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RUBYCON

Tangerine Dream

 

Progressive Electronic

4.24 | 1049 ratings

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alainPP
5 stars 1. Rubycon Part 1 in 1975 was the time when we took the time, think 2 minutes to start a title, like an opening to a parallel door, another world, a virtual reality; well the weeds were not as harmful as nowadays, we could also hear the flights of birds... without anything; good to show that it was cerebral music we could say that we were following what Folgoas predicted for the future in his... future of the future... well, just 6 minutes and trifles and bam we are in full in, hush; you remember the 2nd part of Tuesday evening, after 10 p.m. and we were going to be able to find out if the little green men were going to land, if the Bermuda triangle was going to expand; the different instruments of the musketeers Froese, Franke and Baumann, the best team in fact, so these instruments as high as an ivory tower managed to make us go far, very far away with the fear of never coming back; no solo to catch up, just a linear atmosphere that grabs you along the way and takes you away; good 12 minutes and it's still going up; the dreamlike melody, real flute or other assisted by the metronomic pad, shatters your ears and keeps you awake; a scraping of ropes and scrap metal keeps you in suspense, nothing more was needed at the time; in short an OMNI this precursor title and one more step in the virtual musical world; moment when we wake up because we had left, yes without realizing it with TD it's like this 2. Rubycon Part 2 arises, finally arrives to pick us up and go; a captivating sound from the start, you feel like you've been caught by the brain, the sounds revolve around you, it was the good times of invasive stereo with sounds coming from nowhere, Mellotron, synthesizers, organ, guitar, gong , Moog, Synthi various synths; a good 3 minutes in the past and we are already in the glass corridor which connects us to 2001, yes you remember when Bowman and not Baumann goes back to his past and sees himself... baby; 8 mins I don't see the time passing, it's rising yes, slowly but inevitably, some sounds from elsewhere, flocks of giant insects? allow you to stay alert; Well, you think you have an encore of the show but no, it goes differently; darker, more austere, more gloomy, more creepy yes; it goes up so much that it propels you suddenly, you want to go less hard, you start to be afraid; suddenly from the waves, a heavy, solemn air makes you realize that you have indeed gone to the other side of the shore, you have passed the Rubycon; you turn around and you see yourself there at the same time, in the mouth of the glass hole, you are here and now, you are gradually caught by a temporal, spatial mouth, you regain control of your diving suit, the music n is more important, you are lulled, you are well, you think back to all the albums of the Mandarin dream... is this really the right translation, that you are going to listen, listen, you are calm, you fall asleep. ..
alainPP | 5/5 |

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