Welcome to the club, man!

Very well said

They are famous of the same reason as Mike Oldfield. -No label wanned Tubular Bells, Richard Branson created Virgin so they could publish alternative music, the rest is history.

That is indeed what it is. 😄 My main OS used to be Ubuntu (2007-2010) and later Arch Linux (2010-2020), although I now use Windows and macOS instead (but still Linux at work).

@@TangerineTux Ha! I'm on Arch btw! 🤣 Via Endeavour OS with KDE Plasma. I used to use windows, but as it got worse and worse with the spying n' shit, I tended more and more towards Linux. Last I tried Windows 10 ( my dad's PC) it was a total abomination of an OS, and now I won't touch it with a 400 foot pole! I still have my 86 Macintosh Lisa though, but even Apple is a no go. Too expensive, less and less quality, and they are building in planned obsolescence and giving no right to repair. Meanwhile Linux just keeps getting better and better!

It was just a letter "E" taken from a CAFE sign turned to one side. For many years I thought it was some kind of electronic sonic device but the truth is actually quite mundane. 😅

It was an neon restaurant sign (in the shape of an E, but turned on its side) that Chris Franke bought in the Portabello road, justround the corner from Virgin Record's office in London in 1974. The original idea was it was going to be plugged in and lit up, but it never worked. Chris used until all of the neon had fell out of it (it was cheap plastic). It was last seen in his studio around 1980

Thanks Andy! It should be fixed now.

@@TangerineTux cheers

You're definitely right!!! With the arrival of the digital sound devices TD lost its magic (around the time of Tangram)!!!!

On the other hand it's a completely different band now. Times have changed and the milieu has changed with it. I like to think quality is quality and that depth can be perceived in any music regardless of genre. Some are turned on and others turned off by this music to this day, likely it will always be so. But this music, like some soundtracks, seems fairly timeless 👽

Most of their albums were written in outline, but mostly improvisations, whether in the studio or live, and just like most musicians they had their good and bad days, and no musician would ever release everything, but that which they choose to represent themselves with, as they want to be seen. In the end, they released most of it in one form or another, because the tape was always rolling, and they could use parts live, and play on top and along with them, use parts in the studio... In the later 90's to 2015 when Edgar Froese died, he used all kinds of snippets and parts of their whole body of work to make new releases. I wouldn't be surprised if on closer inspection you will find parts of this "rare" material in there somewhere. This documentary is not like so many others made from whatever material some team picked from known recordings and footage all spliced together with added commentary and interviews, but instead was made with the band from the ground up, and all pretty much live and on the spot, which I think is brilliant. And so, if they decided to leave it untouched, and not pull out the audio and release it I can see why, as it stands as a masterful piece of art in and of itself. Thanks to the fact that I speak fluent German, it's that much better without the closed captioning, and I could even do without the German translation of the english parts. I actually lived in Germany at the time this was made, and was big into the so called (by the British) "Krautrock" scene and have seen some of their live performances that were mostly improvised unique and unreleased, and there's probably hundreds of hours of it in storage! Look at all of the dials, knobs and cables! At that time you couldn't save presets or switch what routs to what with a click of a mouse, and you would have to either have a bunch of minions taking detailed notes, or have spares of every module with the controls taped into positions and more minions to patch modules together on the fly to recreate a piece and play it more than once the same way. In live shows later when they performed Pheadra and did repeat it night after night, there were like 6 to ten other guys behind the rigs with little headlamps patching shit together on the fly, and still every concert was somewhat unique. Strangely, it's when they did have better control and could repeat things more precisely when that spontaneous matching the music to the audience and venue started getting lost, and the music started to suffer too. So may have their relationships to it and each other, as first Bauman and then Franke left, to where the formula itself was lost, never to be found again.

Not mine.The TD train really started to roll with sequencers. Hence the order is Phaedra/Rubycon/Ricochet...

Stratosfaer is pretty good aswell

Te falta rubycon.stratorfer..etc.

Absolutely right!! In the beginning their music was way organic. Like listening to the galaxy or to a single cell for that matter. It all got lost when the music went digital . Unfortunately.

TD returned to Analog many years ago

🙈🤮

Brasil too