Tangerine Dream - Exit (Definitive Edition) -Remastered- (c) 1995 Virgin
Artist....: Tangerine Dream
Album.....: Exit-Definitive Edition
Type......: Album
Source....: CDDA
Tracks....: 06
Genre.....: Electronic
Label.....: Virgin
Catalogue#: TAND 13 / 7243 8 40519 2 1
Encoder...: LAME 3.97
Quality...: VBR kbps / 44.1KHz / Joint-Stereo
URL.......: http://www.discogs.com/release/350865
Tracklist:
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01 Kiew Mission 09:22
02 Pilots Of Purple Twilight 04:22
03 Choronzon 04:10
04 Exit 05:35
05 Network 23 04:58
06 Remote Viewing 08:19
Total:48,10 MB/ 36:46 min
Release Notes:
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Recorded and mixed in June 1981 in Berlin.
High definition remastering at Chop 'Em Out, London.
The Definitive Edition Series is considered to be the very best sound
quality of any of the Tangerine Dream releases because of Super Bit
Mapping technology.
Exit marks the beginning of a new phase in Tangerine Dream's music:
Gone were the side-long, sequencer-led journeys, replaced by topical
pieces that were more self-contained in scope, more contemporary in
sound. Johannes Schmoelling's influence is really felt for the first
time here; Tangram, for all its crispness and melody, was simply a
refinement of Force Majeure's principles, and the soundtrack to Thief
not an album proper. On Exit, listeners are introduced to electronic
music's next generation, notably on "Choronzon" and "Network 23," which
brought the sound of the dancefloor into the mix (it hasn't left
since). That's not to suggest that Tangerine Dream has stopped creating
eerie, evocative music; both "Pilots of Purple Twilight" and the
stately "Exit" will feel familiar to fans, and the opening "Kiew
Mission" is a captivating commentary on nuclear war that includes
vocals after a sort (a woman's voice reading locations in Russian).
Exit ends on a surprisingly dark note, the alien and foreboding "Remote
Viewing." It's on this track more than any other that Tangerine Dream
returns to its past, invoking Phaedra and the sequencer-driven works
that followed, as if to tell fans that Exit's changes weren't the
result of a new band, just a new direction. With one foot in the
excesses of the past and one clearly on the road to a more concise
sound, Exit is a transitional work. As Schmoelling and, later, Paul
Haslinger exerted their influence on Tangerine Dream's music, the
emphasis shifted from dark and moody commentary to more positive
subjects. It's worth noting that Edgar Froese's social conscience fuels
much of Exit -- copies of the record were made available to a
cross-section of Russian citizens free of charge to promote an open
exchange of ideas at a time when nuclear annihilation was taken
seriously. Future albums channeled Froese's activism to environmental
concerns, which dovetailed with the band's by-then new age
sensibilities. Both here and on White Eagle, Tangerine Dream ushers in
the promise and the peril of a new world where reality has caught up
with science fiction. Perhaps with such a message, the medium needed to
be simpler and more direct. (A note to collectors: Different cover art
appears on the Virgin and Elektra releases.)