Electronic Meditation/Alpha Centauri/Zeit - Tangerine Dream

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

...After the success of their 1974 release "Phaedra", Tangerine Dream released their last organic sounding masterpiece "Rubycon", before becoming a more conventional sounding electronic band. To try and describe the purely instrumental music on this album is difficult. Most people regard electronic music as pings, beeps and other more farty sounds, but here the early synthesisers and manipulated sounds create a wash of noise somewhat like the aural equivalent of a watercolour. The first piece (Rubycon Part One) sounds like a life-cycle of some alien sound creature. The beginning with its gong like sounds conjuring up something stirring in a dark damp cave before bursting into life in the sunshine with eerie bird-like calling. A pulsing sequencer sound builds up to carry our creature onwards through layers of sounds forming, swirling... Read review

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Advantages: Pretty good album with not a lot wrong
Disadvantages: Have to be in the right mood

...for headbanging, some good guitar solos towards the end too! Awesome. 9/10 7 - Messerschmied Can it get much better I hear you thinking? Possibly not... track 7 is a 6 minute long psychedelic arrangement of strange sounds, a hard beat, a mixture of electronic and techno and various guitar work with the growling vocals on top but it's not as catchy as other songs and just doesn't do it for me although it is obviously well made and maybe good for drugged up people at a rave. 5/10 8 - Jeanny The sole song in English on the album, a somewhat more upbeat version of the 1983 Falco track Jeanny, a song about a child rapist and a teenage girl who dresses up a bit like a tart and has some terrible acting from Falco in (check it out on youtube, if you wondered where David Hasselhof had picked up his skills!). "Jeanny, quit livin' on dreams Jeanny, life... Read review

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Advantages: Good solid Tangerine Dream music
Disadvantages: Quite quite their best

...here. If you're in Europe right now you would see that all people talk about the Third World War. As musicians we can use our music to say something about the positive side and hope our message gets through." Edgar Froese had organised thousands of copies of Exit to be shipped and distributed free to various people in Russia. A short time before Exit was released; Tangerine Dream had played a special disarmament concert at the Reichstag building in West Berlin in front of around 100,000 people. * The tracks * As mentioned before, the first is a beautiful track called ‘Kiew Mission’. A female sensually recites the message of world peace and nuclear disarmament. Very convincing, although the lyrics are in Russian, the mentioning the continents give a good effect. It’s essentially a simplistic, yet universally understandable message... Read review

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