Help me identify this krautrock track...

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   Hi! I'm new here and I'd like to ask you if somebody could help...

Twenty years ago, a friend gave me a home-made cassette tape he found, with no case and no booklet. Someone had recorded on it Tangerine Dream's "Force Majeure" and some tracks from the "Firestarter" soundtrack. But, on side B, just between both albums, there was a tune I could never identify, not even after listening to the complete T.D. discography. I converted it to mp3 and uploaded to youtube:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5r5E9zQ_Xy4&feature=youtu.be

The sound comes from a vinyl, that's for sure. And to me, the style is similar to those Tangerine Dream albums... although I find its sounds very funny! 

Up to this day, this track remains the last unidentified song from my youth. Does anyone have the key to this mistery?

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fulankito Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Forum Newbie Joined: April 19 2016 Location: Europe Status: Offline Points: 3	Topic: Help me identify this krautrock track... Posted: April 20 2016 at 11:06
	Hi! I'm new here and I'd like to ask you if somebody could help... Twenty years ago, a friend gave me a home-made cassette tape he found, with no case and no booklet. Someone had recorded on it Tangerine Dream's "Force Majeure" and some tracks from the "Firestarter" soundtrack. But, on side B, just between both albums, there was a tune I could never identify, not even after listening to the complete T.D. discography. I converted it to mp3 and uploaded to youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5r5E9zQ_Xy4&feature=youtu.be The sound comes from a vinyl, that's for sure. And to me, the style is similar to those Tangerine Dream albums... although I find its sounds very funny! Up to this day, this track remains the last unidentified song from my youth. Does anyone have the key to this mistery?

Saperlipopette! Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Forum Senior Member Joined: December 20 2010 Location: Tomorrowland Status: Offline Points: 12422	Posted: April 20 2016 at 14:05
	Weirdly intriguing tune. Not Krautrock that's for sure. Sounds more like some wacky solo electronic Library Music silliness by someone like Roger Roger, Jean Claude Pierric, Jean Pierre Decerf... just guessing here.

Rivertree Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Special Collaborator Honorary Collaborator / Band Submissions Joined: March 22 2006 Location: Germany Status: Offline Points: 17650	Posted: April 20 2016 at 15:27
	^agreed ... not Krautrock, nor Tangerine Dream related imho ... and don't have any hint who might be involved here


hieronymous Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Forum Senior Member Joined: December 27 2012 Location: Oakland, CA Status: Offline Points: 308	Posted: April 20 2016 at 16:35
	My guess is (Isao) Tomita - sounds like some of the synth sounds he uses

hellogoodbye Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Forum Senior Member VIP member Joined: August 29 2011 Location: Troy Status: Offline Points: 7251	Posted: April 20 2016 at 17:19
	It sounds like Momus, Oskar Tennis champion period. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F3LLVp9p7hw

Luis de Sousa Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Forum Senior Member Joined: April 17 2008 Location: Wageningen Status: Offline Points: 160	Posted: April 21 2016 at 02:54
	Very unlikely for this to have been produced in Germany. And in the 1970s.
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Tom Ozric Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Prog Reviewer Joined: September 03 2005 Location: Olympus Mons Status: Offline Points: 15926	Posted: April 21 2016 at 03:14
	Dunno ........ Try Yellow Magic Orchestra............ Japanese Electronik...........???

fulankito Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Forum Newbie Joined: April 19 2016 Location: Europe Status: Offline Points: 3	Posted: April 21 2016 at 05:19
	Thanks to all for your time! It is clear now to me that this is not krautrock, having the Tangerine Dream albums on the same cassette undoubtely confused me. As Hieronymous says, some sounds are very similar to that of Isao Tomita's... the research continues...

moshkito Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Forum Senior Member Joined: January 04 2007 Location: Grok City Status: Offline Points: 18064	Posted: April 21 2016 at 11:39
	Hi, I have no idea who that is, although I would think this is very early synthesizer stuff, and might be in the area of W. Carlos, and even the likes of Beaver and Krause, though I doubt it is any of those. I have to listen to a couple of early synth things that I have in order to see if there is something similar here, since I do not remember some albums very well as I have not heard them in a long time. The experimental edge in it, is not on line with the more "progressive" and detailed composers of electronic music ... this felt like more fun trying this out and/or look what I found kind of work, than it would be something more serious like Tomita, whose interpretations of classical music are actually quite good, and many times better than most classical interpretations, specially if you witness "The Firebird Suite", and almost all of his album "Snowflakes are Dancing" (all Debussy). Kinda strange that you noted that it was played in between TD's stuff ... it doesn't fit there at all, and that would not be, exactly, good feel for music and segue within a radio listening context, though someone might make a silly line like ... TD just isn't fun any more ... which (of course) is a laugh!
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Lewian Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Prog Reviewer Joined: August 09 2015 Location: Italy Status: Offline Points: 15149	Posted: April 21 2016 at 15:14
	I don't know this but have three albums of French electronic musician Serge Blenner and it reminds me of his music, certainly sound-wise; although in the material I know he doesn't put so many different bits in one song. By the way, I'd date this second half seventies, not very early. Edited by Lewian - April 21 2016 at 15:16

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	The sounds remind to Tomita, but it can be just a sample for some keys producer
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progmars Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Forum Newbie Joined: May 14 2016 Location: PAris Status: Offline Points: 5	Posted: May 15 2016 at 06:47
	Tomita was my first idea as well, but since he was mostly replicating classical pieces, it does not fit well. Also it also sounds very much like some lesser Walter Carlos... I doubt it is Serge Blenner, not his style. I 'd say it is some piece by Jean-jacques Perrey (wiki here) or some Walter Carlos around 1972-1975 Example Edited by progmars - May 15 2016 at 07:19