Icaro Moebius Taniguchi

One of the first American groups to discover that synthesizers and pop are made for each other. The complete studio recordings of a legendary project from the West Coast – for the first time on CD. Moebius (not to be confused with Dieter Moebius!) was a Californian project led by Bryce Robbley and Doug Lynner (for some time the line-up including Steve Roach), whose fascination with synthesizers was combined with catchy, trance-like tunes which were able to take over the disco dance floors. Disco, synth-pop and pulsating sequencers! The group’s début album from 1979 is recognised today as a cult recording – partly because of the wild, punk-electronic version of The Doors’ “Light My Fire”, but above all thanks to the frontmen’s original compositions.

Dieter Moebius (16 January 1944 – 20 July 2015) is one of the most important protagonists of avant-garde electronic music in Germany. Best known as a member of the influential krautrock bands Kluster/Cluster (with Hans-Joachim Roedelius) and Harmonia (with Roedelius and Michael Rother of Neu!), he collaborated with musicians including Brian Eno, Conny Plank and Mani Neumeier (Guru Guru). On October 6th, Curious Music are set to release his posthumous album ‘Aspirin’, completed in 2005, but never released.