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were shelved until 2005 when Qbico Records finally released the album. David Keenan describes the music as "much more punk than the group's links to such centres of kosmische boatfloat might suggest. The music starts out fairly fragmented, with sustained violin drones caught in a flux of scattershot
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issue 261 in November, 2005 described the band: "Eruption was a multidisciplinary freeform ensemble put together by cellist, violinist and early electronic improvisor Conrad Schnitzler in 1970 as an adjunct to his work with Kraut behemoths Tangerine Dream and Kluster. They seem to have functioned
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Eruption performed free-form, improvisational, experimental music, some of which resembles industrial music.  A few pieces do have discernible melodies and/or strong rhythmic elements, at times resembling Conrad Schnitzler's earlier work with
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bands and for the influence the various musicians had on one another than for their releases, which came 35 years after the music was recorded. The 1970 tapes which would become
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label Qbico Records (ref. QBICO 32), reissued on CD by Important Records (erroneously) under the name Kluster with additional later Conrad Schnitzler solo live recordings added)
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more as a thinktank for the then explosive Krautrock scene than a straightforward gigging group, with a revolving membership..."
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album credited to "Kluster" is actually entirely Eruption recordings from 1970-1971. (The 8LP Vinyl-On-Demand album titled
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Three previously unreleased tracks from 1971 have been included as bonus tracks on the 2007 CD reissues by the
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by Kluster is a different (live) album than the self-titled (studio) release by the band Eruption.
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Eruption had a rapidly shifting lineup of musicians whom Schnitzler had met and played with at the
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can be viewed from former member Wolfgang Seidel's MySpace page. The 6LP Qbico
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When Eruption went into the studio the lineup consisted of Schnitzler,
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Eruption is notable more as an incubator for later, highly successful
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in the late 1960s and very early 1970s. At times Eruption included
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percussion, short passages of silence and wowing effects."
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Krautrock
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Conrad Schnitzler
Klaus Freudigmann
Wolfgang Seidel
Manuel Göttsching
Klaus Schulze
Hartmut Enke
Lutz Ulbrich
Michael Gunther
Dieter Serfas
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