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Moebius* - Plank* - Neumeier*Zero Set

Genre:

Electronic, Rock

Style:

Krautrock, Electro, Experimental

Year:

Tracklist

Speed Display5:10
Load5:20
Pitch Control6:15
All Repro3:30
Recall8:30
Search Zero8:35

Credits (13)

  • Weitz*
    Artwork
  • Dieter Moebius
    Moebius*
    Artwork
  • Conny Plank
    Plank*
    Composed By [All Compositions By]
  • Dieter Moebius
    Moebius*
    Composed By [All Compositions By]
  • Mani Neumeier
    Neumeier*
    Composed By [All Compositions By]
  • Christian Stegmaier
    CS*
    Direct Metal Mastering By

Versions

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    14 versions
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    Version DetailsData Quality
    Cover of Zero Set, 1983, VinylZero Set
    LP, Album
    Sky Records – sky 085, Sky Records – 085Germany1983Germany1983
    Cover of Zero Set, 1983, VinylZero Set
    LP, Album, Test Pressing
    Sky Records – 085Germany1983Germany1983
    New Submission
    Cover of Zero Set, 1986, CDZero Set
    CD, Album, Reissue
    Sky Records – SKY CD 3085Germany1986Germany1986
    Recently Edited
    Cover of Zero Set, 1996, CDZero Set
    CD, Album, Reissue
    Gyroscope – GYR 6631-2US1996US1996
    Recently Edited
    Cover of Zero Set, 1996-01-21, CDZero Set
    CD, Album, Reissue, Remastered
    Platz – PLCP-52Japan1996Japan1996
    New Submission
    Cover of Zero Set, 2000-05-20, CDZero Set
    CD, Album, Remastered
    Platz – PLCP-106, Sky Records – SKY CD 3085Japan2000Japan2000
    Recently Edited
    Cover of Zero Set, 2007-02-25, CDZero Set
    CD, Album, Limited Edition, Reissue, Remastered
    Captain Trip Records – CTCD-577Japan2007Japan2007
    Recently Edited
    Cover of Zero Set, 2009-11-06, VinylZero Set
    LP, Album, Reissue, 180 gram
    Bureau B – BB037, Sky Records – BB037Germany2009Germany2009
    Recently Edited
    Cover of Zero Set, 2009-11-06, CDZero Set
    CD, Album, Reissue, Remastered, Stereo
    Bureau B – BB 037, Bureau B – bb 037Germany2009Germany2009
    Recently Edited
    Zero Set
    CD, Album, Promo, Reissue, Cardboard Sleeve
    Bureau B – BB 037Germany2009Germany2009
    Cover of Zero Set, 2017-01-01, FileZero Set
    6×File, FLAC, Album, Reissue, Remastered, Stereo
    Bureau B – noneGermany2017Germany2017
    Cover of Zero Set, 2023-12-05, VinylZero Set
    LP, Album, Limited Edition, Numbered, Reissue, White
    Sky Records – sky 085, Bureau B – BB037LTDGermany2023Germany2023
    New Submission
    Cover of Zero Set, , CDZero Set
    CD, Album, Reissue
    Sky Records – SKY CD 3085, Sky Records – sky CD 3085GermanyGermany
    Recently Edited
    Cover of Zero Set, , VinylZero Set
    LP, Album, Reissue
    Sky Records – 085, EFD – SKY 085JapanJapan
    New Submission

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    Reviews

    • Vinylophilist's avatar
      Vinylophilist
      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.
      • percydovetonsils's avatar
        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.
        • mordiggian
          Edited 12 years ago
          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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