Tangerine Dream - Logos-Live At The Dominion (Definitive Edition) -Remastered (c) 1995 Virgin
Artist....: Tangerine Dream
Album.....: Logos-Live At The Dominion-Definitive Edition
Type......: Album
Source....: CDDA
Tracks....: 02
Genre.....: Electronic
Label.....: Virgin
Catalogue#: TAND 3 / 7243 8 39445 2 1
Encoder...: LAME 3.97
Quality...: VBR kbps / 44.1KHz / Joint-Stereo
URL.......: http://www.discogs.com/release/750817
Tracklist:
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01 Logos 45:07
02 Dominion 05:45
Total:67,10 MB/ 50:52 min
Release Notes:
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High definition digital remastering by Simon Heyworth at Chop 'Em Out,
London. Recorded with the Manor Mobile at the Dominion Theatre London
November 6, 1982.
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.
Tangerine Dream suffers from a slight case of growing pains on Logos:
Live at the Dominion, having recently turned off their lava lamps and
opened up their programmers' manuals. Chris Franke, recently-joined
Johannes Schmoelling, and the ever-present frontman Edgar Froese seem
to be leaning on their new equipment more than usual, making this
concert sequentially denser than previous ones. The results are
frequently bland, as if they expected the machines to write the songs
for them as well. Still, the trio follows their trusted formula of
lengthy exploration in six to eight parts, continuing some degree of
organic looseness. As part one begins, synths gurgle to life, ghostly
strings float over a slow DX7 pulse that gives way to drum machines
within the first minute, and they're off to what may have seemed
revolutionary at the time: three men slouched over ominous-looking
patch bays and consoles to produce exotic textures of science fiction.
Six or seven minutes later, things ease back to an anthemic keyboard
rock that, structurally at least, puts them in more familiar territory
(albeit bland). Next, at the 14-minute mark, the foundation is laid for
what borrows liberally from (and builds on top of) Steve Reich's Music
for 18 Musicians, precisely sampled and included either out of respect,
or leaned on for necessary inspiration (consequentially, it's debatable
as to who gets credit for this high-point; Reich or the Krautrockers).
Part two carries out a waltz of sorts for the first ten minutes of icy
electronica, but then a curious, mechanical march breaks through the
gates and shuffles gradually towards another cold pop section. Froese
leaves his electric guitar behind for this concert, but the keyboard
solo here shows similar abandon over laser harp arpeggios. At 17
minutes, another roll-the-credits passage of down tempo synth rock
unfurls it's flag, and this time it just feels like the finale, with an
easygoing spirit and syrupy melody line. The enthusiastic London
audience apparently clapped loud enough to hear "Dominion," a
short-form futuristic pop number for the encore (rare for their earlier
live albums to include this novelty) that's compositionally a bit heavy
on formula, and a bit light on personality. Several moments on Logos
meet with the same fate, but perhaps it's the new machines to blame, as
much as the men relying on them.