For those who have never heard “Electronic Meditation”- it’s an heady often mysterious bound mixture of: atmospheric, experimental & sometimes soaring guitar textures. Brooding & often discordant organ, flute & cello elements.  Sawing yet  interstellar ebbed violin playing. Experimental rhythmic textures & battering  drums. With  a selection of  creatively manipulated found elements, tapes & effects. All wrapped in a very lo-fi, and cheap studio production which in some ways adds to album vibe, but also sometimes make things sound a little muddled & over grounded- this remaster has improved some of the production downsides, but this is never going to sound perfect.

The original album featured five tracks which made up  the albums suite of songs, and these five pieces sort of snaked in an often quite lose & haphazard jam manner  from the opener “Genesis” with  it's oppressive/sinister cello & organ broods that are ridded with slow motion chattering guitar, violin, flute & effects. Onto the slow rising  yet wavering organ drone & blues tinged spacey guitar trails of the beginning of  “Journey through A Burn Brain”, which later   tries to soar with it’s lo-fi battering drums, gyrating almost eastern guitar textures & haphazard organ/ piano/flute elements.  Through to the drifting & slightly wonky organ /guitar texturing simmers ‘n’ drones of  the opening of “Cold Smoke”, which later on has some rather jarring through effective sudden edited percussive jump cuts, and even more latter has a consistent (through little off-kilter) constant drum beat present with over the top rock guitar soloing. Onto the fairly safe organ & rock guitar shambling drum march of “Ashes to Ashes”. To finally the track “Resurrection” with it’s simple yet odd mixture of rising organ  playing & backwards talking- in the end the track slides back to beginning of the album with oppressive/ sinster cello & organ broods, and creative percussive/ sound effect elements. This reissue sadly features no extra or bonus material, so all we have here are the five original tracks, and  36.37 of the original album

The only extras here other than the remix is the 16 page inlay booklet which features a few German press reviews of the album, early band flyers for the album, original line-up pictures, reproduced original album artwork. And an eight page article about the bands origins, the  bands original line-up, the albums recording & how the album is seen in the context of their early albums- the articles written by Andy King.    

I reviewed the CD version of this reissue, but  for those interested in vinyl version of release- this reissue also comes in a ltd double gatefold edition too, through I think it had a fairly ltd pressing.

“Electronic Meditation” never stood as one of my favourite early TD albums, though it certainly has it’s moments of greatness & you can hear here the first step towards what they would become later. All told this is another nicely put together reissue by Reactive/ Esoteric records of one Tangerine Dream’s early back catalogue, and well worth checking out if you want hear the bands lo-fi & fairly primitive beginnings.