Destination Berlin [Import]

Tangerine Dream | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (February 2, 1999)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import
• Label: Import [Generic]
• ASIN: B00000708T
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Vinyl
• Average Customer Review: 2.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #88,646 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Alexander Square [LP-Version]

2. Emperors Castle

3. Hitchhiker's Point

4. Brandenburg Gate

5. Wall-Street

6. Peacock Island

7. Down the Avus

8. Midnight in Bear City

9. Berlin Summer Nights

10. Alexander Square (Reprise)

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

6 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars 2 words: Industrial music, December 19, 1999

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John H. Beyer (New Orleans, LA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Destination Berlin (Audio CD)

Let me qualify: Not 100% of my music collection is stuff I'm happy with. However, I make comedy video shorts, and this music is perfect for corporate/industrial video stuff (which I parody with this music). As a T.D. work, it's the pits. This sounds like they either needed some quick cash, or did it for a friend on spec. For good T.D: Underwater Sunlight, Rubycon, Risky Business Soundtrack, and the LEGEND Soundtrack.

5 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Disappointing album with few redeeming features, September 12, 2000

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Steve Benner "Stonegnome" (Lancaster, UK) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Destination Berlin (Audio CD)

Considering the number of reasonably strong albums produced in the late '80s and early '90s by the Tangerine Dream duo of Edgar Froese and Paul Haslinger, this 1989 film score release is a very great disappointment indeed. Composed for a special "Imagine 360" panorama-sound production that seems to have subsequently sunk without trace, it isn't actually the band's worst effort by any means - the music following Haslinger's departure is even less imaginative and unvaried - but it does sink pretty low.

The 38 minutes of its 10 tracks present a fairly uniform (some might say monotonous) tone world of synthesised harpsichord, twelve string guitar and `boom-tish' percussion with the occasional application of thin choral vocal wash and tinny synthetic horn/recorder. Trite tunes, harmonies and chord progressions abound, as indeed do boppy rhythms and jangly guitar ballads. If those sorts of things turn you on, you might take great delight in this album. Serious Tangerine Dream fans will most likely be disappointed with most of the music here, though. There are a couple of enjoyable tracks (`Brandenburg Gate' is a sweet little gem; `Peacock Island' and `Midnight in Bear City' are quite fun; `Berlin Summer Nights' neatly encapsulates the entire album) but the album's main material appears rather too many times for this disc to be able to cut much mustard. No, hunt out "Miracle Mile" instead if you want some really stunning sounds from these two guys!

2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Soundtrack full of melody, May 5, 2002

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K. Warner "westend117" (www.bluemangocafe.net) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Destination Berlin (Audio CD)

Among old-school TD fans, this soundtrack is sure to polarize given that is dominated by tight, melodic songs that do not venture into improvisation or long repeating sequences. That being said, there are several strong tunes on this album including the very memorable "Berlin Summer Nights" that melds a down-tempo beat with an excellent melody.

Collectors should look for a CD-Maxi version of "Alexander Square" that features an more varied extended version of that song.