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• My pick would be Alpha Centauri, it's part of the soundtrack of my youth.

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• Stratosphere

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• A very difficult task to pick favourite Tangerine Dream albums. I love the "Exit" album which is worth acquiring simply for the beautiful, sad title track and the excellent "Hyperborea" album, again worth admission just for the moody slowburn of the title track.
  Any newcomers to Tangerine Dream are well advised to purchase a copy of "Dream Sequence" which is a superb compilation album of all TD periods and also houses "The Dream Is Always The Same" and "Love On A Real Train" which both featured in the Tom Cruise movie "Risky Business" to great effect.

  Posted by Marc Hughes at 9:00 PM GMT 12/01/2011 Report Abuse

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• Underwater Sunlight
  Phaedra
  Force Majeure
  Legend

  Dream Sequence

  One soundtrack. Three excellent albums. A VERY good compilation (2 CDs). A worthy starting point.

  Posted by Ziggybirds at 9:49 PM GMT 12/01/2011 Report Abuse

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• Just avoid everything after 1986.

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• ALPHA CENTAURI is quite possibly the worst recommendation ever. Those new to TD should try LOGOS, POLAND, HYPERBOREA, RUBYCON, EXIT, FORCE MAJEURE, TYGER, 220 VOLT LIVE, DREAM MIXES 1 & 2, LE PARC, and PERGAMON.

  Posted by Jupiter 8 at 10:31 PM GMT 12/01/2011 Report Abuse

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• RE: Jupiter 8

  not sure Tyger would be the best first recommendation either....

  you gotta get a little of everything. i'd say:

  *Zeit, along with Green Desert (the original tapes are from the time period)
  *Stratosfear (duh) and Force Majuere,
  *Hyperborea and Poland
  *Arizona '92 (no one mentioned this??) and Blue Dawn.

  and for a compilation, The Ultima Thule double CD. maybe a Booster comp too...Booster 1 maybe being the best choice. and you MUST have the Legend OST

  and whatever time period the newcomer enjoyed the most, i'd advise them to just further explore it.

  Posted by The Heirophant at 10:48 PM GMT 12/01/2011 Report Abuse

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• "Atem" was the one that took them away from the planet Floyd into the new horizons never visited before... a truly moody masterpiece of substance and form in ominous harmony.

  Posted by Ami Hassinen, Finland at 10:47 AM GMT 13/01/2011 Report Abuse

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• I'd say "Tangram". Extremely cool and mysterious while not sounding scary or inaccessible.

  Posted by Phil at 2:16 PM GMT 13/01/2011 Report Abuse

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• Cyclone - Often overlooked, but a great prog album.

  Force Majeure - Perhaps the black sheep..but with an unique atmosphere, truly a classic.

  Posted by Giovanni Favero at 2:54 PM GMT 13/01/2011 Report Abuse

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• Cyclone - Often overlooked, but a great prog album.

  Force Majeure - Perhaps the black sheep..but with an unique atmosphere, truly a classic.

  Posted by Giovanni Favero at 2:55 PM GMT 13/01/2011 Report Abuse

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• Cyclone - Often overlooked, but a great prog album.

  Force Majeure - Perhaps the black sheep..but with an unique atmosphere, truly a classic.

  Posted by Giovanni Favero at 2:56 PM GMT 13/01/2011 Report Abuse

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• One of my favourite TD albums is from the move Sorcerer! A very well built up album. The whole Virgin period I can recommend. After they made Lilly on the Beach, I stopped. It is more of the same, and it has not magic sound anymore like they had in the Seventees, mide eighties.

  Posted by Alexander Metselaar at 5:43 PM GMT 13/01/2011 Report Abuse

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• As a devoted listener for almost thirty years, I can say without any reservations that everything up to and including Ricochet are the best of the best, by far.

  My faves, pre-Ricochet:

  Zeit
  Rubycon
  Phaedra

  My faves, post-Ricohet:

  Tangram
  Poland (live)

  After Le Parc and Underwater Sunlight they lost pretty much any magic or spark that could make them interesting. And Edgar Froese's fiddling/remixing of older 'classic' material is well nigh criminal....as well as awful sounding.

  Edgar Froese's first two solo albums (Aqua; Epsilon in Malaysian Pale) and Peter Baumann's first solo release (Romance 76) are brilliant too....in their original mixes.

  Posted by Willy Fredricks at 8:01 PM GMT 13/01/2011 Report Abuse

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• Get the Tangents box set and be done with it.

  Posted by tw at 10:05 PM GMT 13/01/2011 Report Abuse

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• Get the Tangents box set and be done with it.

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• If Tangerine Dream’s founding member Edgar Froese had his way, he’d probably prefer us to forget about all his previous albums and only listen to his latest offering. Nevertheless, there are of course many fans out there who are nostalgic for particular albums from the band’s considerable and often daunting back catalogue, so here goes for some recommendations.

  In their 40-year career, the band has seen several line-up changes and more or less mutually benificial recording contracts, which have resulted in an eclectic collection of albums, each with their own distinct identity. Edgar once called the music press ‘dancing grizzlies’, and has always deliberately steered clear of musical fashions and the dictates of the music industry, always staying at the cutting edge of the technology required to produce their unique sound.

  The 70’s was a period when the keywords were creativity and anti-conformism. Their best-known albums ‘Phaedra’ and ‘Rubicon’ came from this period, and were often the result of ‘happy musical accidents’. Their live performances at the time were almost totally improvised, and there is no doubt that some of the finest moments from these concerts will never see official releases, but ‘Ricochet’ would be a good starting point to get an idea of the atmosphere at a 70s Tangerine Dream concert.

  The 80s saw them venturing into a considerable number of film soundtrack projects, probably for financial reasons, which inevitably meant artistic compromises and hence a fairly hit and miss body of work, a lot of which remained unreleased for contractual reasons. This was a period where they learned to discipline themselves to produce shorter and more structured pieces, the best examples of these probably being ‘Wavelength’ and ‘Firestarter’.

  The departure of Chris Franke in 1987, member since the early 70s, marked the end of a relatively long and stable period in the band’s history, and was followed by a succession of ‘guest’ musicians, who all brought their own ‘flavour’ to the music. However, despite the presence of Edgar’s son Jerome in the line-up during the 90’s, the band released relatively few ‘true’ studio albums, preferring in many cases to ‘revisit’ the ‘classic’ material with new mixes and heavy overdubbing which repelled more than a few of their traditional fan base, but attracted a new generation of listeners. Probably the best examples of albums from this period would be the ‘Dream Mixes’ series, of which there have been 5 albums to date, and the ‘Mars Polaris’ album.

  After creating their own music label TDI, the millennium years saw the band producing more studio albums than ever ; they have probably released twice as many albums in the last 10 years as in the 80s and 90s put together, due to the release of archive concert recordings as well as many studio and ‘concept’ albums. It would be tempting to apply the rule that quantity does not necessarily mean quality, but there are some musical gems in there if you know where to look. The ‘Booster’ series is a good starting point to discover their most recent original musical output.

  If you are completely new to Tangerine Dream and despite everything you want to own just one album that contains good examples of their best work spanning their entire career to date, you could do worse than the 2010 live album ‘Zeitgeist Concert’, (translate ‘Time Ghost’) which is a fitting title for a group that has always been operating from another plane of existance, occasionally dropping in to visit us mere mortals for our listening pleasure. No long-term Tangerine Dream fan could deny that following their favourite band hasn’t been a musical adventure…

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• Stratosphere (1976). Best use of a sequencer outside of Donna Summer's I Feel Love.

  Posted by Alexander Meerkat at 10:32 PM GMT 13/01/2011 Report Abuse

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• If Tangerine Dream’s founding member Edgar Froese had his way, he’d probably prefer us to forget about all his previous albums and only listen to his latest offering. Nevertheless, there are of course many fans out there who are nostalgic for particular albums from the band’s considerable and often daunting back catalogue, so here goes for some recommendations.

  In their 40-year career, the band has seen several line-up changes and more or less mutually benificial recording contracts, which have resulted in an eclectic collection of albums, each with their own distinct identity. Edgar once called the music press ‘dancing grizzlies’, and has always deliberately steered clear of musical fashions and the dictates of the music industry, always staying at the cutting edge of the technology required to produce their unique sound.

  The 70’s was a period when the keywords were creativity and anti-conformism. Their best-known albums ‘Phaedra’ and ‘Rubicon’ came from this period, and were often the result of ‘happy musical accidents’. Their live performances at the time were almost totally improvised, and there is no doubt that some of the finest moments from these concerts will never see official releases, but ‘Ricochet’ would be a good starting point to get an idea of the atmosphere at a 70s Tangerine Dream concert.

  The 80s saw them venturing into a considerable number of film soundtrack projects, probably for financial reasons, which inevitably meant artistic compromises and hence a fairly hit and miss body of work, a lot of which remained unreleased for contractual reasons. This was a period where they learned to discipline themselves to produce shorter and more structured pieces, the best examples of these probably being ‘Wavelength’ and ‘Firestarter’.

  The departure of Chris Franke in 1987, member since the early 70s, marked the end of a relatively long and stable period in the band’s history, and was followed by a succession of ‘guest’ musicians, who all brought their own ‘flavour’ to the music. However, despite the presence of Edgar’s son Jerome in the line-up during the 90’s, the band released relatively few ‘true’ studio albums, preferring in many cases to ‘revisit’ the ‘classic’ material with new mixes and heavy overdubbing which repelled more than a few of their traditional fan base, but attracted a new generation of listeners. Probably the best examples of albums from this period would be the ‘Dream Mixes’ series, of which there have been 5 albums to date, and the ‘Mars Polaris’ album.

  After creating their own music label TDI, the millennium years saw the band producing more studio albums than ever ; they have probably released twice as many albums in the last 10 years as in the 80s and 90s put together, due to the release of archive concert recordings as well as many studio and ‘concept’ albums. It would be tempting to apply the rule that quantity does not necessarily mean quality, but there are some musical gems in there if you know where to look. The ‘Booster’ series is a good starting point to discover their most recent original musical output.

  If you are completely new to Tangerine Dream and despite everything you want to own just one album that contains good examples of their best work spanning their entire career to date, you could do worse than the 2010 live album ‘Zeitgeist Concert’, (translate ‘Time Ghost’) which is a fitting title for a group that has always been operating from another plane of existance, occasionally dropping in to visit us mere mortals for our listening pleasure. No long-term Tangerine Dream fan could deny that following their favourite band hasn’t been a musical adventure.

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• If Tangerine Dream’s founding member Edgar Froese had his way, he’d probably prefer us to forget about all his previous albums and only listen to his latest offering. Nevertheless, there are of course many fans out there who are nostalgic for particular albums from the band’s considerable and often daunting back catalogue, so here goes for some recommendations.

  In their 40-year career, the band has seen several line-up changes and more or less mutually benificial recording contracts, which have resulted in an eclectic collection of albums, each with their own distinct identity. Edgar once called the music press ‘dancing grizzlies’, and has always deliberately steered clear of musical fashions and the dictates of the music industry, always staying at the cutting edge of the technology required to produce their unique sound.

  The 70’s was a period when the keywords were creativity and anti-conformism. Their best-known albums ‘Phaedra’ and ‘Rubicon’ came from this period, and were often the result of ‘happy musical accidents’. Their live performances at the time were almost totally improvised, and there is no doubt that some of the finest moments from these concerts will never see official releases, but ‘Ricochet’ would be a good starting point to get an idea of the atmosphere at a 70s Tangerine Dream concert.

  The 80s saw them venturing into a considerable number of film soundtrack projects, probably for financial reasons, which inevitably meant artistic compromises and hence a fairly hit and miss body of work, a lot of which remained unreleased for contractual reasons. This was a period where they learned to discipline themselves to produce shorter and more structured pieces, the best examples of these probably being ‘Wavelength’ and ‘Firestarter’.

  The departure of Chris Franke in 1987, member since the early 70s, marked the end of a relatively long and stable period in the band’s history, and was followed by a succession of ‘guest’ musicians, who all brought their own ‘flavour’ to the music. However, despite the presence of Edgar’s son Jerome in the line-up during the 90’s, the band released relatively few ‘true’ studio albums, preferring in many cases to ‘revisit’ the ‘classic’ material with new mixes and heavy overdubbing which repelled more than a few of their traditional fan base, but attracted a new generation of listeners. Probably the best examples of albums from this period would be the ‘Dream Mixes’ series, of which there have been 5 albums to date, and the ‘Mars Polaris’ album.

  After creating their own music label TDI, the millennium years saw the band producing more studio albums than ever ; they have probably released twice as many albums in the last 10 years as in the 80s and 90s put together, due to the release of archive concert recordings as well as many studio and ‘concept’ albums. It would be tempting to apply the rule that quantity does not necessarily mean quality, but there are some musical gems in there if you know where to look. The ‘Booster’ series is a good starting point to discover their most recent original musical output.

  If you are completely new to Tangerine Dream and despite everything you want to own just one album that contains good examples of their best work spanning their entire career to date, you could do worse than the 2010 live album ‘Zeitgeist Concert’, (translate ‘Time Ghost’) which is a fitting title for a group that has always been operating from another plane of existance, occasionally dropping in to visit us mere mortals for our listening pleasure. No long-term Tangerine Dream fan could deny that following their favourite band hasn’t been a musical adventure.

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• If Tangerine Dream’s founding member Edgar Froese had his way, he’d probably prefer us to forget about all his previous albums and only listen to his latest offering. Nevertheless, there are of course many fans out there who are nostalgic for particular albums from the band’s considerable and often daunting back catalogue, so here goes for some recommendations.

  In their 40-year career, the band has seen several line-up changes and more or less mutually benificial recording contracts, which have resulted in an eclectic collection of albums, each with their own distinct identity. Edgar once called the music press ‘dancing grizzlies’, and has always deliberately steered clear of musical fashions and the dictates of the music industry, always staying at the cutting edge of the technology required to produce their unique sound.

  The 70’s was a period when the keywords were creativity and anti-conformism. Their best-known albums ‘Phaedra’ and ‘Rubicon’ came from this period, and were often the result of ‘happy musical accidents’. Their live performances at the time were almost totally improvised, and there is no doubt that some of the finest moments from these concerts will never see official releases, but ‘Ricochet’ would be a good starting point to get an idea of the atmosphere at a 70s Tangerine Dream concert.

  The 80s saw them venturing into a considerable number of film soundtrack projects, probably for financial reasons, which inevitably meant artistic compromises and hence a fairly hit and miss body of work, a lot of which remained unreleased for contractual reasons. This was a period where they learned to discipline themselves to produce shorter and more structured pieces, the best examples of these probably being ‘Wavelength’ and ‘Firestarter’.

  The departure of Chris Franke in 1987, member since the early 70s, marked the end of a relatively long and stable period in the band’s history, and was followed by a succession of ‘guest’ musicians, who all brought their own ‘flavour’ to the music. However, despite the presence of Edgar’s son Jerome in the line-up during the 90’s, the band released relatively few ‘true’ studio albums, preferring in many cases to ‘revisit’ the ‘classic’ material with new mixes and heavy overdubbing which repelled more than a few of their traditional fan base, but attracted a new generation of listeners. Probably the best examples of albums from this period would be the ‘Dream Mixes’ series, of which there have been 5 albums to date, and the ‘Mars Polaris’ album.

  After creating their own music label TDI, the millennium years saw the band producing more studio albums than ever ; they have probably released twice as many albums in the last 10 years as in the 80s and 90s put together, due to the release of archive concert recordings as well as many studio and ‘concept’ albums. It would be tempting to apply the rule that quantity does not necessarily mean quality, but there are some musical gems in there if you know where to look. The ‘Booster’ series is a good starting point to discover their most recent original musical output.

  If you are completely new to Tangerine Dream and despite everything you want to own just one album that contains good examples of their best work spanning their entire career to date, you could do worse than the 2010 live album ‘Zeitgeist Concert’, (translate ‘Time Ghost’) which is a fitting title for a group that has always been operating from another plane of existance, occasionally dropping in to visit us mere mortals for our listening pleasure. No long-term Tangerine Dream fan could deny that following their favourite band hasn’t been a musical adventure…
  

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• Sorry to post my lengthy comments 3 times, not deliberate I assure you...

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• “I saw God and/or Tangerine Dream” one commentator wrote about a TD concert in the mid 70’s. Somehow the phrase sums up a personal musical journey which this band, above all others, has influenced. The faith has not been without its periods of doubt and questioning, most notably their nineties/noughties decades which I’ll leave others to commentate on. But their rise in the 70’s and output of the early 80’s will remain a musical focal point without peer. Our pioneers sat in front of vast modular monoliths, and each touch seemed to create an awakening and enlightenment of musical directions hitherto untapped.

  The uninitiated should not feel intimidated by their vast catalogue. Much of it is repetition and/or disposable. But there are a clutch of precious chapters which deserve, indeed demand, study and reflection. Start with Rubycon, Ricochet, and Encore to appreciate the sanctity of their early message. Then progress to Force Majeure, Logos and Poland to see how the message was embellished for the masses.

  To go further, for some, will result in the disappointment of fallen idols. To dig earlier may reveal experimentation without true meaning. But for that precious decade from the mid 70’s to the mid 80’s our idols truly were masters of all they surveyed. We saw Gods. We saw Tangerine Dream.

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• Ricochet's pretty good, especially as my girlfriend told me that it was just like the show we went to, deep in the mid-seventies. In the true soirit of that age, I remember getting into the hall, and that's about it.

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• my choice

  Zeit 1972
  Encore 1977
  Poland 1984
  Turn of the Tides 1994
  The Endless Season 2010

  these albums represent the different faces of TD.
  each different era had some leading albums.
  

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• my choice

  Zeit 1972
  Encore 1977
  Poland 1984
  Turn of the Tides 1994
  The Endless Season 2010

  these albums represent the different faces of TD.
  each different era had some leading albums.
  

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• Force Majeure

  Cloudbust flight remains a tour de force

  Posted by colin at 1:40 PM GMT 14/01/2011 Report Abuse

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• Force Majeure. Cloudburst Flight is a real tour de force

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• Stratosphere.

  A creepy yet beguiling piece of atmoshperic mood music that you get the feeling only Tangerine Dream could make. Beautiful and haunting at the same time and one that is always worth returning to.

  Posted by The Lekk. at 2:25 PM GMT 14/01/2011 Report Abuse

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• Stratosfear has the eeriness and variety that sums up TD for me.

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• Stratosfear - as it's a great album and I can spell it correctly ;)

  Posted by Conrad Black at 3:06 PM GMT 14/01/2011 Report Abuse

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• My vote goes to any of the Dream Mixes series (especially 3,4 and perhaps 5?), as I find everything from the 70s and 80s very overated.

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• Stratosphear.

  The first time I herd Stratosphear I just said what the f... is this? I was in my teens and it didn't look like anything I had herd before. And chose another long forgotten record to buy.

  Later, being wiser, and after some TD consuming, this is still the one that stands.

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• Hard choice!
  from the Froese-Franke-Baumann years, i would pick

  * Ricochet (1975)
  -a rollercoaster live ride packed with analogue sequencers!

  * Stratosfear (1976)
  -my first exposure to TD: 3am at the border, indeed!

  from the Froese-Schmoelling-Franke years,

  * Exit (1981)
  -melodies, rythm, and the unfathomable "remote viewing"

  * Poland : the Warsaw concert (1984)
  -an archaic kind of propulsive electronische monster.

  All their albums from the 1974/1984 period are brilliant,
  though in an uneven stream: gems abound, but with (LP)
  side-long compositions, some fade-in, fade-out trimming is
  suggested.

  and two albums that should be included in the TD canon:

  Edgar Froese:
  * Epsilon in Malaysian Pale (1975)
  -forget the remixed atrocity available today, search for the
  (deleted) original release, a flute mellotron ambient heaven!

  Peter Baumann:
  * Trans Harmonic Nights (1979)
  -another criminally ignored (and deleted) album: maybe less
  atmospheric, but everything is in its right place: inspired,
  tight and bursting !

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• I can`t pretend that I`ve heard them all but I own much of their back catalogue and I`ve seen them live in London twice.
  Their stand out album for me has to be "Exit".Listen to it as a complete album:it`s superb.

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• Sometimes I love the early cosmic records of Alpha Centauri, Zeit and Atem but I wouldn't recommend them for first time listeners.

  I would divide the bands output thus:

  Phaedra and Rubycon: primordial masterpieces of evocative atmospheric sequence driven electronic music, Rubycon is a masterpiece that has never been bettered.

  Richocet: the power and the glory of 70's TD live

  Stratosfear and Encore: more melodic. Encore has the most beautiful melody TD have ever produced. The highlight of the first incarnation of TD.

  Force Majeure and Tangram: they go together but are really quite different with force Majeure being a rock album and Tangram being just beautiful and melancholic

  White Eagle and Poland Live: the second major incarnation of TD at the top of their game

  Exit and Le park: mostly good but shorter tracks

  Hyperborea: Eastern influences almost excellent but not quite fully realised.

  An overview would be that pick any album from 1974 to 1982 and you walk away with a classic of Electronic Music, any later finds the band with less originality but still playing good but less vital music although there are still some gems to be found on the later output, they're just fewer and further between.

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• Sometimes I love the early cosmic records of Alpha Centauri, Zeit and Atem but I wouldn't recommend them for first time listeners.

  I would divide the bands output thus:

  Phaedra and Rubycon: primordial masterpieces of evocative atmospheric sequence driven electronic music, Rubycon is a masterpiece that has never been bettered.

  Richocet: the power and the glory of 70's TD live

  Stratosfear and Encore: more melodic. Encore has the most beautiful melody TD have ever produced. The highlight of the first incarnation of TD.

  Force Majeure and Tangram: they go together but are really quite different with force Majeure being a rock album and Tangram being just beautiful and melancholic

  White Eagle and Poland Live: the second major incarnation of TD at the top of their game

  Exit and Le park: mostly good but shorter tracks

  Hyperborea: Eastern influences almost excellent but not quite fully realised.

  An overview would be that pick any album from 1974 to 1982 and you walk away with a classic of Electronic Music, any later finds the band with less originality but still playing good but less vital music although there are still some gems to be found on the later output, they're just fewer and further between.

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• After a 1970s high school phase of bubblegum and glam rock, Rubycon was my window onto a whole new cosmos.

  
  

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• RE: devilnation

  Stratosfear is OK - but >Zeit beats them all.

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• RE: Ami Hassinen, Finland ""Atem" was the one that took them away from the planet Floyd into the new horizons never visited before... a truly moody masterpiece of substance and form in ominous harmony"

  Nice to see someone bigging up this epochal date, home to music that seemed to have been waiting for me to hear it and that opened a door into the world where I hadn't known there was a door, or a world. I have to say that 'Zeit', its predecessor, is much more original than Ami allows and much stranger & more haunting than anything the partners at Pink Floyd Event Management could ever imagine. These two are at the 'out' end of TD's catalogue though - more sensible entry-points are highlighted elsewhere. Interesting how many people vote for 'Stratosfear', terrific and a VERY daring change of sound/construction for the group at the time, but not as obviously iconic of that heroic era the way, say, 'Rubycon' & 'Ricochet'.

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• Their soundtrack to the movie THIEF (James Caan, Tuesday Weld) totally blew my 13 year old brain apart when I heard this soundtrack. The movie is just okay - but the thing that kept me involved in the plot was the score. I dont think you can say enough about how much help Tangerine Dream has given directors over the years in how to further a story. Their music moves a film along - from RISKY BUSINESS to SORCERER to FLASHPOINT, it's Froese and co. who keep you in the seats. Just skip THIS PARK IS MINE - not even the German Pink Floyd could save this Charles Bronson knockoff.

  Posted by Josh Mills at 8:54 PM GMT 14/01/2011 Report Abuse

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• Too many good albums with some great stuff whichever era you pick from. Personal faves include Force Majeure (1979) Poland (1983) The Dream Mixes (1995) Purgatorio (2004) Jeanne D'Arc (2005) Summer In Nagasaki (2007). There's a goldmine of great TD sounds out there across the years. Dig in and enjoy.

  Posted by Justin at 9:23 PM GMT 14/01/2011 Report Abuse

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• Too many good albums with some great stuff whichever era you pick from. Personal faves include Force Majeure (1979) Poland (1983) Hyperborea (1983) The Dream Mixes (1995) Purgatorio (2004) Jeanne D'Arc (2005) Summer In Nagasaki (2007). There's a goldmine of great TD sounds out there across the years. Dig in and enjoy.

  Posted by Justin at 9:24 PM GMT 14/01/2011 Report Abuse

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• If I had to choose just one album it would be Ricochet - their dreamscapes period at its peak of perfection.

  The stunning run from Phaedra through Rubycon, Ricochet, The Sorcerer, Stratosfear and Encore was their peak in my opinion, the period in which they made the most sublime mindscape music.

  Four of those six albums have just been repackaged into a three-disc box-set called The Virgin Years, and at a stupendously good price too, so for anyone wanting an intro to the band I would recommend looking no further than that. I still play all of them frequently.

  Green Desert is also from the same era, although it was only released in 1986, and is well worth checking out.

  If you can find them, check out the two Bootleg Series box-sets as well, as these totally live sets also date back to this period. The first box is especially good.

  The earlier albums were too unstructured for my taste, and later, when they started drifting into song-length tracks and then (disastrously and incomprehensibly) into vocal songs they completely lost me.

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• IMHO to write-off everything after 1987 is practically saying that TD aren't allowed to change, if the group had listened to that dogma they'd wouldn't have produced so many different styles, including all the albums that most of us wax lyrical about. Music is dead as soon as it has rules (it can't have this, or it must have that) and as so soon as 'the fans' tell the artist what to do. The artist must produce their own musical fantasy, without that they're nothing.

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• Stratosfear (1976) - If you must pick one album, this is it. Where as later releases may be a bit hard to swallow in all their lengthiness and not always up to standard, here you have a classic LP-length album that's stood the test of time. Stratosfear is a perfect example of what TD is all about and a good introduction to the uninitiated.

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• Regarding the whole 'vocals' debate, if the vocals are good, as in Chris Hausl's on MFD, then they're great and if they're bad, as in Steve Jolliffe's shouty bits on Cyclone they almost ruin a perfectly good album. To be fair to Steve, and he might agree with me, he should have never re-joined TD the second time, musically (and personally) it was a disaster- live and on record. Fans of TD's true musical-head should avoid Cyclone and look elsewhere.

  Whilst TD have never been trendy or cool they remain one of the most influencial groups ever (whether journalists and the wider world realise that is a moot point. TD have proved time and time again they don't need the oxygen of the press). Without them technology and therefore music directly wouldn't have been the same. We all owe them all a great debt.

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• Underwater Sunlight ....

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• Underwater Sunlight ....

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• Underwater Sunlight for me my all time personal favourite .

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• RE: charlie watts "Fans of TD's true musical-head should avoid Cyclone and look elsewhere."

  Whilst 'Cyclone' isn't too representative I still think it's a tremendous date, with Steve J's vocals and wind instruments marking a tunnelling into a very intense, gut-stirring brand of electronic Prog/Chamber Rock. IMO it's much more choesive & impressive than the bitty flashes-of-brilliance 'Force Majeure' which came next.

  Reading folks' tips on the later material is helpful for someone like me who gave up circa 'Rockoon' and who hasn't caught wind of much amid the memos & press releases issued from the Froese software factory to try climbing back on board the speeding train.

  Posted by Simon Fay at 12:18 AM GMT 16/01/2011 Report Abuse

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• Zeit
  Stratosfear
  Cyclone (my first! ; ^ )

  Accessed as DJ:
  Le Parc
  Underwater Sunlight
  Firestarter
  Legend
  Risky Business

  I got to tape those soundtracks when I was a DJ
  ...and...

  by Edgar Froese...
  Stuntman

  Posted by Fredonia@sonic.net at 5:27 AM GMT 16/01/2011 Report Abuse

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• LOGOS. THE masterpiece.
  Sorry not to have the time to say more, Tangerine Dream is my fav band and I am unconditional ;-) Of course there are others masterpieces, the fisrt that come to my mind because I listened to it yesterday is : MARS POLARIS. The more you are a completist, the longer the list :D

  Posted by Fredy Pere Curry at 12:19 PM GMT 16/01/2011 Report Abuse

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• For a beginner, I would recommend getting the latest live release, the 'Zeitgeist concert, Royal Albert Hall, April 2010', as it covers a lot of the different eras of the band's output, and is very well recorded.

  You have to have at least one live album. I would recommend 'Ricochet' or 'Poland' from the back catalogue - the latter is a pivotal album with a nice combination of analogue and digital sounds and a mixture of their earlier long tracks together with melodic highlights such as 'Warsaw in the sun' on 'Barbakane'.

  Other stand out albums for me are 'Underwater sunlight', 'Exit', 'White Eagle', and more recently 'Jean D'Arc'. I would also recommend any of the 'Booster' series for an introduction into their more recent releases and remix work.

  Posted by Stephen Manship at 2:18 PM GMT 16/01/2011 Report Abuse

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• I would suggest:
  
  Rubycon
  70s - Force Majeure

  80s - Underwater Sunlight
  Tangram

  90s - Goblins Club
  Melrose

  00s - Seven Letters From Tibet
  Madcap`s Flaming Duty (one of the only albums to contain vocals)

  Posted by Matthew W at 3:02 PM GMT 16/01/2011 Report Abuse

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• I would suggest:
  
  Rubycon
  70s - Force Majeure

  80s - Underwater Sunlight
  Tangram

  90s - Goblins Club
  Melrose

  00s - Seven Letters From Tibet
  Madcap`s Flaming Duty (one of the only albums to contain vocals)

  Posted by Matthew W at 3:05 PM GMT 16/01/2011 Report Abuse

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• With over thirty years of collecting all things TD - recommending anyone of their 120 + releases is no small undertaking.
  But also due to the vast musical differences in the releases there should be a TD release to suit everyone's pallette.

  Recommendations would be:

  Best place to Start - Compilations: Tangents Box Set, the Booster Series

  Early years: Rubycon, Exit, White Eagle.

  Later years: Joan D Arc, Chandra, Views from a Red Train.
  
  Live: Logos, Poland, Encore and the very recent Zeitgeist.

  Discounting TD's output since 1987 is a mistake, TD are still very active and releasing some truely uplifting music to this day!.

  Posted by Tim Pullen at 3:26 PM GMT 16/01/2011 Report Abuse

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• Wow.
  Tough choice.
  Like asking which is your favourite child.
  Truth be told though you'll probably want them all in the end, which is a daunting prospect. I've got over 250 official CDs and the numbers still rising. They ought to come with a health warning: "Severely addictive. Will damage your wallet and alter the course of your life".
  Good routes in to the catalogue are Tangram, Rubycon, Force Majeure, Views From A Red Train, any of the Dream Mixes, any of the Boosters..... and the list goes on.
  As others have mentioned the 3CD Zeitgeist Concert is also a good jumping off point. Over 3 hours of music, including many classic tracks, all played live. Certainly one of the best concerts I've ever been to.

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• I rather like Madcaps Flaming Duty myself, completely different to the usual TD sound (whatever that might be, this week), but for this fan of 20 od years it's far better for it (Thorsten's tracks ****ing rock!). Perhaps one day it might get re-discovered by a new generation? it's not really a tribute to Syd (poor use of words TD, hey they're not English), it's just dedicated to him 'Shine on you cazy Diamond', and that makes it A-OK in my books.

  Other recommendations?

  Views from a Red Train...sounds a bit compressed but the music is fantastic in places
  +
  Anything that Jerome wrote...man, was ever a musician crucified for something he didn't do? Checkout his solo stuff as well, so much better (and fresher) than most of the tired old electronic music these days.

  Oh and the Royal Albert Hall recording on the Bootleg box set, what a ****ing lineup!

  To be honest whatever your taste, chances are the Tangs has something you'd like. Rather than just finding a sound (a klang?) and then only do that thing for 40 years (Kraftwerk read this and weap!), at least they tried to change. If you don't like it, then try something else old chaps!

  Posted by Uncle Mort at 5:21 PM GMT 16/01/2011 Report Abuse

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• Sorcerer.If only they could have made the soundtrack to The Exocirst....this is perfect.

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• Tangerine Dream made dozen of memorable music pieces.
  The ones I take with to a deserted island:

  Ricochet
  Green Desert
  Underwater Sunlight
  Tyranny of Beauty
  Chandra
  Blue Dawn
  Tangram 2008

  Posted by Eric H from Holland at 11:22 AM GMT 17/01/2011 Report Abuse

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• I started listening Tangerine Dream 25 years ago with these albums:

  1. Stratosfear
  2. Tangram
  3. Force Majeure

  That changed my life forever.

  Posted by Dirk at 1:08 PM GMT 17/01/2011 Report Abuse

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• Hyperborea is, in my opinion, their best record and the most underrated.

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• For the uninitiated, the later Tangerine Dream albums are probably more accessible, but in my opinion they have a somewhat diluted feel. For a seat of your pants journey into the unknown, but without being too avant garde, I'd recommend the early Virgin years albums. Pick of the bunch for me are Phaedra, Stratosfear and Encore. Green Desert, Logos and Poland are also prized possessions. As far as soundtracks go, Sorcerer and The Keep would be a great place to start. Happy listening!

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• I have always been partial to the "live" discs by TD. "Logos," in particular, stands out for me though "Ricochet," "Poland" and "Encore" all hold their own.

  "Encore" deserves special mention as it was my initial exposure to the whole 70s Krautrock/euro-space music scene. A new friend with an unbelievable import collection of LPs turned me onto TD, Klaus Schulze, Ash Ra and many others. "Encore" definitely opened my eyes and ears to these new (mostly German) musical horizons and while I have to admit that some of it now sounds a bit past it's prime, I can't underestimate the effect it had on me at the time. Everything else sounded dated and old. This was the future of music...NOW!

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• Amazed how many people put 'Green Desert' in their picks. I heard it when it belatedly came out in 1986 or so and thought it was a piece of throwaway shit that should never have had plastic and paper wasted on its release. Basic tracks from a vaguely-cosmic jam on an uninspired afternoon in the 70s decorated with hugely-inappropriate DX7-isms some ten years later. Is there another way of hearing this thing that I recall as a bland dog's breakfast?

  SF

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• Tangerine Dream, 'thee' masters of music. What an amazing legacy of music they've left behind & provided you haven't got a tin ear, you'll find a lifetime of musical enjoyment. To place one album above another is utterly retarded.

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• RE: Paul Fellows (France)

  Edgar might have some weird ideas by at least the bloke can spell Rubycon correctly ;)

  Posted by Hans Peter Baumann at 10:56 PM GMT 20/01/2011 Report Abuse

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• Views from a Red Train, yeah you read it right, pretty good.

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• There's more invention in 10 minutes of the Tangs than is some bands whole career. What a band!

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• TANGERINE DREAM-'70-'80-UK VIRGIN 4-LP BOX SET Now out of print: pure Tangerine Dream before it was touched by Froese. Intense mind-trips into analog space textures. Another great Froese solo album is Macula Transfer: wonderful music for long train rides across endless plains marked with electric pylons and glowing power plants. And in 1989, Froese cut the soundtrack to Kamikaze 1989, a science-fiction film starring Rainer Werner Fassbinder: wonderful robotic miniatures: the cover shot of Fassbinder in a Leopard Skin jacket is worth the price of the record alone.

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• Vampira OST but yer can't buy it :D

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• Where to begin? Phaedra
  Soundtrack: Sorcerer
  Post-Baumann into 80s avoid the New Age stuff
  

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• New Age? never heard New Age at that volume before? :D :D

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• With such a monolithic oeuvre to consider, it is indeed a daunting challenge to find a way to recommend to the uninitiated those albums that best represent the band throughout it's long and ever evolving history. Amongst the band's diehard fan base, you will find several bright lines posited by their defenders as 'the point of no return' as to when they regard the end of quality output. I generally find those discussions that surround those lines tedious. Experiencing music (indeed all art) is a supremely subjective experience, and as such arguing about why your subjective opinion is superior to anyone else's - including the artist's - is arrogant folly.

  That said, here are 10 albums that I would recommend to anyone wishing to discover what Tangerine Dream has to offer. They are taken from every era, and while they are not all my personal favorites, I feel they provide a representative flow of how TD has evolved through the years. If someone finds a particular album or albums to their liking, then they would be able to mine the catalog for those albums that immediately precede or follow to gain a deeper appreciation - and perhaps a new obsession.

  Rubycon
  Encore
  Tangram
  Logos
  Underwater Sunlight
  Optical Race
  Rockoon
  Goblin's Club
  Mars Polaris
  Jeanne d'Arc

  Of those on that list, Rubycon and Logos deserve special mention as being not only the Ne Plus Ultra of their particular eras, but of electronic progressive music itself. I believe they are absolutely essential to any serious collection of the genre in general, and TD in particular.

  Happy hunting!

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• Encore perfectly captures the essence of 70s Tangs across 4 sides of vinyl and is (currently!) my fave.

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• I love Alpha Centauri and Ricochet, I saw Tangs in concert in the Stratosfear / Sorcerer / Zeit era, in 1977, when I first discovered they could rock, and love Encore and Logos.

  But it has to be Rubycon, the first of their albums I became aware of. The cover is iconic for me, but the music is just the ultimate in chilled out stoner mood Krautrock (sorry all you who are offended by that term).

  I had no idea that they had done over 100 studio albums. The recent albums which I know (the 10 pack "The Electronic Journey") are, I'm afraid, just lift music. But their output up to at least the early 80s is amongst my favourites.

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• I love Alpha Centauri and Ricochet, I saw Tangs in concert in the Stratosfear / Sorcerer / Zeit era, in 1977, when I first discovered they could rock, and love Encore and Logos.

  But it has to be Rubycon, the first of their albums I became aware of. The cover is iconic for me, but the music is just the ultimate in chilled out stoner mood Krautrock (sorry all you who are offended by that term).

  I had no idea that they had done over 100 studio albums. The recent albums which I know (the 10 pack "The Electronic Journey") are, I'm afraid, just lift music. But their output up to at least the early 80s is amongst my favourites.

  Posted by Barton Alan at 6:50 PM GMT 28/01/2011 Report Abuse

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• Of course some of us like lift music, especially if played VERY loud. It's a shame if some people see it like that, but you've got to respect their 'opinion', haven't you?

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• My vote goes to Green Desert, recorded in 1973 between Atem and Phaedra, but released in 1986. Astral Voyager being my favourite, a tune that lives up to it's name. Hypnotic and melodic, the soundtrack to a dream of flying through space. No hallucinogens necessary! Pity it's not longer then it's 7 minutes!

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• Actually, on mature reflection, Green Desert isn't perfect, but it wouldn't be far off it Indian Summer was dropped. How about remixing Astral Voyager to 2 or 3 times the original length and sacrificing Indian Summer to make room, that tune is kinda shite and really outstays it's welcome.

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• My first TD album was Zeit, vinyl brought in 1979. And that was it for me. Converted!

  My favorite album is "Tangram" Just why it is? I can't really explain. As true music fans, we shouldn't have to, should we? :)

  Posted by Jamie A, New Zealand at 9:20 AM GMT 31/01/2011 Report Abuse

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• The ultimate TD experience is Royal Albert Hall, 2 April 1975 from the Bootleg Box Set vol 1. Sit yourself down in front of the speakers, turn the volume up, turn the lights off and let your ears and mind do the rest.

  Avoid "Soundmill Navigator - Live at the Philharmonics 1976" like the plague. Not only does it have "new sounds" added to a classic concert, but it has an annoying clicking sound that totally destroys any enjoyment of this CD. A release like this is a disgrace to a once mighty band.

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• I would guess the majority of Mojo readers listen to mainstream vocal, guitar, bass and drums music, so directing them towards a band known chiefly for lengthy, sequencer driven synthesizer instrumentals requires careful thought. Given this ‘Force Majeure’ seems to be popular amongst fans of conventional rock as it is one of few TD albums with a real drum kit and more than a splash of guitar (even though hilariously speeded up during ‘Cloudburst Flight’).

  Encyclopedias always include the seminal ‘Phaedra’ in a TD entry, but I would go for the more refined ‘Rubycon’ or the polyrhythmic ‘Ricochet’ as classics of the analogue sequencer genre.

  ‘Tangram’ is possibly TDs most symphonic, emotional and richly textured extended work. A gorgeous mix of digital, analogue, acoustic and sampled sound, tightly structured arrangements, beautiful melodies and still the trademark sequencer propulsion.

  Virtually all of TD’s live albums contain studio parts, edits from different concerts or heavily pre-sequenced passages with minimal manual playing. One exception is the complete recording of the 1975 London Royal Albert Hall concert on ‘Bootleg Box Set Vol. 1’ - sadly now difficult to obtain. Superbly recorded by BBC Radio 3 engineers, the material remained in the vaults for 28 years before its 2003 release. The second half is a masterpiece of improvisation, coming closest in recreating the atmosphere and authenticity of a mid-70’s TD performance.

  The bleak, experimental landscapes of the pre-‘Phaedra’ albums will be an acquired taste for many, but try the side-long title track of ‘Atem’ alone in a darkened room to test your nerve.

  Post 1990 I can’t recommend much as I believe TD made a mistake in not replacing Paul Haslinger, continuing as a father and son duo. The imaginative chord progressions and dynamics went for the most part and too much of their output drifted towards muzak, though the excellent ‘Towards the Evening Star’ from ‘Goblin’s Club’ showed that they were not quite comatose.
  

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• I read all of that before many years ago in Voyager magazine, 'an' it still don't make it true Peter

  Anything (well almost anything) with Froese snr on guitar still floats my boat, the synths were and always will be, a sideshow for weakminded bedwetters, mummy's boys and middle aged knob annoraks.

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• Zeit. Truly colossal. The sound of the universe.

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• Zeit. Truly colossal. The sound of the universe.

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• Phaedra invented the future, it came out of nowhere and mapped out in detail an otherwise unknown musical landscape. It was the beautiful post coital cigarette after the mad sonic shaggathon of Ziet, Alpha and Atem.

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• Ricochet and Rubycon

  you can just loose yourself and all sense of time within these albums.

  forget anything they did after they left virgin records. the sounds were digital and uninspiring, the music became flat and boring. the recent father and son incarnation have some fantastic record sleeves but that's where it stops.

  avoid all of the remix albums

  edgar froese's early solo albums on virgin are worth a visit though

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• Buy some TD first, the bitterness and dogma will come later. Until then just enjoy the music, or not!

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• What a shame about all the errors in the text, in an otherwise useful article. But only 2 albums from the 80's and no Force Majeure?...what utter nonsense!

  Posted by Andy K at 9:13 PM GMT 22/02/2011 Report Abuse

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• 70's:
  Phaedra
  Rubycon
  Richchet
  Encore
  Sorcerer
  Force Majeure

  80's:
  Pergamon
  Tangram
  Thief
  Poland
  Legend
  Underwater Sunlight

  Posted by JJansen at 7:48 PM GMT 09/03/2011 Report Abuse

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• best way to start, the mid-70's:

  first with "Rubycon" (1975) and "Stratosfear" (1976)

  then try "Phaedra" (1973-74), "Ricochet" (1975), the soundtrack album "Sorcerer" (1976-77) and the live "Encore" (1977)

  for the 80's:

  "Tangram" (1980), "Exit" (1981), "White Eagle" (1982) and "Hyperborea" (1983)

  avoid all things after 1987....

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• RE: Prophet 5

  avoid all fans after 1987 more like

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