Kraftwerk-Tone Float

Tone Float

 

Organization's Tone Float doesn't sound like Kraftwerk, but it does sound like late 60s/early 70s Krautrock. Ralf and Florian made a big stylistic leap between Tone Float and the Kraftwerk 1 and 2 albums with the more free form Tone Float leading into more groove oriented percussion and riffs in the first two Kraftwerk albums. Organization's basic sound is similar to the first Tangerine Dream album Electronic Meditations, Saucerful of Secrets, Kluster, Limbus 4's Mandala, Stockhausen, and late 60s era Steve Reich. If you're into trippy chaotic experimental music, you'll probably enjoy this. Tone Float didn't make Julian Cope's Krautrock Sampler Top 50, but it does get listed in The Crack in the Cosmic Egg's Top 100 Krautrock Albums. The sound quality is acceptable: it's a pretty good quality vinyl transfer with some low level surface noise and distortion. If you want to hear the music you'll be grateful someone went through the effort to put out this cd. 

Doobie Brothers- Primo Cuts

Primo Cuts

 

Doobie's Choice is a great idea that I wish more band's would follow. Instead of the standard hits compilation, the band selects their favorite songs and twenty of them appear on the disk. Almost all the songs were never released as singles and the few that were like "Another Park, Another Saturday" and "Little Darling" barely squeaked into the Top 40 and are hardly hits. Most the songs come from the early days of the band and not the late 70's configuration that has a strong Michael McDonald influence. The band also takes some songs that are from recent reunions like the album's opener, "Divided Highway" from their Brotherhood album. Some strong tracks include "Sweet Maxine", "Chinatown", "South City Midnight Lady" and "Toulouse Street". The band does get a bit obscure with some tracks like "Cotton Mouth", "Nothin' But A Heartache" and "don't Stop Watchin' The Wheels", but the overall approach is superb.



Between Interval- Secret Observatory

Secret Observatory

This masterpiece of a spacemusic 'soundtrack' is a truly wonderful experience, not to be missed by any space music fan. It is a highly addictive CD full of mystery & passageways leading into many diffrent aspects of space.

All four songs on this disc floats into eatch other like the whole disc was made as a one-piece composition. And it is very rewarding what you will hear. The 4 compositions on this disc ranges with everything from deep, eerie & dark space music to the more brighter side of space.

The journey starts very dark and slow, but things get brighter and eventually everything expands, and space will open up for you & your ears. And before you know it you are trapped far away out there into a world unknown, somewhere in cosmos.

The best composition on this incredible release is "Forested Veins" as it has all the elements that a really good space tune should have, and it expands in such a way that makes me wonder if I really am in space or if I'm still aware of the real world around me.

I would recommed this album by all means to all fellow space travellers who enjoy the works of Michael Stearns. It is definetely a must-have CD if you are serious about taking a trip to the outer limits of life!