At a glance
- Artist
- Tangerine Dream
- Released
- 20 February 1974
- Label
- Virgin
- Catalogue number
- V 2010
- Format
- 12″ Vinyl
- Country
- UK
- Tracks
- 4, 37:46
In the issue
Their first release for Virgin Records reached the UK Top 15. Its sequencer-driven textures, and the accidentally recorded drift of oscillators as studio temperatures shifted, defined the ambient aesthetic of kosmische musik for a generation of listeners.
How it was made
In 1973, Edgar Froese, Christopher Franke, and Peter Baumann were experimenting with their newly acquired Moog synthesizer at The Manor, a residential studio in Oxfordshire, just testing sounds, letting the sequencer run through patterns. The tape happened to be rolling. When they played it back later, they realized they'd accidentally created something more interesting than anything they'd planned.
Listen
Track list
- APhaedra17:39
- B1Mysterious Semblance at the Strand of Nightmares9:55
- B2Movements of a Visionary7:55
- B3Sequent 'C'2:17
The label
Signed Tangerine Dream after John Peel championed their album Atem, and released Phaedra (1974), which reached number 15 in the UK, and Rubycon (1975). Virgin also released Faust's The Faust Tapes and Faust IV (both 1973).
More by Tangerine Dream in the issues
- Rubycon1975