This could have been a lot better. It misses one the most typical things of a td gig - Edgar's guitar solo. Bondy Parade featured in their '81 tour of the UK and Edgar's guitar line, and the accompanying bass line, made it outstanding. On Sohoman, the track is twinkly and lightweight, as with the other tracks. Sohoman is also only 45 mins long - the remaining 20 mins or so could have been used for previously unreleased stuff only available on poor quality bootlegs.

"Sohoman" is the first issue in the "Tangerine Dream Classics Edition", an on-going project from TDI that is intended to make available to the public any number of historical TD performances. This release features the first half of the band's gig in Sydney, on 22 Feb 1982. It seems an odd choice for a first release to me.

For your money, what you get here is a pitiful 44 minutes of music, over half of which is already available in almost identical form on the albums "Logos" and "White Eagle". Just two tracks offer anything new. `Ayers Majestic' is a 7-minute hybrid of ideas from "Logos", "Hyperborea", `Horizon' (from the "Poland" album of 1984) as well as Froese's 1983 solo alum "Pinnacles". The longer `Bondi Parade' (after a somewhat raggy and badly overdubbed start) is an uncharacteristically boppy affair, which is altogether too long, as well as terribly trite. Its 13 minutes experiment a little with some more ideas from "Hyperborea" and "Pinnacles" but it goes nowhere very much in that time and ultimately feels like just so much padding.

With so little new material on it, everyone except the most fanatical of Tangerine Dream collector can well afford to live without this release. Newcomers would certainly do better buying "Logos", or preferably "Poland", instead.

Incomplete recording of the Sydney concert, for some reason the prices on the used section are still outrageously steep. Yes this is the awesome trio of TD 80's with Schmoeling and Franke the music is really vintage TD but this cd release was short, incomplete, poor sound mastering it's like listening to the concert then suddenly the whole concert was aborted leaving you with a few tracks. The Bootmoon 2 cd is the genuine representation of this live show it was actually a radio broadcast recording with commentary. This 2 cd makes Sohoman obsolete! Buy only at $5 or less, I got mine at 20 so it was really a total loss I was very stubborn, persistent and if only I have listened to the negative reviews....

This pointless release seems to be yet another in an endless onslaught of sub-par "lost" recordings that have no business being found.

There's nothing on "Sohoman" that hasn't been heard before and much better. Obviously the pieces played here are not being "Played" at all but just recordings PRESENTED live, which is something [...] Froese and Co. started doing in the eighties. [....] anybody can do that.

Classic, vintage Tangerine Dream is long,long gone. All there is left now are scraps and memories. It may be time for ol' Ed to shut down his computers and call it a life.(Musically, anyway)