tangerine dream

Ahh, the familiar, yet expansive, confines of krautrock. A genre where it seems everyone had a hand in everyone’s recordings. It’s boss, for the most part with some latter ‘70s stuff getting into uncomfortable and cheesy territory – either too proggy or simply electronic. But the late ‘60s and early portion of the ‘70s was given over to music that was pretty closely tied to American and British psychedelia in addition to having some composerly concepts tossed in. And while the vast majority of Tangerine Dream’s catalog is just a bit short of abhorrent to me, it’s first album, entitled Electronic Meditation, seems like a balance of krautrock’s older, more traditional tendencies with the burgeoning electronica that would soon decimate the genre. Read more