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== Berlin School of electronic music == |
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A development of electronic music in the ] characterized by soaring, improvised electric guitar or synthesizer melodies in high-register accompanied by a complex, ever-shifting, sequencer bass ]. Sound effects such as wind, and washes of ] choir, flute, or strings were often added for color. Berlin School tracks typically ran about twenty or thirty minutes, filling one side of a vinyl LP. An outgrowth of ], Berlin School was so-named because most of its early practitioners were based out of ], and to differentiate it from the more pop-oriented <b>Dusseldorf School</b> which included ]. |
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Although sequencers were used by ] on ]'s "Baba O'Reilly" in ] and by ] on ]'s ]. the classic era of Berlin School commenced with the release of ] by ] in ], their first on the Virgin label, and closed with ] by the same group in ]. Side one of <b>Moondawn</b> by ] in ] was his first entry in this genre, joined by ] with ] in the same year, ]'s "New Age of Earth" and ]'s <b>Departure from the Northern Wasteland</b>, and ]'s <b>Spiral</b> in 1977. |
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By ] Tangerine Dream had exhausted most of the possibilites of this genre and began to record albums with shorter, more accessible "new age" tracks such as <b>Le Parc</b> and <b>Underwater Sunlight</b>. However, in 1986 they released <b>Green Desert</b> which they had recorded in ] and left on the shelf. It contained the track "Astral Voyager" which was tentative Berlin School in the vein of "Convention of the 24" from TD's ] LP. <b>Green Desert</b> therefore was the first Berlin School recording. |
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In ], five years after Tangerine Dream left Virgin Records, ] released their acclaimed <b>Moonwind</b>, perhaps the apex of the genre. The clean picked-bass and synthesizer trills of "Chase the Evening" distilled the Berlin sound to its essence. |
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