Phaedra

While this record is enjoyable I can't see myself returning to it often. I don't find myself listening to ambient as frequently as I used to and when I do I find some random artist on bandcamp. It is beautiful though.

I can see why this was an influence. Interesting!

Clima envolvente com atmosfera progressiva eletrônica.

Slightly disappointing. Will probably listen again, but I was expecting more

7/10

J'ai aimé, très smooth. Le style est unique 3.75

a little TO long and scifi, but hell u'll have a crazy trip

Good study music or music to drift off into an imaginal space. Probably would help if I was stoned to really drift off with the music. I can see why they moved into film scores. Will keep in my back pocket for work/study. I can imagine this being quite revolutionary when released.

Not available on Spotify

Dit soort vage shit verdient een samenvatting per nummer. Track 1 doet me denken aan die scène in Bassie & Adriaan: de Huilende Professor, waar Adriaan al duikend in een, zoals later zal blijken, door "de Kapitein" achtergelaten uitrusting op de op de Canarische Eilanden op zoek gaat naar de ingang van het lab van Professor Chagrijn. Die scène werd begeleid door Spiral van Vangelis, wat ook een beetje in deze hoek zit. Track 2 past perfect in de soundtrack van Starfield. Mooie meanderende geluiden die je het idee geven dat je op een kale, kille planeet bent beland. Of België in januari. Track 3 klinkt als een naderende ambulance en traumahelicopter nadat je je val van de trap hebt gebroken met je hoofd. Dit is misschien wel de vaagste van de 4 tracks. Track 4 mag geen naam hebben eigenlijk. Net 2 minuten lang. Een soort houdoe en bedankt. Leuk album om een keer doorheen te gaan. Bijzonder. Ik zie het mezelf niet nog een keer aanzetten onder welke omstandigheden dan ook. Tussen de 3 a 4 sterren.

Made me want to sleep. beautiful music just too relaxing.

Chill instrumental. Good for studying.

C’est parfait pas fort et quand t’es ben concentré dans tes affaires, mais c’est pas pour autant de la musique d’étude, c’est trop intrusif pis sur la fin ça tape sur les nerfs

2.5/5

3/5 Best: Phaedra Worst: Movements of a Visionary

Eerie and hypnotic but not too memorable

Otro que no está en Spotify entero. Me gusta como suena, en su momento sonaría revolucionario y ahora se puede hacer con un móvil. Tampoco se mataban: una canción de 17 minutos en una cara y 3 más en la otra que suman unos 20 minutos más. He escuchado cosas mejores de ellos y tiene la gracia de ser una de las opciones de música para elegir en el capítulo Black Mirror: Bandersnatch de 2018. En fin, como es tan corto no da tiempo a aburrirte así que 3 estrellas.

Music made by space ghosts ooooo spoooky. I enjoyed it, s/o Moog

Musik för att slumra i bussen till

Not really the holiday vibe I wanted

Reading how this was made is extraordinary. The sounds are ok.

Very interesting and unique. Sound is light yet spacious and serious, drifting you through the clouds. The kind of ambient music I can get behind. Not something I would have sought out on my own, but a cool project that I'm glad the list introduced to me.

I'm definitely recognize the cool and interesting aspects of this, particularly given that it was released in 1974. It is definitely a headphones, close your eyes and imagine the space journey. glad i listened to it, though i don't see really going back to it. solid.

While I enjoy music made with synthesizers, I need more of a beat and a rhythm. I didn't mind this and it made for pleasant driving music, but I don't seek out this type of atmospheric noise.

Pretty and intermite

This album sounds like u got a milestone in no mans sky

first time listening Favorite phaedra -reminds me of the music in stranger things it was good but probably not something i would listen to very often

Here is what this album made me think of. It felt like I was listening to a story of a robot who was stuck in a desert wandering. The robot thinks it’s a human and is desperately searching for water. The robot passes many oasis’s and presses on slowly melting from the suns heat. The robot is lost and abandoned, it thinks there are people waiting for its return home but little does it know it was abandoned and left to rust. (That was kind of dark)

60s hippie dippy music of a strong psychedelic bent.

Very interesting transcendental album

Solo ha sido posible escuchar la mitad de los Tracks en Spotify. El resto estaban anulados.

For 1973 this is lightyears ahead of its time. kind of a listless, floating soundscape. not really my thing but sure.

Ok, I should love this but fit some reason it ain’t grabbing me. I’m gonna give it a safe 3 as I’ll probably try again in the future

Reminds me of the soundscapes that Gabe from The Office creates. I definitely recommend headphones or a good stereo system for this album. I kinda like these songs as like a background sound to a weird art exhibit or halloween, but 2 AND A HALF HOURS??? Seeing as this is from 1974 I feel like this is probably one of the first uses of the synthesizer, and thus the forefront of electronic music as a whole. I honestly like the music, but the length of it all would require some psychedelics to keep my attention. Not really a good album to listen to while working. Maybe this could be the soundtrack to some abstract film that I wouldn't watch.

Brilliant spa music. I felt as though I should be immersed in a sensory deprivation tank. Inoffensive but every track was very similar. 3*

Enjoyable as good background music for working/reading. A three for now but I may come back to it....

bloop. I said BLOOP. bloop stars.

Very unusual but I like it. Very ambient. Powerful sense of dread

Dreamy, floating and not unpleasant but never really moves beyond the science-experiment level impacts, however groundbreaking tech-wise it might have been. Seems worth pondering how their inclusion on the Risky Business soundtrack would play with this opinionated crowd of highly refined tastemakers.

Trippy ambient goodness that I would have liked more if I was listening through headphones while off me box on mushrooms.

If I knew this was what I was listening to it would be fine. Know it’s some trippy ambient music going in.

Dreamy.

Nice ethereal background music. Halfway through the first song, you get this whining monkey/dog which is less nice haha. Overall, I enjoyed it. Great background music, and impressive sounds for the time. 3/5

Pretty weird. Hard to rate

I liked this overall. Reminded me of the experimental side of Pink Floyd a bit, but in their case they would mix in actual songs and tunes with the ambient sounds. Pleasant but nothing earth-shattering for me. 3 stars.

5/10. Alright

Pretty easy to forget that this was music. Wouldn't want to listen to it again and definitely got some creepy vibes from it but there was nothing outwardly bad about this. 5/10

Moog music, captivating and haunting. Certainly requires a specific mood and setting to be enjoyable, but the quality is superbly analog and a foundational album of the start of an album

Enjoyed this genuinely new-to-me find today. Wish there was a bit more verve to the melodies and instrumentation, but this was a solid early electronica album that provided some enjoyment and a few surprises along the way.

No

eh. there's both better berlin school/prog electronic and straight up better tangerine dream albums.

Still early Tangerine Dream, the technology wasn't quite there, some of the sounds are a little dull, but nevertheless a breakthrough album.

It's a very textured lush ambient album. Possibly the first. Though my teenage daughter asked me if I was listening to relaxation music for work, which may give you some idea of how exciting it is.

its odd, interesting from a technical perspective not bad perse but i wouldnt listen to this in my free time

good study music

Eh

Loved these back in the day. Probably not my favourite of theirs but ahead of its time.

Pretty solid for ambient electronic. Just enough going on to hold my interest, never jarring or repetitive.

It's not bad, just not my cup of tea. If you enjoy electronic music you'll probably like it.

I only knew this group from soundtracks, primarily the one for Risky Business, and had no idea they were German. I wasn’t expecting this to be quite so “experimental” I guess. It was not for me, mostly due to the endless repetition of very short sequences. Maybe I’m not sophisticated enough to detect the nuance, it just seemed like a bunch of synth noodling.

litt brødrene dahl og spektralsteinene hvorfor kan andre skrive i din boks, det er litt dårlig - Elena Ja enig Albumet va ganske kult då

The title track sounds like the score to a sci-fi or horror movie. “Mysterious Semblance…” is beautiful. I was drawn in by those warped tones that almost sound like music being played underwater. I don’t listen to enough ambient music to be a proper judge of how good this album is or how groundbreaking it might have been. But I was moved by some passages and I’d like to listen to it more. This would make great background music for writing. I’ll have to find the right project that matches this tone. Could be a fun way to listen to it more and get into it.

Disc pràcticament d'ambient, realment avançat a la seva época. Nu de melodies o arranjaments complexos, és més una búsqueda d'un estat d'ànim que un àlbum de cançons

alien music

This was certainly an interesting album. I imagine it was impressive compared to everything else at the time. I don't think it's really my thing though. My favourite song was Phaedra.

I kinda liked it. Mellow electronic music is soothing.

You have to listen to this on drugs.

Only know in passing - pretty influential as far as I am aware.

Such a cool instrumental.... I will listen to this again sometime. Probably late at night with a bourbon Or two

Closer to Brian Eno than Kraftwerk. Interesting ambience but not really music.

Leave it to the Germans to produce music that sounds like you're stuck on Noah's Ark but in space

Good for a movie soundtrack or for background music

Appreciate the originality and see their influence on later electronic music. But it didn't capture me

Krautrock!

Now for my first album since I asked to get things from all genres ( an electronic thing) interesting… The album starts off with it’s title track a 17 minute long creepy arse instrumental ( well they’re all instrumental but still) and out of the other long winded instrumental tracks that I’ve herd ( Djed by tortoise and Tarkus by Emerson lake and palmer) this is done so much better; this thing is a thrilling exhilarating piece that while there’s little chance I will want to listen to it again I can truly see the audience for this stuff! Then starting off side two we have mysterious senseless at the strand of nightmares and yeah if you removed the ambient synths at the forefront of the track this would sound like nightmare music in every way possible but luckily we don’t have to experience that.Occasionally the audio just drops on this song which is a cool gimmick but it’s not as good as the first song. Then is movement’s of a visionary this is literally scary space music, I definitely don’t think it’s as satisfying as the other tracks on the album but eh still better than the other all instrumental albums on here. The album closes on sequent c, nothing really special here to be honest just 2 minutes of heavenly and ambient synths. I don’t love it but I think it’s very ahead of it’s time as an album. Of this thing was in the 80’s I would’ve definitely gave it a low rating as the 80’s is like the synth decade so it wouldn’t have been that unique . But as it’s a 70’s album this is a unique semi classic of an album yeah it only gets a 4 because electronic music isn’t my kinda genre but for electronic fans I would hope to think this is a must!

I enjoyed this album. Just music but it calmed my adhd because it was not nearly as repetitive as others. Sounded like sci fi

16th May 2022 Listened in the office before going to cox’s to play poker. Surprisingly really enjoyed this, squishy bit of synth. Now I know where stranger things got their ideas.

Beautiful and exciting soundscapes. Works best where there is rythm underneath, so longer the movements in the compositions without it, makes it a bit boring here and there though

Mageeta menoa, voimakas tunnelma. Kuin elektronisempi versio Pink Floydista. Ehkä vähän levotonta välillä, ois voinut olla vielä vahvempi minimalistisempana.

Two of the songs weren't available on Spotify but I liked the rest

Look: I love electronica and ambient music and vintage synths (hell, that's what my degree is in), but I'm not sure this is even the best TD album.

Only two tracks on Spotify but very good ambient

It's nice. Hard to listen to now as a first timer...

Música electrónica ambiental. Ni fu ni fa.

Enjoyed this album…. Calming

é com certeza uma experiência

Cool but the songs don't go anywhere

Soporific and gentle, good background music, worth another listen

Trippy atmospheric prog rock. This is the kind of stuff I'm going to listen to now when I write

First question on starting to listen to this... Did it become before or after Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon? Apparently after. I would definitely prefer to listen to DSotM, which this album strongly reminds me of in parts. It's not something I could find myself actively listening to, but is pleasant enough to work away as background music.

Load up the bong

Very cosmic

Electrónica. Curiosa.

not my thing

Felt like I tuned into a satellite for an Hour. Pretty cool

Reminds me of tubular bells, it sure is unusual for the 70s. Kinda fun to listen to if I'm in the right mood for it, but a bit niche

ok

Over many years many electronic artists have cited Tangerine Dream as an influence. On this LP I prefer the more ambient tracks to the process driven ones, but I guess the process/looping is what all the excitement was about. Definitely ahead of their times in 1974.

Erm, unique

how I never listened to this? v nice

Easy listening all instrumental…I’m assuming they are pioneers in the type of sound…

Fuck yeah

Chill, trance like kind of

pleasant background music, with enough oddness to be interesting as well.

I guess I'd describe this as ambient space-electronica. Not bad for in the background and I can see this working well in film or as background music in sci-fi video games. It wasn't interesting or gripping enough for any kind of active listening however.

so ambient. felt like i was in a sci fi film.

Was only able to listen to two of the four songs, so can't fully judge. The other two were probably excellent.

Yeah very nice but ultimately forgettable

Jesli jest jakis gatunek poza wyspiarskim rokowaniem jaki autor tego zestawienia stara sie forsowac, to jest to z pewnoscia kosmiczna muzyka, czyli z niemeckiego kosmische, bo jest to kolejny album ambientowy w stylu autobahna kraftwerkowego, tylko jeszcze bardziej ambientowo stworzony, bo tangerine dream, choc niezbyt niemiecko brzmi jest banda berlinska tworzaca w latach 70, zalozycielem jest pan edgar froese, ktory jest stalym czlonkiem ekipy, wokol ktorego zbiera sie banda, ktora nadal funkcjonuje i wydaje kolejne albumy, ktorych ma dziesiatki na swoim koncie, jeden nawet zatytulowany poland, ktory jest zapisem koncertu danego w polsce w 83, jako jedna z pierwszych band zachodnich w komunistcznej polszy, bo przeciez muzyka bez slow, to nie ma sie co obawiac o niewlasciwe tresci, ale co do samego albumu, to phaedra, trak otwierajacy zajmuje cala pierwsza strone, na drugiej znajduja sie 3 krotsze traki i tak zagospodarowane jest 37 minut plyty, slucha sie tego jak dobrej muzyki filmowej, cos takiego mogloby byc soundrakiem do dnia codziennego, zwlaszcza w bardziej monotonnych czynnosciach, jak zarabiania na chleb, glownym srodkiem tworczym sa tutaj syntezatory, operowane przez edgara chrisa i petera, do tego dochodza instrumenty, organy basik, no i flet, ktory zwlaszcza sie wyroznia na drugiej stronie, w nie wiem juz dokladnie ktorym traku, nie jest to plyta ktora na plejliste bym wrzucil, a raczej album ktory laduje w biblioteczce ost filmowej muzyki, bo sluchalny jest glownie jako calosc

Pleasant mildly interesting ambient electronic music. 6/10

I found this to be a pleasant listen, despite the excessive run time. Took me a few sittings to get through it. Nothing mind blowing for me.

Innovative for the time

A brave effort into the uncharted territory of synthesizer music in 1974. Some of it was great background music while working, some parts were downright abrasive. I love the sound of Moog synthesizers, especially the oscillator sequencer, so it was an interesting listen. The album went on my 'long distance electronic' playlist.

Not near the peaks reached by their work on the Risky Business soundtrack but still solid.

Et ambient album med lange numre stemnibgsnumre. Jeg lyder som baggrundsmusikken til et spil. Svært at vurdere, men i hvert fald ikke min stil.

It’s a good one.

Interesting, but not quite my cup of tea

Extremely long and atmospheric. Sounds like a bad trip with aliens. Scary experimental synth sounds and sound effects that build tension. Does get boring after a while. 2/5

Tästä tuli mieleen avaruus. Pitkäveteistä kuin avaruus. Mutta ei kuitenkaan ihan poistyöntävää.

Well this one was a disappointment. I'd been looking forward to listening to this, having heard that Tangerine Dream basically makes Mass Effect-style spaced out prog music. I guess they do, the problem is these songs DON'T. GO. ANYWHERE. Every song is like one of those ambient, atmospheric opening moments of a Pink Floyd/Yes-styled prog anthem... but the difference is those songs GO places, they don't just stretch that ambient intro out to a 15 minute song! This album does, and it was pretty disappointing.

atmospheric, and not in the interesting way

What a chore. An album can definitely be both interesting and extremely boring to listen to.

I guess it's important in music history, but it is also pretty damn dull, and not much happens. Like if you are experimenting, do it to an extent that my mind is blown, and there I have the score of Marty Supreme. It's quite alright, but it's nothing that blows my mind.

As ambient music goes its good. Don't mind having that on. Its quite minimalist which makes it a bit boring, but its overall fine. There were a few interesting glimmers throughout but not enough to make me want to listen again. 2 stars

I don't even know how to evaluate this. I'm not sure how other people know this is Good™; to me, this is ambient music at its worst, where it's such a nothingburger that I barely even noticed it's on. This might be good music to fall asleep to? Maybe if I did drugs, I would appreciate this more, but alas, I do not and I am bored. Rating: 1.5

I mean Im sure its good to meditate or doob to. But for an album to put on and listen to its not that is it " Wasnt unpleasant. " ...Thats the review

Don't need to hear that again

I understand the appeal, but unless I get hopped up on some methamphetamines, this is not going to work for me.

Idek

This was not the kind of music I needed on a long road trip. When you're trying to stay alert on the highway, plunging into a 17 minute title track of bubbling Moog synthesizers, eerie wind sounds, and detached atmospheric noise is a recipe for either deep anxiety or intense boredom. Without any traditional melodies, driving percussion, or lyrics to sing along to, it felt like my life had turned into a stuck loading screen for an alien sci-fi movie. If I had been sitting alone in a pitch-black room with a great pair of headphones, or maybe just zoning out, this hypnotic journey would likely be the perfect ethereal brain massage but the driver's seat simply isn't that place.

Meh. I don’t know. Pretty long and I was bored.

Cosmic, man.

Not my thing, alright to nap to though

Without knowing anything about this record, it sounds like it was the genesis of house music. I'm not a fan of house music really, but this is a neat part of music history. It's a very spaced out, airy album with some experimental synth patterns and sounds, played at high tempo. Didn't really do much for me.

This was very innovative, given the rudimentary technology of synthesizers at the time. However, I still think the music is lifeless and uninteresting. I didn't like it then. I don't like it now.

ok instrumentals

Not my jam

L'électro des années 70 était déjà chiante.

Innocuous Krautrock. I’m wondering what drug one would need to be on to like really really love this.

The only Phaedra I know was on The Traitors, so at least I've learned it's a name from Greek mythology. This is another weird album. Electronic instrumental, but not very beautiful or inspirational (for me). At least it was short!

Correcto

Interesting and important in the development of popular music but the content can't compete with what has come after with the advent of digital tools. I'm not an analogue synth-head so compositionally this didn't move me

Background music vibes

Ummmm, this would be a great sci-fi score. As a listen, not so much. 2/5

Interesting sound scales does not always make for an interesting album

klingt wie in meinem Wohnzimmer, als ich versehentlich die Hammond-Orgel ersteigerte...

4/10

I'm sure that this was some incredibly influential album when it came out, but it lowkey just sounds like the audio you use to test if ur headphones surround sound is working.

La musique c'est pour le détendre ou passer un bon moment, là ça m'a angoissé. Musique électronique trop bizarre à écouter sans contexte, cela servirait plus de BO à un film de SF ou un jeu vidéo. Note : 2 A réécouter : Non

Great background atmospheric album, just not great to listen to by itself

Spherical sounds. International successful, nationaly without significance

I would not listen to this album again, is not bad it's just songs that i would not listen again

Grrrrrr. Unfortunately I don't think this is a 1, even though it's a tempting rating. Once again, even though I find very little to love here, it's still impressive -- how one makes something that sounds like this using 1974 technology is beyond me. The one thing that's neat to hear is near the end of Phaedra when the oscillators start heating up and things start spiraling out of tune. Only analog, man. Neato. Still probably never listening again.

🤔

Good background music at best.

Background music. A 3 if wfh. A 1 if in the car.

1973. Their first album to feature their now classic sequencer-driven sound, which is considered to have greatly influenced the Berlin School genre.

Sounded like just noise to me

Atmospheric electronic, at times verging on spooky. Decidedly not for me, although I can see its appeal for people into that sort of thing.

I get the Berlin influence, the dance influence, the krautrock influence, yet I'm not entirely sold on the music. Arpeggio's galore, haunting sci fi ambience galore, but all without a central theme to pull you in and consider you as a listener. It's good but sounds like it's made solely for the artist who has interesting emerging (at the time) tech to play with. Will we get this with the first wave of AI artists? The lasting impression was of it sounding like the in between bits of Pink Floyd songs.

Not really my thing.

This wasn't for me, but at the same time i didn't hate it

Random thoughts: * These guys were like I can make noise and sell records. ok, maybe there was a bit more to it than that but it didn't seem like much more. * Clearly this was pioneering electronic music. But it does not have lasting power. * This kind of sounded like less relaxing spa music. It was gentle and ambient. There was nothing I could point to and I won't ever be revisiting again. * Not horrible and respect the pioneers of sound.

Ambient. But un-ignorable. Wish it was more so.

Look, if you want really spacey electronic ambient stuff then this is great. I just never want that.

Ej usch. Det här var verkligen inget vidare. Som bakgrundsmusik till ett dåligt dataspel. Var det stort när det kom? Nyskapande? Avantgarde? Det skiter jag i. För behållning är idag mycket låg (inte 1 kanske, mest.för att jag inte hatar det åtminstone).

Background music

I expected to really not like this, but it has its merits. It’s works really well as background music. But outside of that, it has very little to it.

# Album Name: Phaedra # Artist: Tangerine Dream # Rating: 2/5 # Comments: I can see how it may have influenced other albums/artists/genres. But its not a very good listen. More like an experimentation on what this new tech can do kinda thing. For its influence, yes it should be on a list, but not for its listenability. # Top Tunes: # Would I listen to it again? No

Muy locochon

Dull

On paper, everything was headed in the right direction. It's a project from 1974 with a cold abstract album cover. I tend to salivate over these short albums with less than 5 songs, Miles Davis' In A Silent Way comes to mind. The genres on the Wiki include "space music" and "progressive electronic", I don't know why my mind skipped ambient, maybe because I'm typically great with ambient music. The resulting album was eerie as fuck. Circling back on the album cover, it kind of reminds me of the 1982 The Thing, and if that movie had been hashed out and turned into a mini series, this might be appropriate music. I heard it on earbuds, taking in the remastered stereo sounds. Then I heard it on speakers, and it was a different experience but just as uncomfortable. Though it is interesting, it's too creepy for a beautiful sunny day. It took the first track 5 minutes for me to get excited over the "prog" aspect. I'd buy it if I find it in a record been for $10, for entertainment purposes outside of regular music appreciation. As far as music goes... 2.1/5

There's 38 minutes I'm not getting back, 70s ambient drivel ⭐⭐

Music for a museum

Joda, TD funka fett i filmen Thief, men det her er ikke noe jeg kommer til å lytte til igjen. Sikkert veldig kult å lage morsomme lydlandskap med synthene sine på 70-tallet, men tidens tann…

Hørt hjemme. Slitsomme greier.

Blir bare trøtt av det her.

It was fine as background music Standout song: Movements of a visionary

Jam bandy

I'm not really a prog guy

This isn't really for me. As nice as some of the synths sounds were they just kind of existed and then went away. It was a bit like when you go to a science museum and they put you in a big white room and tell you it's relaxing then just play random sounds at you until you relax or, in my case, your brain gets more and more worked up about the lack of cohesion behind the sounds and I have to leave. I didn't leave this, but there is no way I'm listening to the 1995 remixes extra tracks. My wife loves ambient music, I'll tell her about it.

NK

Ambient electronic, not very interesting

sure why not, some you guys are liars. its an more of an ambient album, not really my style

Only one track was available in my music app. Not my particular jam.

Not my taste. Although it was more useful for focusing during work.

Track 1: Phaedra wavers between Dune and I Who Have Never Known Men Track 2: Mysterious Semblance at the Strand of Nightmares is like I'm being pulled through a worm hole Track 3: Movements of a Visionary feels like I'm trapped in a computer doing a disk defragmentation Track 4: Sequence C feels more ecclesiastical like I'm in a space cathedral I can understand why people hate it. I don't hate it. But I'm not fussed if I never hear it again

You can tell this is influential electronica, they must have known bloops would never be the same again when these dropped. Doesn't make it particularly listenable though, theres definitely a sense that in the days when it took huge analogue synthesisers to make this stuff just the act of making music like this was interesting in itself. Think it took a few years for anyone to ask whether it was any good. I do like electronic repetition but without a beat or any buildup it just sounds like a proof of concept really. Can see why it's in the list but not one I'll return to.

Lovely beeps, exquisite bloops. Some of the best bings ever committed to sound. Didn't much care for the wibbles, nor the brrps.

Interesting ig but I would not come back to it

Electronic music huh, not offensive, but not exactly my cup of tea either.

For an album made in 1974, I can appreciate how ahead of it's time it is, and the musicianship that's gone into this. But personally, I find this sort of music boring. It's never really been my thing.

Didn't enjoy this one sadly, as much as I tried to. I'm sure that this is a pretty foundational accomplishment in the field of Electronica, but good lord was it perhaps the most boring thing I've ever heard in my entire life. I love Electronica in general and I almost want to give this 1 star. I just could not for the life of me get in to this. I went into it with high hopes seeing the very unique blend of genres, but for once I agree with the common consensus here. This is just background noise, and not even particularly good background noise at that. I guess my favorite song is the opener, the titular "Phaedra", but I didn't last the day listening to this one before having to turn it off. I don't enjoy that I had to play the Deluxe Version either. Couldn't be bothered giving the various bonus songs a shot, it was just outtakes and more of the same boring noise as the regular songs on the album. I wish that I had the option of just listening to the original album only, but that's a dig at Spotify itself and not the album. I don't know, it's tough for me to compliment or find anything I enjoyed about this. It wasn't offensively bad so I'll still give it a 2, but man I am going to forget about this one almost immediately upon clicking the Vote button. Not a great album here, but that's fine and to be expected, it just opens up more room for another certified banger. Oh well, they can't all be winners. Moving on now. Again, I'm sure this is a very important album for the evolution of this genre, especially for when it came out in the 70's. Unfortunately, I kind of wish it would stay there.

Jesus I wasn’t in the mood for this. Not offensive but didn’t do much for me. Ahead of it’s time for sure and I’m sure had significant influence but not on me (other than probably not listening to much more tangerine dream)

I thought this might be interesting, but unfortunately I was mistaken. Sets up some sort of recurring loop in the first part of the track, then nothing much happens for a long time........ and repeat. I'm normally a fan of instrumental, ambient type stuff, but just not enough happening in this to keep me interested, very much background music or some sort of soundtrack to a non-existent film.

I really like some of the all-synth music from this era when it's consciously about the alienating new instruments that had no genuine connection between the fingers inputting and the sound outputting, the way Kraftwerk played with. 70's Tangerine Dream always sounded to me more like plastic flowers in a glass vase. Didn't know they were still making new albums for the next 50 years though, very curious to check how that sound evolved.

As much as I like ambient music, I don’t understand why it’s on this list

2.0

Didn't do much for me unfortunately, though I love their soundtrack for Sorcerer (and I think GTA5?), and appreciate their massive contribution to early electronic

This is not my genre. Is this anyone's genre? The songs are too long, and they're all pretty boring. Overall, the album is not that bad, but I see no reason for it to be on the list. Two stars. (Favorite track: Mysterious Semblance at the Strand of Nightmares.)

No private session used for Spotify. This music played in the background and I forgot it was on. This is not why I listen to music.

Spotify said four tracks, but only gave me two. That was sufficient, though. There’s plenty enough of these electronic ambient noise albums to know basically what you’re going to get, and I certainly didn’t need to listen to another to see if I’d like it. It’s fine for what it is, but I don’t really want to listen to any more.

Lacklustre and uninteresting. Not sure why this has a spot in the list. Listenable but that’s about it.

I'm sure it was relevant when it was released, but this album was pretty boring. A lot of ambient noise, mixed with fairly rudimentary electronic music. Just not my cup of tea. 2/5 Won't listen again

Now I know what stoners listened to in 1974.

Nothing much happens, liked the last two tracks more than the first couple but may have just adjusted to the ambient nature of this by that point

Vibey!!

Sounded more like sound effects than an album. Not a fan.

felt like i was in blade runner

I mean, the first track’s pretty cool. After that, the point becomes apparent and nothing necessarily catches me afterwards. Bleep bloop blorp (5/10, 2/5 on this scale)

Spotify only has two songs of this album, but that was plenty. Interesting, but also just beeps and boops.

I was excited for this but it turns out i didn't actually know what tangerine dream was. Bet itd be good if I was high though

Creepy. Gave me anxiety while I listened.

Tentei por meia hora mas não rolou pra mim. ):

Erm. No. No thank you.

If kraftwerk had a baby with classical music. Bit boring, but good revision tunes

Like being transported to the lobby of a mid-size regional aquarium with funding needs.

Soothing at times, boring at others

Didn’t listen the whole way through

Music for the dentist waiting room

Bad dream.

It was just calming ambience. Feel asleep to it multiple times.

I fell for the old "judge a book by its cover" trap and expected something really astounding based off of the album art. Thoroughly disappointed. I would've enjoyed this much more had it been the soundtrack to a video game I was playing.

Not available on Spotify.

Lol no thanks I like Tangerine Dreams when they're scoring Miami Vice. Not when it's an album I'm listening to on its own. Although Movements of a Visionary was perfectly good.

What was that? It was short but I was surprised when it ended as thought it was only like 15mins gone. Good study music but I will never know why this is an album I need to listen to even despite all the rave reviews on this. It may have some contextual significance but I didn’t hear any of that through the music.

idc

Sounds like a tech demo for a load new synthesisers. Not a fan.

It was a bit of a struggle to find this on my streaming service but I eventually tracked it down as the first four tracks of the album 'The Virgin Years: 1974-1978'. Basically it is 'ambient music' with some annoying use of stereo imaging. I am sure this was 'important in terms of the development of electronic music' and all that, but Roger Eno does 'ambient' so much better if that's your want. A 2/5 from me.

I would use this album in some kind of dystopian intergalactic futuristic movie. I'm not a fan of electronic music in general, although it was mysteriously good for studying mathematical analysis.

Does not quite do it for me Will I listen to again: 0%

This is kind of nothing. It pretty quickly went right into background music for me and did nothing notable to pull me back in. That might be the point of Berlin School electronica? If it is, it's definitely not for me, but I'm bored and moving on.

I didn’t listen to it in full. I tried, but I couldn’t get into it.

Sorry wrong timing.. listened to this when I hit the gym. Feeling seasick…

40 minutes of ambient computer sounds is not really my jam

These are the sounds you hear when you're on an ayahuasca trip. Favourite Track(s): Mysterious Semblance At The Strand of Nightmares Least Favourite Track(s): Phaedra

Absolute nothing 'music'. And I hate to be one of those dickheads who puts the word 'music' in quote marks, but honestly. I quite like a bit of sci-fi synth, but much of this is so ambient as to barely register. Just a slight whisper of pretension on the air. I didn't even realise it was there half the time.

Sometimes you wonder what the point of making that was. This is one of those times.

Atmospheric, ambient synth music. Interesting movements. Album kind of flowed together and many of the songs were in the 15 - 20 minute range. Definitely need a long drive or something to listen to this album or any individual song. Had an orchestral quality - except all synths.

I’m still not sure what I was listening too tbh. Calming music for my nap on an early as flight tho so it gains a star for me.

All right.

Found it mediocre, even though I like tangerine dream. Did not see the connection the Pheadra, probably my fault. Too reductive for my taste.

I don't like ambient music. I strongly prefer when atmospheric music builds up to something big, and ambient very rarely does that. I like music to be actively engaging, but being in the background is the whole point of ambient, so I usually find it quite boring. I can’t say I hated this album. It has some good parts and interesting texture. But music this relaxed feels underwhelming to me. 5/10

?? electronica Krautrock, cool...! c

Not what I was expecting from 1974. Gives me a feeling of travelling through the milky way. I feel like this genre of music has popped its head up every decade. Wouldn’t bother listening again.

Incomplete version on spotify… what I did hear was not very good… 2/5

Kinda fancy elevator music to me. 2/5

Interesting...

This sounds great production wise. Hard to believe it’s 1974. It’s ambient music, so I need to be in the mood for it. These songs are good for a sound track. Each one is long and would enhance a visual. On their own they get monotonous.

This probably blew a ton of minds in 1974, and I had to keep that context in mind the whole time I listened to it. In 2025, it just sounds like someone playing an organ while their phone alarm goes off for 37 minutes. I'd compliment this for being good background music, but the phone alarm sound does trigger a little bit of anxiety.

Its a weird one, kind of just let it wash over me.

It's something alright

This would be a good soundtrack for a late-night, drug-fueled pseudo-intellectual conversation in a dorm room, not so much for anything else.

Tangerine Dream: Phaedra: On one hand, this is some cool experimental electronic music for the time. On the other, its boring as shit and doesn't really go anywhere interesting. Its kinda just a lot of sounds put together. It is not cohesive, interesting, or enjoyable. It is not absolutely awful, I guess, but it is not for me. Pretentious comes to mind. 4/10

Well I enjoyed this more than I did Prince's album. I accidentally listened to the 2hr 30 min extended version but it proved useful in quieting some noise in my head and letting me get some work done.

This whole album felt like being edged by the Tardis and not in a good way. I suppose it walked so the Mass Effect soundtrack could run.

it felt like I was listening to one continuous song

early 90s first person fantasy game music

Aye fine

Blegh! Gross, I hate seventies European electronic. Shed your ancestral guilt some other way. 2/5

This is barely music. More a collection of ambient sounds. It's not actively unpleasant, but it only really works for me as a soundtrack to something more interesting. Not my cup of tea

I've always seen their albums in CD/record stores, but never knew what kind of music it was. "Dream" in the group name is quite fitting. It's quite spacey, but didn't really make me go places.

Sorry - too much

Okay!! So this is NOT my jam but it’s cool!

Impressive for its time, but not something essential for all but the most dedicated electronic music fans.

This one wasn’t for me. I didn’t hate it or anything but there was nothing memorable about it. It very quickly became just background music.

Most of this album seems to be missing from the Spotify link. Had to open up a different album version. I had never heard of Tangerine Dream so went in with no expectations. I would have to be in a certain mood to enjoy ambient music like this. Maybe for a meditation. But in general it bores me, call me unsophisticated.

Why do we have to hear this? What’s the point?

Wake up and smell the coffee Tangerine Dream you'll never make a better soundtrack to The Social Network

2.5

I don't know about this one. On one hand, I can see how it's groundbreaking, but on the other hand, it doesn't do much for me aside from provide some nice background music. I don't know that it's something I'd ever return to. 2.5 stars.

2.5

No interest in this. It may have beauty, or some tonal genius, but it's not what I look for in music, and I did not enjoy ut.

Not the worst beeps and boops i've listened to, but it's still beeps and boops. I have nothing to quantify this with, but these beeps and boops sound of quality. Strong 2

Rather watch a documentary on how they made these sounds than listen to this. 2/5

Stranger Things Core

I get it. This album was likely monumental at the time. I also loved the soundtrack for thief and the one with the car on the bridge. But these are way too long.

Inte spännande nog att hålla mig engagerad. Tvåa

In a nutshell: komische musik to soundtrack an alien kidnapping. Overall: 4/10

I guess it’s like a slow motion video of a flower opening, painstakingly slow but with promise of beauty by the end. The songs do unfold, painstakingly slow, but I can’t find the beauty. The problem might be my ignorance about this type of music. Perhaps it is very influential and that’s commendable but is it enjoyable? My ratings are based on my enjoyment of the album and little about its influence. I didn’t enjoy this.

It's good for what it is, but it's not for me

Once again, I feel like I'm writing the same review I do for virtually every ambient, early electronic album on this list. I know it's a pioneer. I respect the artistry that went into making it...but boy howdy is it just boring as hell to listen to.

The story behind this record is quite interesting. But I did feel uneasy while listening

I don't want to anger the Germans, but I did not care for this.

Pleasant. Not offensive. Not likely to ever listen to it again. 2/5

When I checked the release date of this album it said 2011 and I thought "nothing special about this ambient stuff, loads more of that exists". Then I realised it was actually made in 1975, which surprised me. I wouldn't listen to it again but it was definitely ahead of its time.

2.5 I know this is really influential and important but honestly I didn’t get a lot out of it. Oh well!

2.5 - Meh

4 dreamscape songs that would be good if you like that kinda stuff I guess.

This sort of thing really needs sights to go along with the sounds, or maybe listen with eyes closed to imagine the sights, but I listen to these albums on my commute to and from work, so I can't do that. The sounds alone have to do, and they don't do much for me in that context. It's just spacey background music that doesn't change much at all.

**An ok album IF you enjoy listening to rhythmic sounds/noises

Boooooooooorrrrrrrrimg!

For the life of me, I can't make sense of this. If you find this soothing and relaxing or introspecting and mind expanding, good on you. I was fighting a creeping agitation as this played and finally just stopped. I remember thinking Tangerine Dream was such a wild and subversive band name when I was in high school, but now, I don't think I like it. Addendum: There are certainly mitigating factors at play, and when I was listening to this over coffee this morning with Marianne, it was pleasant enough as it wafted in the background. My first listen took place here at my desk, while working on a graphic design project. So, I won't go as far as to say I liked it this morning, I'm sticking with the 2-star review because I just don't get it. I don't hear compositions. I don't hear structure. I just hear billows of synth. It all seems so random. But they've been at this for 58 years, so they're doing something right, I guess.

Like being in a space horror but not in a fun way.

Nothing to write home about. It's fine for background listening, but not particularly engaging or interesting.

ett plus för att det är gammalt

I know people who would love this, but I don't. I don't have the patience.

odd

This kind of reminds me of when Ross Gellar played his “sound”. Quick, interesting listen, worth the 10 minutes. Wouldn’t buy the record, though.

Meh...