Track Listing

1. Repeat Repeat
2. Daytime Logic
3. This Day
4. Meridian Moorland
5. Meadow Of Infinity
6. Meadow Of Infinity (1)
7. Romance
8. Home Sweet Home
9. MAN Series Two
10. Bicentennial Presentation
11. Phase By Phase
12. White Bench And Black Beach
13. Biking Up The Strand
14. Dance At Dawn

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #182313 in Music
• Released on: 1996-01-01
• Number of discs: 1

Customer Reviews

Evocative & cinematic synth masterpiece
This is a collection of the most beautiful synth pop, like a more melodic Brian Eno or a more symphonic Kraftwerk. My favourite tracks include This Day, the eerie Meridian Moorland, Biking Up The Strand, Dance At Dawn (all instrumental) and the catchy sung Home Sweet Home, which should have been a huge hit single. Baumann is an expert at crafting evocative mood pieces that remain in the mind long after you've put the album away. This work is also reminiscent of the best songs of OMD (Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark)and the synth-pop of Eurythmics. It's a masterpiece.

Why only 3 stars for Baumann's classic sound?
Because this compilation does not include his masterwork CHASING THE DREAM from TRANSHARMONIC NIGHTS. What on earth were Virgin doing!!?? If you reckoned that Chris Franke was the only TD man capable of generating frenzied, soaring sequencer patterns, think again. Baumann's pioneering influence is writ large on the band, particularly STRATOSFEAR, and most TD diehards condider him with the Froese/Franke line up to be the classic. Baumann's forays into a more pop mode were disappointing (REPEAT REPEAT and the frankly hideous STRANGERS IN THE NIGHT) whilst his mythical and unreleased collaboration with Paul Haslinger and vocalist John Baxter (BLUE ROOM) fully deserved to stay on the shelf. Nonetheless, his two first solo albums are treasures and he's a great loss to electronic music.

For those who feel TD are now past their sell-by date ought to check out some of the stuff that new member Thorsten Quaeschning has been contributing. The third track from the METAPHOR ep (downloadable at TD's site) is utterly brilliant, and his two tracks for the PURPLE DILUVIAL ep, and his three for SPRINGTIME IN NAGASAKI are excellent too.

TANGS FANS NEED NOT BOTHER
Contemporary early eighties synth pop from one of the stalwarts of the classic era of Tangerine Dream. This album is extremely lightweight compared to the electronic maelstrom the Tangs could kick up and has little to recommend it, even for TD completists. Nicely played and produced, it's musical direction is almost certainly indicative of why Baumann left TD a few years previously.