German experimentalist duo Cluster has been making influential sounds since first coming together in the late '60s, laying the groundwork for such genres as industrial, ambient, and pulsing electronica with its ongoing experiments in synthesizer music.
Very few bands can be considered the grandfathers of New Age, ambient techno, electro-pop, and underground noise. But Germany's Cluster, a duo of Hans-Joachim Roedelius and Dieter Moebius, spawned not only those variegated genres, but also a slew of others in their 30-plus years of music-making. Tra