CD Album - Tangerine Dream - Rubycon - Virgin

CD Album

Artist:	Tangerine Dream
Title:	Rubycon
Label:	Virgin
Country:	UK
Date:	1987
Catalogue:	CDV 2025
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Format:	CD Album
Genre:	Electronic
Collection:	I Own It I Want It
Community:	1 Owns
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Rubycon

Tangerine Dream

Part One

Edgar Froese, Chris Franke, Peter Baumann

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Tangerine Dream

Part Two

Edgar Froese, Chris Franke, Peter Baumann

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First UK CD Edition.

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zabadak ● 30th Aug 2017		I like this, it makes me smile - look! :happy:



Lee Wrecker 29th Aug 2017		Magic, I see I was right in my first sentence! With stuff I don't want or have mistakenly bought I usually wait to find someone that likes the artist and gift it to them. Knowing it goes to someone that likes it is more important to me than selling things for profit. Not saying I don't sell stuff, I do but if I can find a happy home first I prefer that method of off-loading my excess baggage. Nothing wrong with giving things away, I say, so long as you don't ask for them back :)



Magic Marmalade 29th Aug 2017		Ha ha... a wheeler dealer!? (Let me just get my sheepskin coat on, and my suitcase full of hooky watches :) ...No, I've yet to sell anything myself, but realise it may be useful, and valuable information to many, who, not being rich, may find they have something on the shelf that they didn't realise a collector may be looking for, and could make crimbo a little easier to deal with, by virtue of such an exchange. As for the values themselves, it turns out I have the "internet", which is quite useful in this regard... (kind of like a really big book, but where the pages are always changing, and is a story narrated by the insane, for the benefit of the gullible) I may well get around to selling some objects some day, once our financial institutions have finally played their last cards, and kicked the can down the road as far as they can, and the proverbial really hits the analogous (For those who thought the credit crunch was fun... wait for the sequel, in a year or two!) But for the purist record collectors, it's worth reminding them that if there were no money in music, your collections wouldn't exist in the first place. Nothing wrong in making money, I say, so long as it is honestly done :)



Lee Wrecker 28th Aug 2017		Hey Magic, do you really sell these things or do you just tally up imaginary values for them in your head? I'm asking because I'm usually very disappointed if I have to sell something from my collection because it usually means I've made a bad choice and don't like it. Maybe I'm a collector and you're a wheeler dealer but I must admit I did sell some rare stuff in my collection when I was a student - just so I could eat - and nah it's worth fowsands. These were four singles current market value 7 fowsand of your money. I think I got $500 for them 30 years ago not that bad really but of course I recorded them all first though so I still have it in one way or another. On another matter I had a bash at your clown suit idea last night and Mrs. Wrecker just said "what've you got your work clothes on in the house for." Sometimes you just can't win. Wehoo! Squonk, Squonk.



Magic Marmalade 27th Aug 2017		Holy smokes! ...just had a little dig to see if The Keep soundtrack they did was ever released / available, and aside from a couple of unofficial (boots), they did do a couple of limited edition CD runs, each of which are available on discogs for not less than £120-odd, and £700, respectively!



Magic Marmalade 27th Aug 2017		I just remembered I bought a Sony Discman from a charity shop a year or two back, which I carried with me in my bag for a while, so I could sample the CDs I was buying at boot-fairs... ... so I'm going to dig that out later and lie in a darkened room and give this a proper listen. (There may be a bottle of Tangle-foot and packet of dry roasted pea-nuts involved too :) But thanks for steering me toward the other three, I'll be keeping any eye out for those.



gregs45s SUBS 27th Aug 2017		A nice find MM,can't go wrong for 20p;). I'm a bit of a TD fan,and so as,such,am biased. I was introduced to this very album by Henry,of Henry's Records (Southampton)(a big Rock Family Tree contributor i think),back in 76'/77' when i was a Punk,and had gone into his excellent shop seeking something "different",and went home with this album,listening to it on phones,it sounded like nothing else i had heard before,with it's lush Moog's,and was "hooked" from that point.A Punk who was also listening to TD!! (shock-horror),but yes,i was at the time (although i kept it secret from my mates;). Over the years,i have spent a fair bit of time/money trying to find the next "Ricochet/Rubycon" amongst their later releases,but to be honest,i haven't found it yet,if indeed it's still out there.For me personally,nothing beats their four album period between 74' and 76' of Phaedra/Rubycon/Ricochet/Stratosfear.I've found much of the later stuff to be fairly bland/safe personally,with many albums being described as "nice" or "lift-music",missing the creative "spark" of the four albums mentioned,there are a few later albums i don't mind though,"Thief","Optical Race"or "Mars Polaris",being amongst them. The very early stuff however,is where they are still experimenting,and so would probably appeal only to the die-hard fans. There is much to explore though MM,and this is only one man's opinion amongst many,but that's the great thing about being able to listen to virtually anything online nowadays,you can pick and choose before you have to fork-out for an album;)



Magic Marmalade 27th Aug 2017		Tangerine Dream have always been one of those on my "To be investigated" mental list... ... only music of theirs I'd previously heard (knowingly) was their score for one of my favourite cult films: The Keep. And while I've come across one or two of their CDs / albums, other things tend to grab the attention, and make themselves a priority, so I think: "Next time...". But of course, this was an early press with, you've guessed it, no barcode! so had to grab it (especially at the princely sum of 20p, which always helps :) Maybe a few more listens will make them more distinct in my mind, but it won't make it longer. (Having a much more satisfying experience with the CDs than vinyl lately... always come home with some little treasures... and all as cheap as me :)



Lee Wrecker 26th Aug 2017		You might like your chicken a little spicier Mr. Magic may I suggest you try "Ricochet ". In the end though what you have described is what Tangerine do but unlike you I find them immediately identifiable and distinctive and the same goes for Brian Eno. I always think of Tangerine Dream as more structurally linked to classical music and Eno, well, tied to or heavily influenced by his "oblique strategies". I do like both the artists you have mentioned in your review but don't eat chicken so I can't really relate to the analogy.



Magic Marmalade 26th Aug 2017		Review Hmmm... Tastes like chicken. ...Well, that's what people tend to say when presented with some new mystery meat that has no real distinguishing taste of it's own, and asked what it tastes like... And this is essentially ambient musical chicken. It could be anyone (Brian Eno?), probably everyone (possessed of a synthesiser or two), but it's most definitely someone! Attempting to review this, or anything on it is difficult as there's nothing really to latch on to... it's great swells and washes of synths that sometimes build to a kind of punctuation, sometimes just drift, and sometimes seem to dissipate altogether. But that's not to say I don't like this kind of thing, in fact, it's just the ticket if you want to tune out for half an hour or descend into a dribbling trance like state with some musical wallpaper.. - which I frequently do - ... it's just kind of.......... there. really. But that would lead me to my only criticism.... it's not really long enough. If you want to get that way, you want to stay in that space for a good long while, but the limitations of he vinyl of the day probably kept this at this length. Great stuff... but need more! 4 people found this review helpful. ✔︎ Helpful Review?



Magic Marmalade 26th Aug 2017		Disc image is a little misleading, as in reality it's a consistent light gold colour throughout. (The outer and inner rings are not pronounced or dark - that's a scanner effect)

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USA - Virgin - 1988

Europe - Virgin - 1995

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