Tangerine Dream - Rubycon - Genuine MINT1975 UK First Pressing LP - A1/B1 Matrix

	£		22
	$		29

Artist & Title: Tangerine Dream – Rubycon

Rare genuine MINT 1975 UK FIRST PRESSING 2-track vinyl LP on the 'two virgins & dragon' Virgin label, arguably the German synth pioneers' most polished effort, housed in a superb fully laminated gatefold picture sleeve. The Mint condition record looks and sounds like the day it was made and the cover is in Excellent Condition. See pics. A very nice collector’s copy of, arguably, Tangerine Dream’s best album.
Highly desirable for its A-1U/B-1U first pressing matrices and Mint condition vinyl, and increasingly difficult to find in good condition, this could be a once in a lifetime opportunity to add this highly influential LP to your collection at an extremely advantageous price.

Catalogue Number: Virgin ?– V2025

Release date: 21 March 1975

Overall Grade: Mint/EX (LP/Cover)

Matrix (Runout): Side 1: V 2025 A-1U    Side 2: V 2025 B-1U

Notes: Original pressing on the Roger Dean designed "twins/dragon/blue background" Virgin label. Later pressings have various other Virgin labels, including the green twins label, red twins label, beige twins label and green/red labels.

This seminal Tangerine Dream LP is hardly ever offered for sale in this condition.

“The most striking electronic album I've ever heard!”

This is the extremely rare real thing: a genuine Mint 1975 UK first pressing. The record is in Mint condition and the cover is in Excellent condition. All items are free from any major defects. See pics. All items are the genuine originals bought together by me in 1975, not reprints or replacements. The LP is the original 1975 UK stereo LP, which was only played once or twice on top-end audiophile equipment and lovingly cared for.

“I would suggest this album for anybody who is interested on emotional music of great quality.”

Rubycon is an album released in 1975 by German electronic music group Tangerine Dream. It is widely regarded as one of their best albums.
Rubycon further develops the Berlin School sequencer-based sound they ushered in with the title track from Phaedra.
Although not quite matching the sales figures for Phaedra, Rubycon did give the group their highest ever UK chart placing. This was widely stated to be No.12, in a 14-week run. All editions of the now defunct Guinness Book of British Hit Albums gave this peak position, and for many years Tangerine Dream even headed the list of most charting albums (16 in all), without ever reaching the Top 10, before being overtaken by Irish duo Foster and Allen. However, a recent website (www.chartstats.com) states that Rubycon did in fact peak at No.10.

This may be your only ONCE IN A LIFETIME chance to own this rare piece of music history in this condition.

 “33 years since I first heard it, Tangerine Dream's ‘Rubycon’ still has the power to send shivers down my spine!”

The members of Tangerine Dream continued to hone their craft as pioneers of the early days of electronica, and the mid-'70s proved to be a time of prosperity and musical growth for the trio of Chris Franke, early member Peter Baumann, and permanent frontman Edgar Froese. The three of them had been delivering mysterious space records on a regular basis, and their growing confidence with early synthesizers (the best that money could buy at the time) made them virtuosos of the genre, even as they kept things organic and unpredictable with gongs, prepared piano, and electric guitar. Rubycon has aged gracefully for the most part, making it a solid companion (and follow-up) to their 1974 album, Phaedra. The somewhat dated palette of sounds here never overshadow the mood: eerie psychedelia without the paisleys -- Pink Floyd without the rock. "Rubycon, Pt. 1" ebbs and flows through tense washes of echo and Mellotron choirs, as primitive sequencer lines bubble to the surface. "Pt. 2" opens in a wonderfully haunted way, like air-raid sirens at the lowest possible pitch, joined in unison by several male voices (someone in the band must have heard György Ligeti's work for 2001). Rising out of the murkiness, the synthesizer arpeggios return to drive things along, and Froese weaves his backwards-recorded guitar through the web without really calling too much attention to himself. The piece evolves through varying degrees of tension, takes a pit stop on the shoreline of some faraway beach, and then ever so gradually unravels a cluster of free-form strings and flutes. The rest are vapours, your ears are sweating under your headphones, and the smoke has cleared from your bedroom. This is a satisfying ambient record from the pre-ambient era, too dark for meditation, and too good to be forgotten.

A fantastic time warp example of this rarity in amazing condition, a true investment grade item - get it while you can!

AND IT MUST SELL IN THIS ONCE ONLY AUCTION

You can read more about this album and Tangerine Dream all over the web.

Also available TANGERINE DREAM – PHAEDRA

I pack my records professionally in stiff corrugated cruciform record boxes leaving the Vinyl (housed in anti-static bags) outside the Sleeve.

Postage discounts for multiple orders are available: £1 per additional LP, up to a maximum of 4, in the UK.
£4 per additional LP, up to a maximum of 4, in the Rest of the World.

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