Peter Baumann C/D,S/D,Etc

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I'm listening to Repeat Repeat right now which is why I'm thinking of him. My promo copy comes with a cool press sheet: "Repeat Repeat sits squarely in the mainstream of progressive music. It is dance music you can sit and listen to. Like Tom Tom Club, David Bowie and Human League, Repeat Repeat defies categorization." hahahaha! i love that. Anyway, it's a great record with lots of great moments.I love the music in the song "Deccadance" especially.(was the electrifying mojo playing repeat repeat on his radio show?) And I really like Romance 76. But that's it. I realized that I own no more solo stuff by him. Obviously a lapse on my part. Okay, go to town. If you want to.

― scott seward (scott seward), Tuesday, 7 September 2004 15:28 (twenty-one years ago)

"Romance 76" is Bjork's favourite album. I heard he married some very wealthy woman (he was a bit of a handsome devil) and retired to become a kept man.

― Dadaismus (Dada), Tuesday, 7 September 2004 15:30 (twenty-one years ago)

Yeah, that album has become famous for being Bjork's favorite album after her Mojo thing on it. There is even a very brief thread on ILM about that. She has good taste.

― scott seward (scott seward), Tuesday, 7 September 2004 15:38 (twenty-one years ago)

I don't know much about his solo stuff. He had a studio in Berlin (Paragon?) where amongst other things, he produced the wonderful "Jardin le Fou" album for Hans-Joachim Roedelius in 1979/80.

― Dadaismus (Dada), Tuesday, 7 September 2004 15:41 (twenty-one years ago)

I had one of his albums that was very good, that I can't remember the title of, and one, IIRC called Baumann-Koek that has this horrible vague out-of-tune-ness running all the way through it. Baumann in the '70's = k-rowr. The krautrock pinup!!

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Tuesday, 7 September 2004 15:41 (twenty-one years ago)

He did a lot of soundtrack work too.

― scott seward (scott seward), Tuesday, 7 September 2004 15:43 (twenty-one years ago)

Haha I'm sure none of it was as bad as Christoph Franke's!! Or some of the later T.Dream sountracks for that matter.

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Tuesday, 7 September 2004 15:45 (twenty-one years ago)

I was going to say he was always the cool one in T. Dream - but, let's face it, he didn't have much competition!

― Dadaismus (Dada), Tuesday, 7 September 2004 15:46 (twenty-one years ago)

I liked the Thief soundtrack when I was a kid. I had a copy.

― scott seward (scott seward), Tuesday, 7 September 2004 15:47 (twenty-one years ago)

"Thief" soundtrack is pretty good

― Dadaismus (Dada), Tuesday, 7 September 2004 15:48 (twenty-one years ago)

But Keith Emerson's music for Nighthawks was better. And Nighthawks was a better movie too cuz it introduced me to the wonder that is Rutger Hauer.

― scott seward (scott seward), Tuesday, 7 September 2004 15:49 (twenty-one years ago)

Yeah, "Thief" is pretty good. IIRC, the last good T.Dream soundtrack is the keep? TD obsessives keep raving about the tracks from er er that film with tim curry as teh devil, bit the stuff I've heard was a bit tacky. (latterday TD in "tacky" shox0r)

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Tuesday, 7 September 2004 15:49 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm listening to his rendition of Strangers in the Night right now. Makes me want to dress in white and play a MIDI saxophone = Classic

― Kaiser of Köln (Kaiser of Köln), Thursday, 9 September 2004 16:26 (twenty-one years ago)

five years pass...

So how's the new album sounding, Pete?

― I am utterly and abjectly pissed off with this little lot (Tom D.), Tuesday, 6 July 2010 10:05 (fifteen years ago)

one year passes...

I found Trans-Harmonic Nights (1979) used over the weekend... Sounding fantastic to me, particularly this track. Brutal!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MdpanMakQDI

― Clarke B., Tuesday, 9 August 2011 13:15 (fourteen years ago)

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