Phaedra

Its influence outstrips its immediacy, and the influence is vast. Phaedra is where the Berlin School begins, a malfunctioning Moog sequencer becoming an entire genre. Tangerine Dream turn accident into method, stretching patterns until they become environments, patient enough for repetition to turn strange instead of merely familiar. Foundational or not, the sequence never settles into a predictable destination.

A Moog that drifted out of tune as the room warmed up, and a title piece that turns from fog into pulse without any audible decision. The record that taught the sequencer to breathe.