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The Ones: Love Of Mine

1967
Composers: Edgar Froese, Michael Auerbach, Charly Prince
7'' B
Star-Club Records 148 593 STF

This record even got the Pebbles Honours! But those compilations rightfully gained the notoriety of not always presenting the original sound. Some were psychedeliased in the preparing (you can get that from the crackles obviously being run through a delay effect on Pebbles 3). Also on this Animals inspired track, Greg Shaw seemingly didn't have an access to an original copy and a charming "dirty master" was created from a whatever-what-generation tape-source for Pebbles 24, oddly enough the result is "dirty stereo".

The original Star Club singles actually sounds very good and Star Club records was among the first labels to produce stereo singles on a regular basis. To be honest, even I do not own an original copy. (I'm anything but a die hard collector of originals.) This is the only track in this collection drawn from CD. And forgive me, I even did a little bit of re-paning, since the original block-stereo along the unlucky multi-drum-track experiments (highly fashionable in psychedelic 1967, but consider the conditions of audio-monitoring at the time) didn't help the overall cohesiveness in the sound, nor did it provide the performance more drive. Rather the opposite. I wanted the track to survive in the R&B context here.

The single was issued near the end of a very busy career of this Berlin based group. It lasted three years, took the group all over the republic, through several areas of Europe, to the favoured Mecca of Beat bands seeking for jobs: Spain!

Spain offered a revelation moment to some of the group members: Performing at Salavador Dali's summer residence Port Ligat. Taken by the Dali's parallel subconscious universe, two of the members would soon start an experimental music project that had the goal of creating a musical equivalent to Dali's Surrealism.

The members were: Charly Prince and Edgar Froese.
The name of the project was (and still is): Tangerine Dream