As I’ve mentioned before, my parents are classical music
fans and have never really embraced popular music. As a consequence I wasn’t
exposed to pop music in my youth and missed out on the music of the 1970’s
almost completely. I only really discovered pop music in about 1982 when I
started secondary school. I suppose that because of this my favourite genre of
music has always 1980’s syntherzer pop, such as Howard Jones, Dépêche Mode and Yazoo.
Later I discovered Jean Michael Jarre and later still, Iron Maiden. In fact I
didn’t really discover Led Zeppelin until about 7 2008.
I was aware on a German group called Tangerine Dream, but
never really paid them too much attention, until yesterday. I was at a lose end
music wise and a colleague mentioned that he had been to see (and hear) Rick
Wakeman in Birmingham on Tuesday. This lead to a conversion about whether he
and another colleague should see Tangerine Dream later this year. I decided to
have a quick browse through iTunes and came across a compilation album of their
early 1970’s material, so I took the plunge. It’s called “The Virgin Years –
1974 to 1978”.
OMG!!!! It’s awesome and 24 hours later, I’m still hooked. I
would describe it as a cross between early Jean Michael Jarre but with less
structure and electronic Jazz. It just washes over you in smooth melodic wave
after wave of soothing sound.
This is the kind of music that I should be writing. Perhaps
I should fire up my home studio equipment once more and unleash my unbridled talents
upon an unsuspecting world once more. You have been warned 8-)
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