Capturing the essence...?

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Capturing the essence...?

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Hi Everyone!

I used to be a member on the old TD forum but was locked out one day (?) and couldn't get back in. I've lurked around ever since, trying to keep up to date with EF and co. but since the release rate just keeps on growing that's no easy task!

My constant obsession, being economically challenged, is to cram as much good music on my mp3 player as possible and in the case of TD, that means trying to capture the essence. To do this, I've put in many hours of research and planning (thanks to the progarchives, voices in the net, wikipedia, and you guys) and bought a number of TD compilations to pick out a decent amount of material 1970-2010, limited to 800 minutes (clocks in at 789 minutes, 10 cds were I to burn it, currently just playlists) and put it in chronological order (-ish).

So, why am I telling you this? Truthfully I don't know, except to say constructive feedback is always a good thing. So I'm giving you the complete playlists (divided up into those imaginare cds) and would appreciate any well-meaning feedback I can get, concerning my choice of tracks etc. At worst it's just a sampler and I'll admit from the outset it's lacking references to a lot of soundtrack work, but I hope it's a decent overview, and my dream is, as I said, to capture the essence.

To begin with, the releases I have are:

The Collection (castle) (1 disc)
The Virgin Years, 1974-1978 (3 discs)
Dream Sequence (2 discs)
Book of Dreams (2 discs)
Tang-Go (2 discs)
An Electronic Journey (10 discs)
Ballads (4 discs)
Axiat (1 disc)
Dream Music (the movie music) I and II (each 1 disc)
Booster I, II, III and IV (each 2 discs)

And (well done for keeping on reading by the way!), here are the playlists:

Genesis
Alpha Centauri
(Zeit First Movement) Birth of Liquid Plejades
Fauni-Gena
Circulation of Events
Phaedra (excerpt)
Movements of a Visionary
Sequent C

Rubycon pt1 (excerpt)
Rubycon pt2 (excerpt)
Ricochet pt2
Stratosfear
The Big Sleep in Search of Hades
Cherokee Lane (live, excerpt)
Bent Cold Sidewalk
Cloudburst Flight (excerpt?)

Force Majeure (excerpt)
Tangram pt1
Beach Scene
Kiew Mission
Choronzon
White Eagle
Logos pt1 b
Dominion
Cinnamon Road
Ancient Power Plant (remix?)
The Dream is Always the Same
Love on a Real Train

Barkabane pt1 (The Smuggler)
Barkabane pt2 (Downtown Yam)
Desire
Footbridge to Heaven
Bois de Boulogne
Le Parc
Yellowstone Park
White Clouds
Pilots of Purple Twilight
Victory
Songs of the Whale - From Dawn (edit)
Songs of the Whale - To Dusk (remix)
Underwater Sunlight
Akash Deep
Clean and Sober

Alchemy of the Heart (excerpt)
Tyger (Jungle Myster Song)
Livemiles (The Alberquerque Concert)
Table Bay
Mothers of Rain
Sungate (Red Rock mix)
Dead Solid Perfect theme
After the Call
Dylan's Triumph
Lily on the Beach
Too cold for My Chinchilla
Twentynine Palms
Yucatan
Three Bikes in the Sky
A Matter of Time

Lifted Veil
Body Corporate
The Blue Bridge
Turn of the Tides
Midwinter Night
Desert T Dream
Tyranny of Beauty
Catwalk
Bride in Cold Tears
Elf June and the Midnight Patrol (Vienna mix)
At Darwin's Motel
Reflections
Towards the Evening Star
Timesquare

Beach Theme
The Seventh Propeller of Silence
Cat and Snowman
Velvet Sun
Ulan Ude
Yaroslaw Station
Ca Va - Ca Marche - Ca Ira Encore
Stoneyard
Tharsis Maneuver
Dies Martis
Meng Tian
The Blue Pearl
The Red Blood Connection
Astrophobia (Red Supernova Mix)

Io Non Mori
The Spirit of Virgil
Snow on Angel's Feather
The Metropolitan Sphere
Prison and Paradise
Chasing the Bad Seeds
Last Train to Osaka
La Solitude dans l'Espoir
No More Birth No More Death
Mercury Sphere
World Away from Gagaland
Tangines on and Running
Metaphor pt2
Navel of Light pt1

Lady Monk
Bells of Accra
Presentiment
Logos
Sadness of Echnaton Losing the World Child
One Night in Space
Armageddon in the Rose Garden pt2
Sounds of a Shell
Remembering Ayumi
Mellow Subversion (5th teaching)
Touching Truth
Romantic Vision (pt2 of Das Romantische Opfer)
Two Drunken Angels at Trafalgar Square
Scrapyard 2008

Tangram Chin Part
Lord Nelson
Nexuses
The Moondog Connection
The Dance without Dancers
Kiev Mission (remake 2009)
Beyond the Cottage and the Lake
Going West 2009 (live in Japan)
Mombasa (Tuareg remix)
Zulu
Astrophel and Stella (String version)
Breaching Sky
Long Island Sunset 2010 (live in London)

Still here? You guys are great. Sorry for the long post - it's been quite an obsession.

Raphalge
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Post by Chris Monk »

Did something similar myself when making CDr's for the car. Took ages selecting the tracks and eventually burnt off dozens of CDr's.
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to capture the essence, try a playlist of trees and leaves from 1970-1980...especially 73-77 :D :D
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bigmoog wrote:to capture the essence, try a playlist of trees and leaves from 1970-1980...especially 73-77 :D :D
i was gonna say something similar, but i didn't know what era to go for specifically.

and there's so much studio stuff that needs attention

ok, even though i don't need to at all, i'm so much of a fanboy i'm gonna devise my own list
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Capturing the essence...

....sounds like we need a TD after-shave.


Eau de Froese.

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bigmoog wrote:to capture the essence, try a playlist of trees and leaves from 1970-1980...especially 73-77 :D :D
Agree. My iPod (#1) is loaded with all em/ambient music. I tend to play the tree or leaves more than the regular TD's music. Especially when I'm driving.
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tdream4ever wrote:
bigmoog wrote:to capture the essence, try a playlist of trees and leaves from 1970-1980...especially 73-77 :D :D
Agree. My iPod (#1) is loaded with all em/ambient music. I tend to play the tree or leaves more than the regular TD's music. Especially when I'm driving.
early-mid 70's shows are the best soundtracks to a late night drive.
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