Despite being credited to both Edgar Froese and Jerome Froese, in fact only the final track of the disc carries anything of Edgar's fingerprints, being an alternate mix of his own composition Mombasa, originally released just a few months ago on Booster III (2009).
All of the other remixes on DM V are solely the result of Jerome's work on classic TD material from the seventies and eighties, all of which have the original music more or less discernible at some point within them. The most deeply buried of the originals is the brief inclusion of a snatch of Rubycon (1975) as an inner layer to The Return of Time, largely swallowed by a newly minted percussion pulse and swathe of electronic textures. Other tracks, however, offer substantial representations of clearly recognisable original thematic materials, in bold but entirely appropriate new ways, such as the title track from Exit (1981) as Flow Paths, two different sections of Horizon from Poland (1984) as Scope of Mind and Hinterland, respectively, Midnight In Tula from White Eagle (1982) in Code to Zero, or Alien Sitcom, which started life as Mojave End Title from the soundtrack album Wavelength (1984). Others go even further in doing little more than beefing up or extending the originals: Meshwork is an expansion of Flock from Das Mädchen auf der Treppe (1982) and Polar Circles is recognisable as Running Out Of Time from Miracle Mile (1989). Throughout this release, Jerome Froese demonstrates the same sense of musicality that features in his solo releases Neptunes and Shiver Me Timbers. His remixes here genuinely do grow the originals to new heights, with treatments that enhance and modernise without detracting or debasing the originals.
The cover artwork is very nicely done, basing on test tubes filled with fluid of different colours; unfortunately there is nothing like extensive liner notes, but Jerome Froese had made an interesting announcement on his own website a short time before the release of DM V.
The DM V CD release was initially made available both from Jerome Froese's Cybersounds Shop as well as from Edgar Froese's Eastgate Music Shop; the MP3 download release is available from the Cybersounds Shop as well as from the Tangerine Dream Download Shop.
Releases
Germany
2010: Moonpop/Cybersounds
CD: moostcd-001; multicoloured disc
2010: Moonpop/Eastgate
CD: eastgate/moonpop 043 CD; multicoloured disc; identical to Moonpop/Cybersounds release
Worldwide
2010: Moonpop/Cybersounds
Download: complete release or individual tracks as MP3
2010: Tangerine Dream Download Shop
Download: complete release or individual tracks as MP3