Tangerine Dream
Alpha Centauri / Atem (2LP)
Format2LPLabelVirginGenreElectronic
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condition (records/cover): VG/EX (clicks thoughout side 2, other sides EX) / VG+ (small tag and light sticker removal damage on front)
Gatefold sleeve.
Before Virgin made them famous, Tangerine Dream spent their first years on Ohr, recording the long, formless organ-and-effects pieces that Alpha Centauri (1971) and Atem (1973) collect. This double pairs the two, and they show the band before the sequencer: Edgar Froese and company building weather systems from organ, flute, and tape, nearer to musique concrète than to the pulsing machine music ahead. Atem in particular caught the ear of John Peel, whose championing helped pull the group toward a British audience and the Virgin contract that changed everything.
The prehistory for anyone who knows them only from the sequencer years.
Release notes
Compilation of two early albums from 1971 and 1973 in double LP format. Italian edition distributed by Virgin. Released circa 1979/1980. Gatefold sleeve, with typical Orizzonte folded corner logo / series design on front cover.
| A1 | Sunrise In The Third System | 4:20 | |
| A2 | Fly And Collision Of Comas Sola | 13:05 | |
| B | Alpha Centauri | 22:00 | |
| C | Atem | 20:25 | |
| D1 | Fauni-Gena | 10:43 | |
| D2 | Circulation Of Events | 5:49 | |
| D3 | Wahn | 4:31 |
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