En Route (album)

Infobox Album |
Name = En Route
Type = Album
Artist = Moebius & Plank


Released = 1995
Recorded = 1986
Genre = Krautrock Techno
Electronic music Electronica
Length = 54:55
Label = Curious Music
Producer = Plank & Moebius
Reviews =
Last album = "Zero Set" (1983)
This album = "En Route" (1995)
Next album = "Ludwig's Law" (1998)

"En Route" is the fourth full-length album released by German electronic music duo of Dieter Moebius and Conny Plank. It was actually the fifth and final album recorded before Plank's death in 1987. "En Route" was recorded in 1986 at Conny's Studio outside of Cologne. As Plank's health deteriorated the recordings were left incomplete. The album was completed and mixed by Moebius & Gebhard. The 11th through 13th tracks on the CD are remixes by Manu Guiot done in 1995. It was released by the Dubuque, Iowa-based Curious Music label in 1995.

The Sonic Curiosity review of "En Route" describes the album, in part: "...rhythmic and wraught with weird sounds and insectoid chitterings. [...] Less frantic than their earlier work, "En Route" qualifies the quirky melodies with a seriousness, endowing the weirdness with a sedate charm. The introduction of horns to the glistening mix of mechanical and ethereal sounds reinforces this approach."cite web
title = Text M (reviews)
publisher = Sonic Curiosity
url =http://www.soniccuriosity.com/text/mtext.htm
accessdate = 2007-10-28 ] Writers and Krautrock historians Steven and Alan Freeman are less than enthusiastic about "En Route", claiming that this album, like "Zero Set" before it, is "... too close to techno for comfort"cite book
last = Freeman
first = Steve
authorlink = Steve Freeman
coauthors = Freeman, Alan
title = The Crack in the Cosmic Egg
publisher = Audion Publications
date = 1996
url = http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/ultimathule/krautrockers.html#m
isbn = 0-9529506-0-X] despite the fact that very little of this album would be welcome on the dance floor.

"En Route" has been digitally remastered and will be reissued by Captain Trip Records on November 27, 2007.cite web
title = Miniature LP/CD Kami-jacket
publisher = Captain Trip Records
url =http://www.captaintrip.co.jp/kami-cd/index.html
accessdate = 2007-10-26 ]

Track listing

#"Automatic" - 5:17
#"Don't Point The Bone" - 5:03
#"Drum!" - 4:47
#"EChaos" - 3:25
#"Muffler A" - 4:45
#"Pick The Rubber" - 4:33
#"The Truth?" - 3:28
#"Prehistoric" - 2:37
#"Die Wirren" - 3:26
#"Muffler B" - 2:25
#"Don't Point The Bone" (remix) - 5:09
#"Automatic" (remix) - 4:21
#"Prehistoric" (remix) - 5:38

Personnel

*Dieter Moebius
*Conny Plank

Notes

References

* Album liner notes
* Discogs [http://www.discogs.com/release/1038464 En Route] Retrieved September 15, 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.