Advantages: One of the best 'electronic' albums ever Disadvantages: It is somewhat short
After the success of their 1974 release "Phaedra", TangerineDream 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 ...
Advantages: Very cheap these days Disadvantages: Can be hard to find these days
version.
I couldn't afford it at the time, but technology has moved on apace. When I investigated on eBay, I discovered that what was once the cutting edge of the palmtop world can now be picked up for £20 - £40.
I got mine for £26 plus three quid P&P, having waited several weeks for an orange model to appear among the listings, and I am utterly delighted with it. Despite its age it elicits coos of admiration thanks to its cute design: bright orange front, clear back, with the inner workings visible through the translucent casing. It's pretty petite, measuring 7.5 x 12 x 2cm, and weighs 215g in its case. The screen is 160 x 160 pixels, or about 6 by 6cm.
Of course, being an older model, there are many things the Visor Deluxe can't do. The display is black and white, graphics are very basic and sound limited to clicks and beeps. It ...
Advantages: Creamy, different and quenches your need for sweet stuff Disadvantages: Packaged in two's and needs a handy pocket sized fridge to keep the spare in.
three packs of Cadbury?s Dream Snow Bites. Now, knowing that my hubby isn?t partial to white chocolate (well every man has to have a fault or two you know, and it does leave all the more for me!), I carefully separated this new (to me) and interesting confectionery from the box proper, and set it to one side, and promptly forgot about it in the excitement of Christmas!
When I finally noticed the box (day after boxing day when I was trying to put my house back into some semblance of order) I carefully placed it by my chair ready for when I sat down to rest with my mid morning cuppa. It?s a fairly simple box, White and blue, with Cadburys in big lettering, and Dream Snow Bites in lettering almost as large and what appeared to be a picture of the sweet itself, a round white igloo like blob the description reads: ?White chocolate ...
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Product details
Title
White Eagle
Performer
Tangerine Dream
Genre
Electronic
Sub Genre
Classic Electronic
Release Date
07/1995
Recomended Retail Price
8.99 GBP
Original Release Year
1982
Label / Distributor
Virgin / EMI Operations/CEVA Logistics
Pieces in Set
1
Studio / Live
Studio
Stereo
Stereo
Format
Performer
EAN
724383944422
Catalogue Number
TAND 2
Additional notes
Album Notes
Despite the pundits who insist that anything post-ZEIT is scarcely worth a listen, Tangerine Dream's later recordings for Virgin still represent the band's watershed years. WHITE EAGLE, recorded in the waning '80s, brings back to life the startling sounds that crept up in such past achievements as PHAEDRA and FORCE MAJEURE. The 18-minute-plus "Mojave Plan" is nothing less than fascinating. Whistles erupt from the void, eventually coalescing around a slowly thumping synthesizer croak, while Christopher Franke fires up the sequencers around Froese and Schmoelling's riveting electronic chirrups, chimes, and cordials. It's a heady stew that brings to mind prairies brimming with non-human life and man-machines gasping for breath in desert oases amidst the disinterested chatter of mutant arachnids. "Convention of the 24" contains one of the Dream's more inebriating sequencer motifs, and the closing title track is a luxurious bath in simmering waters of liquid electronics and slippery beat smears. WHITE EAGLE remains one of TD's late-period triumphs.
Titles on disc 1
1.
Mojave Plan
2.
Midnight In Tula
3.
Convention Of The 24
4.
White Eagle
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On the limmited edition it has all the music videos on it as well! An excellent touch I think!
The cover is the only downside that I have found, it looks nice now but after time it's going to be a bit scruffy as it's made like a hard back book with no plastic covering. (*)
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