Rastakraut Pasta

Infobox Album |
Name = Rastakraut Pasta
Type = Album
Artist = Moebius & Plank


Released = 1980
Recorded = 1979
Genre = Krautrock Kosmische Musik
Experimental Music
Electronic music
Length = 35:08
Label = Sky Records
Producer = Plank & Moebius
Reviews =
Last album =
This album = "Rastakraut Pasta" (1980)
Next album = "Material" (1981)

"Rastakraut Pasta" is the first full-length album by German electronic music duo of Dieter Moebius and Conny Plank.

"Rastakraut Pasta" was recorded in September, 1979 at Conny's Studio outside of Cologne. It was released by Sky Records in 1980. Instrumentation on the album includes electronics, voice, guitar, and flute, all of which are credited to both Moebius & Plank. Can alumnus Holger Czukay plays bass on three tracks: "Feedback 66", "Missi Cacadou", and "Two Oldtimers".

Steven and Alan Freeman, writing in "The Crack In The Cosmic Egg" describes "Rastakraut Pasta" and the 1981 follow-up "Material", in part, this way: "Their early albums as a duo were revelations of innovation, bringing unlikely combinations of industrial rock, cosmic and even dub music (on "Rastakraut Pasta") together in a hybrid of genres. A reborn spirit of Krautrock that played recklessly with offbeat forms..." Julian Cope includes "Rastakraut Pasta" in his Krautrock Top 50.

Both "Rastakraut Pasta" and "Material" were reissued in their entirety on a single CD on the American Gyroscope label on April 16, 1996, marking the first U.S. release for both albums. "Rastakraut Pasta" was reissued separately on CD in a digitally remastered, 1000 copy limited edition by the Japanese Captain Trip label on February 25, 2007.

Track listing

#"News" - 4:53
#"Rastakraut Pasta" - 6:17
#"Feedback 66" - 4:57
#"Missi Cacadou" - 5:31
#"Two Oldtimers" - 7:02
#"Solar Plexus" - 4:55
#"Landebahn" - 1:28

Personnel

*Dieter Moebius
*Conny Plank
*Holger Czukay - bass

References

* Album liner notes
* Freeman, Steven, and Freeman, Alan [http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/ultimathule/krautrockers.html#m The Crack In The Cosmic Egg] (Audion Publications, 1996) ISBN 0-9529506-0-X Retrieved September 7, 2007.
* Cope, Julian [http://www.midsuffolk.unisonplus.net/Top%2050.htm#Cluster A Krautrock Top 50] . Retrieved September 12, 2007.
* Prog Archive [http://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=11989 Rastakraut Pasta/Material] Retrieved September 11, 2007.
* Discogs [http://www.discogs.com/release/968490 Rastakraut Pasta] Retrieved September 11, 2007.
* Amazon.com [http://www.amazon.com/Rastakraut-Pasta-Material-Moebius-Plank/dp/B0000035DN Rastakraut Pasta & Material] Retrieved September 11, 2007.

External links

* Anonymous [http://www2.odn.ne.jp/airstructures/review%20german.html Random Writings on Music and Other Things: German Rock] Retrieved September 7, 2007.