OFF: Tangerine Dream

[Craig Shipley]

Marty (and all)

The version of THE KEEP that is going to be showing up soon is NOT the
rumoured 1984 soundtrack; it is more like "THE KEEP 1997". Those that have
heard it (I haven't) have remarked that there is only two or three tracks
faithful to the soundtrack of the movie (but then, how many soundtracks
FAITHFULLY reproduce the music from the film?). So, the 1984 LP soundtrack
continues to be a Flying Dutchman. (I think it was a mass delusion, brought
on by repeated reports of "sightings". Either that or a passing Vogon
planet-destroying spacecraft beamed 'em all on-board and is using them for
the annihilation of small planetoid).

Yes, Herr Franke and Herr Froese are not on speaking terms. I think that
they both suffer from the lack of creative interaction that they once
shared. Froese has expressed his intention to turn TD over to his son Jerome
in the next few years, which, judging by the last few releases, may not be a
bad thing. I wouldn't call the last few releases New Age Sewage, but I would
call it "adult contemporary instrumentals" which the likes of Kenny G, John
Tesh and Yawni are prime culprits of. There are a few shining moments, but I
play the latest Jean-Michel Jarre (OXYGENE 7-13) infinitely more times than
I do the last few TD releases (retro as hell, but well done and in the
spirit of the first OXYGENE. There is a box set of both OXYGENES, the first
one re-mastered, with an extra track on the new one called "Oxygene In
Moscow". Get it if you don't have the OXYGENE releases already).

I'm not sure if Gary Davis carries TD stuff (I think he does), but I know
that CDNow does. And most of the big chains carry the general availability
CD's at bargain prices. Don't pay any more that $11.99 for any remastered
title...
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-----Original Message-----
From: Martyn Lawrence <martynl at FUJITSU.COM.AU>
To: Multiple recipients of list BOC-L <BOC-L at LISTSERV.SPC.EDU>
Date: Thursday, February 19, 1998 6:40 PM
Subject: Re: OFF: Tangerine Dream


>>
>> I bought all the Tangerine Dream CDs when they first came out, and I've
>> noticed that SOME have been reissued in the past few years with
>> super-bit-mapped mastering.  Does anyone have these and can you tell me,
do
>> they in fact sound noticeably better?  The only ones I've seen are
basically
>> the 80's Virgin albums.  What about all the 70's Virgin stuff--are there
>> remasters available or what?  I know these albums would sound great if
>> remastered correctly (as evidenced by some of the remastered stuff in the
>> Tangents box set), but I don't know if they have been or not.  And then
>> there are the albums remastered by Castle...how do these sound, compared
to
>
>
> I looked at their web page the other day and noticed that the "infamous"
>The KEEP soundtrack is being released this year.Apparantly it was sold on
their
>european tour last year to test the waters?
>
>I haven't bought any of their stuff since Franke left,they seemed to go all
newage mush,no more long sequencer sequences .I dont think Edgar is very
friendly
>with Chris Franke anymore , so a reunion of the old material doesn't look
on
>the cards.
>I haven't got any of the remastered stuff ,but Mr Shipley might be able to
help.
>
>regards
>
>Marty
>