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CONTENTS:

TANGERINE DREAM (1): THE BUILDERS OF THE MACHINE. No doubt,
Tangerine Dream is a legendary band within the electronic genre
and the musical avantgarde in general. Throughout their long
trajectory, they have explored unknown areas in the music world,
and have contributed to create the basis for a wide variety of
current trends.

REVIEWS:
EDWARD ARTEMIEV: "A BOOK OF IMPRESSIONS" Electroshock Records
ARTEMIY ARTEMIEV: "FORGOTTEN THEMES" Electroshock Records
JON SHEFFIELD: "CALVES VALVES" Sparkling Beatnik Records

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us about how to purchase some of the CDs reviewed in our magazine.
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ALBERT GIMENEZ. The composer and guitarist Albert Giménez began
his musical career in the '70s. He was a member of the bands Suck
Electronic, Macromassa and Neuronium. In 1979 he turned from
electric to classical guitar, releasing during the following years
different records with his own compositions for soloist acoustic
guitar, and playing in numerous concert tours. In 1995 he returned
to electric guitar so as to continue his research in the new
electronic frontiers that this instrument has to offer.
ALBERT GIMENEZ: "MOSDUM"
ALBERT GIMENEZ: "ZIV"
ALBERT GIMENEZ: "MARE NOSTRUM"

ALBERT GIMENEZ & DOM F. SCAB: "COSMIC NI" Impresive psychedelic
music.

ALBERT REMI: "MICROBIOS,CRISPACIONES, ILUSIONES"
ALBERT REMI: "REMISCOPE"
ALBERT REMI: "SOMBRAS Y DESOLACION"

ALFONSO VILALLONGA: "CÁBALA Y DANZA"

ALMA TADEMA: "DARK"

AT-MOOSS
The band At-Mooss is formed by Joseph Loibant, Anthony Seagarr,
John Lakveet and Dom F. Scab. Loibant is the most veteran musician
in the band. He began to research the sonic possibilities of
synthesizers in the 1970s. He was a member of the band Programa
together with Carlos Guirao (ex-member of Neuronium) and José M.
Ciria.
AT-MOOSS: "MORPHING SYNTHESIZERS 1"
AT-MOOSS: "MORPHING SYNTHESIZERS 2"
AT-MOOSS: "MORPHING SYNTHESIZERS 3"

BRUNO SANFILIPPO: "SONS OF THE LIGHT"
BRUNO SANFILIPPO: "THE NEW KINGDOM"
BRUNO SANFILIPPO: "SUITE PATAGONIA"
BRUNO SANFILIPPO: "SOLEMNIS"

DOM F. SCAB. Synthesist Dom F. Scab began a solo career as a
composer in 1998. His music has gotten airplay on such famous
radio programs like Echoes (in the USA).Scab has composed some
soundtracks. He has collaborated with several musicians, among
them Albert Giménez (ex-member of Neuronium).
DOM F. SCAB: "INNERSEED"
DOM F. SCAB: "BINARY SECRETS"

FRANK VAN BOGAERT: "DOCKING" This album contains some of the most
beautiful music that this artist has written to date. 11 themes
with a warmth of sound rarely seen within electronic music. Van
Bogaert is one of the most respected European electronic
musicians.

HIROSHI KOBAYASHI: "EMOTION"
HIROSHI KOBAYASHI: "SEVEN ENCANTATIONS"

IL GRAN TEATRO AMARO: "PIAZZA ORPHELINS"

IURY LECH. Iury Lech is a composer, movie maker and writer. He
usually joins all these aspects in his artistic works. Born in
1958 in an immigrant family from Ukraine, he began his artistic
career by the mid 1970s. By the late '80s he began to release his
albums. His innovative electronic music goes beyond the
conventional, surpassing even the frontiers of many styles
(Ambient, Trance, Dark, Psychedelic, Space) that already are
avantgarde by themselves.
IURY LECH: "A BITE IN THE COMMON SENSE"
IURY LECH: "SERIAL CASTRATI"
IURY LECH: "ASPERSIONS BY INSTINCT" (2CD)
IURY LECH: "VICTIMa OF DUNCEing"

JAKOB DRAMINSKY : "DREAMJINGLES"
JAKOB DRAMINSKY: "AT THE GALLERY"
JAKOB DRAMINSKY: "ENLAND SOLDAD DAGBOG"
JAKOB DRAMINSKY: "MEMORY"

JORGEN TELLER: "MY INNER EAR"

JOSEPH LOIBANT. In the music by Joseph Loibant, the founder of the
band At-Mooss, a variety of synthesizers is mixed in a very
personal manner. The style is agile, rhythmic, based on sequencers
and percussion, but with a modern approach. He succeeds in
generating the magic of the mythical cosmic trend of the seventies
and at the same time flow within the most avantgarde sectors of
current electronic Pop.
JOSEPH LOIBANT: "SINE"
JOSEPH LOIBANT: "PULSE"
JOSEPH LOIBANT: "RANDOM"
JOSEPH LOIBANT: "NUCLEUS"
JOSEPH LOIBANT: "REGRESSION ALPHA"
JOSEPH LOIBANT: "FIRE COMET"

JUAN CARLOS GARCIA: "CELESTIAL"
JUAN CARLOS GARCIA: "HADAS"
JUAN CARLOS GARCIA: "THE LEGEND OF THE SOLAR ANGELS"
JUAN CARLOS GARCIA: "THE LUMINOUS PRESENCE" The artist has
succeeded in transmitting intense feelings with this album of
cosmic New Age Music, full of poetry and beauty, which leads the
listener to a world of wondrous soundscapes by means of the
masterful use of synthesizers.

KONIC THTR: "OOZE"

LAKVEET & SCAB: "SILENT MARS" John Lakveet & Dom F. Scab have
collaborated together in the creation of an album that explores
their common interests in the most cosmic sector of electronic
music. "Silent Mars" is one of these works that prove that
electronic music which can be labelled as Space Music can sound
surprisingly warm and near to the listener, like a soundtrack for
life.

MC2: ·"ENERGY" A magnificient release by the band MC2 of a Space
Sequencer style, with powerful rhythms and dense atmospheres. Very
elaborated.

MOEBIUS: "ERSATZ II"

ORIOL PERUCHO: "INSULTO,LE MULTARON..."
ORIOL PERUCHO: "ZAPPING CD"

PASCAL COMELADE: "EL PRIMITIVISMO"
PASCAL COMELADE: "TRAFFIC D´ABSTRACTION"
PASCAL COMELADE: "ZUMZUM KA"

PAU RIBA & PERUCHO´S: "ASTAROT UNIVERSDHERBA"

PIDGINS: "THE FREAK FURNITURES"

PLASTHA'S MOUNTAGE: "PROTOPLASTHA´S" Joss & Loop , Ben Howard Jr.
, and Panik have created in this CD the beginnings of a series
that explores with great imagination and power the border areas
among Trance, Techno and electronic Dance. Unusual strength and
dynamics, a dense rhythm, latest generation synthesizers used in a
creative, innovative way, they all contribute to each theme in
this compact disk new expectations that hold the interest from the
beginning to the end.

PROGRAM@: "ASHES" The legendary band Programa@ return with a
wonderful production, after a long period of silence. The music,
eminently electronic, makes deep incursions into Techno, Synth-
Pop, Space Sequencer, and New Instrumental Music. "Ashes" shows
that electronic music has not abandoned the strength that
characterized it in the beginning.

RAEO: "ADIOS JUPITER"
RAEO: "BODY LOOPS"

VICTOR SIERRA: "KHAMSIN´"

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TANGERINE DREAM (1): THE BUILDERS OF THE MACHINE

No doubt, Tangerine Dream is a legendary band within the
electronic genre and the musical avantgarde in general. Throughout
their long trajectory, they have explored unknown areas in the
music world, and have contributed to create the basis for a wide
variety of current trends.

Tangerine Dream could be described as a gigantic machinery, a
cyclopean engine, a factory of electronic sensations, cosmic
emotions, and futuristic feelings.Already started a quarter of a
century ago, this machinery has experienced various phases in its
functioning, numerous changes in the staff controlling it, and all
sorts of avatars.
The peculiar style of TD has shaped the label "Tangerine Dream
Sound", which defines their innovative approach to musical
creativity. On the other hand, either within this main stylistic
path, or getting away from it, as has happened lately, the band
has encompassed an important variety of orientations, thus
reaching different kinds of fans, from the followers of the most
cosmic trends, to those who enjoy the most disco paths, to the
lovers of experimental ways, the sinister, the heavy or
relaxation.
The style by TD in most of their approaches does not get out
of fashion as it almost always develops either outside current
trends or far forward. A good number of their older musical ideas
continues to be avantgarde even after many years.

Among the various members of Tangerine Dream, two names, both
of them German, are the most remarkable ones due to the scope of
their contribution: Edgar Froese, the current only founding
member, and Christopher Franke, seventeen years in the band.
Froese, born in 1944, started his way into the music scene
during his time as a student of painting and sculpture at the
Academy of the Arts in West Berlin. During those years (1965 to
1969), he led the rock band The Ones and was involved in other
activities.
His interest in paintings led him to visit Salvador Dalí on
the summer of 1966. Fascinated by the work of this genius of
surrealism, his stay in Cadaqués together with him caused him to
consider new artistic paths. Most concretely, he caressed the idea
of trying to make with music something similar to what Dalí was
doing with painting.
After having released a single, The Ones disbanded. Among
other things, the artistic ideas Edgar had were no longer fitting
those of the other members of the band, since he wholly favored
the experimental trends. In 1967, after a stay in Paris, he
founded a new band called Minus Plus, which months later would
become Tangerine Dream.
Christoph (Christopher) Franke, born in 1953, grew up in an
eminently musical environment. With a mother who was a violin
teacher and a father plus an elder sister who could play other
instruments, the musical influence he received caused him to
become interested in studying the violin at age six. This lasted
for about a couple of years, at the end of which he chose the
trumpet, a more aggressive instrument. He received lessons in the
trumpet for a long time. Nevertheless, his teacher was old-
fashioned, followed the orthodox paths of the classical styles as
a sacred way, and his vision of how a musician was supposed to be
was that of a perfectly integrated piece of machinery into the
mechanism of an orchestra. The views of his professor caused the
fifteen-year-old Christopher to become aggressively rebellious,
which led him to desperately seek new musical paths, and try to
break all the standard rules and constraints. This was transmitted
as well to moral and political issues, an attitude typical of
several youngsters of the times, immersed in the effeverscence of
rock as a new musical style as well as a special lifestyle. By
then, Franke founded the band Agitation Free, whose name already
shows in an explicit way the controversial, defying path of the
project. Together with Lutz Ulbritz (who later would become a
member of Ashra Tempel) and others, he played in a provocative
style, quite close to punk. At the same time, given the
relationship with his parents, he played classical music.Both
opposed views would cause him to develop an avantgarde fusion of
concepts.
The rehearsals of Agitation Free were performed in the cellar
of Franke's parents in the beginning. But the amount of noise they
caused and the aggressive, irritating style of their music caused
his mother to find them a studio only for them at a local academy
of music. There, one of the managers became interested in their
experimental work and gave them the chance to use the first
electronic devices the academy had purchased. This was the first
contact of Christopher's with the young electronic universe.
Technically assisted by their patron, Franke and his friends in
Agitation Free developed new ideas in the growing electronic
studio of the academy.
It didn't take long for the avantgarde environments in Berlin
to get wind of the magnificient potential the studio could offer
to the most innovative musical ideas. Franke supported the academy
in opening the doors of their studio to other young artists. Edgar
Froese, Manuel Gotttsching and more musicians from Berlin began
then to go there.
It was there where Edgar and Christopher met. Both coincided
in their desire to explore new musical horizons, beyond those of
rock. Also, both suffered from problems with their respective
bands. One of the members of Agitation Free became a drug addict.
The project of Tangerine Dream couldn't reach the goals Froese
expected, with a chaotic coming and going of members. The
relationship between both musicians became tighter. For instance,
Agitation Free organized some concerts where not only they
performed, but also contracted Froese and his embryo of Tangerine
Dream for a performance. Likewise, AF took care of all the details
related to the preparation and advertising of this concert by TD.
After that, and the desertion of all the members of TD soon after
the release of a first experimental rock album ("Electronic
Meditation") under the signature of TD, Edgar and Christopher
joined their efforts to give the definitive impulse to their
innovative musical concepts.
Meanwhile, Klaus Schulze, who had collaborated in the
percussion in this first LP by TD, then leaving the band, founded
Ashra Tempel with Manuel Gotttsching and Hartmut Enke. Klaus would
soon abandon this new band to start a prolific solo career. Conrad
Schnitzler, who had oscillated between the bands TD and Cluster,
definitely left TD after recording "Electronic Meditation", and
soon after he began a charismatic solo career.
The new Tangerine Dream was consolidated around Froese and
Franke, in a collaboration that would last for two decades. The
new, more electronic approach was marked by the synthesizer
Christopher purchased in England, a VCS 3 of the British firm EMS,
one of the pioneers in selling to the market the first
manufactured synthesizers.Due to the fact that Franke's money was
not enough for more, he had to smuggle the instrument to Germany;
otherwise, he wouldn't have been able to pay for the expensive
custom duty taxes.
Franke had at last the device he needed to shape his musical
ideas. When he showed the potential of the synthesizer to Froese,
he also was convinced that it was the instrument which was most
convenient to their artistic approaches, and was thus used for the
new compositions by TD.

(By Jorge Munnshe)


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Peter Baumann

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Conrad Schnitzler

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Michael Hoenig

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REVIEWS:

EDWARD ARTEMIEV:
"A BOOK OF IMPRESSIONS"
Electroshock Records
This album gathers 10 pieces from 1975 to 1996. They are composed
by Edward Artemiev, a pioneer among pioneers and a giant of the
musical avantgarde far longer than the creativity of many
composers tends to last. Besides its artistic value, this CD also
has an unarguable importance as a firsthand sound witness in the
history of electronic music. Quite a lot of the pieces are
experimental, showing the most risky aspects of Artemiev's style.
We can enjoy several of his most legendary pieces, as for example
"Peregrini" (1975), an inspired composition where the composer
proved his great imagination by creating an impressive electronic
music, with powerful sequencers, stormy atmospheres, and melodies
of a great emotional intensity. All tracks were remixed by Edward
Artemiev in 2000.
JORGE MUNNSHE

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ARTEMIY ARTEMIEV:
"FORGOTTEN THEMES"
Electroshock Records
Artemiy Artemiev, the son of famous electronic music composer
Edward Artemiev, is another artist with a noteworthy work in the
field of electronic music. This CD includes electronic pieces
composed by him between 1988 and 1997. Quite a number of the
distinct aspects in Artemiy Artemiev's style appear in this
compilation: from the Classical airs, to the dynamic vein nearing
to Synth-Pop, Space Sequencer and Ambient, all that dominated by
the powerful presence of synthesizers. They are pieces of a
complex conception, yet at the same time they are easy to listen
to. The most impressive composition in the album is, in my
opinion, the theme from motion picture "The Fan", of a epic air
and a great beauty. There also are some compositions of a clear
romantic flair, such as "Night City". In a few words, this is a
work that will not leave us indifferent to it.
JORGE MUNNSHE

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JON SHEFFIELD:
"CALVES VALVES"
Sparkling Beatnik Records
The fifteen tracks in this album present us a varied soundscape
where the listener voyages from suggested New Age melodies to
experimental passages, with a dominance of Space Music, some
barely heard pop touches, very stressed rhythms at times, with a
powerful percussive beat and electronic sound effects within the
purest of experimental paths.
MILENA ALEXANDROVA.

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