Mellotronists

>...I have an awful suspician that Edgar will have replaced all
>the original mellotron by digital modelling algorithms of him
>being sick in his own hair or sthg, "whilst playing tasty guitar".

It has been Tangentized.  If you go to his site, you can hear parts of it 
(parts of several of his tracks actually as you are surfing 
http://www.edgarfroese.com), and Epsilon has all kinds of new stuff added 
('tron is still there, though).  They even indicate in the description that 
it was partially re-recorded.

I remember a discussion of this whole "Tangentization" issue on the TD 
e-mail list years ago.  Many people don't like it.  Hey, it's his stuff, he 
can do what he wants with it.

I may pick up the new one just for "variations on a theme", but it seems he 
just throws new things on top of what's there for the sake of it, and for 
me that takes away from the original.  Although I haven't heard "Tangents", 
I didn't really like "Beyond the Storm" (a Tangentized Froese 
best-of).  That may have been because I wanted more 'tron, though.  :-)

It'll be interesting to see what folks think of the re-worked "Epsilon", 
the original of which should already be in everyone 'tron fan's library.

...kl...
M400 #805 - somewhat original
M400 #1037 - somewhat less original