Re: Re: Tangerine Dream's Virgin albums set for box set release

I share a lot of your sentiments, Morgan, having been a fan only slightly longer than you.  I don’t have the inclination, nor the storage area, to become a collector at the level you describe in #2.  My goal is to have the best quality sound of each recording, and it sounds like this set will fulfill a lot of that requirement for these releases.

I don’t even think Soundmill was a soundboard recording... I think they had a copy of the radio broadcast and JF tangentized it to cover up the inadequacies (and introduced new ones).

That would make a fun indie-movie: three hard-core TD fans stage a “Oceans 11”-style break-in at Chris Franke’s Malibu studio to grab his recordings...

Jim

On April 19, 2019 at 8:44:28 AM, [email protected] [tadream] ([email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>) wrote:


I can only imagine your pain of collector fatigue. As you know, I'll never qualify as a "real" TD fan for two reasons...

#1 I never participated in the tape trading rat race. I was too late to the game (only hearing TD for the first time in 1988 and not becoming a fan until 1995) and having nothing to trade. I'm a Johnny-come-lately who only had to wait a few years for the Tangerine Tree. I will never knew the struggle.

#2 I didn't acquire multiple versions of the same albums with different covers. I don't have the Japanese release of the 2CD Poland *and* the Jive release *and* *and*. Actually there are some TD albums I don't own at all. I have especially avoided the endless re-releases of the early 2000's. Burn the heretic!


But I am excited about this release. Even though I'm not welcome on any of the Facebook groups due to my support of the Tree, I know that Wouter gave input to this as he supervised the last two Bootleg Boxes which were finally of a high enough quality to bear the Tangerine Dream name. Compare that to the atrocious Buttmoon stuff and the prior Bootleg Box which did not rise to the level of "excellent". Amongst all the noise, I see this new release as TD trying to do the "right thing".

So I've peeked at the tracklisting of this new 18CD box and see a LOT to be interested in:

* Two full CDs of unreleased outtakes from the week Phaedra was recorded.
* Two soundboard recordings of 1974 concerts for which no bootleg exists.
* Complete original Oedipus Tyrannus.
* Several of the TD albums remixed from original materials by Steve Wilson who is a professional sound engineer.

Personally I was hoping for at least one soundboard 1976 concert, but given that TD has only ever released one show from that year -- the execrable Soundmill Navigator -- I think satisfying that dream is going to require befriending Chris Franke.

I'll be buying this one.

-Morgan