PETE NAMLOOK & K. SCHULZE: THE DARK SIDE OF THE MOOG III

Part 1 is a 18 minutes suite that opens in a way that we can consider "classic" in the space rock world: no percussion of any kind, sci-fi like sounds coming and going and loops that partially point to Tangerine Dream's Zeit but also to the central movement of Saucerful of Secrets or even to the more quiet parts of Vangelis Albedo 0.39. No melody. Just a consistent succession of cinematic sounds designed to bring the listener to the deep space of Kubrick's Odyssey. Not too far from the music of Gyorgy Ligety, also thanks to the synthetic voices in the background.

Part 2 lasts 12 minutes and features the first proper chords. The same space sounds of the first part are now background to a progression of minor chords made by keyboard strings, then disappear. If before we were on a starship, now we have landed on a planet. It's a dreamy soundscape which seems to feature also an electric guitar hidden between the strings. It's the most floydian thing found up to now on this dark side of the moog, but it's still closer to Zeit than to Ummagumma. Kosmische Musik from the 70s created in the 90s.

Part 3 returns to electronics. Schulze remembers to be a drummer and creates a rhythmic base with an electronic loop . At least I suppose that in this case it's mainly his stuff. After deep space and a wild planet, it gives me the idea of a subterranean control room.

As in the previous two episodes of this serie of albums, we have a "disco" moment. Without the 4/4 drums it could be a Tangerine Dream piece from the Virgin period, but it ends to sound like a Jean Michel Jarre track of the 80s. Not bad, after all.

Part 5 starts with distorted echoed voices on a keyboard minor chord. Quite psychedelic. Then we are now back to space. It may be a keyboard, but for a while there's a sound that could be an electric guitar.

The last track is a short coming back to the initial spacey sounds that closes the suite.

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