"Colin Pascal" <cpi23@hotmail.com> writes:
quoted 10 lines TD are definetly hit and miss, ditto with Froese's solo stuff.> TD are definetly hit and miss, ditto with Froese's solo stuff.
> I bought this "AMBIENT" box set put out by Virgin, which came with Klaus
> Schulze's "Timewinds", Edgar Froese's "Aqua", and Ashra's "Blackouts".
> The Schulze was good enough to keep, but sounds kinda dated. The Froese
> album grated on me, so I sold it. But Ashra's "Blackouts" I was mesmerized
> by. Anyone else heard this? Cray swirling psychedelic guitar with lots of
> effects (complex layering ala Robert Fripp), with ample analog synth
> experiments and internal processing.
> I'd love to find more stuff along these lines. It has the same wonderful
> warmth of Laraaji's "Ambient 3".
Blackouts is all right, but I would say it doesn't hold a candle for me
to the early Ash Ra Tempel stuff (_Join Inn_, _Ash Ra Tempel_,
_Schwingungen_). Then again, you didn't take to _Aqua_ which is one of
my fav electronic(ish) records of all time, so maybe it's just a matter
of different wavelengths.
I do agree with you about Tangerine Dream; when they were on, they were
ON (_Phaedra_, _Atem_, _Zeit_), but look at what they're doing now.
Ugh... and even some of their midperiod stuff got pretty drossy indeed.
-p.
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