![]() ![]() One of the all-time peaks of ambient music, just stunningly beautiful, effortlessly veering from starkly scary to lush and euphoric. Obviously Phaedra is beyond comparison for its originality and sheer atmosphere - incredible that the title track came about by pure chance and inadvertently created the entire Berlin-School genre which went on to shape new age and trance in the long run - but Rubycon is the superior of the two for me. Almost every album from this era is gold. Rightfully lauded as their creative peak. Admirably experimental, but one of my least favourites. More emphasis on rhythm and density, but mostly jarring and totally lacking the trance-like nature of their best material. Atem feels like a bit of a creative dead end to me. 'Birth of Liquid Plejades', with its droning cellos and Florian Fricke on Moog, is a monumental piece. Zeit is definitely the highlight of this era, a stunning dark album totally devoid of rock music. ![]() Alpha Centauri is a more spacious version of the sound, pretty far out for 1971. Not often in the mood, but the opening two tracks are particularly excellent. ![]() Electronic Meditation - great chaotic kraut-psych stuff, totally un-electronic (despite the name). I actually have a 2CD compilation of this entitled Sunrise in the Third System which contains a considerable portion of the material from each album, simply because I rarely fancy listening to any of the albums in their entirety. ![]() I'm not touching the soundtracks, as I don't know them so well (I've listened to all the commercially released ones once or twice, but never owned them). As it's a mega-thread, it deserves some mega-posts, so here's my rundown of their main studio (and 100% original material live) albums. Even though they're not my absolute favourite group, I own more TD than any other band. ![]()
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