The 1976 Virgin published "Stratosfear" the German Electronic Magicians Tangerine Dream was the last album with Peter Baumann on board. The divided into four titles disc also has piano and flute to offer besides the usual synthesizer and Mellotronklängen, the Sequencerläufen, Edgar Froese's guitar. Again, it creates the trio (Chris Franke was also mentioned) again, melodies, rhythms and their own sound to combine so skillfully that an almost mystical, fantastic atmosphere is created. "Stratosfear" is inspiring, fantastic, interesting, unusual. Although the first musical works technically, synthetically, electronically, it does have to offer quite a bit of warmth and emotion. All this is probably not for everyone, but who is ready to really embrace it, to take rest, to "pure listening", will perhaps make an entirely new listening experience and enjoy it. Anyone familiar with the older stuff from TD and listening, here has a compulsory purchase on.
The recording quality is OK, the old record did not sound bad. The first CD-series in 1995 replaced by the "Definitive Edition". Simon Heyworth has delivered a really neat job of remastering. An improvement to the old CD can be heard. He sat SBM ("Super Bit Mapping"), a Sony. That he had his good dynamic range of the recording and not too high aussteuerte (no Loudness War, no clipping), completes his professional tonal revision ab.Mehr not going as well. The name "Definitive Edition" can be taken literally here.