Comments for Tangerine Dream, Atem

The album that were discovered by british discjockey John Peel and made them famous in UK.The line-up were Edgar Froese, Chris Franke and Peter Baumann.

An amateur-astronomers opinion. Atem (20:25) is like observing different aspects of the solar system's history: first there is complete chaos (the first stages of the creation of the solar system), then suddenly there is this void (as if looking at the dim sun from a point somewhere at the solar system's outskirts). Somewhere in this void there are cave-like sounds (??: perhaps at the planet Pluto or in a frozen comet-nucleus?), and also the strange sounds of foam (?: could be melting comet-ice) and... a locomotive (??!?; very odd indeed!). Atem is the most mysterious piece of electronic music ever!