Entrance/Edgar Winter's White Trash [Remastered] - Edgar Winter

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

...* Exit – The entrance * It was recorded in the summer of 1981 and released in September of the same year, containing 6 tracks using the very latest electronic equipment at the time. There were no acoustic instruments used at all. They didn’t use engineers either. They just had everything around them, the same way as on-stage during concerts. According to Edgar Froese, they built everything around a MCI mixing console, because they needed to have all the instruments within easy reach. * Some history * The album was about world peace, with an anti-nuclear message, as the first track, ‘Kiew Mission’, suggests. It features a Russian actress reciting words about world peace and communication. The album's press release included: "The words are directed at people in Russia. It's a very spiritual message we hope will ease the situation over... Read review

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Advantages: Unreleased tracks
Disadvantages: Price, some 're-mixing'

...As you may have already guessed, this is a ‘best of’ album. As Tangerine Dream have been around for the past 40 years, you don’t need to be a fan to know there are lots of these compilation albums around – some good, some so bad you feel embarrassed to look at the cover let alone play it. ‘Tangents’ is certainly one of the best. The tracks are from a wide range of studio and sound track albums; some classic ones like Ricochet, White Eagle and Exit, to some quite rare and difficult to find tracks (Wavelength and Flashpoint). Disk 5 contains a lot of previously unreleased tracks, which makes a very useful added bonus, and makes the price worthwhile. Many of the tracks are just excerpts of long single track albums like Ricochet, but some are re-mixed, or "tangenized", as some fans call it. Some of them are quite different to the original... Read review

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Advantages: Glimpse Into early Brilliance
Disadvantages: Not as Great as What Was To Come

...cringe to re-read something so obviously written by an rather earnest youth. There is also an extensive story about how the band got to this stage and the album as you world expect from a remastered album these days. The photos of the band are superb and they look rather like a herd of very scary geography, history and music teachers that dabble in folk music, especially drummer Guy Evans who looks like a psychotic hippy PE teacher. This was the 1960's and it was perfectly acceptable for bands to look like this. This album is no hippy love trip dude. There are also two extra tracks which I will come to later so don't get your panties in a bunch about that. The first track on the Album Darkness (11/11) is a rocky blast of general darkness like a piece of Edgar Allen Poe gone wrong. David Jackson's sax drags grooves in a sinister and dark way... Read review

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