Zuckerzeit

Infobox Album |
Name = Zuckerzeit
Type = Album
Artist = Cluster


Released = 1974
Recorded = 1974
Genre = Krautrock
Length = 36:13
Label = Brain
Producer = Cluster & Michael Rother.
Reviews =
*Allmusic Rating|4.5|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:yudayl48xpsb link]
*Pitchfork (favorable) [http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/article/feature/36725/Staff_List_Top_100_Albums_of_the_1970s/page_4 link] |
Last album = "Cluster II"
(1972)
This album = "Zuckerzeit"
(1974)
Next album = "Sowiesoso"
(1976)

"Zuckerzeit" is the third full-length album by German electronic music outfit Cluster. It was co-produced by Michael Rother, their bandmate in Harmonia (whose two releases Zuckerzeit fell between). The music on Zuckerzeit is different than any other Cluster work and clearly shows Michael Rother's influence, with clearly defined melody and beat and a very rhythmic sound, at times approaching the Motorik style of Neu!. John Bush, writing the review for Allmusic, described "Zuckerzeit" as: "...a vision of electronic pop, fusing the duo's haunted melodic sense with crisp, scratchy drum programs..."

Among its fans are Brian Eno and Pitchfork Media, which ranked the album number 63 on their "Top 100 Albums of The 1970s". [Pitchfork Media [ [http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/article/feature/36725/Staff_List_Top_100_Albums_of_the_1970s/page_4 Top 100 Albums of tht 1970s] ] Eno was to later work with Harmonia on Tracks and Traces and the duo on the albums Cluster & Eno and After The Heat. Julian Cope included "Zuckerzeit" in his Krautrock Top 50. [Cope, Julian [http://www.midsuffolk.unisonplus.net/Top%2050.htm#Cluster A Krautrock Top 50] ]

Track listing

#"Hollywood" (Roedelius) – 4:48
#"Caramel" (Moebius) – 2:58
#"Rote Riki" (Moebius) – 6:18
#"Rosa" (Roedelius) – 4:13
#"Caramba" (Moebius) – 3:57
#"Fotschi Tong" (Roedelius) – 4:21
#"James" (Moebius) – 3:21
#"Marzipan" (Roedelius) – 3:14
#"Rotor" (Moebius) – 2:40
#"Heiße Lippen" (Roedelius) – 2:23

Personnel

*Hans-Joachim Roedelius
*Dieter Moebius
*Conrad Plank - Producer.

Notes

References

* Bush, John [http://wc03.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:yudayl48xpsb All Music Guide review] . Retrieved August 18, 2007.
* Curry, Russ [http://www.thing.de/delektro/www-eng/cluhist.html A Curious History of Cluster] . Retrieved August 18, 2007.