Capturing the essence...?

[Raphalge]

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 H ot 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

[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.

[bigmoog]

to capture the essence, try a playlist of trees and leaves from 1970-1980...especially 73-77

[Erik]

to capture the essence, try a playlist of trees and leaves from 1970-1980...especially 73-77

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

[Chris Monk]

Capturing the essence...

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


Eau de Froese.

[tdream4ever]

to capture the essence, try a playlist of trees and leaves from 1970-1980...especially 73-77

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.

[Erik]

to capture the essence, try a playlist of trees and leaves from 1970-1980...especially 73-77

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.

[Raphalge]

My "Eau de TD" obsession continues...

There's a purpose now though. There's just so much TD output, and I'm afraid any potential new fans would be put off. I mean if someone hears Raum and tells others to check out TD, and one friend finds Le Parc, another finds Zeit, and still another finds Seven Letters from Tibet, they won't have any common frame of reference. And as for all the various collections and best ofs, they just make matters worse. So I'm suggesting a journey planner, something that can be grasped to get a sense of continuity and even narrative structure, even if it's just a fanciful construction.

So here's my current stab at ten cds worth of material to bring a sense of clarity to anyone who mught otherwise give up trying to get to grips with the vast TD firmament. "Discs" 1-4 are Pink, Virgin and Blue Years, with some attempt at creating flow from track to track. Disc 5 is the Independent Years and Seattle Years, perhaps suggesting a creative dip, but disc 6 begins with Dream mixes and moves into the TDI Years with its reinvigorated dynamism. But then disc 7 is reflective as TD was then a father and son working through the loss of their wife/mother, and it uses the Divine Comedy as its theme. Disc 8 presents the Eastgate years as though held together
by Atomic Seasons releases, while disc 9 is rich with the variety that saw out that era. Finally disc 10 begins with four tracks to mark Edgar's change of cosmic address, and the beginning of the Quantum Years:

Genesis [from The Collection]
Sunrise in the Third System [from Nebulous Dawn]
Fly and Collision of Comas Sola [from Nebulous Dawn]
Ultima Thume pt2 [from Nebulous Dawn]
Nebulous Dawn [from Nebulous Dawn]
Fauni Gena [from Nebulous Dawn]
Wahn [from Nebulous Dawn]
Phaedra [from The Virgin Years 1974-1978]

Sequent C [from The Virgin Years 1974-1978]
Rubycon 7" side 2 [from The Virgin Years 1974-1978]
Rubycon pt2 (excerpt) [from The Virgin Years 1974-1978]
Ricochet pt1 [from The Virgin Years 1974-1978]
Stratosfear [from The Virgin Years 1974-1978]
The Big Sleep in Search of Hades 7" edit [from The Virgin Years 1974-1978]
Monolight single mix [from The Virgin Years 1977-1983]
Cherokee Lane (live) (excerpt) [from Dream Sequence]
Rain Forest [from Booster VI]
Rising Runner Missed by Endless Sender [from The Virgin Years 1974-1978]
Force Majeure (excerpt) [from Dream Sequence]
Cloudburst Flight [from The Virgin Years 1977-1983]

Tangram set 2 [from The Virgin Years 1977-1983]
Scrap Yard [from Lost In Strings]
Kiew Mission [from The Virgin Years 1977-1983]
Choronzon [from The Virgin Years 1977-1983]
Midnight in Tula [from The Virgin Years 1977-1983]
White Eagle [from The Virgin Years 1977-1983]
Logos pt1 (b) [from Dream Sequence]
Hyperborea [from The Virgin Years 1977-1983]
Cinnamon Road [from The Virgin Years 1977-1983]
The Silver Seal [from Booster VI]
Meteor [from Light Flux cupdisc]
Love on a Real Train [from Dream Sequence]

Horizon (excerpt) [from The Blue Years]
Desire [from Dream Music 2]
Le Parc [from Book Of Dreams]
Zen Garden [from The Blue Years]
White Clouds [from The Collection]
Pilots of Purple Twilight (live) [from Cyberjam Collection]
Finale / End Credits (aka "Victory", ost The Park is Mine) [from Dream Music]
Songs of the Whale - From Dawn (excerpt) [from Book Of Dreams]
Ride on the Ray [from The Blue Years]
Water's Gift [from Canyon Cazuma]
Clean and Sober [from Dream Music]
Tyger (Jungle Myster Song) [from Book Of Dreams]
21st Century Common Man pt 2 [from The Blue Years]
Table Bay [from Ballads]
Livemiles (The Albuquerque Concert) (first excerpt) [from Book Of Dreams]

Sungate [from Lost In Strings]
Mothers of Rain [from Tang-Go]
Dead Solid Perfect [from Dream Music]
After The Call [from Tangines Scales]
Dylan's Triumph [from Dream Music 2]
Too H ot For My Chinchilla [from Tang-Go]
Berlin Summer Nights [from The Softdream Decade]
The Back of Beyond [from The Softdream Decade]
Three Bikes In The Sky [from Tang-Go]
Lifted Veil [from Tang-Go]
Body Corporate [from Starbound Collection]
The Conspiracy (alternative take) [from Vintage Vanguard]
Blue Bridge [from Lost In Strings]
Midwinter Night [from Starbound Collection]
Catwalk [from Tang-Go]
United Goblins' Parade [from Cyberjam Collection]

Bride In Cold Tears (Motown Monk Mix) [from Tang-Go]
Cliff Dwellers [from Canyon Cazuma]
Toward the Evening Star (live) [from Tang-Go]
The Seventh Propeller of Silence [from Ballads]
Order of the Ginger Guild [from Cyberjam Collection]
Beach Theme (live) [from Tang-Go]
Velvet Sun [from Tang-Go]
Cat and Snowman [from Ballads]
Timesquare [from Tang-Go]
Russian Soul [from Tang-Go]
Ça Va-Ça Marche-Ça Ira Encore [from Tang-Go]
Last Trumpet on 23rd Street [from Silver Siren Collection]
Dies Martis [from Ballads]
Meng Tian [from Tang-Go]
Speed Dragon [from Ocean Waves Collection]

The Blue Pearl [from Seven Letters from Tibet]
Prime Time [from Axiat]
Dante In Despair [from Ballads]
Snow On Angel's Feather [from Ballads]
World of the Day [from Axiat]
Prison And Paradise [from The Dante Song Collection]
Last Train to Osaka [from Ballads]
The Greek Mirror [from Booster]
La Solitude Dans L'Espoir [from Axiat]
A Ciello Della Luna (excerpt) [from Ballads]
Where Dreams are Large and Airy [from The Softdream Decade]

Sleeping Watches Snoring in Silence [from Booster]
Navel Of Light pt1 [from Ballads]
I Could Hear It When The Moon Collapsed On Broadway [from Booster]
Presentiment [from Ballads]
Armageddon in the Rose Garden pt2 [from Booster IV]
Sounds of a Shell [from Booster III]
Beyond the Cottage and the Lake [from Booster II]
Trauma [from Booster II]
Exit To Heaven [from Booster II]
Morning Star [from Booster III]
Nexuses [from Booster III]
The Dance Without Dancers [from Booster III]
Escape [from Booster V]

Going West 2009 (live in Japan) [from Booster IV]
Sadness of Echnaton Losing the World Child [from Booster II]
Mombasa (Tuareg remix) [from Booster IV]
Long Island Sunset (live 2010) [from Booster IV]
Beauty of Magic Antagonism [from Booster V]
The Gate of Saturn [from Booster VII]
The Warring Forces of the Twins [from Booster VI]
Asheville Sunrise [from Booster VI]
The Silver Boots of Bartlett Green [from Booster V]
Madagascar [from Booster VI]
Burning the Bad Seal [from Booster VII]
The Apparently Lunatic Hierarchy [from Booster VII]

The Bleeding Angel [from Josefine The Mouse Singer]
Shadow and Sun [from Booster VII]
Rotcaf Neila [from Booster VII]
Tangines on and Running (guitar mix) [from Lost In Strings]
Genesis of Precious Thoughts [from Quantum Key]
Second Gravity [from The Quantum Years, Live 2016]
It Is Time to Leave When Everyone Is Dancing [from Quantum Gate]
Identity Proven Matrix [from Quantum Gate]
10:15 Session - West pts VIII & IX [from The Sessions VI]
Continuum (Barker remix) [from Probe 6-8]
What You Should Know about Endings [from Raum]

I do believe that something like this would enable a great many more people to discover and dig deeper into this extraordinary material.

[Dzsedzs]

I think this is a good idea, a good list. Well done.

[Raphalge]

Thanks Dzsedzs! Just swapped out penultimate track to include something from Probe 6-8.

[Dzsedzs]

You are welcome . I imagine how much work is in that list. Doing my TD site also needs a lot of time.

[Raphalge]

Thanks again Dzsedzs. I've looked at your website a bit too, although my Hungarian is not up to much I'm afraid

Just adjusted my latest tracklist post yet again (Seattle to TDI years)

Also had a sudden urge to attempt a tracklist for a three-cd "Platinum Collection", based heavily on my ten-disc folly. Here's my attempt, if anyone's interested:

Genesis
Wahn
Phaedra
Rubycon pt2 (excerpt)
Rubycon 7" side 2
Stratosfear 7” single mix
Monolight single mix
Cloudburst Flight
Kiew Mission
White Eagle
Logos pt1 (b)
Love on a Real Train

Le Parc
Underwater Twilight
Tyger (Jungle Myster Song)
Livemiles (The Albuquerque Concert) (first excerpt)
Mothers of Rain
After the Call
Three Bikes In The Sky
Blue Bridge
Bride In Cold Tears (Motown Monk Mix)
Towards the Evening Star (live)
Timesquare
Russian Soul
Prison And Paradise
Last Train to Osaka

Sleeping Watches Snoring in Silence
Beyond the Cottage and the Lake
Trauma
The Dance Without Dancers
Going West 2009 (live in Japan)
The Silver Boots of Bartlett Green
Madagascar
Burning the Bad Seal
Tangines on and Running (guitar mix)
The Bleeding Angel
Genesis of Precious Thoughts
Identity Proven Matrix
What You Should Know about Endings

All the best everyone!

[Dzsedzs]

Hello Raphalge !

Well, not a lot speaks Hungarian that's true, but there is an English version as well.