Electronic Sound 110 2024

English | 100 pages | PDF | 63.7 MB

This month’s Electronic Sound cover feature is the fascinating story of Tangerine Dream’s ‘Phaedra’ album. Tangerine Dream’s debut for Richard Branson’s still-shiny Virgin label, ‘Phaedra’ came out exactly 50 years ago and was greeted with a mixture of curiosity, excitement, confusion and contempt. While electronic music was nothing new by this point, the sequencer-heavy sound was electronic music as it had never been heard before. The album is widely and rightly recognised as a 24-carat classic now, of course, setting the Berlin group on the path to superstardom. They stayed with Virgin for the next decade or so, releasing a string of magnificent records that also included ‘Rubycon’ (1975) and ‘Force Majeure’ (1979).