Short review of Tangerine Dream's Phaedra up at Detour-Mag.com. Make sure to listen to the mp3. It's essential.
When Edgar Froese first created Tangerine Dream in 1967, the seeds of deconstruction that would dissolve the band’s initial acid rock strains had already been sewn. Well, in Froese’s mind, at least. He had always imagined the group as a canvas for the Dadaist notions he’d developed while studying under Salvador Dali and hanging out in Berlin’s avant-garde scene. It just took the Dream a few releases to get there – to “un-band” in a sense, and drop the rock instruments entirely. Their new toys? The first generation of synthesizer technology, hefty analog synths and mellotrons that weighed as much as a refrigerator but were also the source of hot, largely unheard of cosmic sounds. It was space age voodoo at the press of a key.
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