Album review: Various Artists, Who's That Man: A Tribute to Conny Plank (Grönland)
Friday 08 February 2013
The late Conny Plank turned out to be the right man in the right place at the right time to help midwife krautrock – to enable that era's experimental innocence to bear such disparate fruit, from early Kraftwerk, Neu! and Cluster recordings, to interested parties like Eno, Eurythmics and Ultravox.
Among other things, as Moebius & Plank's “Conditionierer” demonstrates, he was a crucial component in the creation of the classic krautrock motorik beat associated with Neu!. This engrossing 4CD set features two discs of Conny's productions, alongside a disc of remixes by such as Fujiya & Miyagi, and a fourth disc of his final live recording, with Moebius and Arno Steffen in Mexico in 1987.
Download: Conditionierer; Leb Wohl; Broken Head; Feuerland
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