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Posted: January 15 2024 at 05:01

1979: Peter Baumann - Trans Harmonic Nights - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_n7qxqc53H8Ms6oXLgkN7MBfW-uZrJMibA

2005: Iris Camaa - Straight from the Shoulder

1992: Christopher Franke - Universal Soldier (soundtrack) - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLCCJ_xylQ4E0Nz5q5Z89X5_Xpq4GKAJW5

1975: Edgar Froese - Epsilon in Malaysian Pale - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UPeW7KNEPSw

1994: Paul Haslinger - Future Primitive - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SPmy2xWsui0

1987: Michael Hoenig - Xcept One - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_mW0zfa7tDtdiosQomYobAPLTw3-qxvTBM

1983: Steve Joliffe - Journeys Out of the Body - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zGElDlmv_RQ

2019: Thorsten Quaeschning - The Munich Session - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qEV90CM1DQY

1988: Johannes Schmoelling - The Zoo of Tranquility - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_nhboo7paHBUeqdi36lr78JJ8whsoeQrK4

2003: Ulrich Schnauss - A Strangely Isolated Place - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l9svsmx4XvM

1972: Conrad Schnitzler - Con '72 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e5WakYJtLcc

1973: Klaus Schulze - Cyborg - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pq0IGQmWLco

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Posted: January 15 2024 at 05:14

Peter Baumann - Trans Harmonic Nights.

(The only album I have heard from this selection) Smile

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Posted: January 15 2024 at 05:43

Octopus II wrote:

Peter Baumann - Trans Harmonic Nights.

(The only album I have heard from this selection) Smile

You'd have to be a serious Tangerine Dream fan to have listened to all of Iris Camaa's albums, although she sounds more like Lady Gaga than Tangerine Dream. Tongue

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Posted: January 15 2024 at 05:50

I voted for Edgar Froese. However, I really like all the rest, and are all very close to me in terms of quality music.

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Posted: January 15 2024 at 07:05

Edgar Froese - Epsilon in Malaysian Pale (1975)

quality over quantity, and all kind of PopcoRn almost beyond

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Posted: January 15 2024 at 09:58

Edgar's going to take this one. Landslide. Peter's is good, and I've loved Hoenig's Xcept One since it appeared out of nowhere in '87. Classics.

Camaa's is probably a pop album.

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Posted: January 15 2024 at 12:30

yikes!!!

Baumann and Hoenig have veered Casio electronic-box pop Thumbs Down

Schmoelling is embarrassingly pedantic and pedestrian Pig

This fight is (as expected) between the two masters, Edgar & Klaus

Joliffe & Schnitzler are battling for a distant third.

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Posted: January 15 2024 at 12:37

Sean Trane wrote:

yikes!!! Pinch

Baumann and Hoenig have veered Casio electronic-box pop Thumbs Down

Schmoelling is embarrassingly pedantic and pedestrian Pig

This fight is (as expected) between the two masters, Edgar & Klaus

Joliffe & Schnitzler are battling for a distant third.

I like Peter Baumann's two albums from the late 1970's, but he's about to take a New Wave downward trajectory steeper than a downhill skier during the 1980's. Confused

Edited by Psychedelic Paul - January 15 2024 at 12:37

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Posted: January 15 2024 at 14:57

Sean Trane wrote:

Schmoelling is embarrassingly pedantic and pedestrian

If you're unfamiliar with his post-TD discography, roughly twenty albums, please refrain from making sweeping generalizations.

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Posted: January 15 2024 at 15:02

Edgar Froese,
not familiar with most of theist 1980 items

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Posted: January 15 2024 at 16:11

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Sean Trane wrote:

Schmoelling is embarrassingly pedantic and pedestrian

If you're unfamiliar with his post-TD discography, roughly twenty albums, please refrain from making sweeping generalizations.

I've listened to both his albums PP had on offer before making my comments, and was definitely not impressed. Once JS came in the band, TD was never the same again (despite reassessing positively Tangram of late). He seemed to drag them down. I'm not enthralled by Franke's solo works either, BTW, and he was in TD for many more years than almost everyone else than Edgar.

It's clear that none of the TD alumni had the brilliance of the group in its halcyon and heyday periods and even Klaus & Edgar won't hold in the long run (that means beyond the 70's).

I guess it's much to do with the changing times & technology.

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Posted: January 15 2024 at 21:33

Epsilon in Malaysian Pale sounds like my dream album come true whenever I read about it, but never while I'm actually listening. Cyborg is 1970's Klaus Schulze and I love all of his ten first albums. So he obviously get's my vote.

-there's a handful of albums in this poll I've never heard, and never gonna give a listen. Life's too short.

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Posted: January 15 2024 at 22:57

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Cyborg is 1970's Klaus Schulze and I love all of his ten first albums. So he obviously get's my vote.

Guess I should add that I got to know this first with the added 50 minute long and absolutely incredible But Beautiful bonus track. A 1977 live-recording with no real connection to the rest of the album. A full album in length in itself, and I've honestly listened to that more often than the actual album.

Schulze recounts in an interview "It was included in the re-release to give the "harsh avantgarde sounds of Cyborg a more 'beautiful' conclusion"

For those who don't know it already, I think it's up there with his mid to late-seventies studio releases/classics. But Beautiful would have been one of my favorite live albums*, was it ever released as one:

*I could have said the same thing about the full 51 minute long version of Sense (recorded in 1976) from ...Live... - originally released as a 31 minute edit in 1980, reissued in it's full version in 2007.

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Posted: January 15 2024 at 23:46

I only know the Freose album but it's a gem. His solo music was as good as Tangerine Dream. I guess that gives us a clue as to where the talent was in the band.

Regarding Sean Trane's comment I obviously disagree and enjoy the 1980-1985 period of TD a lot (somewhat resurrected for Stranger Things don't you know). Schmoelling certainly brought in a different approach but I absolutely love Logos Live and Poland for instance and Exit is one of their best alongside Tangram. The idea that he dragged them down in non existent. Of course you may prefer the 70's version of the band and that is understandable but my entry to the band was via the early 80's albums when music was collectively jumping itself off a cliff. I like a lot of instrumental music from the 80's though inc Vangelis, Jarre and a lot of the New Age stuff. I'm funny like that!

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Posted: January 16 2024 at 02:13

richardh wrote:

I only know the Freose album but it's a gem. His solo music was as good as Tangerine Dream. I guess that gives us a clue as to where the talent was in the band.

Regarding Sean Trane's comment I obviously disagree and enjoy the 1980-1985 period of TD a lot (somewhat resurrected for Stranger Things don't you know). Schmoelling certainly brought in a different approach but I absolutely love Logos Live and Poland for instance and Exit is one of their best alongside Tangram. The idea that he dragged them down in non existent. Of course you may prefer the 70's version of the band and that is understandable but my entry to the band was via the early 80's albums when music was collectively jumping itself off a cliff. I like a lot of instrumental music from the 80's though inc Vangelis, Jarre and a lot of the New Age stuff. I'm funny like that!

That's allowed, but only because it's you LOL

Yeah, Logos & Poland have their moments as well (on top of Tangram), but overall, their music appears quite diluted compared to Cherokee Lake or Ricochet.

Even their movie soundtracks involvements during the Schmoelling era seemed much lamer (but more numerous, though) and their choice of films also seemed lame (I mean Risky Business Pinch

My fave 80's TD album is Green Desert Big smile

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As for JMJ, I must say he loses me after the awesome Oxygène and the great Equinoxe albums. His 80's stuff is sooooo lame in comparison (IMHO, of course)

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BTW, if you're not familiar with Schulze's music, the next few to be featured in this serie of polls are actually awesome, with Timewind being my fave. Even his porno film soundtracks of the late 70's are better (IMHO) than 80's TD & solo.

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Posted: January 16 2024 at 02:22

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I love Klaus Schulze's two porno film soundtracks. Big smile

1977: Klaus Schulze - Body Love (soundtrack) - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rzSyuIX8hvU

1977: Klaus Schulze - Body Love 2 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zPooZOSwzxY

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Posted: January 16 2024 at 04:47

I remember when Klaus Schulze released 'The Ultimate Edition' in the year 2000.

A mind boggling limited edition 50 CD box set. Wacko

There is one currently on e-bay for £1,285.82 plus £77.36 postage! LOL

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Posted: January 16 2024 at 08:06

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I remember when Klaus Schulze released 'The Ultimate Edition' in the year 2000.

A mind boggling limited edition 50 CD box set. Wacko

There is one currently on e-bay for £1,285.82 plus £77.36 postage! LOL

I don't own any CD albums by Klaus Schulze, but I do have the Edgar Froese Virgin Years 4-CD box set, which was roughly £1,275 cheaper than the Klaus Schulze box set. Tongue

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Posted: January 16 2024 at 08:14

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Octopus II wrote:

I remember when Klaus Schulze released 'The Ultimate Edition' in the year 2000.

A mind boggling limited edition 50 CD box set. Wacko

There is one currently on e-bay for £1,285.82 plus £77.36 postage! LOL

I don't own any CD albums by Klaus Schulze, but I do have the Edgar Froese Virgin Years 4-CD box set, which was roughly £1,275 cheaper than the Klaus Schulze box set. Tongue

Those sporting a Salvatore Dali-esque artworks are a real must-own if you ask me. Star

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