Electronic Rock with the highest potential for addiction

The Berlin electronic rock pioneers Edgar Froese, Christopher Franke and Peter Baumann toured 1976-77 with great success in North America.
For a variety of recordings of these concerts in 1977 published on Virgin double album "Encore" was put together.
The extremely successful result, I would describe as psycho acoustic trip at its finest.
Tangerine Dream have everything here that they had by then already shown, as a kind of cross-section again to.
Because there are beautiful melodic piano passages, improvised, squirming, disorderly acting soundscapes, driving electronic rhythms, hypnothische Sequencerläufe, funky distorted guitar parts, nebulous, mysterious atmospheres uplifting sounds and melodies that sometimes a melancholy, then spread a psychedelic mood, then it is again "Space" ig ... and then all together ... an experience!
TD show here with its extensive analog equipment, with Mellotronklängen and much skill, also with regard to compose, how to create music with an almost magical aura.
Who starts on this kind of music, it has here with an album to do with the highest potential for addiction.
Who owns other older albums of the band, is here and there some tunes and Sequencerläufe shortly recognize (eg of "Sorcerer"), yet one hears new music, no Nachgespiele old pieces.
"Encore" is a highlight of progressive electronic rock and still a treat.

Since the double-album was a little more than 70 minutes, it could be accommodated at the CD release on a single CD.
Since the recording quality for a live recording in the '70s was quite pleasing, there was not much to complain about the sound.
The Vinyl record sound but already spatial, more pleasant than the first CD edition.
This first CD in 1995 replaced by the very good "Definitive Edition".
The remastering was done by Simon Heyworth (Chop Em Out).
The use of SBM (Super Bit Mapping) by Sony shows that Heyworth wanted to do things by halves.
The dynamic range is still OK, though slightly reduced, the modulation is quite high, but not overloaded.
Those who do not (more) owns the old record, is well served by the remastered version of 95.