Deluxe [IMPORT]

Harmonia

Product Details

• Audio CD (December 3, 1996)
• Original Release Date: 1975
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import
• Label: Polydor Japan
• ASIN: B0000070QX
• In-Print Editions: Audio CD  |  Vinyl
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #322,827 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

Track Listings

1. De Luxe (Immer Wieder)

2. Walky-Talky

3. Monza (Rauf und Runter)

4. Notre Dame

5. Gollum

6. Kekse

Editorial Reviews

Product Description

Japanese pressing of 1975 album from the experimental/ambient Kraut rockers Moebius, Roedelius & Rother. Polydor.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

18 of 19 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Could quite possibly be the best album of all time, May 21, 2001

By	J. S. Alemparte "alemparte" (Canada) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

First off...I can't believe I'm the first person to a review of this album! Where are all the Cluster/Eno/Krautrock connaisseurs when you need them? But I digress..on to the subject at hand HARMONIA and specifically their 2nd album DELUXE. Why is it that whenever Krautrock or ambient music is being talked or written about CAN.. TD.. NEU! and KRAFTWERK are always praised so glowingly yet Moebius & Rodelius are always mentioned as side players or sometimes not metioned at all. When they and their various incarnations have made the most succesful music in the simple fact that theirs is a song based music and completely timeless. Nowhere better to find ample proof of this fact is DE LUXE. An album so summery and aglow with delight one would be hard pressed to find anything that rivals it. From the first strains of De Luxe (IMMER WAIDER) to KEKSE these songs and I stress the fact that these are SONGS in the truest sense of the word are absolutely flowing, calculated experiments with shimmering luscious melodies to take you back to June 1975 when these songs were recorded but to also make you feel that it could be the soundtrack to any event of your current life. And not sounding dated in the process, a pretty hard task indeed. That something so beautiful come out and for it to not be recognized even by people who enjoy this music is a crime. DE LUXE is a must have for anyone who wants to get more out of life and its various pleasures.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars More Zuckerzeit than Neu!, June 8, 2006

By	Brian J. Greene "djbrian" (Durham, NC) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

The major difference between the two Harmonia albums is that, in this marriage of Krautrock giants Neu! (in the person of Michael Rother) and Cluster (Roedelius/Moebious), on Musik von Harmonia, the influence of Neu! seems to hold sway, while Deluxe is much more a Cluster-sounding record. On tracks like Dino, the first album showcased some of the pulsating, motorik guitar grooves you recognize from Neu!'s three records. Those grooves that make for great driving music, and which Stereolab so shamelessly borrowed from on the song "Jenny Ondioline" and their whole sound at the time of that song. Cluster records, like Zuckerzeit and Sowiesoso, are more things you want to play with the headphones strapped on, and you sprawled out on the floor, letting the music take your mind wandering to places unknown. With the exception of the one uptempo track, "Monza (Rauf Und Runter)," which could have come straight off of Neu!75, the whole here feels like Cluster with Michael Rother as a guest musician. If anyone of this sounds like a complaint, it's not meant to be. If you twisted my arm and made me choose between Neu! and Cluster, I WOULD take Neu!, but I love them both. And I love the look of the three guys on the back cover, an image which, I think, says it all: three cool dudes hanging out by the water, lawn chairs, beach umbrellas, bikes, a dog and musical instruments in their midst. How great it must have been to record music like this in your own studio, in a little village, and you are making the music just the way you want to make it. Shimmering beauty.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Harmonia - 'Deluxe' (Universal) import CD, April 11, 2004

By	Mike Reed (USA) - See all my reviews (TOP 500 REVIEWER)

I just had to go back and listen to this release and previously I may have given it a three star rating,but now I have discovered that it's nearly AS GOOD as the band's 1st lp 'Music Von'.As 'Deluxe' was originally put out in 1975,it most certainly displays some of Michael Rother's somewhat dominating guitar work,on a few of the tracks anyway.Starts off with the title cut,which reminds me of the 'Neu! 75' lp but also lets me know what might've very well influenced the music on the first two Gary Numan albums."Walky Talky" is pretty decent with Guru Guru drummer Mani Neumeier as guest."Monza" has the synth work over floating it's boundries.Chalk up yet another genius effort for the Rother,Moebius and Roedelius team.'Deluxe' would be best described as experimental mind music.Will appeal to fans of Faust,Cluster,Can,Neu! and early Guru Guru.