Even at a remove of 50 years, it remains remarkable that a largely melody-free soundscape created by then-unconventional instrumentation not only ramraided the UK’s album charts, but became so influential that its ramifications are still being felt to this very day.
Not least as Tangerine Dream had evolved from Berlin’s radical Zodiac Free Arts Lab, a venue that effectively charted the growth of Germany’s post-war underground’s gradual estrangement from the influence of American and British blues and rock and into something wholly contemporary and original.
