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Me. Now quite happily retired from music. Try Trip Hazard, below. 

https://brotherhoodofthemachine.bandcamp.com/

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Originally posted by moshkito moshkito wrote:

Hi,

Mars Polaris (1999)
The Seven Letters From Tibet (2000)
Inferno (2002)
Purgatorio (2004)
Jeanne D'Arc (2005)
Madcap's Flaming Duty (2007)
Chandra (2009)
Finnegan's Wake (2011)
Machu Picchu (2012)
Franz Kafka - The Castle (2013)

And we did not list the incredible list of concerts that stood out, and specially the last 2 the band performed with Edgar. Both are tremendous and a magnificent testament to a band that did not quit, and went on with their music.

There is some far out and incredible material in all these and I'm missing Mahlia (not sure the spelling) or something like it. They are not all "perfect" but there are some outstanding things. The Kafka album is actually "better" than the book if one can say that ... it's interpretation is excellent, for example. The Madcap thing is different and while I did not think it was great, it was nice.

(I'm not a great fan of the TD after Edgar ... too mechanical and they lost their "classical" feeling altogether, which was likely essential and very important. It feels like (now) just a bunch of synths with no life of their own other than the electricity!)

I would also add the entire Booster Series ( I own the lot) and Views from a Red Train. What's really interesting about that last album for me is the guitar.

I also enjoy the more recent Particles album which features the theme tune to Stanger Things. I know you don't like the 'Hits' but you have to admit that (the theme not the TV series) is good!

I also very much like the Kyoto album that was originally recorded in 1984 by Edgar and Johannes. No Christoph which perhaps ties in with some of your earlier comments.
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Originally posted by fuzzyone fuzzyone wrote:

Hello! I'd like to suggest Lutz Rahn's only album "Solo Trip" from 1978.











Thanks for the recommendation, I had never heard of this before... and loved that Galaxy Taxi track!

Another one I thought of that definitely qualifies as "prog-electronic that is not ambient" is Eddie Jobson's Zinc.
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Originally posted by Davesax1965 Davesax1965 wrote:

Me. Now quite happily retired from music. Try Trip Hazard, below. 

https://brotherhoodofthemachine.bandcamp.com/

Totally enjoyed what I've heard so far.  I'll be coming back to your bandcamp page to do some more listening.  Thanks for posting (and writing your music)!
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This one also came to my mind, Cluster's QUA:
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Not what I would call "prog" - but fun use of electronics, and I just can't stop tapping my feet to these guys.  I love this "hydro-funk" stuff.

 
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Hol Baumann's "Human."  Good album.
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Originally posted by ProfPanglos ProfPanglos wrote:

I loathe that title track.  I always thought it sounded like some crappy video game theme.  I still remember hearing it for the first time, and thinking, "This is Tangerine Dream?"

The funniest thing where that track is concerned is that it was their final encore at the Optical Race concert in San Diego!! LOL
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Originally posted by verslibre verslibre wrote:

Originally posted by ProfPanglos ProfPanglos wrote:

I loathe that title track.  I always thought it sounded like some crappy video game theme.  I still remember hearing it for the first time, and thinking, "This is Tangerine Dream?"

The funniest thing where that track is concerned is that it was their final encore at the Optical Race concert in San Diego!! LOL

I saw that tour at the Somerville Theater in Boston.  Overall I thought it was an enjoyable show, and great light show to accompany it.  They did cover *some* decent material on the set list, if I recall correctly.  (My memory of that show is a little fuzzy, I may have been stoned, haha.)  I remember I did buy the tour t-shirt and a cool triangular bottle opener with the TD logo on it.  
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Originally posted by ProfPanglos ProfPanglos wrote:

Originally posted by verslibre verslibre wrote:

Originally posted by ProfPanglos ProfPanglos wrote:

I loathe that title track.  I always thought it sounded like some crappy video game theme.  I still remember hearing it for the first time, and thinking, "This is Tangerine Dream?"

The funniest thing where that track is concerned is that it was their final encore at the Optical Race concert in San Diego!! LOL

I saw that tour at the Somerville Theater in Boston.  Overall I thought it was an enjoyable show, and great light show to accompany it.  They did cover *some* decent material on the set list, if I recall correctly.  (My memory of that show is a little fuzzy, I may have been stoned, haha.)  I remember I did buy the tour t-shirt and a cool triangular bottle opener with the TD logo on it.

Overall, it was a great show. We talked to some cool people (including one guy who saw U.K. open for Tull). The highlights were "After the Call" (which turned up on Miracle Mile), the new music later dubbed "Parabola 1-3" (I understand that was mainly Ralf's contribution), excerpts from "Phaedra," "Logos" and "LiveMiles Part 1" — and Edgar's and Paul's solos. The show covered most of Optical Race, and we got no other soundtrack material (we didn't get "Alexander Square," while the Los Angeles show right afterward did).
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Electronic prog which isn't ambient or just regular rock played by synths? That's a challenge.

ARS NOVA is a Japanese symphonic band famous for having only synths and drums - no guitar or bass. Problem is, they're trying to sound like Japanese 80s videogame music, so that's not for everyone.

Russian SOLARIS is probably my best pick. Their albums are not all synths, but the songs are epic.

Dave Greenslade and Patrick Woodroffe have an album called PENTATEUCH OF THE COSMOLOGY! The music isn't as bombastic as the title, but it's  a concept album designed to be listened to while you read the accompanying book, which is pretty prog.

Dionne Bregent's 1977 album "DISC 2"-  it's not all synths, but it's moogy and pompous, (at least the best parts are!)

And pretty much the whole Goblin discography would count, wouldn't it?
There's Goblin imitators like ZOMBI and NIGHT TERRORS that use only synths, so maybe those would be more up your alley?

Igor Wakhevitch (sp?) has an album called HATHOR, which is dark and soundtracky

Par Lindh and Bjorn Johansson have a soundtracky, quiet album called BILBO, which is mostly moogs.

Then there's the self-titled Sagrado Coracao Da Terra album!

Finally, how about Teddy Lasry's SONIMAGE. Faster music, half with drums, half sort of ambient.
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