In a category by itself. Tangerine Dream pretty much invented this heavily sequencer dependent genre of music. This is the ultimate example of what can be done with a Moog 960 sequencer.

 

This is not classical music transcribed for synthesizer. This is not rock music featuring synthesizer sounds. There are no guitars, drums, or vocals on this album.

 

This is a must have. Find a copy and listen to it. (It is only 35 minutes long.) You will hear a great example of the Berlin School of electronic music. For the Dusseldorf School, see #8.

 

Besides featuring the mighty Moog, there is plenty of Mellotron on this disc. Kids in the audience will be amused to learn that the Mellotron is an early sampling keyboard instrument which stored its samples on audio tape. Depressing a key engaged a tape head against a moving slice of audio tape. There was a separate tape slice and playback head for each key.

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Tangerine Dream

1975