Rubycon is an album released in 1975 by German electronic music

Electronic music

Electronic music is music that employs electronic musical instruments and electronic music technology in its production. In general a distinction can be made between sound produced using electromechanical means and that produced using electronic technology. Examples of electromechanical sound...

 group Tangerine Dream

Tangerine Dream

Tangerine Dream is a German electronic music group founded in 1967 by Edgar Froese. The band has undergone many personnel changes over the years, with Froese being the only continuous member...

. It is widely regarded as one of their best albums. Rubycon further develops the Berlin School

Berlin School of electronic music

The Berlin School of electronic music, or just Berlin School, was a development of electronic music in the 1970s, shaped by Berlin-based artists like Klaus Schulze, Tangerine Dream and Ashra....

 sequencer-based sound they ushered in with the title track from Phaedra

Phaedra (album)

-Personnel:* Edgar Froese – producer, Mellotron, guitar, bass, VCS 3 synthesizer, organ* Christopher Franke – Moog synthesizer, VCS 3 synthesizer* Peter Baumann – Organ, electric piano, VCS 3 synthesizer, flute-Chart performance:-References:*...

.

Although not quite matching the sales figures for Phaedra, Rubycon did give the group their highest ever UK chart placing. This was widely stated to be No.12, in a 14-week run. All editions of the now defunct Guinness Book of British Hit Albums gave this peak position, and for many years Tangerine Dream even headed the list of most charting albums (16 in all), without ever reaching the Top 10, before being overtaken by Irish

Republic of Ireland

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 duo Foster and Allen. However, a recent website (www.chartstats.com) states that Rubycon did in fact peak at No.10.

Track listing

• "Rubycon, Part One" – 17:18
  • Composed & played by:
    • Edgar Froese
      Edgar Froese
      Edgar Wilmar Froese is a German artist and electronic music pioneer, best known for founding the electronic music group, Tangerine Dream. Although his solo and group recordings prior to 2003 name him as "Edgar Froese", his solo albums from 2003 onward bear the artist name "Edgar W. Froese".Froese...
      
      : Mellotron
      Mellotron
      The Mellotron is an electro-mechanical, polyphonic tape replay keyboard originally developed and built in Birmingham, England in the early 1960s. It superseded the Chamberlin Music Master, which was the world's first sample-playback keyboard intended for music...
      
      /Guitar & VCS 3 Synthesizer
    • Christopher Franke
      Christopher Franke
      Christopher Franke is a German musician and composer. From 1971 to 1988 he was a member of the electronic group Tangerine Dream. Initially a drummer with The Agitation, later renamed Agitation Free, his primary focus eventually shifted to keyboards and synthesizers as the group moved away from its...
      
      : Double Moog Synthesizer/Synthi A/Organ/Modified Elka Organ & Prepared Piano
      Prepared piano
      A prepared piano is a piano that has had its sound altered by placing objects between or on the strings or on the hammers or dampers....
      
      
    • Peter Baumann
      Peter Baumann
      Peter Baumann formed the core line-up of the German electronic group Tangerine Dream with Edgar Froese and Christopher Franke in 1971. While touring with the band, Baumann composed his first solo album in 1976...
      
      : Organ/Synthi A/E-Piano & Prepared Piano

• "Rubycon, Part Two" – 17:35
  • Composed & played by:
    • Christopher Franke
      Christopher Franke
      Christopher Franke is a German musician and composer. From 1971 to 1988 he was a member of the electronic group Tangerine Dream. Initially a drummer with The Agitation, later renamed Agitation Free, his primary focus eventually shifted to keyboards and synthesizers as the group moved away from its...
      
      : Double Moog Synthesizer, Gong/Synthi A/Organ
    • Edgar Froese
      Edgar Froese
      Edgar Wilmar Froese is a German artist and electronic music pioneer, best known for founding the electronic music group, Tangerine Dream. Although his solo and group recordings prior to 2003 name him as "Edgar Froese", his solo albums from 2003 onward bear the artist name "Edgar W. Froese".Froese...
      
      : Organ/Mellotron/Guitar/Gong/VCS 3 Synthi
    • Peter Baumann
      Peter Baumann
      Peter Baumann formed the core line-up of the German electronic group Tangerine Dream with Edgar Froese and Christopher Franke in 1971. While touring with the band, Baumann composed his first solo album in 1976...
      
      : E-Piano/Organ/Synthi A Voice/ARP 2600