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The '''Berlin School of electronic music''', or just '''Berlin School''', is a development of ] in the ] characterized by soaring electric guitar or synthesizer melodies in high-register accompanied by complex, shifting sequencer bass ]. Sound effects such as wind, and washes of ] choir, flute, or strings are often added for color. Berlin School tracks typically run about twenty or thirty minutes, filling one side of a vinyl LP, and sound very much like the theme to the UK television show ] (which incidentally was constructed from tape recordings of oscillators in ] years before the invention of the ].)


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An outgrowth of ], Berlin School is so named because most of its early practitioners were based out of ]. The genre is distinct from the more industrial ] which includes ], ], ], and ].
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Analog sequencers were used by ] on ]'s ''Baba O'Reilly'' in ] and by ] on ]'s '']'', but the classic era of Berlin School commenced with the release of '']'' by ] in ], their first on ], and closed with '']'' by the same group in ]. Bandmember ] is credited with turning the Modular Moog's control-voltage analog sequencer with its matrix of shorting pins into a live performance instrument and launching the Berlin sound. In ] Tangerine Dream more or less reigned alone with a studio album, '']'', and the live album '']''.
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''Moondawn'' by ] in ] was his first entry in this genre, joined by ] with '']'' in the same year. Tangerine Dream delivered a studio work, '']'', and the soundtrack to the film ].

In ] ] (Manuel Göttsching) released ''New Age of Earth'', along with ]'s ''Departure from the Northern Wasteland'', and ]'s ]. Tangerine Dream toured the United States and released a double album, ''Encore'', with three sides of Berlin School and a side of proto-Ambient.

Tangerine Dream drew some fire from fans for resorting to vocals on ]'s ''Cyclone'', but "Madrigal Meridian" (which occupies the entire second half of that disk) is a slab of pure Berlin School similar to the shorter "Frank Herbert" track from ]' classic double LP '']''.

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 ''Le Parc'' and ''Underwater Sunlight''. However, in ] they released ''Green Desert'' 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. ''Green Desert'' therefore was the first Berlin School recording.

In ], five years after Tangerine Dream left the Virgin label, ] released their acclaimed ''Moonwind'', perhaps the apex of the genre. The clean picked-bass and synthesizer trills of "Chase the Evening" distilled the Berlin sound to its essence. Modern interpretations of 70's Berlin School are created by "retro" artists such as AirSculpture, Dweller at the Threshold, Radio Massacre International, and Under The Dome.

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