220 Volt Live - Tangerine Dream

Tangerine Dreams finest (half) hour.

Advantages: One of the best 'electronic' albums ever
Disadvantages: It is somewhat short

five minutes have gentle subtle harmonies playing with bright synth sounds. I have heard this part used on nature programmes to accompany underwater scenes, which it does splendidly. Finally a lonely mellotron flute sound concludes the album on a sombre note. Overall the music on this album is quite remarkable especially if you consider the equipment available in 1975. Don't expect tunes or simple backing beats as this is more of a free flowing soundscape. It may be only 35 minutes in length, but it is possibly the best 35 minutes of Tangerine Dream's lengthy career and certainly one of the finest electronic albums of the 1970s. Although it is sometimes categorised as such, it is not really "new age" as there are dark eerie moments and not quite "ambient" as there are some lively driving near-rock moments. Highly recommended ...

Boolbar 10.07.2007 · Read full review
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Review of Rubycon - Tangerine Dream

Not their best live music

Advantages: Live TD music
Disadvantages: Only half a concert

I bought this album about two years ago with some other TD albums. It?s been in my ?wanted? list for some time. Unfortunately, after listening to it, I was sadly disappointed. It wasn?t bad but it wasn?t as good as I imagined it to be. I have recently listened to this after quite some time. In fact, I think this is only my third time of listening to it. It is supposedly the first release of the so-called "Tangerine Dream Classics Edition", released in 1999, featuring the first part of the Sydney concert. The rest of the concert (Soho Man 2 perhaps) has never, as yet, been released. A bootleg LP version called ?Leprous Appearance On Wednesday? appeared in 1984 and was re-released in CD format in 1993, featuring the same part of this concert. When listening to the bootleg, it?s obvious that Soho Man has been altered to obtain better ...

orrin31 30.05.2007 · Read full review
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Review of Soho Man (Live In Sydney) - Tangerine Dream

Tangerine Dream

Advantages: Very cheap these days
Disadvantages: Can be hard to find these days

and lighter, and you can play games on it into the bargain. You enter data and move around the screen using the stylus, that pointy thing about the size of a ballpoint refill which lives in its own little borehole in the back of the Visor and is, incidentally, colour-coordinated to match it. This works as both mouse and keyboard; tap the screen to open programs and make selections, enter text by opening the onscreen keyboard and hitting the letter you want, or by scrawling a series of arcane hieroglyphics on a special area of the screen - the Graffiti system. I thought I would do most of my writing using the keyboard method, but in fact after a bit of practice (you're given a tutorial the first time you start up) I found Graffiti quick and easy to use. An upward stroke puts you in uppercase mode, and a tap lets you input punctuation symbols ...

Worrals 07.04.2004 · Read full review
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