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Guldbamsen 
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 Posted: April 21 2020 at 03:07 |
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No particular order:
Alpha Centauri Atem Rubycon Ricochet Force Majeure Green Desert Zeit Phaedra Tangram Electronic Meditation |
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“The Guide says there is an art to flying or rather a knack. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.”
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zeuhl1
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The Tangerine Tree project was something done around 2002 or so where fans sent in recordings: soundboards, master tapes, audience tapes, films etc to the curators who then cleaned them up and sorted them according to sound quality. The really good stuff became Tangerine Tree, and the lesser quality but still good stuff became the Tangerine Leaves series. There's about 90 releases totaling about 300 hours of unreleased stuff in this project. It was then remastered and full color cd covers were designed, often with stage photos from the event. They were distributed on the web by the tree/leaf method where one person fed others the files, creating more trees along the line to keep feeding the end users, the leaves, who were encouraged to become trees themselves. They adhered to a strict deadhead style of tape trading, absolutely NO cash could trade hands or you found yourself banished for life from the program. I remember getting a bag of Cds from Europe that my friends could not believe. I had to print out the covers and assemble the finished product with cannibalized jewel cases. Great stuff!
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tdfloyd
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Posted: April 18 2020 at 23:42 |
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Top 10 Post Virgin TD albums although I haven't followed them much since the early 2000's. And 2 bonus albums
 1) Underwater Sunlight 2) Poland 3) Le Parc 4) Heartbreakers 5) Lily on the Beach 6) 220 Volt Live 7) Tournado 8) Soundmill Navigator (kind of a cheat has its from 1976 but released in 2000) 9) Seven Letters 10) Turn of the Tides 11) Quantum Key 12) Kyoto |
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Posted: April 15 2020 at 10:31 |
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Things to keep in mind with Green Desert: Chris Franke hadn't touched a drumkit for at least ten years. Those drums on the title cut are from the '70s. And so are the drums on "White Cloud." Edgar's guitar tone is his '70s psych tone. Compare it to his tone on Underwater Sunlight. Some of the synth pads are discernibly modern, but they're layered over the '70s tapes. Altogether, the results feel very organic and I love the album.
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1985 would be more honest for GD, because that's when it was released, and nobody knows how much of the original tapes from 73 still exist in the final tampered-with state. What is this Tree&Leaves series, BTW?
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richardh
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Thanks. Actually if I had read the information on the back of the CD cover it tells me that it's an 'EP' anyway, so that was a clue lol.
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Posted: April 13 2020 at 02:44 |
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Just acquired ‘The Sessions 1’ on vinyl, which features two live improvisations (one on each side). It harks back to the Phaedra / Rubycon days. I really like it.
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It is listed on PA but is in the ‘Official Singles, EPs and Promos’ section of the discography. It is a strange one to categorise because half of it is live material and half of it is new studio material. But the singles section seems a strange fit. |
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Posted: April 12 2020 at 05:57 |
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Because you didn't add it?
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Posted: April 12 2020 at 01:44 |
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BTW I also like the album Particles that was released in 2016 and is an official release. It includes the Stranger Themes theme tune. Anyone know why this isn't listed on PA?
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Posted: April 12 2020 at 01:38 |
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1. Kyoto 2. Purgatorio 3. Poland 4. Underwater Sunlight 5. Views From A Red Train 6. Le Parc 7. Canyon Dreams 8. The Seven Letters From Tibet 9. The Island Of The Fay 10. Finnegan's Wake love the idea of this thread They made lots of great albums post 1983 but there was a very poor period between Melorose (1990) and Seven Letters From Tibet (2000) when I struggle to find that much I like. They picked up again in the 00's and I have all the Booster series of albums. I have a complete shelf at home dedicated to just TD. |
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Posted: April 11 2020 at 20:31 |
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Eliminating the virgin releases makes this a list that does require a bit of thought: 1. Sorcerer (1977) 2. Green Desert (1973) 3. Atem (1973) 4. Zeit (1972) 5. Alpha Centauri (1971) 6. Underwater Sunlight (1986) 7. Livemiles (1988) 8. Canyon Dreams (1987) 9. Poland (1984) 10. Electronic Meditation (1970) Underwater Sunlight tour I saw them twice, fantastic stuff! (met Edgar backstage too :-) I saw them on the Optical Race tour and didn't really like the direction they'd veered into and didn't buy the lp or cd and stopped following their releases after buying everything up to that point. A friend ran lights for a show in the early 90's and noticed during soundcheck they were playing DAT tapes for major parts of their set so they wouldn't make mistakes or have glitches, and mimed for large sections. That cinched it for me. The Tangerine Tree and Leaves series is well worth looking into for fans of the 70's era. Some of their masterpieces exist there.
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Posted: April 11 2020 at 18:25 |
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I know there are many fans here. Yeah, I imagine you could pick up quite a few of the Virgin, Private and Miramar CD releases secondhand with little effort. The ones from the last twenty years seem absent from most brick and mortar stores. If you don't already have it, track down Views from a Red Train. It's one of their best post-1990 albums. 2008. |
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Posted: April 11 2020 at 17:07 |
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I had a small core group of Virgin-era albums for many years but never went beyond that til recently. But lately I’ve been going further on into the 80s and beyond. Still don’t have 10 favorites but did want you to know I like the band. Tyranny of Beauty seems to stand out from the handful I’ve got. They show up in used CD stores quite often so I just grab whatever’s there.
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Sadly, your prediction was on the mark. I could have sworn there were many more fans here...!
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A bit harder than I surmised, but I got there. After the Virgin era, the live albums and film scores offer more in the ways of variety and quality! 1 Poland (The Warsaw Concert) (1984) 2 Firestarter (OST) (1984) 3 Heartbreakers (OST) (1985) 4 Underwater Sunlight (1986) 5 Green Desert (1973/1986) 6 Near Dark (OST) (1987) 7 Miracle Mile (OST (1989) 8 Sorcerer 2014 (Cinematagrophic Score) (2014) 9 Official Bootleg Series, Volume Two: Palais de Congres, Paris~1978/Palast der Republik, East Berlin~1980 (2016) 10 Official Bootleg Series, Volume Three: Ford Auditorium, Detroit~1977/Regent Theatre, Sydney~1982 (2019)
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Posted: April 08 2020 at 17:01 |
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Double post.
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Posted: April 08 2020 at 15:16 |
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^I agree, Sorcerer 2014 is one of TD's best "recent" releases!
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Posted: April 08 2020 at 14:19 |
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Sorcerer 2014 is a fabulous recording. Perhaps my favorite TD album.
Really like The Island of Fey (2011), The Angel From the West Window (2011), Booster IV(2012) Others : The Dream mixes (1995), Rocking Mars (2005), Destination Berlin (1989) and Tyranny of Beauty (1995). But my other big fave remains Pergamon (1986)
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Posted: April 08 2020 at 13:52 |
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I've loved Exit since forever, as it was my first TD album, purchased on LP (then cassette and several times on CD). Exit's on Virgin. The last Virgin record was Hyperborea. |
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