Pergamon: Live at the Plast der Republik, Berlin is great driving music.

Not Crap at least up until 77/78. I think their last good record was the live one Encore. I'm a pretty big fan of the other live album from a little earlier, Ricochet. Alpha Centuri ,Phaedra, Rubycon, Zeit, Stratosfear all get my vote.

Edgar Froese has proven to be a bit of a dick in his old age. His solo album Epsilon in Malaysian Pale has recently been re-released/remastered with tinkerings that apparently ruin the whole record. He also released Tangents; a box set of the Virgin years with added segues and horrible re-recorded bits.

I find it a bit too new-agey, too reliant on the technology of the times, and very dated sounding- at least the stuff I have heard. There are a handful of other artists making gentle ambient/early electronic music from this era that are far more interesting to me.

CRAP

mr.arrison wrote:I find it a bit too new-agey, too reliant on the technology of the times, and very dated sounding- at least the stuff I have heard. There are a handful of other artists making gentle ambient/early electronic music from this era that are far more interesting to me.

CRAP

What technology were they supposed to use, if not the technology of the time?

Rubycon and Phaedra are great albums. I also have a solo album by Edgar Froese called Aqua that is great as well.

In one respect they’re perhaps like Fleetwood Mac in that their early output bares little similarity to the band they became. I found the later, sequenced albums to be such a galling prospect that I totally wrote them off. I was wrong though - Electronic Meditation is a jagged, free rock mother of a record. After that I like them a little bit less as the albums go on and draw the line at Atem but for EM, Alpha Centuri, Zeit (zzzzzzzzzzzz) and Atem a solid N/C.

It’s worth hearing these records if all you know them for is the Robitussin snoozer stuff. There are quiet passages too but the early records have a much weirder, colder more organic sound than those banks of fupping synthesizers.

i listen to the soundtrack to sorcerer more often than anything. while the early stuff, zeit, atem, etc, is innovative i don't find myself listening often.

nc, some waffles.

I just picked up "Electronic Meditation". What a great, awesome psychedelic record.