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You see im a fan of the Moog Sequence type stuff you get on say 'Phaedra'.. this was all gone later on.. Why i like Red Shift so much & dislike TD from the late 70's on

I was listening to ARC's live recording 'Church' this afternoon - Mark Shreeve and Ian Boddy doing some great atmospheric/sequencer stuff.

At first I didn't used to like 'Phaedra' much but now I play it quite often and it's become one of my standard Hifi test discs. 'Exit' and 'White Eagle' were the albums that really got me into TD and my liking of the Baumann-period albums came later. KS I discovered with his '... Live ...' Double LP. And I soon picked up on his entire catalogue before that.

There's so much good music out there, other favourites are Michael Hoenig 'Departure from the northern wasteland' and Ashra 'Blackouts'.
Time to settle down now with a book, glass of wine and some good sounds, cheers.

For the EM fans out there - Groove Unlimited have a stock clearance sale on and a special summer price deal on their own catalogue.
From their latest newsletter:


Hi All.

We still have our STOCK CLEARANCE SALES.
BIG Titles with BIG discounts !!!
Mind you many have only one or a few copies and gone is gone at this price!!
And if you want to see last weeks list just go to.

http://www.grooveunlimited.nl/latest-news/e-news-938

And on top of that we have for the month of June this special Groove offer.
We are offering a very special price on a lot of Groove Unlimited titles.
Only € 7.90 for a single CD!!
Check the list to complete your collection or to try out a lot of new musicians!!
And to make it even more attractive!
If you order 10 copies they are only € 70.00
So 10 CD's for only € 70.00 !!
Mind you this is only available from Groove itself!!
This is for all Groove release from 1992 to 2011!!
This means from the GR-001 until the GR-187!!

http://www.groove.nl/index2.html

What a way to stack up on some great new music for the coming Holiday seasons!!

Typical when I'm brassic until next weekend.......

Been loving TeeDee's Mala Kunia 'cupdisk,' which has leapfrogged Mark Shreeve's Redshift project for me. Ulrich Schnauss is a very respected and regularly played artist down my way and his influence on TeeDee has been very beneficial I think. There's a wonderful pic of Peter Baumann back with Ulrich and Thorsten, working on some musical sketches left by Edgar after his untimely death earlier this year (he'd looked seriously unwell/underweight for some months beforehand after his bad fall IMO) and I look at this pic with deep affection and sincere thanks...

I have Baumann's 'Romance '76 LP but im no fan of it. lets say its a bit too TD 'Force Majeure' sounding for my liking.

Jean Michel Jarre has announced a new album: 'Electronica - 1 The Time Machine'. This is a set of collaborations with a selection of other EM artists including: Tangerine Dream, Laurie Anderson,M83, Vince Clarke, Pete Townsend (!), Air, Moby and Massive Attack.

Could be interesting, out on October 16.

Trouble is mention of Moog reminds me of this -

[BBvideo 425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QXbrS3Msgww[/BBvideo]

Prehistoric synth-pop !!!!!

That's a Mini-Moog, not the huge Modular IIIC as used by TeeDee, Klaus Schulze and Keith Emerson, as well as Mark Shreeve (Redshift).

Been playing too much Redshift lately and downloaded a rare track from Edgar and Jerome Froese (look on Moonpop website). More of a track for fans of the pair, but the pic of Edgar from the back shows that I think he was rather ill long before the disastrous jaw-breaking fall early last year, certainly compared to the hale and hearty Edgar from just a few years ago, photo'd with long-term fans..