Phaedra is the titletrack from the eponymous album.

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The track relies on Christopher Franke's use of the Moog analog sequencer as a substitute for bass guitar and was originally based on an improvisation that happened to be recorded in the studio, and unintentionally exhibits one of the limitations of the analog equipment used at the time. As the equipment warmed up, some of the oscillators began to detune (they were highly temperature-sensitive), which was responsible for some of the changes in the music towards the end of the piece.

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01Phaedra3:55

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02Mysterious Semblance at the Strand of Nightmares6:32

03Movements of a Visionary7:32

04Sequent C'2:15

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Comments from YouTube:

Michael P

3y↑304

I was a teenager when this came out. Some 45 years later, standing on a frozen lake in -25c at 1am in Yellowknife watching a green curtain of aurora shimmering above me, all this music flowed through my mind. So perfect.

xxxBigBoiDraco

2y↑13

Goals

Tom T

2y↑10

Lovely story. Thank you :)

Ken Kovar

2y↑6

just..wow!!!

Mark Stang

2y↑7

yah..lol..I remember a time once being high as kite on Orange Barrel in Yellowknife, and watching the sky dance in green curtains...this album is definitely a good audio represenatation of that experience...lol

Tom T

2y↑4

Beautiful :)

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Rhubba

2y↑137

A neat trick is when people are visiting your home, put this on secretly at a very low volume and then incrementally increase it every so often.

Marcus Kingstanley

and do they disappear?

Tech Reality

1y↑8

@Marcus Kingstanley I think you will find their toes start to glow!

Marcus Kingstanley

1y↑1

@Tech Reality wow that is a neat trick!

Lucifer Doherty

1y↑3

Same trick works with ambient monkeys

ste mac

1y↑5

Using the word neat just stopped me.

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WatchTheFish Marge

4y↑117

My father bought this on vinyl back somewhere around 1974 or '75 and, as a child of 8-9 years old at the time, it both fascinated and disturbed me. Those strange animal like noises starting at 11:30 really concerned me as I thought they sounded like dogs in distress. I listen to the album today and it brings back many memories of my father and his music.

Lews Therin Telamon

3y↑6

It's not "vinyl." they're called records

lin x

3y↑19

@Lews Therin Telamon Gramophone (or phonograph) records were made of vinyl (short for polyvinyl chloride) in the seventies, so Stuart's dad would have indeed bought it on vinyl.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phonograph_record

Lews Therin Telamon

3y↑3

lin x Nobody called them that. They were called "records."

Peter T

3y↑16

@Lews Therin Telamon - yes, they WERE called records in the 1970s. But today, there are many different forms of recordings and to distinguish between the different forms, they are now often called vinyl. I don't want to convince you to call your records vinyl, but please let other people use their preferred name.

cjay2

3y↑3

@Peter T But no other recorded music format is called 'records' except vinyl records. They are records.

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Default Operation

3y↑121

The pioneers of acid house, trance, psytrance, ambient house, dub, and techno all in one.

Default Operation

2y↑18

Carlos L. Well maybe young EDM listeners might not but anyone who adores old school techno from Detroit and Europe will know that Tangerine Dream, along with Kraftwerk played a huge role in it's influence.

Lord Geoffrey Fortesque Smythe -Welch

2y↑3

Amen

c v

2y↑2

next tö jarre?

junny g

2y↑2

Tubby and Scratch learned dub from Tangerine Dream? Respect

Melnibonean Nosferatu

2y↑3

and dungeon synth!

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joseph cowan

1y↑1

Years later their children played at the Front Row in Highland hts Ohio. Very professional. Be proud Tangerine Dream

Mark Escobar

2y↑68

After spending 2 hours of my life watching “Bandersnatch” I recalled the album choice I made, it’s cover really drew my attention. Now I’m here to experience the whole thing.

Jabberwocky68

2y↑7

Same reason I'm here!

Eau

2y↑8

that was exactly what brought me here

Stavros Lagos

2y↑4

Out of the hole

Mark Escobar

2y↑73

Let me just add, after listening for 16 minutes, I feel like my vibration has been lifted to a higher level. Anyone else?

Aaron Foltz

2y↑5

blast off. when you come out the other side, reflect.

LilHaseProductions

1y↑1

The fuck does "vibration has been lifted" even mean

Skanda Baby

@LilHaseProductions LOLOL

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Annie Urruty

1y↑5

Je suis fan de cette musique qui m'emporte bien au-delà de mon imagination. Cela me détend énormément..

LeBaronSombre

1y↑1

Pareil ! Phaedra est pour moi l'album de Tangerine Dream qui me transporte le plus vers des dimensions/univers parallèles...

Mike Reiss

3y↑67

I remember playing this album during a thunderstorm once. Great experience.

Aleister Marduk

3y↑9

excellent

Bobby Neal

4y↑98

An Eternal Masterpiece!! Still a favorite after all these 46 years, today. Changed my listening pleasures forever...

Aleister Marduk

3y↑3

Absolutely!

frank merrill

3y↑4

It's been in my Desert Island Top Ten (actually, Top Five) for ONE YEAR LONGER THAN YOU, Bobby. So there! :p

Oh man, what I was introduced to during 1974, just after I started smoking pot while also knowing a dude who was diving quite deep into unusual music: the perfect combination! I was introduced to this in February that year, my first (of four) Cleveland (Ohio) pot parties in a guy's loft downtown. 1974 was the most drastic revolution in my history of musical taste, though 2021 is giving some wicked competition so far! He later directed me to Nurse With Wound, Throbbing Gristle, Merzbow, John Cage, all kinds of fun shit.

I have NEVER reconsidered the idea of deep music, and I'm discovering there's a whole WORLD of this stuff out there. I sometimes listen to a radio station in Kashmir that plays traditional regional stuff (no NOT Led Zeppelin lol lol), had a few hours of Turkish on last night, medieval music earlier tonight, Mongolian throat singing, indigenous African music, Native American (both North and South) stuff, etc.

I can't get enough!

sam 2424

3y↑1

@frank merrill please tell me other artist, I'm just discovering this world now. Thank you!
Or do you know other type of strange music?

Enzo Galli

2y↑3

Phaedra...epic, legend...TD masterpiece!!

Haclil Kumar

2y↑4

My sentiments exactly! I wish I could go back and bless the record store owner who said, "here, I think you might like this". How did he divine a need, an orientation, I didn't even know I had?

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Adriano Elias Schmidt

3y↑68

Eu descobrí este som através do filme "Bandersnatch".Realmente muito bom para concentração no trabalho.Obrigado Colin Ritman!

Stavros Lagos

2y↑1

He drove us out of the hole

Alejandro Bonahora

Mesmo o disco do grupo ´´POPOL VUH...AFFENSTUNDE´´...E MUITO PARECIDA A ESSA MUSICA EXTRANHA....Saudaçoes de Buenos Aires/ Argentina

i am boomer.

2y↑4

This is easily the best mixed and composed electronic music i Have ever heard in my life. This is almost too forward thinking in it's creative use of syntheseizers , mellotrons and sequencers intoan atmosphere so potent and pristine. Pure bliss.

Aaron Foltz

thx1138, 2001: a space odyssey, logan's run, contact, interstellar. This is what this album feels like.

Miguel Rviz

2y↑1

did you hear Rubycon..?

i am boomer.

@Miguel Rviz yes, Also a Great electronic record

Kerrie Redgate

3y↑37

I had the great pleasure of seeing/hearing Tangerine Dream live in Sydney in 1975 at the Hordern Pavillion. Big wall of computers behind them on the stage! (These days it would be a few iPads!) I had all their early LP albums, including Phaedra—wonderful to hear this again! Incredibly revolutionary musicians for their time.

BigJimTang UK

3y↑3

Going by your pic you don't look old enough. But gee what an experience. Now 60 - my all time favourite bootleg of theirs is the Dallas Brookes Hall 1975. Do you have any early pics?

Kerrie Redgate

3y↑6

@BigJimTang UK
Hi, BigJim, I’m 65 (being a Buddhist and vegan helps, but photos can be illusive: I was once labelled a “blonde bimbo” by a kid on YT 😂 — my hair is silver!). Didn’t get any photos of Tangerine Dream in those days. But I remember one member of the band had tiny photos of his very young son almost hidden on the record covers, and he progressed in age with each new album.
Sydney had the Double J radio station in those days, with actual musicologists as DJs, who’d introduce us to every band visiting Australia, and every kind of obscure rock, jazz, blues, etc, from the 1930s up to the minute, with commentaries on who played on this and that album and who they’d played with in the past. It was an education for a teenager like myself. Even my old band had our demo recording played on that station. Great times. And live concerts were fabulous in those days — it was all about the music.

Jonathan Eves

2y↑3

Hi contempories. 65 too. Yes, I saw TD back in the day, playing both Liverpool Cathedrals. What an amazing space to hear this beautiful music. Big fan since I first set ears on Zeit, in 1970. Both that and Phaedra remain my two most loved albums and lineup, of Franke, Froese, and Baumann. I love the ambient sound of Eno, Budd, Cluster....... and many other musicians/bands. Timewind Claus Schultz 10/10. Over the last year been a subscriber to both Cryo Chamber, and Iron Cthulhu here on YT.
Peace and love to you.

Gregg Everman

2y↑2

Those machines had some cool.

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Silver Snail14

1y↑4

Quite possibly the greatest ambient electronic album ever produced. It sounds like meandering droning noise at first but when you listen to it again and again the structures of the soundscapes become much more evident. Almost like classical music. It's more accessible and immediate than their earlier works like Zeit but much more abstract and dreamy than later releases Ricochet and Stratosfear, straddling a perfect middle ground and showcasing TD at the height of their powers.

Nelson Fragoso

2y↑9

Tangerine Dream é uma banda que leva o psicodelismo ao mais alto patamar!!!!!Obrigado por postar!!!!!

Master and Servant

Portuguese language is dreadful, seems like some sort of mutilated Spanish

Zoltan Puskas

1y↑7

"Music was the main focus. So the music and atmosphere that it created became the fourth entity. You could feel that it was beyond yourself.” (P.Baumann) <3

Alan Schwamberger

4y↑371

One of the few bands you could trip on without the Acid.

Dragan Nikolic

4y↑10

Yes, but only deutchman... (maybe russian and holands scandinaves people) can feel it...I am half german

Andrew Pivarnik

4y↑31

the acid didn't hurt!

Insultin Sultan

4y↑3

I did many times.

Billy Stapleton

4y↑8

So did I with and without the acid. Better with though. Heehee

Jervis Horton

4y↑14

MYSTERIOUS IS MY GO TO TRACK FOR UNPLUGGING THE MATRIX. I have loved this track since i was a 18 in the 80s

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totalcinemania

2y↑15

The best of Tangerine Dream I have ever heard by far. Visionary music.

☆ luna. ☆

2y↑48

absolute masterpiece. gives me chills everytime.

Bruce Kilby

3y↑16

The best out of body band of them all,still amazing after over 45 years.

Terry TT

3y↑37

And I'm proud to say I bought "Phaedra" on its release and still enjoy it today, along with "Rubycon". Unfortunately due to service overseas in inhospitable places I was unable to purchase other vinyl records by the talents of "Tangerine Dream"! Thanks guys for great stuff.

Glenn Pupino

3y↑2

Did you travel to far and distant lands, meet strange and interesting people and kill them?

gmshadowtraders

3y↑1

@Glenn Pupino lol, my nigga!

Allan da Silva

Escrevi sem querer enquanto estava dormindo, desculpe!

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Ian Mackay

1y↑2

I bought this on vinyl when I was aged around 16/17. I was studying for my Art 'A' Level and used to listen to it through my headphones and use it as inspiration. I was coming up with these weird space-like scenes, with alien landscapes etc. My Teacher jokingly asked if I was on something, when she saw my paintings, I wasn't, I said I don't need to be with music like this... I'd literally drift off to a magical land. Sometimes I'd paint or draw, other times I'd be almost in a trance-like state. Now 48-years on, it still has that magical effect - simply wonderful! 💖

Rob Kokochak

3y↑28

"'Mysterious Semblance' was recorded on Dec 4th. Pete and Chris were asleep after a long day's recording session so I invited my wife, Monique, into the studio. I called in the studio engineer and recorded it in one take on a double-keyboarded Mellotron while Monique turned the knobs on a phasing device. This piece is on the record exactly as it was recorded that day. And this practice was to continue for the rest of the session." 'Froese

BigJimTang UK

3y↑2

Great tale - I have always thought of Monique as TD's fourth member. Check out Rachel Flowers.

Dave Gutierrez

Thanks

Tyrone Thornton

2y↑1

My favorite piece!

Acrostico R/GS

3y↑37

I played phaedra on the summer nights of 75 when my 3-year-old son slept in his far room, I was naked in the night on the terrace with the sky above me that smoked, they were nights of travel beyond the universe and the time that I won't get back never again.

alexander valencia

2y↑3

Thanks, bless bro

Fred Riley

3y↑13

For all that most music these days is electronic, I can't think of any modern artist coming close to the innovation and inventiveness of Tangerine Dream even after nearly 50 years. They were truly pioneers in the use of synthesisers, and in the composition of electronic music. They weren't just playing around with the, then, new sounds of Moogs (as Keith Emerson did, and I write that as a fan of ELP), they were composing new works. When we get space travel, I fully expect TD to be on the spacecraft playlists.

ej b

3y↑24

This whole album really holds up...not a weak moment to be found. So mysterious and grand- so reaching...for something...I love the forlorn sadness in the ending flutes...

David Sobel

2y↑12

Bought this on vinyl back in the '70's(yes, I still have it..) and it's my favorite TD album.

Nick Barton

2y↑1

me too, saw them 75

H kaka

4y↑211

Bought this album in 1975 on the way to go camping on top of the mountain in tehran and I listened to it up there for the first time , man i can tell you about real altitude !!

MVns

4y↑5

Was the stuff good?

Marcelo Lemos

3y↑9

Perfect! I've listened Phaedra and Klaus Schulze's X album on top of the mountains during the sunrise. Real flight!

JohnnyB

3y↑11

This doesn't seem like blissful mountain majestic music.

It sounds more like standing ontop of a radio tower and waiting for aliens to talk to me using suspenseful synthetic sound waves lol.

specialized500

3y↑10

Cassette?

Margaret Gallegos

3y↑1

@JohnnyB Right like come on Starseeds LOL

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Kevin Russell

A friend of mine lent me the cassette tape in 1974. TD have made a lot of crap since but this will stay with me forever. And thanks to Mr Branson for making it possible

ingenear

3y↑52

Sounds incredibly modern. Unbelievable that it dates of 1974. As other commentators have stated already: way ahead of its time 😮

billcephus

3y↑9

It's a great album but not ahead of it's time, it IS that time. This is a distinct 70s sound. It goes to show nothing from today is really original or as special as you think. Some people think Bandersnatch introduced this and was the first choose your own path video game, both have been around for decades.

Bernabé García Sánchez

3y↑7

@billcephus Maybe "the future" "was" in the 70's...

margus kiis

3y↑2

Walter Carlos did this 1968

shaft9000

3y↑1

Sequencing+synthesis starts with the Barrons (Forbidden Planet score) and Raymond Scott in the 1950s.
Check 'soothing sounds for baby'.

A big influence a little later is Steve Reich '6 pianos' in particular and 'for 18 Musicians' are a primary influence on TD.
Also check out Tomita, incredible arrangements and sonics.

shaft9000

It's funny you say it 'sounds modern', btw.

The first CD issue on Virgin in the 1980s sounded like a blanket or three was left over the speakers, and then said speakers were mic'd into the cheapest preamp and A/D converters possible in order to create the glass master.

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silverfox55

1y↑1

Thank you Jon Peel for introducing me to tis amazing album.

Ramon Ruiz Giono

2y↑18

Although this album came out in 1974 but it actually was recorded on november 1973! therefore if today at the time that I am writing this we're on November 2021 that means that this masterpiece was recorded 48 years ago! so it's incredible that even today this sounds so futuristic! and so future proof! this means that these musical masters really were very ahead of their own time! they really were some of the greatest musical innovators of their own time! almost half a Century ago! almost as for example Pink Floyd with their great album "Dark Side Of The Moon" from 1973 too, and many other great musical masters from that time! such as Vangelis, Mike Oldfield, Yes and many other musical masters of that time!

Daniele Flori

Ai detto bene i miei complimenti, c'è anche I gruppi italiani che facevano la musica progressiva come le orme. Non so se le conosci, ma avevano un potenziale di musica che era ben oltre nella loro storia musicale. Poi c'è kitaro mistica new age e progressiva degli anni 74. I miei auguri e non lasciare la buona musica che ora non esiste più

Araknaf0bia /kylee

2y↑2

Anymore albums like this? You know of? This is ahead of its time

flipper

@Araknaf0bia /kylee Try Echoes, Pink Floyd.

Алексей Козлов

2y↑1

Скорей не они опередили,а мы отстали.

ML

1y↑1

@Araknaf0bia /kylee Try "timewave zero" by blood incantation.

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Mr Mullett

3y↑19

I still have the vinyl which I purchased in 1975, played it the other day and the analogue is so much better than YTube audio, The 69 year old ears are still good to feed the mind with awesome audio creations. Thanks for posting.

MrFrikkenfrakken

3y↑2

Absolutely. I treasure my TD albums.

Twiglet 22

3y↑2

Hi i'm 68 and remember the vinyl version - it was amazing to escape to ! I'm also a Mullett ( from Ipswich circa 1953 ).

Hey, Laser Lips!

2y↑1

I found a copy in a charity shop a few years ago for a couple quid and when I got home was amazed that the actual vinyl was still in NM condition. I've literally had brand new stuff noisier than this near 50-year old album. It gave me a melancholy feeling to think that it could well have belonged to someone who once loved it and took great care of it, just for it to wind up in a charity shop as a family member didn't know what to do with their records.

1983 Vídeos

3y↑9

This Tangerine Dream album is very good. Another good album, which I am really enjoying, is the album "Force Majeure" from 1979. There is this complete album here on YouTube.

shaft9000

3y↑2

That was my first TD tape, with Tangram on side 2...I must have played it 50+ x before it broke or was given away.

barnabarin ludocratique

2y↑1

Force Majeure is not a cosmic album.

Enzo Galli

2y↑3

Phaedra, Atem and Zeit...3 masterpieces!!! Phenomenal works!!!

MatiGolem

2y↑10

1. Phaedra 00:00
2. Mysterious Semblance at the Strand of Nightmares 17:46
3. Movements of a Visionary 27:41
4. Sequent 'C 35:43

Павел Юдин

2y↑1

Thank You very much!

Graham Timms

2y↑10

The Hyenas at 11 minutes are so haunting. 48 years old and still sounds amazing.

Ken Kovar

1y↑1

Pioneering synth sounds, I'm inspired to try in do this in a DAW!!

Silver Snail14

Agreed. Now there's a lot of simple and affordable equipment to make electronic music easily but back then these guys had to work their asses off in the studio just to produce these sounds. I'm trying to replicate this vibe in my own music just by focusing on the effects and using the most minimal tones I can but the bygone era of vintage synths and electronic had a certain magic to it that's arguably been lost over the years as everything becomes commodified.

soulschoolboy66

4y↑29

Mind engaging. Takes you on a trip to the realms of inspirational beauty.

Aleister Marduk

You Said it!

DANA ANDRA

3y↑9

Bought this in 1974 and loved it. Played it constantly and still love it. It's timeless. RUBYCON is brilliant, too. And AQUA by Edgar Froese. An amazing time for music.

Ian Wilkinson

They call some American music SOUL MUSIC, but compared to this it is just very good pop music.

FrankClinton622@gmail

Hello Dana how are you doing hope you’re having a great time with your family may God bless you and your family

progrockrules

3y↑20

First heard this on the Alan Freeman Show on a Saturday afternoon! I was - what - 14 - blew me away. I am now 62 - and yes - I still have my original copy!

Florence Vinit

2y↑6

mon frère m'a fait connaitre ça j'avais 13 ans , jamais oublié un truc pareil et tous les musiciens géniaux de cette formidable époque de rêves, de délires, et d'ouverture

Spin Until Dizzy

2y↑9

It's a bit of a sweeping statement, but I still find this the most sublime, other-worldly electronic album of all time. I'd be interested to hear if anyone has other contenders?

Peter Newstead

You are quite simply right

Darko Šimić

2y↑1

TD has no contenders.

le4che henry

you could try listening to "heat" by piotr kurek. has a similar feel to phaedra and rubycon but uses a wider array of sounds.

JoHe

4y↑157

It was amazing to listen to this while reading H.P. Lovecraft's At the mountains of madness

Apollo Suns

4y↑8

Oh wow. That sounds like a great experience

Thomas Worden

4y↑7

This is remarkably fortuitous, I usually pair "Rubycon" with At the Mountains of Madness...

Lews Therin Telamon

3y↑9

For me it was "The Color out of Space."

Massimo Pellegrini

3y↑10

I read The whisperer in darkness, smoking 1792 Flake.

Apollo Suns

3y↑2

@Massimo Pellegrini Damn! That's cool!

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Salva Buggira

2y↑2

Espectacular maravillosa fantástica misteriosa el mejor grupo de musica electrónica de todos los tiempos en mi opinión una musica que sin duda alguna se adelanto a su tiempo .

Adam Herring

3y↑11

It feels like I just spent 38 minutes traveling through time and space and other dimensions. What a ride!

JON BONG JOVI

2y↑1

I JUST REALIZED LAST WEEK.........PSYCHEDELIC and AVANT music is PERFECT for this covid world.....cuz it's like I'm floating thru space.............FAR AWAY FROM THE BULLSHIT!

Eli Shmuel

2y↑8

This is masterpiece for ever.

From This Instance On

3y↑11

just one of the best imaginable ambient/crazy albums ever formulated on this sphere. creatures from our genetic past communicating the sounds of their curiosity and paranoia withing the frame of their passing existence is how i always envision this album. their genetic imprint speaking to us.

Eddie Page

1y↑3

This is timeless.

Eduardo Souza

2y↑2

Amazing album. Perfect atmospheric trip.

Jeronimo Noguera

3y↑2

Sin lugar a dudas la obra cumbre este tercer álbum de Tangerine Dream... Lo malo... La escasa duración. Anecdóticamente, en el vinilo, muy diminuto, en miniatura aparece la cara de un niño... ¿Edgar Froese?. Una joya entre mis 22 mejores discos de todos los tiempos.

John Marchington

3y↑9

This was my introduction to electronic music back in 1975 when I saw the LP in a record shop and was fascinated by the cover art (and I still don't know what it is supposed to represent!). I have subsequently bought three digital versions: the standard CD when it was first.released, a Japanese SACD and most recently a Japanese UHQCD, which I think is the finest sounding of them all. I started a life-long love affair with the band's music - at least, while Edgar was still there.

James Gasperowich

I think it's color enhanced close up of a water droplet

Wolfgang de Vries

2y↑1

@James Gasperowich nope, it's a painting FYI.

Nitay Arbel

3y↑5

the first 10:20 are the most amazing abstract electronic music I've ever heard. And yes, I know it came about by accident --- improvising in the studio, Chris Franke's analog sequencer having drifted out of tune, and him gradually fixing it as they go...

Stephen Godwin

If you want modern abstract check out Bandcamp The Soviet Space Dog Project, and the American Astro Monkey Project.

RipScissor

3y↑8

4:40 is one of my favourite moments of the first track. It always gave me some major "On the Run" vibes.

Bonsai Piper

2y↑5

It sure does. Beginning made me think a bit of Echoes.

Stratos Eleftheriadis

2y↑6

The ultimate TD album, and amongst the trippier and most influential pieces of electronic music ever recorded.

M Jagt

2y↑2

You're absolute right

luis pino

3y↑5

sin duda una banda emblematica del secuencial electronico

christofyre

3y↑8

I bought this and Rubycon on cd from some record store on Bleecker Street in NYC circa 2004, and knew from the first listen that it was something special. For everyone who is saying how far ahead of its time it was, it was thirty years old when I first heard it, and it was ahead of the times then. Music still hasn’t caught up with Tangerine Dream.

Maria Jose Moreno Guerrero

4y↑15

El océano es movimiento. Phaedra es su representación.

Prince Rupert of the Rhine

5y↑15

Love this album!

Chris Kasatka

1y↑1

This is art.

No1Starman

3y↑10

I FIRST HEARD THIS WHEN IT WAS PLAYED ON RADIO LATE AT NIGHT IN 1974 FOR THE FIRST TIME...I LISTENED TO THE ENTIRE ALBUM AND REMEMBER BEING BLOWN AWAY TO ANOTHER DIMENSION AND UNIVERSE..BOUGHT THE LP VINYL A WEEK LATER AND STILL HAVE IT IN MINT CONDITION...IT IGNITED MY LOVE OF ELECTRONIC MUSIC.

Larry Weiskopf

I'M 64 bought stratosphere in 1975. I was 18 then. 45 years later i still listen every day.. Phaedra & Rubycon soon followed and I was a superfan...Magical & brilliant..A little smoke & T. Dream ,heaven...

Andy King

Stratosfear was released in 1976 (1977 in the States) - fantastic album

meandh

3y↑10

Wow, blast from the past - here come the 70's again! Amongst the first 10 or so LPs I bought - to play on my £33 Ferguson stereo 😁

John Eyre Guitar

2y↑1

I had a repaired Garrard SP25 mk IV, an Amstrad Integra 2000 mk II and a pair of speaker cones with no cabinets.. and some Koss Red Devils, which gripped my head like a vice - brilliant for enclosed stereo! Vangelis’ Heaven and Hell is a flatmate of TD, I think

John Malone

3y↑8

I bought this album as a kid, it was my first introduction to New-age music back in the 70's.

Lieven Van Paemel

3y↑1

It was called cosmic music at the time... simply that :-)

Ganapati Borikar

Lot of Thanks for uploading this amazing music. 😀

Peter Wilson

Me too my very first album. :)

David Davies

2y↑4

this is a very relaxing album particularly combined with antipychotics

Dune Campbell

3y↑9

I bought this album in the 70s when I would lie down on the sofa and listen to it. Although I always enjoyed it, I never made it through the entire album without falling asleep so it was very useful to me.

Peter T

3y↑2

No shame in using a good sleeping help.
I've heard the advice of trying to read a PhD thesis, but Phaedra is nicer.

Wesley Williams

3y↑9

Edgar Froese is a genius!!!!!

Anonx82

3y↑17

Masterpiece

PopukoFan

Legendary. I have all their albums but somehow I forgot to add them to my master playlist of truly awesome music. No idea how that happened...

Sara quel che sarà

3y↑2

adoro soprattutto i primi 12 minuti, suono perfetto, penetrante, metafisico

carl lasky

2y↑6

This is brilliant.One of my favorite groups that formed in the late 60`s.This is the best T.D I`ve ever heard.Even better than Rubicon!!!!!!The best!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

M Jagt

2y↑1

You're right.This Album is the most stunning and State of the Art album!

Nitsa Michael

3y↑12

Ii went to see them live and i didn't realize then how brilliant they were.

Robin Howlett

3y↑7

Stops my over thinking mind and makes me feel relaxed thanks tangerine dream 🍊🙏👍

Klaus Kaufmann

Das ist, zweifellos, das beste Album das TD darin eingravierten

Mariana Storani

1y↑3

Hace años lo vengo escuchando, ahora me animé a poner un comentario :está es la música del siglo XX!!

NatBat Lightwood

2y↑1

After listening to Tangerine Dream's Legend Soundtrack i decided its time to listen to their other stuff. I am not disappointed, in fact this was strangely calming.

Paul Green

3y↑3

Absolute perfection

Tyler Stinson

Great album

hippydippy

3y↑3

I love this album so much. 1974 was when I really got deep into good psychedelics. Another great one was PULSAR - POLLEN. Bought that through CIRCUS MAG I believe, but the memory is a little foggy. Image That Huh?

M Jagt

2y↑1

This is the most Master Piece Album and so Stunning!!! State Of The Art.

Sonic Remedy

2y↑1

Got it on vinyl back in the 80's, listened to it on headphones many times. This one and Rubycon were my favorites at the time.

Züri Peter

2y↑4

Like in an LSD dream. Travel to different phases of sleep. Mellotron and Moog sounds scary and strange.This is a Milestone in music. Awesome...

Manuel Zuniga

2y↑3

True story
I was on vacation with my friends and had our neighbors come over. I shut all the lights off, put on Phaedra, shut off the lights slowly spun a glow-in-dark frisbee with my index finger. Everyone in the living room was in total silents.

David Forshaw

👍 Solid Synth!' 🍄🗝️

Lauren

2y↑1

🔊💥 6:00 mark is unreal 🔊💥

FrankClinton622@gmail

Hello Lauren how are you doing hope you’re having a great time with your family may God bless you and your family

MightyFerg1

3y↑7

Has anyone else noticed that on the most recent CD releases (and, I think, on all the streaming services) the bit at the end of Phaedra where you can hear children in the distance after a few moments' silence has been tacked on to the beginning of "Mysterious Semblance..."? They've separated the tracks in the wrong place. On the LP the children's voices are definitely at the end of the title track (side one)."Mysterious..." kicks off side two without any intro. BTW I love the way the synth drifts out of tune in Phaedra - the modern re-recording doesn't sound right without it!

Mr Mullett

3y↑1

Not heard the re-recording but the off tune is essential in the vinyl analogue

Valentin Trejo

3y↑4

Esto si era el rock progresivo

Valentin Trejo

GEORGE 74 asi es en esa epoca era Rock Progresivo ahora creo le dicen new wave

deuce 76

2y↑1

This is one of those albums along with Pink Floyd that made me calm and put me to sleep

gerard

Do you know soft machine their albums 4,5,6,7 and bundles if you never heard them before , your welcome

schapel

Спасибо вам за ваше творчество.

William Franco Mejia

3y↑2

Sublime perfection. Simple as that.

Rozz Grey 801

3y↑14

To create an album as revolutionary as this, it is rumoured that Edgar Froese went down to the crossroads one night and had his oscillators calibrated by the devil!

standandelivery

3y↑1

☝️😂

Léia Castelo

3y↑1

haha

frank merrill

3y↑1

Wow, he had to work really hard to get from Germany to the Mississippi Delta with all that equipment!

Philippe Cirse

2y↑1

There is this album that I listen to for 40 years without weariness 🧙‍♂

NervousNorman

2y↑2

Been listening to this regularly since the day it was released.

demencia

5y↑7

la musique du Dream nous emporte au-delà de l'univers !

James

4y↑12

What strikes me about Phaedra Side 1 is how fast-paced it is; the episodes come and go quite rapidly. It doesn't try your patience like some of the subsequent albums (and the live concerts especially e.g. Encore). Perhaps they had a disciplined editor?

Derek Power

You can only do so much in twenty minutes or so =]

James

4y↑4

@Derek Power I was really saying, they did far more in that 20 minutes than in several hours of some other albums!

Derek Power

@James That's fair =]

cinerna antoine

@James hi, for my part i find it true, i like some other albums of them but closest we approach 80's, more distance i take. Phaedra is unique, i like ricochet and stratosfear, but they even then seem like more conceptual.

Ernst Hergenbeck

3y↑1

True. Maybe that's because everything was new then, and they had too many ideas (together with the well-known fact that when you try out new equipment, it gets into dynamics of its own). Afterwards, it might have tended to become, well, more professional and proficient. This was inspired. I remember that we were impressed at that time, but the following albums somehow were, to us, disappointing. Maybe this was because they did not really know what they were doing in 1974, but quickly learned after that.

redm00n

3y↑1

Man this came out in 74? It sounds futuristic even for 2021, incredible!

A Prophetic Nature

First heard this gem one early morning driving through fog, mist and sleepy. Woke me up, pretty quick.

Rob Goldberg

3y↑9

Music to listen to alone in dark room with volume high...

Fergus Joel

3y↑4

In an abandoned house (upstairs)

Patrick Hines

They did many film soundtracks that were great as well. This is my favourite album but 2nd would have to be zeit

Brian Esposito

2y↑1

Got this on CD today for $1 USD !

Emeterio Cristobal

Lo máximo tangeriner dreams

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