Search - Tangerine Dream :: Bootleg 1

70s avant-garde rock at its absolute peak

W. Rosenblatt | New York, NY | 02/06/2004

(5 out of 5 stars)

"This massive, sprawling set of live improvisational electronics makes a worthy companion piece to King Crimson's great, recently released live set The Great Deceiver. Both sets show, for the true fan with enough stamina, the heights to which so-called progressive or avant-garde rock really rose in the mid-70s. This is not pompous wankery, nor is it warmed-over New Age - it is music at the ragged cutting edge of innovation, with a sense of adventure as opposed to the complacency found in later music of this type. TD with its best lineup ever, showing how creative electronic music was the province of hard-working, skilled artists who needed to muster up all their energies to coax sounds out of their equipment - long before the era when such electronic music capabilities became available to anyone with $100 to spend on a Casiotone and the creativity went out of the business. This is an impressive legacy and timeless achievement."

Tangerine Goodness

Erotic | Boca Raton | 06/21/2004

(5 out of 5 stars)

"I'll start by saying I would have paid much more then the 50 dollars I spent on this. I'll also say that I'm a big fan of the early works (Rubycon,Phaedra, Ricochet). So when I heard this was similar to those CD's, I had to get it. Simply put, this box set is the Tangs doing what they do, and that's a good thing. I think they didn't spend enough time exploring this avant garde style. The sequencer driven trance most notably heard in Ricochet. I've collected most of their early works (with the exception of Green Desert), and I was left wanting more. I love this sound; it's unlike anything before or after. Don't get me wrong, I'm not complaining, I can listen to the same songs over and over again and not get tired. It's just that I wanted more to explore. And that's where this boxed set came in. This boxed set is all the early albums rolled into one, and that's a good thing. I can hear variations on many themes from Rubycon, Atem and few I've never heard before. Listening to this is like meeting an old friend again after many years. It's comfortably familiar, but somehow very different. I'm listening to Bilbao(Part 1) as I'm writing this and can't help but think it's very similar to Ricochet, and that's a good thing. One thing I would recommend is to listen to this with a good sound system. I was listening to this in my car (I have one of those cars that you can hear from far away = Mono Amp and good sub) and heard allot of detail in the low end (40-100Hz) that most speakers might pass. Especially if you listen to it with computer speakers, like I'm doing now. What I'm saying is to get the total experience, make sure you have a few subs running; it gives the music a new dimension. If you're reading this, that probably means you know who Tangerine Dream are and what they do. Most people I know don't even know who the Tangs are. I think they are legends who will never get their proper credit. Like I said, this box set is them doing what they do best. Most people probably don't make their way to this page. They stick with music like Britney or J Lo or some other form of pop music you find on MTV. So if you're reading this, it's likely you know who the Tangs are and the kind of music they make. This is more of the same from the early years.Best of all, when encoded at 256kbps, this entire boxed set will fit on a single MP3 CD, and that's a good thing."

Immaculate!!

norman a. blardony | Philippines | 07/15/2004

(5 out of 5 stars)

"Truly a welcome treat to fans who are hungry, thirsty and dying to get the classic live years. My special thanks to Perry Fernandez of California who bought both sets and brought it all the way here to Manila. He knows I cant get them here so he made all effort to procure one for me again my deepest gratitude to Perry. As for the music, it is just what a long time fan wants music from its classic years with those crude long pulsating sequencers that rocks!!! Now I have reason to live on earth again."