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Posted: July 13 2014 at 13:36
Arthur Brown's Kingdom Come-The Journey LP has some great keyboard work I.M.H.O.,though i'm not an expert on keys nor claim to be,just like what i hear on there.
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Posted: July 14 2014 at 00:33
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richardh wrote:
This is great if you like your Yamaha GX1
That album came out in 1973...the GX1 wasn't on the market yet. That features the famous T.O.N.T.O. synthesizer set-up which included models from Moog, ARP and EMS hooked up together. Stevie was one of the first people to ever use a GX1 on the album Songs In The Key Of Life.
Destroyed a long held assumption of mine. The sounds are just so like the Yamaha GX1 to me and I knew Stevie had used it.
Still its a great album that probably belongs on this thread judging by the information in your post.
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Posted: July 14 2014 at 03:54
A couple years ago I played Tangerine Dream's Phaedra for a flatmate and he had no idea it was as old as 1974.
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^ I had a similar kinda 'double take' experience when I heard Franco Battiato's Sulle Cord di Aries from 1973 which I just casually and unquestioningly assumed was a contemporary IDM album. Very prescient and in places at least 20 odd years ahead of it's time.
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Posted: July 14 2014 at 05:08
Toaster Mantis wrote:
A couple years ago I played Tangerine Dream's Phaedra for a flatmate and he had no idea it was as old as 1974.
Nothing shocking for me - every great album which passed that time test sounds not dated, especially today when almost all of the 70s styles are already recycled and exist in parallel.
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Posted: July 15 2014 at 12:05
Ever the clueless onslaught continues unabated.
1973 Tangerine Dream sound like 1973 Tangerine Dream. It is neither timeless nor is it dated, it sounds like Tangerine Dream of 1973.
However most of the albums listed in this thread are not advanced or sounding a head of their time, they all sound "of their time" - they just happen to have a synthesiser on them (except Tubular Bells, which of course, does not), and just having a synthesiser does not magically imbue very damn album with the gift of advance ahead of their timeness, that would be a bloody stupid idea.
Seriously, if all albums with synth were ahead of their time then that becomes the sodding norm, they are all the "of their time" - just like Tangerine Dream, just like (laughs) JM Jarre.... Even the weird and wacky ones like T.O.N.T.O and Synergy weren't exactly pushing the envelope when it came to composition, tone or timbre - they actually sounded fairly conventional back in 197whenever-it-was.
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Posted: July 15 2014 at 12:29
I guess I should mention that I've met a lot of fans of electronic music who don't like Tangerine Dream as they find the band's music too technologically primitve, not to mention too closely rooted in psychedelic rock and classical to be "real electronic music".
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Posted: July 15 2014 at 12:39
As in stuff from Kraftwerk and onwards in general.
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Posted: July 15 2014 at 15:25
Dean wrote:
Ever the clueless onslaught continues unabated.
1973 Tangerine Dream sound like 1973 Tangerine Dream. It is neither timeless nor is it dated, it sounds like Tangerine Dream of 1973.
However most of the albums listed in this thread are not advanced or sounding a head of their time, they all sound "of their time" - they just happen to have a synthesiser on them (except Tubular Bells, which of course, does not), and just having a synthesiser does not magically imbue very damn album with the gift of advance ahead of their timeness, that would be a bloody stupid idea.
Seriously, if all albums with synth were ahead of their time then that becomes the sodding norm, they are all the "of their time" - just like Tangerine Dream, just like (laughs) JM Jarre.... Even the weird and wacky ones like T.O.N.T.O and Synergy weren't exactly pushing the envelope when it came to composition, tone or timbre - they actually sounded fairly conventional back in 197whenever-it-was.
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Posted: July 15 2014 at 15:43
Toaster Mantis wrote:
I guess I should mention that I've met a lot of fans of electronic music who don't like Tangerine Dream as they find the band's music too technologically primitve, not to mention too closely rooted in psychedelic rock and classical to be "real electronic music".
I believe the reason for this is that TD's earlier ('70s) works are touted more vocally than the '80s period, particularly 1980-1985 when Johannes Schmoelling was in the band. If they heard the brilliance of Tangram, Exit, Poland: The Warsaw Concert and Le Parc, and their music for the films Thief, Wavelength, Firestarter and even Heartbreakers, they'd hear music that is anything but "primitive."
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