Tangerine Dream

Tangerine Dream

Electronic Meditation

Electronic Meditation is an album of undeniable genius.

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Alpha Centauri

Alpha Centauri was the name of the second LP and it was as cosmically garage and pagan as Electronic Meditation. the 13-minute epic, “Fly & Collision of Comas Sola”, the e begins with a screeching stellar synthesizer that wheels ess the sky before slipping into an unholy union of beautiful ies flute, light and elfin, against a grey low-church chord ean that is unashamedly shackled to the earth.

Klaus Schulze

Cyborg

Though central to the formative moments of recorded Free-form psychedelic rock, HAPSHASH & THE COLOURED COAT as a statement is not one which sustains its muse into the’90s. Like Klaus Schultze’s CYBORG, it created a genre which quickly turned around and kicked its creator’s dick into the dirt.

Kluster

Zwei Osterei

In early 1971, they recorded the album ZWEI OSTEREI, a vast thing me of two 20-minute pieces.

Cluster

Cluster (Philips)

Both tracks “Electronic Music Und Text” and tronic Music (Kluster 4)” bear far more resemblance to ELECTRONIC MEDIthan to the later Schnitzler-less group who changed their name to Cluster. duo’s first & massive CLUSTER LP on the Phillips label lacks that spine

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Zeit

With great expectations from the German underground, th 1972 follow-up was Zeit; a huge sprawling double-album.

Popol Vuh

Affenstunde

Popol Vuh’s Moog mantra, Affenstunde, had enchanted Edgar Froese who invited Popol Vuh’s leader, Florian Fricke, to play his outrageously fabulous and expensive big Moog on Zeit’s daunting opening track, “The Birth of Liquid Plejades”. Four deep sonorous and fractious cellos led by Jochen Von Grumbcow, of the German Medieval folk-group Holderlin, held sway as Fricke’s unutterably beautiful phased woman-tone cuts through the melancholy.

Klaus Schulze

Irrlicht

. It must, then, have infuriated Edgar Froese that his partner, Klaus Schultze, had, one full month before Zeit, the modern epic Irrlicht. With hindsight, the two are extremely different — Irrlicht is far more cacophows string arrangements far headier, and the space it occumore action-packed than Zeit.

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Ultima Thule (Teils 1 & 2) 45

same time as Zeit, Tangerine Dream recorded an outraGarage-Prog. single called “Ultima Thule (Teils 1 & 2)”. Baumann’s rock attitude reared up on Side 1, which is a monolithic slab of Barrett Floydian instrumental mania. track kicks off with a hilarious madly strummed bar-chord from Froese, which loses its way a little before picking up the RSJ Slab-funk riff which Pete Baumann’s keyboards mate.

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Atem

This and the recording of “Ultima Thule” had quickly integrated Pete Baumann into T. Dream, who suddenly found themselves in their stride and produced the mighty epic that is Atem.

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Phaedra

The John Peel Show and the constant British press had prepared the way for T. Dream’s first simultaneous German/British release and Phaedra was a Top 10 album in Britain.

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Rubicon

Yes, without knowing their older siblings, T. *s later 1970s albums Phaedra, Rubicon, even Stratosare quite a good listen in the cold light of the ’90s. But at the time, they seemed an unforgivable tragedy after that blazing four LP birth and gestation.

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Stratosfear

Yes, without knowing their older siblings, T. *s later 1970s albums Phaedra, Rubicon, even Stratosare quite a good listen in the cold light of the ’90s. But at the time, they seemed an unforgivable tragedy after that blazing four LP birth and gestation.