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However, what Vangelis has done is pure "Electronic music". Let's give it a definition first:

When the soundtrack of the SciFi movie "The Forbidden Planet" was realized, the authors weren't officially authors, so they didn't have the possibility to give a title to their music and be recorded as authors. But they invented a genre. Their music influenced at tleast all the SciFi movies for decades after so if I only were able to remember their names, I'd suggest them for proto-prog.

Vangelis succeded about 30 years after. This album is the most experimental after Beaubourg, but while the first was unstructured and its few melodic parts were not fitting well with the rest of the album, here we have an attempt to make music from electricity.

If you are in the right state of mind it's possible that this music does something for you, but if not, you won't survive to the first five minutes, regardless the starting point, as the music is almost the same throughout the whole album.

I have listened to it in the "right" mood, so I'd like to give it a "sufficient" rating, but to be honest, there are better ways to spend money, also with Vangelis so I can't rate it more than two stars. It's experimental but absolutely not poor. Saying "For fans only" is a valid sentence for fans of experimentalism, not for fans of the usual Vangelis.

It's light years better than Beaubourg, but it's not enough for the 3rd star. If you like the OST of "The Forbidden Planet" you may like this, too.

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