Sounds good. Unfortunately the last collections like this had the individual albums spread across multiple discs (cutting the albums up), and I doubt that will happen this time. We'll see when the tracklist becomes available.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Saturday, 13 April 2019 18:04 (five years ago) link
the cover art is amazing!
― the girl from spirea x (f. hazel), Saturday, 13 April 2019 18:28 (five years ago) link
Gah! That's my birthday so...you know...
― Carly Jae Vespen (Capitaine Jay Vee), Saturday, 13 April 2019 18:29 (five years ago) link
i have a complete set of the Virgin era cds, and so did not think I would want this.however, depending on the price, I really f&cking do.and yeah, awesome artwork.re the earlier boxsets : was indeed weird how they cut up the albums across the cds, they did the same for Edgars solo album boxset.
― mark e, Saturday, 13 April 2019 18:43 (five years ago) link
Has to be a purely a cost decision
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Saturday, 13 April 2019 18:53 (five years ago) link
On the 74-78 set if they'd left off the edits and single versions (I mean, who cares?) they wouldn't have had to split Stratosfear IIRC.
Seen $160 mentioned for this new one. If the albums sound good it'd be nice if they filter out to some more regular sized sets.
― Armand Frippanino (Noel Emits), Saturday, 13 April 2019 19:03 (five years ago) link
At current exchange rate, $189.99 Canadian is about $145 US. Not bad at all.
― grawlix (unperson), Saturday, 13 April 2019 19:18 (five years ago) link
A version of Green Desert without the 80s overdubs would be nice, although that one never came out on Virgin so not relevant to this set I guess. Would be good to hear though, maybe it's never going to happen.
― Zeuhl Idol (Matt #2), Saturday, 13 April 2019 21:02 (five years ago) link
I have both of these:
https://www.discogs.com/Tangerine-Dream-The-Virgin-Years-1974-1978/master/315361
https://www.discogs.com/Tangerine-Dream-The-Virgin-Years-1977-1983/master/1335443
alongside vinyl copies of a few of of my favorite individual albums, so can't really justify buying this new set despite my TD fandom
ditto the upcoming Popol Vuh box. Tired of re-buying things!
― Paul Ponzi, Sunday, 14 April 2019 00:00 (five years ago) link
Just pre-ordered my copy of the box. Here's the full track listing:
CD One: PhaedraPhaedra (Remastered 2018)Mysterious Semblance at the Strand of Nightmares (Remastered 2018)Movements of a Visionary (Remastered 2018)Sequent C’ (Remastered 2018)[Bonus track] Phaedra (Steven Wilson 2018 stereo remix 19.37)[Bonus track] Sequent C’ (Steven Wilson 2018 stereo remix 2.21)
CD Two: November 1973 – Phaedra outtakes – previously unreleased2nd Day (20.30)Flute Organ Piece (10.58)Phaedra Out-Take version 2A (20.36)
CD Three: November 1973 – Phaedra outtakes – previously unreleasedPhaedra Out-Take 1 (11.42)Phaedra Out-Take 2B (5.42)2nd Side piece 1 (13.05)2nd Side piece 2 (9.18)Organ piece (5.48)
CD Four: Live at the Victoria Palace Theatre, London – 16th June 1974 (previously unreleased)Manor Mobile recordingThe Victoria Palace Concert Part One (46.54)
CD Five: Live at the Victoria Palace Theatre, London – 16th June 1974 (previously unreleased)The Victoria Palace Concert Part Two (28.15)The Victoria Palace Concert – Encore (13.01)
CD Six: Oedipus Tyrannus – Recorded in July 1974. Previously unreleased; Mixed by Steven WilsonOverture (10.58)Act 1 (16.42)Act 2: Battle (10.05)Act 2: Baroque (8.53)Act 2: Zeus (5.39)Act 3 (22.08)
CD Seven: Live at the Rainbow, London – 26th October 1974 (previously unreleased)Manor Mobile recordingIntroduction by John Peel (2.35)The Rainbow Concert Part One (36.51)The Rainbow Concert Part Two (29.22)
CD Eight: Live at the Rainbow, London – 26th October 1974 (previously unreleased)The Rainbow Concert Part Three (37.55)The Rainbow Concert Encore (12.27)
CD Nine: Rubycon – Mixed by Steven Wilson (previously unreleased)Rubycon Part One (Remastered 2018)Rubycon Part Two (Remastered 2018)[Bonus track] Rubycon (extended introduction 15.04)
CD Ten: The Royal Albert Hall, London 2nd April 1975NEW stereo master tape version with full John Peel intro, mixed by Phil NewellThe Royal Albert Hall Concert – Part One (1.10.33)
CD Eleven: The Royal Albert Hall, London 2nd April 1975The Royal Albert Hall Concert – Part Two (40.12)The Royal Albert Hall Concert – Encore (13.44)
CD Twelve: RicochetRicochet Part One (Remastered 2018)Ricochet Part Two (Remastered 2018)[Bonus track] Ricochet Part One - Steven Wilson 2018 stereo remix (17.06)[Bonus track] Ricochet Part Two - Steven Wilson 2018 stereo remix (21.21)
CD Thirteen: StratosfearStratosfear (Remastered 2018)The Big Sleep in Search of Hades (Remastered 2018)3am at the Border of the Marsh from Okefenokee (Remastered 2018)Invisible Limits (Remastered 2018)[Bonus track] Coventry Cathedral – The original film soundtrack (34.02)[Bonus track] Stratosfear (single edit) Previously Unreleased (4.20)[Bonus track] The Big Sleep in Search of Hades (single edit) (3.24)
CD Fourteen: EncoreCherokee Lane (Remastered 2018)Monolight (Remastered 2018)Coldwater Canyon (Remastered 2018)Desert Dream (Remastered 2018)[Bonus track] Encore (3.14)[Bonus track] Hobo March (4.19)
CD Fifteen: CycloneBent Cold Sidewalk (Remastered 2018)Rising Runner Missed by Endless Sender (Remastered 2018)Madrigal Meridian (Remastered 2018)[Bonus track] Haunted Heights by Peter Baumann (6.11)[Bonus track] Barryl Blue by Edgar Froese (7.19)
CD Sixteen: Force MajeureForce Majeure (Remastered 2018)Cloudburst Flight (Remastered 2018)Thru Metamorphic Rocks (Remastered 2018)[Bonus track] Chimes and Chains by Christoph Franke (4.47)
Disc Seventeen – Blu Ray: 5.1 Surround Sound & 96 kHz / 24-bit stereo Steven Wilson MixesNB all Blu Ray discs are region freePhaedra [Phaedra]Mysterious Semblance at the Strand of Nightmares [Phaedra] Penteo up-mixes (5.1)Movements of a Visionary [Phaedra] Penteo up-mixes (5.1)Sequent C’ [Phaedra]Overture (10.58) [Oedipus Tyrannus – Recorded in July 1974]Act 1 (16.42) [Oedipus Tyrannus – Recorded in July 1974]Act 2: Battle (10.05) [Oedipus Tyrannus – Recorded in July 1974]Act 2: Baroque (8.53) [Oedipus Tyrannus – Recorded in July 1974]Act 2: Zeus (5.39) [Oedipus Tyrannus – Recorded in July 1974]Act 3 (22.08) [Oedipus Tyrannus – Recorded in July 1974]
Disc Eighteen – Blu Ray: 5.1 Surround Sound & 96 kHz / 24-bit stereo Steven Wilson MixesRicochet Part One [Ricochet]Ricochet Part Two [Ricochet]Tangerine Dream at Coventry Cathedral [Visual content] (27.20)Signale aus der Schwäbischen Strasse – Tangerine Dream documentary & performance (NDR / SFB TV Germany – 23rd May 1976). (44.44)
The boxset also comes with a 68 page hardback book containing photos, cuttings and a new essay by Wouter Bessels and input from Steven Wilson. Remastered by Ben Wiseman (2018). Box art by Rupert Lloyd.
― shared unit of analysis (unperson), Saturday, 20 April 2019 18:15 (five years ago) link
Force Majeure is the one I would want in surround. Wonder if the multitracks weren’t available.
― Naive Teen Idol, Tuesday, 4 June 2019 01:24 (four years ago) link
Seriously can't wait for this box to arrive.
― shared unit of analysis (unperson), Tuesday, 4 June 2019 02:21 (four years ago) link
I have a soft spot in my heart for The Dream Mixes (1995). They tried to nail a 90's, FSOL-type sound and didn't quite get there. It seemed slightly dated when it came out, and now it has a great retro-90s appeal to me. It reminds me of Lawnmower Man, Beyond The Mind's Eye, Mondo 2000 and Schwa. Younger Vaporwave fans might also find this one interesting.
Also the songs are actually good.
― 3×5, Tuesday, 4 June 2019 14:17 (four years ago) link
Just got the email that the box is on its way to me. Time to rearrange the shelves again...
― shared unit of analysis (unperson), Friday, 14 June 2019 15:00 (four years ago) link
Read only good things about the big box but I'm sort of hoping the new single CD editions of the main albums will suffice. They're cheap and you get a good selection of bonus tracks including the SW stereo mixes. That leaves the London concerts and Oedious Tyrannus, which may be good but I'm not quite a TD superfan.
That '95 album sounds intriguing XP.
― Armand Frippanino (Noel Emits), Tuesday, 18 June 2019 11:10 (four years ago) link
And the Phaedra outtakes. And it is a one time pressing. Really not bothered about 5.1 though.
― Armand Frippanino (Noel Emits), Tuesday, 18 June 2019 11:29 (four years ago) link
Arriving today...
― shared unit of analysis (unperson), Tuesday, 18 June 2019 12:14 (four years ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/D9YREwBXsAEmj0y.jpg
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/D9YREv2WsAccOnw.jpg
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/D9YREv7WwAAYdQR.jpg
― shared unit of analysis (unperson), Tuesday, 18 June 2019 23:06 (four years ago) link
I follow you on Twitter too and how many fuckin times are you gonna post about this
― space invaders are smokin penises!!!! (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, 18 June 2019 23:16 (four years ago) link
In Search Of Hataz
― Invisible (Noel Emits), Wednesday, 19 June 2019 11:56 (four years ago) link
Tangerine Dream rule.
https://www.magneticmag.com/2019/12/tangerine-dream-exhibit-original-synths-unreleased-footage-london-2020/
― I've Got A Ron Wood Solo Album To Listen To (Tom D.), Wednesday, 4 December 2019 12:48 (four years ago) link
Ohh! That's looks great.
― Le Bateau Ivre, Wednesday, 4 December 2019 13:57 (four years ago) link
Really wish they weren't sullying the band's name by continuing to record and tour since Edgar's death. It's not TD without him.
― van dyke parks generator (anagram), Wednesday, 4 December 2019 15:29 (four years ago) link
^^^ Agree 100%. I mean, if Franke and Baumann came back and took over, that would be one thing, but all three current members joined in the 21st century! That's just fucked up.
― shared unit of analysis (unperson), Wednesday, 4 December 2019 15:51 (four years ago) link
I don’t totally agree - I feel like TD is an entity with an identifiable ‘thesis’ sonically, Froese wanted them to go on iirc, and let’s face it he was pretty terrible for the last idk 20 years of his life? (And yet I do go on extended jags of listening to terrible-era TD)
― valet doberman (Jon not Jon), Wednesday, 4 December 2019 22:47 (four years ago) link
that was Daevid Allen's thing with Gong, too. IIRC the current incarnation of Gong is all people who joined in 2012 or later
fwiw TD have released like 100 albums since 1983 that appear to mostly be pretty bad so idk if I'd be worried about their legacy being "sullied". I think it's pretty widely accepted that when you talk about Tangerine Dream you're only really talking up to say, Tangram. also I'm not sure the new band is actually recording "new" new material - I thought the 2017 album was fleshed out versions of things Froese left behind and the new stuff appears to be mostly re-recordings. though with Ulrich Schnauss in the band I'd be curious to see what they'd come up with as originals
― frogbs, Wednesday, 4 December 2019 23:03 (four years ago) link
Tangram? You’re crazy. Imperial period runs up until schmoelling leaves imo
― valet doberman (Jon not Jon), Wednesday, 4 December 2019 23:15 (four years ago) link
I honestly don’t know...I think I’ve only gotten as far as Force Majuere. For some reason I decided to explore the endless catalogue of Klamath Schulze instead.
― frogbs, Thursday, 5 December 2019 01:49 (four years ago) link
that's in southern Oregon right?
― the public eating of beans (Sparkle Motion), Thursday, 5 December 2019 01:51 (four years ago) link
I find Schulze kinda boring
― valet doberman (Jon not Jon), Thursday, 5 December 2019 02:08 (four years ago) link
Me too but it reeeeeally hits the spot sometimes
― frogbs, Thursday, 5 December 2019 02:10 (four years ago) link
OK I listened to Quantum Gate. That was the one mentioned upthread? It was... not bad? Fairly unmemorable but far from the worst album under the TD name.
― the public eating of beans (Sparkle Motion), Thursday, 5 December 2019 03:10 (four years ago) link
The Enid are another band with only new members that got their old leader's blessing.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Friday, 6 December 2019 18:59 (four years ago) link
Whether these new incarnations get the former leader's blessing or not is not really here or there, they're still rubbish.
― van dyke parks generator (anagram), Friday, 6 December 2019 20:08 (four years ago) link
Hard disagree there re. the Torabi-fronted Gong
― doug watson, Friday, 6 December 2019 20:10 (four years ago) link
Don’t forget Bill Black’s Combo, who continued after his widow sold the name to the band
― the public eating of beans (Sparkle Motion), Friday, 6 December 2019 20:55 (four years ago) link
oh god 80s TD is my favorite: white eagle is my top TD album, hyperborea, poland... underwater sunlight is about where it gets too generic-sounding for me and i get bored.
also check out froese's pinnacles, kamikaze 1983 and schmoelling's wuivend riet
― clouds, Sunday, 8 December 2019 05:07 (four years ago) link
I think my favorite TD LP is Logos. Agreed that Underwater Sunlight is the last album with anything worthwhile on it, but just barely.
― the public eating of beans (Sparkle Motion), Sunday, 8 December 2019 08:47 (four years ago) link
Optical Race has some pretty neat tunes on it
― van dyke parks generator (anagram), Sunday, 8 December 2019 11:27 (four years ago) link
Hope they're hauling the old modular into that Barbican thingy. Did Green Desert ever get a proper release with Froese's 80s digital crap excised?
― Sent me the wrong t-shirt it says let’s summon demons (Matt #2), Sunday, 8 December 2019 11:40 (four years ago) link
I quite like the recent Gong albums. they're not as great as classic period Gong but they're really good psych albums and dont' denigrate the legacy the way, say, the last Yes album did. I haven't spent time with the latest TD stuff though.
― akm, Sunday, 8 December 2019 15:55 (four years ago) link
Jesus, "Coldwater Canyon" on "Encore", the guys in the band gradually work up interesting and intricate rhythmic backing only for Edgar Froese to bollocks it up with tedious boilerplate guitarwiddle for a good quarter of an hour - not so much mind ernie-ing as edgar-ing. Context is everything, and love the guy usually, but I seriously think Edgar Froese might be my least favourite guitar player of all time.
― Duncan Disorderly (Tom D.), Thursday, 30 January 2020 00:01 (four years ago) link
he has a good tone for the most part though
― the public eating of beans (Sparkle Motion), Thursday, 30 January 2020 00:54 (four years ago) link
I hear that but love his guitar on Force Majeure.
― Naive Teen Idol, Monday, 3 February 2020 05:27 (four years ago) link
accidentally posted on the noise board, reposting here:
I've long heard about a version of Froese's "Marouba Bay" that was *accidentally released backwards (as in, the song plays in reverse). It was supposedly released on a compilation called Electronic Dreams. I just downloaded this version and it is exactly the same as the version on Epsilon in Malaysian Pale. Is there anywhere I can hear this infamous backward version?
(*I have no idea how something like this gets "accidentally" released without anyone noticing).
― Paul Ponzi, Friday, 29 May 2020 14:09 (three years ago) link
Sounds like the story about Fripp/Eno's "No Pussyfooting" accidentally being played backwards on the John Peel Show. I suppose if you put the tape in the wrong way round? I forget how reel-to-reels work.
― Is Lou Reed a Good Singer? (Tom D.), Friday, 29 May 2020 14:46 (three years ago) link
Maroubra Bay (Recorded Backwards)
― visiting, Friday, 29 May 2020 14:55 (three years ago) link
IIRC there's one French edition of Zeit that's somehow mastered backwards. Probably went unnoticed for years.
― Noel Emits, Friday, 29 May 2020 14:58 (three years ago) link
It's like a bad joke - "Didja hear the one about the electronic musician whose album was played backwards, and nobody noticed? Haw haw haw..."
― but also fuck you (unperson), Friday, 29 May 2020 15:12 (three years ago) link
It's true, the comments are interesting here -
https://www.discogs.com/release/303081
― Maresn3st, Friday, 29 May 2020 15:53 (three years ago) link