''En Route'' is the fourth full-length album released by German electronic music duo of

Dieter Moebius Dieter Moebius (16 January 1944 – 20 July 2015) was a Swiss-born German electronic musician and composer, best known as a member of the influential krautrock bands Cluster and Harmonia. Moebius was studying art at Berlin's Akademie Grafik and ...

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. It was actually the fifth and final album recorded before Plank's death in 1987. ''En Route'' was recorded in 1986 at Conny's Studio outside of

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. As Plank's health deteriorated the recordings were left incomplete. The album was completed and mixed by Moebius & Gebhard. The 11th through 13th tracks on the CD are remixes by Manu Guiot done in 1995. It was released by the

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-based Curious Music label in 1995. The Sonic Curiosity review of ''En Route'' describes the album, in part: "...rhythmic and wrought with weird sounds and insectoid chitterings. ..Less frantic than their earlier work, "En Route" qualifies the quirky melodies with a seriousness, endowing the weirdness with a sedate charm. The introduction of horns to the glistening mix of mechanical and ethereal sounds reinforces this approach." Writers and Krautrock historians Steven and Alan Freeman are less than enthusiastic about ''En Route'', claiming that this album, like ''

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'' before it, is "... too close to techno for comfort" despite the fact that very little of this album would be welcome on the dance floor. ''En Route'' was digitally remastered and reissued by Captain Trip Records on November 27, 2007.

Track listing

# "Automatic" - 5:17 # "Don't Point The Bone" - 5:03 # "Drum!" - 4:47 # "EChaos" - 3:25 # "Muffler A" - 4:45 # "Pick The Rubber" - 4:33 # "The Truth?" - 3:28 # "Prehistoric" - 2:37 # "Die Wirren" - 3:26 # "Muffler B" - 2:25 # "Don't Point The Bone" (remix) - 5:09 # "Automatic" (remix) - 4:21 # "Prehistoric" (remix) - 5:38

Personnel

Notes

References

* Album liner notes * Discog
En Route
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External links

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