Quick note before I begin. I’m changing the title of this series from the form of “The Tangerine Dream Collection Project: Part X…” to “TDCP: Part X…” to help a bit with title/subject consolidation.
Lotsa work later
Okie doke, so as noted in my previous post here, I just spent an enormous amount of time re-engineering and designing the new indieOpolis site and The Tangerine Dream Collection Project site in general.
Most of the time was spent designing the Tangerine Dream Release Inspector and the back-end items to support it. It’s all setup and ready to go now. I’m pretty excited about it 
. I also added an RSS summary web part for this series as well as a summary web part to the tadream discussions Yahoo! group.
During all of this work, I realized that this project is probably going to take me much longer than I anticipated, and I’ve changed my direction on what my end goal is just a tad bit.
Initially, I decided that I was just going to get the main official primary studio releases filled. But in retrospect, if I’m going to do this right I’ll make it a lifelong goal to collect “nearly everything” official . Yep, that means finding those rare single vinyl releases, etc. (No, I will not try to find every unique publishers release for every item, but I will try to find all the unique official releases). Therefore, I have updated my categorization views on the full release list as follows:
- In My Collection: This is a view of the list of items that are currently in my collection.
- This view contains just that, the items in my collection But I’ve also recorded which types of media I have (I.e, CD or LP and which specific publisher release of each) and that data is stored in the IMC Details property of each item. For instance, here is the direct link to Electronic Meditation in my list where you can see an example of what I’m talking about.
- I would recommend using the Tangerine Dream Release Inspector to view all the releases, as it’ provides a pretty snazzy navigation system for each release, details section, and cross reference link to which Time Period the release is from. Check it out and let me know what you think!
- It also contains a link Voices In The Net for more detailed information about each release
- This view contains just that, the items in my collection
- Items to acquire next: This list will contain the current list of items I’ll be acquiring first.
- What this means, at this time, is that this list is filtered down to only a Album release type (I.e no box or singles at this time), and only Studio in the release category (I.e., no Compilation nor Samplers live or soundtrack).
- This doesn’t mean that I won’t necessarily order them in sequence (I.e, include a soundtrack or live release within an order), it’s just a way to make it a bit more manageable. And the number of filter fields I would have to specify in a SharePoint list would be awful. (Sure the heck wish we supported mutivalue or checks on our contains filter.)
- When I’m finished with this release, I’ll update it to another selection, perhaps of Release Type: Album/Box and Release Category: Compilation/Set.
- This seems to be the only way to make this manageable., and will allow me to get caught up on the studio releases which I have not pursued in quite a few years.
- What this means, at this time, is that this list is filtered down to only a Album release type (I.e no box or singles at this time), and only Studio in the release category (I.e., no Compilation nor Samplers live or soundtrack).
- Items to acquire (All): This is based on the semi-official release list from Voices In The Net.
- Voices In The Net is is a non-profit information source for collectors of Tangerine Dream records. It contains an almost complete discography including all official releases of the group from 1970 up to now as far as they are known by the author.
- This is a just a great resource. Special thanks to Michael Berling for all his hard work!!!
Over the next week (Since I’m on vacation this week, And I have a long drive ahead of me ), I’ll be listening and providing review details for the “Personal Notes” section on each release. I’ll also be going back through my collection to fill in the IMC Details for each release.
Patiently awaiting another order
I put in an order for the next batch of CD’s that I didn’t have which consists of the following:
- Rubycon
- Ricochet
- Stratosfear
- Sorcerer (Soundtrack)
- Cyclone
- Force Majeure
- Tangram
- Theif (Soundtrack)
- White Eagle
That’s one shy of 10 like I previously mentioned, but I didn’t want my wife to kill me on spending a big chunk of change on “my little project” in one transaction.
The interesting thing about this order, is that I do already have these in my collection, but as Vinyl, but I keep them under lock and key Now, I’m not going to get into a debate about vinyl quality over digital 16 bit 44 kHz PCM, so don’t even comment on it. I want the CD versions of these for more than a couple of reasons:
- My vinyl copies are my fine paintings
- I can’t just rip them easily…well, I could go out and get a replacement turntable, which I will at some point, but that’s no in the plan for right now, and I want the CD’s to easily rip them to my media center.
Note: Back when I was young, and got sucked into TD, I bought a Cassette, Vinyl, and CD version of all the releases. This was because you can find various bonus tracks etc depending on which publication of the release it is, so I just yanked up anything I could find .
Well, patiently awaiting, and standby for the next post where I start blogging about my personal reviews and memories of each release from the way back time machine
- Keith
