Peter Baumann was not only a member of Tangerine Dream from 1971 to '77 - in the most formative years - he was, alongside Edgar Froese, the driving creative force behind the pioneers of the Berlin school. Before he left the band, he released his first solo LP in 1976. Quite a few electronics fans thought: "Romance 76" was stronger and more inspired than anything that should follow from his band at the time. The influence of Tangerine Dream is undoubtedly there, but the arrangements are more minimalist, the structures less improvised, but carefully planned. "In my opinion, we started to repeat ourselves with Tangerine Dream," says Baumann. "But I wanted to continue discovering and experimenting with new things." He did this in his own studio in the Ufa factory in Berlin, where Tangerine Dream continued to rehearse. And where the instrument was that all electronics engineers dreamed of and that defined the sound of this time like no other: the large, almost priceless Moog Modular System with the dimensions of a multi-part wall unit. Incidentally, one of the visitors during the recording was David Bowie, who ultimately convinced Baumann to keep the sound image minimal. What wise advice.