If there ever was an album that has polarised the music-listening community, this is most certainly one of them! Tangerine Dream were caught up in the heady days of early electronica experimentation and the krautrock scene. This record is a sprawling collection of anti-rock dark psychedelic meditation, or, if you hate it, a load of un-artistic and tasteless, soulless codswallop.
I personally sit on the "like it" side of the fence, this is a great record to play late at night and early in the morning - depending on your state of mind. It is at once exploritory and demanding as well as brooding and driving. Whatever your particular bent, it is definitely a damn interesting pre-Eno era "ambient" sort of record. A winner in my books.
This copy is an original 1975 German pressing (West Germany to be precise). It was imported into South Africa by a company called Universitas - hence the "Universitas Import" sticker on the front cover. Virgin released it only once on vinyl, with the remaining releases in subsequent years being on CD. I managed to get one of my family members to part with it on the condition that I take care of it... What did he expect?!
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