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Title: 70s avant-garde rock at its absolute peak
Review: This massive, sprawling set of live improvisational electronics makes a worthy companion piece to King Crimson's great, recently released live set The Great Deceiver. Both sets show, for the true fan with enough stamina, the heights to which so-called progressive or avant-garde rock really rose in the mid-70s.This is not pompous wankery, nor is it warmed-over New Age - it is music at the ragged cutting edge of innovation, with a sense of adventure as opposed to the complacency found in later music of this type. TD with its best lineup ever, showing how creative electronic music was the province of hard-working, skilled artists who needed to muster up all their energies to coax sounds out of their equipment - long before the era when such electronic music capabilities became available to anyone with $100 to spend on a Casiotone and the creativity went out of the business. This is an impressive legacy and timeless achievement.
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