Tangerine Dream
Rubycon (LP)
FormatLPLabelVirginGenreElectronic
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condition (record/cover): NM / VG+ (minimal wear)
Gatefold sleeve.
If Phaedra was the discovery, Rubycon (1975) is the consolidation, two side-long movements that drive the sequencer-and-Mellotron method to its most sustained and assured. Tangerine Dream had by now perfected the slow build, patterns layering and mutating across twenty minutes until you lose track of where a phrase began.
Many hold it as the high-water mark of the band's Virgin period, the point where technique and atmosphere lock together. Less an album of pieces than a single immersive room you step inside.
Release notes
Recorded in January 1975 at The Manor, Shipton on Cherwell Published by Virgin Music (Publishers) Ltd. ℗ 1975 Virgin Records Ltd. © 1975 Virgin Music (Publishers) Ltd. Gatefold sleeve.
| A | Rubycon Part 1 | 17:18 | |
| B | Rubycon Part 2 | 17:35 |
- Peter Baumann
- Composed By, Electric Piano, Organ, Synthesizer [Synthi A]
- Edgar Froese
- Composed By, Guitar, Mellotron, Synthesizer [Vcs 3 Synthi]
- Chris Franke
- Composed By, Organ, Synthesizer [Double Moog, Synthi A]
- Mick Glossop
- Engineer
- Monique Froese
- Photography By [Cover Photographs]
- Tangerine Dream
- Producer
- Roland Paulick
- Technician [Technical Assistant]
