Tangerine Dream - Zeit: Classic or Dud?

like, with a few tweaks, that could be a review of anything

anyway, could anyone tell me how this compares to, say, Klaus Schulze's Cyborg? both seem to be the same concept but right now I'm enjoying Cyborg more.

you already did it all by yourself!

Classic classic classic, an album to lose yourself in, deep dark immersive droney goodness.

Was expecting something more along the lines of Phaedra, but Zeit really is the sound of outer space blackness, dark and depressing and occassionally beautiful.

this is basically what I like about Zeit, except that I think it is nearly always beautiful.

this is great to listen to driving on a german autobahn at night. i remember finding the music quite organic. i wrote about it in my blog a couple of years ago. here is an excerpt:

But then I listened to it full blast at night on the German Autobahn with the cruise control on 150 km/h. And suddenly some very low notes (probably from Florian Fricke's moog synthesizer on the second piece Nebulous Dawn) hit me. There are absolutely no drums or percussions on this album but I somehow felt a kind of earth beat. The sound of the earth turning around itself.
http://musik.antville.org/stories/614000/

not exactly the most eventful album in the world

DOWN WITH EVENTS, UP WITH NONEVENTS

Just got the 2011 deluxe reissues of Alpha Centauri, Zeit and Atem in today's mail. Tons of great info in the booklets, and Zeit and Atem are both 2CD sets with complete live concerts on the second disc. The one appended to Zeit is two tracks, 80 minutes, from November 1972. In the Zeit booklet, there's a lot of talk about tensions between the TD guys, who were very into improvisation and seeing what they stumbled upon, and Florian Fricke, who was much more about compositions.

i hope they louderized the silent parts

What label are the 2011 reissues on? xpost

They're on Esoteric, through Cherry Red.

cool, thanks

I'm a fan. I agree with you that this is not shuffle-music though. spending an afternoon with this is nice though.

they really pull off this marvelous sense of fluctuating otherness

like, you're not enveloped, you're not having a cinematic experience, you're not JUST 'going on a journey', the record doesn't take over your space and you don't always enter into its space, but you intermittently seem to encounter it as a thing in its own right

Lively discussion of this album on the Noisextra podcast today.