Mellotronists

In a message dated 2/27/2004 6:50:52 AM Pacific Standard Time, 
kinchmusic@... writes:
"Epsilon in Malaysian Pale" by Edgar Froese of Tangerine Dream. Anyone here 
have it? 
I thought I had the Brain copy too, but mine is on Virgin.  I have the 
Gatefold copy.....later ones didn't open up.  Was the girl on the inside his 
daughter?

I also have the prior album "Agua" -- this one is on Brain (German pressing). 
 I'll have to listen to this one as I can't even recall if I liked it or not. 
 By the way, the receipt for this one was still inside....$11.98 for the 
import pressing.....I purchased this 8 Oct 1978 (I was 17 years old then).  Wish I 
had saved more receipts, interesting to look back.

I still have all my old vinyl including multiple copies of some gems that I 
ought to sell on Ebay or something.  

Craig

On Fri, 27 Feb 2004 mrarcoman@... wrote:

> In a message dated 2/27/2004 6:50:52 AM Pacific Standard Time, 
> kinchmusic@... writes:
> "Epsilon in Malaysian Pale" by Edgar Froese of Tangerine Dream. Anyone here 
> have it? 
> I thought I had the Brain copy too, but mine is on Virgin.  I have the 
> Gatefold copy.....later ones didn't open up.  Was the girl on the inside his 
> daughter?


[note: sometimes incorrectly named "Ypsilon"]
the picture of edgar and monique's child shows up on nearly
every early TD and Froese album in some form somewhere...
it might even be jerome froese... i can't remember...


> I also have the prior album "Agua" -- this one is on Brain (German pressing). 
>  I'll have to listen to this one as I can't even recall if I liked it or not. 
>  By the way, the receipt for this one was still inside....$11.98 for the 
> import pressing.....I purchased this 8 Oct 1978 (I was 17 years old then).  Wish I 
> had saved more receipts, interesting to look back.


my "aqua" vinyl in on virgin [domestic promo pressing]
very trippy stuff.
recorded using some sort of "artificail head" stereo process.
[mentioned in the liner notes IIRC]

i do still have most of the receipts for my old synths,
along with the repair tags, and a pile of old roland
and korg product catalogues and one-sheets... gear porn.


> I still have all my old vinyl including multiple copies of some gems that I 
> ought to sell on Ebay or something.  


there was a comedian a few years back talking about
a particularly popular use of record sleeves way back
when... it was really funny, but trying to retell a joke
is usually a bad idea... it was something about:
there used to be these things called records...
and... how pot used to have seeds in it...
[some of you can probably connect the dots from there ;O) ]


> Craig


...jeff

I remember REALLY liking "Epsilon...." when I was younger and was doing the 
sound at a dinner function for the college I was attending (Long Beach State) 
and when I needed to sit down myself to eat, I put on side one as, what I 
considered, perfect background music.  About 10 minutes later, someone politely 
come up to me to tell me the record was stuck/skipping!

I picked up a double CD called BEYOND THE STORM by Edgar which has 
some of the tracks from Epsilon on it(it's essentially a "best of" 
comp)

Well there only *are* two tracks on EPSILON
(the title track, which was side A, and "Maroubra Bay" on the
B-side)

The former has all that fantastically evocative grainy
flute/cello mellotron at
the beginning - just sounds so completely like you're outside in
amoungst the ferns.
.....whilst Maroubra Bay has an amazing hypnotic pulsing echoed
analogue sequencer riff
with more string and ARP skewn over the top -
never fails to alter my mood.....
(I often wondered if "Epsilon" was a reference to mild-alteration
.....
.....there's Alpha, Beta, Delta and Theta brain waves ..... but
this album
gave you Epsilon waves ;-)

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "charel196" <charel196@...>
To: <Mellotronists@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: 28 February 2004 00:16
Subject: [Mellotronists] Froese


> I picked up a double CD called BEYOND THE STORM by Edgar which
has
> some of the tracks from Epsilon on it(it's essentially a "best
of"

> comp)
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I'll check when I get home...it must be an excerpt from the longer 
tracks.


-- In Mellotronists@yahoogroups.com, "David Davis" <feline1@f...> 
wrote:

> Well there only *are* two tracks on EPSILON
> (the title track, which was side A, and "Maroubra Bay" on the
> B-side)
> 
> The former has all that fantastically evocative grainy
> flute/cello mellotron at
> the beginning - just sounds so completely like you're outside in
> amoungst the ferns.
> .....whilst Maroubra Bay has an amazing hypnotic pulsing echoed
> analogue sequencer riff
> with more string and ARP skewn over the top -
> never fails to alter my mood.....
> (I often wondered if "Epsilon" was a reference to mild-alteration
> .....
> .....there's Alpha, Beta, Delta and Theta brain waves ..... but
> this album
> gave you Epsilon waves ;-)
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "charel196" <charel196@y...>
> To: <Mellotronists@yahoogroups.com>
> Sent: 28 February 2004 00:16
> Subject: [Mellotronists] Froese
> 
> 
> > I picked up a double CD called BEYOND THE STORM by Edgar which
> has
> > some of the tracks from Epsilon on it(it's essentially a "best
> of"
> > comp)
> >
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> >
> >
> > Yahoo! Groups Links
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> From: Jeff Coulter <jeffc@...>
> Date: 2004/02/27 Fri PM 01:04:11 EST

> [note: sometimes incorrectly named "Ypsilon"]

Wasn't that the spelling on the German version? I'm quite sure I've seen it on a cover, but it's been a while.


James Bailey
host: Electric Storm / A Missing Sense
CKLN-FM 88.1 Toronto www.ckln.fm
electricstorm@...

At 12:16 AM 2/28/2004 +0000, you wrote:
>I picked up a double CD called BEYOND THE STORM by Edgar which has
>some of the tracks from Epsilon on it(it's essentially a "best of"
>comp)

Yes, and from what I remember "Tangentized" (meaning Edgar enhanced the 
original tunes with new synth parts, as in the "Tangents" box set...and 
nobody knows why except for Edgar).  He can do what he wishes with his 
material, but the new noodlings don't add anything.

I think I listened to "Beyond the Storm" once, and I seem to recall you 
don't really get enough of Epsilon; it's mostly shorter edits of things.

...kl...
M400 #805 - constantly noodled
M400 #1037 - [constantly bored]

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In a message dated 2/27/2004 7:36:03 PM Pacific Standard Time, 
jimab@... writes:
> [note: sometimes incorrectly named "Ypsilon"]

Wasn't that the spelling on the German version? I'm quite sure I've seen it 
on a cover, but it's been a while.
Absolutely -- that's the copy I thought I had until I checked.  The "Brain" 
copy would have it spelled this way.