Dieter Moebius


Dieter Moebius was a Swiss-born German electronic musician and composer, best known as a member of the influential krautrock bands Cluster and Harmonia.

Career

Moebius was studying art at Berlin's Akademie Grafik and working as a restaurant cook when he met Conrad Schnitzler, founder of the Zodiak Free Arts Lab with Hans-Joachim Roedelius. The trio founded the improv group Kluster in 1969. After the departure of Schnitzler, the duo changed their name to Cluster and relocated to the countryside village of Forst, releasing influential albums such as Zuckerzeit and Sowiesoso. Moebius would also draw on his graphic design training create the cover artwork for various Cluster albums and related collaborations.
Meanwhile, Moebius and Roedelius founded the band Harmonia with Michael Rother of Neu!, releasing the albums Musik von Harmonia and Deluxe. Admirer Brian Eno would subsequently collaborate with both groups. Moebius began recording solo works in the 1970s and was later involved in numerous side-projects with such musicians as Conny Plank and Mani Neumeier, including the influential 1983 album Zero Set.
Moebius toured with Rother as Rother & Moebius in 2007. Additionally, on 27 November 2007, a Harmonia reunion concert was held in Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, where the band performed together live for the first time since 1976. He died of cancer on 20 July 2015.

Discography

;Solo albums and collaborations
  • 1980 Rastakraut Pasta
  • 1981 Material
  • 1981 Strange Music
  • 1982 Zero Set
  • 1983 Tonspuren
  • 1983 Double Cut
  • 1986 Blue Moon
  • 1990 Ersatz
  • 1992 Ersatz II
  • 1995 En Route
  • 1998 Ludwig's Law
  • 1999 Blotch
  • 2002 Live in Japan
  • 2006 Nurton
  • 2007 Zero Set II
  • 2009 Kram
  • 2011 Ding
  • 2012 Moebius & Tietchens
  • 2014 Snowghost Pieces
  • 2014 Nidemonex
;Posthumous albums
  • 2017 Musik Für Metropolis
  • 2017 Familiar
  • 2017 Kunsthalle Düsseldorf
  • 2019 Objective Objects
  • 2023 Aspirin
;As Kluster / Cluster
  • See Kluster and Cluster
;With Brian Eno and Hans-Joachim Roedelius
  • 1977 : Cluster & Eno
  • 1978 : After the Heat
;As Harmonia, with Michael Rother and Hans-Joachim Roedelius
  • 1973 : Musik Von Harmonia
  • 1975 : Deluxe
  • 1997 : Tracks and Traces
  • 2007 : Live 1974
;As Cosmic Couriers, with Mani Neumeier and Jürgen Engler
;With Liliental
  • 1978 Liliental
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