Saturday, August 06, 2011  Welcome back, Koppelman?
Experimentalobit: Conrad Schnitzler  Conrad Schnitzler, a
leading light of krautrock and electronic music has died.
Schnitzler, who was an early member of Tangerine Dream, passing
on to Kluster and Eruption before moving on to a long and varied
catalogue of solo work also worked under the name Conard Von
Berlin.  His work spans the best part of 45 years and nearly 100
albums; he was working up until the last week of his life.
Recently, he'd been working on the Global Living project, which
saw him send packets of his hair to nine locations around the
planet, in order to have his DNA stake out a place in sites that
he loved.  Conrad Schnitzler died from stomach cancer on
Thursday. He was 74.  Is that really much of a tribute?  How
great will the sort-of official Michael Jackson tribute concert
in Cardiff be, exactly?  They've pulled in Craig David for it:
The R&B singer said he was "honoured" to be booked for the gig,
which is scheduled to take place at