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Flight123 
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 Posted: September 08 2015 at 09:25 |
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Intruder, isn't Ricochet a live album?
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Sean Trane
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Posted: September 08 2015 at 09:44 |
 Flight123 wrote:
Intruder, isn't Ricochet a live album?
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Partly anyways, but with TD, live albums were always new stuff album, so they (Encore, Logos & Poland for ex) can be considered as studio albums recorded live AFAIAC, everything up to Force Majeure is excellent (including the "different" cyclone), including the first two (EM & AC) and the two experimental ones (Zeit & Atem) and the two transtional ones (Phaedra & Rubycon)... Of course, the more pleasant (or easier to "get" are the ones from Ricochet until Tangram or White Eagle... (though TBH, I find that after Force Majeure, they had said most everthing there was to say).
Edited by Sean Trane - September 08 2015 at 09:46
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Guldbamsen
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Posted: September 08 2015 at 10:49 |
Sean Trane wrote:
Flight123 wrote:
Intruder, isn't Ricochet a live album?
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Partly anyways, but with TD, live albums were always new stuff album, so they (Encore, Logos & Poland for ex) can be considered as studio albums recorded live
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Which is one of the best things about TD in the 70s. They never stood still. The gigs were merely a continuation of the journey - a new path - a new way of experimenting with a certain synth. I've mentioned it earlier on in this thread, but the Bootleg Box-set is surely testimony to this adventurous leg of their career.
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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.”
- Douglas Adams
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verslibre
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Posted: September 08 2015 at 11:24 |
Sean Trane wrote:
AFAIAC, everything up to Force Majeure is excellent (including the "different" cyclone), including the first two (EM & AC) and the two experimental ones (Zeit & Atem) and the two transtional ones (Phaedra & Rubycon)... Of course, the more pleasant (or easier to "get" are the ones from Ricochet until Tangram or White Eagle... (though TBH, I find that after Force Majeure, they had said most everthing there was to say).
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I find it interesting that someone would say that, considering the very next year, they had a line-up change that would stick for the next six years, one that created much of their greatest, most vibrant music, and the one with the overall best synthesizer sound canvas of all of them, being the time TD were given prototypes to play with. This is what their studio circa the early 1980s looked like. 
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verslibre
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Posted: September 08 2015 at 11:27 |
Intruder wrote:
I really dig three live TD albums - Encore, Logos and the double Warsaw Poland. |
I hope you didn't miss/skip Pergamon aka Quichotte, their 1980 live album and the very first appearance of Johannes Schmoelling. (The entire concert that album was taken from is on YouTube as well, and it's incredible).
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Guldbamsen
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Posted: September 08 2015 at 11:27 |
Less is more 
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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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verslibre
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Posted: September 08 2015 at 12:08 |
Except when it comes to analog! 
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Cambus741
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Posted: September 15 2015 at 10:36 |
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Cyclone is by far and away my favourite TD album. I'd recommend it to anyone
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Pixel Pirate
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Posted: February 10 2017 at 04:44 |
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Rather late to join this possibly,but I have recently re-joined this site after an absence of some years,and I notice that no one has recommended any of the 21st century TD albums,a lot of which I think are really good. The 90' were the wasted TD years,largely,but I think Edgar regained his creativity in this century and made some rather excellent albums,worthy to rank among the best in the TD canon.Albums such as Finnigan's Wake,both the Chandra albums,Mota Atma,The Angel Of The West Window,The Five Atomic Seasons albums,and especially the last one Edgar managed to complete,Mala Kunia,which is one of my favourite TD albums of all time.
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Odi profanum vulgus et arceo.
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grantman
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Posted: February 10 2017 at 07:26 |
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rubycon or phaedra essential stuff
Edited by grantman - February 10 2017 at 07:27
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Modrigue
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Posted: February 10 2017 at 08:13 |
Depends on what you're looking for:
- For "kosmische" contemplative music : Alpha Centauri, Zeit or Atem
- For long hypnotic pre-trance suites : Ricochet, Phaedra, Rubycon or Stratosfear (more melodic and accessible) This time period is usually referred as their golden age.
- For space rock : Force Majeure or Cyclone
- For retro-futuristic electro : Poland, Tangram, Hyperborea, White Eagle
Edited by Modrigue - February 10 2017 at 08:20
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