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Tangerine Dream's last album before the jump to Virgin records is a bit of a step down from the high achievements of Zeit, but will be of interest to fans of the band because it provides a series of rough sketches towards the material that would become Phaedra. The same love of Mellotron and predominance of other synthesisers and general move away from the rock instrumentation of their early albums is present, and in general the sound is more laid-back than any of their pre-Zeit works. Don't let the baby's head on the cover fool you - this is a vision of TD's future, not a throwback to Electronic Meditation (where the baby's body can be found...).