Tangerine Dream - Booster
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Free Music Review: Not the same old tunes
Hit: 5 Stars
No matter how many times TD records a song, it's always different. The electronic improvements make these whole new sounds. I have just about everything they recorded, and I think this one is quite good.Free Music Review: Booster
Hit: 5 Stars
This is the "old" Tangerine Dream. It sounds innovative but has the core quality that TD has produced on earlier albums. Enjoyable yet familiar.Free Music Review: Engaging at times... the best Tangerine Dream in ages
Hit: 4 Stars
I should say upfront that I am a Tangerine Dream of the old days, the Virgin releases era really (1973-1983), and I lost interest in the band pretty much in the late 1980s. Couldn't stand the band's eventual drift into new age, mixes, and whatever else. But when I read about this album, I was intrigued, and so on a whim really, sound unheard, I purchased this from Amazon recently. I must add that I'm into another phase of being into electronic music from watching the excellent "Kraftwerk and the Electronic Revolution" DVD, which explores the German music scene in the 70s, including of course Kraftwerk, but also Klaus Schulze, Cluster, Harmonia, and Tangerine Dream, among others.
"Booster" (2 CDs, 16 tracks, 114 min.) is a curious mix. I was immediately skeptical when I read the liner notes, which tell us "Some titles have been exclusively compiled 2007 from various Tangerine Dream releases", and then that only a couple of tracks (3 in fact) are unreleased. After a tentative opener "One Night In Space" though, I am very charmed by the 14+ min. "Hyper Sphinx", which reminds me of latter 80s Tangerine Dream, nicely done. The re-recording of classic tracks "Logos" and "Tangram" are worthless, as they only want to make you want to listen to the original tracks. But there are several other highlights, none better than the 14+ min set closer "Bells of Acra", which I really like.
It is surely not a coincidence that I liked the 2 longest tracks on here by far. That said, this is not the return of the Tangerine Dream of old, but it surely is the best new music I've heard from Edgar Froese in, well, forever. Is it 'essential' to have? no, but it's decent enough.
Free Music Review: A rooster for the rest . . .
Hit: 4 Stars
Touted as a return to the band's early, analog-driven improvisations, circa Phaedra and Rubycon, this 2-disc set promises a lot. Originally known for stretching the capabilities of early synthesizers, the '70s Tangerine Dream, led by keyboardist / guitarist Edgar Froese, constructed a trademark sound of free-form washes of audio smears, frantically beeping sequences, symphonic electronics, and subterranean motor rhythms. Subsequent decades found the band stuffing its catalog with blander, poppier, Yanni baloney. So does Booster really redeem the band? Maybe. Several tracks, such as the Floydish "The Greek Mirror" or the 14-minute episodic "Hyper Sphinx," do recall the throbbing oscillations that made Phaedra a theme song, to this day, of WXPN's long-running space-music show Stars' End. But several tracks trip over their drum machine laces and major-key feet, falling into sun-drenched flowerbeds rather than an orbit around the dark side of Neptune. Phaedra *****, Rubycon ****, and Ricochet **** remain the untouched trio of Dream classics, supplemented by Froese's first two solo discs, Aqua **** and the rare Epsilon in Malaysian Pale *****. Booster is a rooster for the rest.Free Music Review: Not one of their best, but...
Hit: 4 Stars
Okay, so this is not all new material, but it's probably one of their best releases in awhile. I've been listening to TD for 30+ years and Phaedra, Rubycon or Force Majeure this is not, but it's one of their best since Underwater Sunlight in my opinion.