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Having re-released a large amount of Tangerine Dream's back catalogue in 2009, the German Membran label published a budget box set titled Ballads -- a title one would expect for a compilation by some rock or pop music star, but not from a mainly electronic band. Anyway, Ballads comes with a cardboard box containing four CDs, each of them in its own cardboard sleeve, and a 12 page booklet with a TD biography in German and English language. It covers the band history from the late sixties up to the release of The Seven Letters From Tibet in 2000.

The four CDs have their own individual titles, originating from one of the tracks featured on the respective disk: CD 1 comes as The Blue Bridge, CD 2 is titled Ivory Town, CD 3 is named Beyond All Suns, while CD 4 has the title Velvet Sun. The compositions featured on the discs originally come from the following albums:

• Rockface (1988, released 2003, two tracks)
• Canyon Dreams (1991/1999, three tracks)
• Oasis (1997, one track)
• Ambient Monkeys (1997, one track)
• Transsiberia (1998, four tracks)
• The Hollywood Years Vol. 1 (1998, one track)
• The Hollywood Years Vol. 2 (1998, two tracks)
• Mars Polaris (1999, two tracks)
• The Seven Letters From Tibet (2000, three tracks)
• i-Box (2000, one track)
• Inferno (2002, four tracks)
• The Melrose Years (2002, three tracks)
• Mota Atma (2003, three tracks)
• Purgatorio (2004, one track)
• Paradiso (2005, four tracks)
• Kyoto (2005, one track)
• Metaphor (2006, one track)
• Plays Tangerine Dream (2006, two tracks)
• Springtime In Nagasaki (2007, two tracks)
• Summer In Nagasaki (2007, one track)
• Autumn In Hiroshima (2008, six tracks)

This compilation contains no new material, but given the very fair price and the nice packaging, it is a good opportunity to get acquainted with the TD music of the recent two decades.

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