Moebius* - Plank* - Neumeier* – Zero Set
Genre: | Electronic, Rock |
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Style: | Krautrock, Electro, Experimental |
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Speed Display | 5:10 | ||
Load | 5:20 | ||
Pitch Control | 6:15 | ||
All Repro | 3:30 | ||
Recall | 8:30 | ||
Search Zero | 8:35 |
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Image | , | – | In Your Collection, Wantlist, or Inventory | Version Details | Data Quality | ||||
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![]() | Zero Set LP, Album | Sky Records – sky 085, Sky Records – 085 | Germany | 1983 | Germany — 1983 | ||||
![]() | Zero Set LP, Album, Test Pressing | Sky Records – 085 | Germany | 1983 | Germany — 1983 | New Submission | |||
![]() | Zero Set CD, Album, Reissue | Sky Records – SKY CD 3085 | Germany | 1986 | Germany — 1986 | Recently Edited | |||
![]() | Zero Set CD, Album, Reissue | Gyroscope – GYR 6631-2 | US | 1996 | US — 1996 | Recently Edited | |||
![]() | Zero Set CD, Album, Reissue, Remastered | Platz – PLCP-52 | Japan | 1996 | Japan — 1996 | New Submission | |||
![]() | Zero Set CD, Album, Remastered | Platz – PLCP-106, Sky Records – SKY CD 3085 | Japan | 2000 | Japan — 2000 | Recently Edited | |||
![]() | Zero Set CD, Album, Limited Edition, Reissue, Remastered | Captain Trip Records – CTCD-577 | Japan | 2007 | Japan — 2007 | Recently Edited | |||
![]() | Zero Set LP, Album, Reissue, 180 gram | Bureau B – BB037, Sky Records – BB037 | Germany | 2009 | Germany — 2009 | Recently Edited | |||
![]() | Zero Set CD, Album, Reissue, Remastered, Stereo | Bureau B – BB 037, Bureau B – bb 037 | Germany | 2009 | Germany — 2009 | Recently Edited | |||
Zero Set CD, Album, Promo, Reissue, Cardboard Sleeve | Bureau B – BB 037 | Germany | 2009 | Germany — 2009 | |||||
![]() | Zero Set 6×File, FLAC, Album, Reissue, Remastered, Stereo | Bureau B – none | Germany | 2017 | Germany — 2017 | ||||
![]() | Zero Set LP, Album, Limited Edition, Numbered, Reissue, White | Sky Records – sky 085, Bureau B – BB037LTD | Germany | 2023 | Germany — 2023 | New Submission | |||
![]() | Zero Set CD, Album, Reissue | Sky Records – SKY CD 3085, Sky Records – sky CD 3085 | Germany | Germany | Recently Edited | ||||
![]() | Zero Set LP, Album, Reissue | Sky Records – 085, EFD – SKY 085 | Japan | Japan | New Submission |
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referencing Zero Set (LP, Album) sky 085
As an avantgarde piece of art this is an outstanding monument and to my ears way ahead of its time.
Whether I like it?
Absolutely not. (Actually I doubt I'll ever play it a fourth time.)
And yet, definitely a keeper.referencing Zero Set (LP, Album) sky 085
It’s an energetic and innovative album which has stood the test of time: undated in its approach and realization, it’s a testament to the ear and ideas of Moebius which were best enunciated through collaboration.- Edited 12 years ago
referencing Zero Set (CD, Album, Reissue) SKY CD 3085
Zero Set achieves an organic fusion of squelchy sequenced analogue lines and Mani Neumeier's polyrhythmic tribal drum pyrotechnics. Neumeier's drumming is the sinewy backbone of this album. He achieves a mechanical precision here that is in a very different vein from the mind-blowing freeform percussive melees that characterize Guru Guru's early albums. The rhythms on Zero Set are complex and tense--they suspend themselves indefinitely, the kicks and snares seeming almost to tumble over each other in waves of sound. At other moments, Neumeier pulls off short, syncopated machine-gun bursts. It's amazing to hear a live drummer who performs at a level far above the drum machine deconstructions later artists would carry out with sampling technology. Neumeier infuses the most machine-like rhythms with a fierce, ritualistic immediacy, as if he's some kind of shaman on a quest to prove that machines will never be able to reproduce the dynamism of a human performance. Dieter Moebius and Conny Plank's knob-twiddling is also consistently amazing. Staccato, fragmented, heavily tweaked yet incredibly warm synthlines interlock with Neumeier's very live drumming. Some tracks only hint at melodies, with the synths serving primarily to accentuate the rhythm, while others feature jaunty, child-like hooks reminiscent of Cluster's Zuckerzeit. Throughout the album the synths seem to be manipulated by a plant-like, fungal, or extraterrestrial intelligence, preserving the spirit of Cluster and Guru Guru's early 1970s consciousness-expanding jam sessions (in many of which Plank played an integral role). At moments the music warps and twists into churning ambience with interwoven heavily processed voices. The first track, on the other hand, is propelled by a rubbery, rolling bass line that almost sounds as if it could work in an Italo Disco track if it weren't so twitchy and nervous--it anticipates the later flowering of electronic music while thinking beyond the generic constraints to which producers in the 90s so often succumbed (not to mention these benighted present days).
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