Video Tangerine Dream - Ricochet

0:00:00 - Ricochet Part One [16.59]
0:16:59 - Ricochet Part Two [21.05]

1975
Edgar Froese, Chris Franke, Peter Baumann

Tangerine Dream's second album of 1975, Ricochet, was mixed from tapes of their French and British tours. Like Rubycon before, it featured two long compositions, each of them filling one side of the vinyl album. According to Chris Franke, the concerts were much too long to use in one context. So Tangerine Dream had to edit about 40 to 50 hours of music, kilometres of tape, to find the most important parts that eventually were released on their first live album. The photography on the front cover was taken by Monika Froese on the ocean shore near Bordeaux.

In 1995 Virgin re-released the album on CD in the so-called "Definitive Edition" series, featuring the original front cover artwork. The sound quality of this release, using the Super Bit Mapping technology, is probably the best up to now. Nevertheless, on previous releases, Ricochet, Part Two started with a very soft clapping of two hands right a the beginning of the piano part to give the measure for the music. This clapping has been deleted from the "Definitive Edition" CD, perhaps being regarded as a disturbing noise.

Definitive Edition CD ripped to WAV files.