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Topic ClosedPhaedra or Rubycon?
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Poll Question: Which is better?
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    Posted: December 31 2013 at 18:01
^ Very well said.
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Up to that point, the title side of Phaedra definitely put the pedal to the metal as far as sequencers circa 1973 went. Rubycon ups the ante and with the addition of more keyboards and lush Mellotron work sounds like an unofficial soundtrack to Dante's Nine Circles.
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I was thinking that "Phaedra" might have been the more important of the two, having finally "conquered" the sequencer, and showing it off. That's my understanding a bit, on that, though Dean might elaborate on that a bit more as he knows that physical stuff better.
 
"Rubycon" was, for me, almost a continuation of some of their stuff in "Atem", though it was more melodic this time, than it was "ambient" the first time. The sound effects are still quite vivid in both. I think that by this time they figured out how to make notes and sounds out of the effects, which I would imagine was probably new at the time.
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Find it pretty difficult to split them. I would probably go for Phaedra but just.  (The giants for me are Zeit and Ricochet )
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Wouldn't want to be without either but if I had to pick it's the great Phaedra over an excellent Rubycon. Now pairing that up with Ricochet... a different story.
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Phaedra seems to me a bit more of an all time classic.
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Love them both, but I prefer R U B Y C O N
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I prefer Phaedra to Rubycon, but I prefer Tangerine Dream's first four albums (Electronic Meditation, Alpha Centauri, Zeit and Atem) to later efforts.  Phaedra was the first TD album I got, but it was the debut that really turned me on to Tangerine Dream.
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I love both of them equally. Amazing albums !!
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always saw them as brother/sister !
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ehm.. voted for "both"
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My fav TD album is Zeit, and Phaedra is closer to it than Rubycon. However they are two great albums if one likes the genre.
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Rubycon!
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Rubycon. Love it. Not to belittle Phaedra, which is the album that got me into TD.
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Points: 925 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 30 2013 at 08:22
Phaedra is my favourite of the 2 but my ultimate album by TD is Live Encore. My first album by them and it is still amazing 
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Phaedra, my first Tango's purchase way back in 1974 and not the last. Approve
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Points: 4707 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 30 2013 at 08:02
both are awesome

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Phaedra
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