)
2007 – Sleeping Watches Snoring In Silence (CD-Single)
2008 – Choice (CD-Single)
2008 – Das Romantische Opfer (CD-Single)
2008 – Fallen Angels (CD-Single)
2008 – Purple Diluvial (CD-Single)
Remasters
1974 – Phaedra (1995 SBM Remaster)
1975 – Ricochet (1995 SBM Remaster)
1977 – Encore (Live)(1995 SBM Remaster)
1979 – Force Majeure (1995 SBM Remaster)
1981 – Thief (1995 SBM Remaster)
1982 – Logos (1995 SBM Remaster)
1982 – White Eagle (1995 SBM Remaster)
1983 – Hyperborea (1995 SBM Remaster)
2000 – Axiat (2009 Remaster)
2007 – Hollywood Lightning (2009 Remaster)
2007 – Mars Mission Counter (2009 Remaster)
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