This timeless, classic album is 50 years old. In my opinion it is not only their best release but the pinnacle of the sub-genre it practically invented of Berlin School, sequencer led Kosmische. Often imitated but never bettered.
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I'm glad you found a use for that old EMS thing. 😜
You are of course far from alone in rating ‘Rubycon’ so highly, but I have never escaped thinking of it as a less memorable ‘Phaedra’. I shall listen yet again!
I always view them as a pair of albums. Phaedra was more influential for me as I heard it first but somehow I feel, at least for me, that Rubycon is just that bit more together & focused as a composition.
Phaedra, Rubycon & Ricochet are the holy trinity of the Berlin School for me nicely complemented by the RAH 75 concert recording (50 years ago in a couple of weeks) & Epsilon in Malaysian Pale esp Marouba Bay, also half a century old this year
PS Just diving into Doppelganger - its a very lovely album. Congratulations!
Just a shame for me as I was literally about to propose the name Doppelganger to my online collab partner after finding these guys in the attic recently😀
Ha ha it’s not that bad but certainly takes a good hour to warm up. Never that stable though so if I’m doing pitched stuff on it I constantly have to tweak the tuning.
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You are of course far from alone in rating ‘Rubycon’ so highly, but I have never escaped thinking of it as a less memorable ‘Phaedra’. I shall listen yet again!
Does it play "On The Run"?😉
Sequencer? Just bung an SQ1 on it. £99 😉😂
Just a shame for me as I was literally about to propose the name Doppelganger to my online collab partner after finding these guys in the attic recently😀
The good ol days.. Kraftwerk, tangerine dream, depeche mode...