Tangerine dream in Electronic Music

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"Stratosfear" (07/23/1996) Electronic Tangerine Dream, Virgin Records (USA)Tangerine Dream: Edgar Froese (6 & 12-string guitars, harmonica, piano, Mellotron, Moog synthesizer, bass); Chris Franke (Mellotron, harpsichord, organ, Moog synthesizer, percussion, loop); Peter Baumann (electric piano, Mellotron, Moog synthesizer, programming). Recorded at Audio Studios, Berlin, Germany in August 1976. One of Tangerine Dream's earliest and most classic recordings, STRATOSFEAR's Mellotron-soaked melodies have not only found their way into samplers and DJ repertoires worldwide--the band have also even revisited the album's plangent themes in their successive soundtrack compositions, such as RISKY BUSINESS. In 1976, the band (Edgar Froese, Chris Franke, and Peter Baumann) was still creating music as imagistic, fantastic and phantasmagorical as its accompanying track titles ("The Big Sleep in Search of Hades," "3 AM At the Border of the Marsh from Okefenokee"). The vast washes of Moog, Mellotron, rhythm computers, and Fender Rhodes piano that grace "3 AM" still sound like they originated from the seventh circle of Hell. Their sheer alien-ness seems to bespeak music made not of this earth. The title track's hovering, extraterrestrial sequencer hypno-pulse continues to resonate in today's electronica.

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"Rubycon" (07/23/1996) Electronic Tangerine Dream, Virgin Records (USA)Tangerine Dream: Edgar Froese (guitar, Mellotron, organ, synthesizer, gong); Peter Baumann (piano, electric piano, prepared piano, organ, synthesizer); Chris Franke (prepared piano, organ, synthesizer, gong). Recorded at The Manor, Shipton On Cherwell, England in January 1975. RUBYCON is an undisputed classic in the vast Tangerine Dream canon, referenced by many of the new electronica generation. But at the time of its creation, Edgar Froese, Chris Franke, and Peter Baumann were themselves young men experimenting with technology. RUBYCON is split into two sections, both of which offer the band's trademark mix of ululating sequencers, ghostly synthetic twilight, and mysterious electronic effects. Part One begins with intergalactic whispers, before coalescing into one of the Dream's most uniquely designed rhythm patterns. Part Two moves the sequencers' BPMs up a notch, matching them with whistling electronics and howling, deep space atmospheres. Truly astonishing stuff, and essential to anyone interested in the advancement of both electronic music and Krautrock in general.

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"Ricochet" (07/23/1996) Electronic Tangerine Dream, Virgin Records (USA)Tangerine Dream: Edgar Froese, Chris Franke, Peter Baumann. Recorded live in France and England in Fall 1975. The live RICOCHET (sporting one of Monique Froese's more enigmatic and abstract covers) remains a high water mark amongst Tangerine Dream's vast in-concert recordings. During their notorious mid-'70s live performances, they were for a time considered to be the loudest band ever--it's not hard to imagine the effect on the inner ear canals of this album's bubbling sequencers played at jet-plane volume. This is still classic electronic music. RICOCHET is divided into two parts, which consist of the three band members pitching their towering banks of synths, sequencers, and drum machines (not to mention some galactically charged guitar) high into the winter night. Edgar Froese conducts himself mightily, erecting great black voids of synthesized matter through which swirling sequencer motifs and beat patterns eke out vast, interstellar heavenly bodies. Put this on the hi-fi, and let the Dream bounce you off the walls.

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"Atlantic Bridges" (03/23/1999) Electronic Tangerine Dream, Tangerine Dream Int./TDI (Germany)Recorded between 1988 and 1998. Contains 12 tracks.

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"The Private Music of Tangerine Dream" (10/27/1992) Electronic Tangerine Dream, Private MusicContains material from the albums MELROSE, LILY ON THE BEACH, OPTICAL RACE, MIRACLE MILE and 2 previously unreleased tracks.

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"Tournado" (12/15/1998) Electronic Tangerine Dream, Blueprint (USA)Contains 9 tracks.

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"Force Majeure" (04/1995) Electronic Tangerine Dream, Griffin MusicTangerine Dream: Edgar Froese, Chris Franke (various instruments); Klaus Krieger (drums). Additional personnel: Edvard Meyer (cello). Recorded at Hansa Studios, Berlin, Germany between August and September, 1979. FORCE MAJEURE is undisputed as one of the finest Tangerine Dream recordings and a milestone in electronic music in its own right. Released in 1978, the album seemed a true anomaly outside of Europe. Its panoply of unearthly sounds and mysterious sonic designs sounded foreign to American ears weaned even on non-mainstream music. FORCE MAJEURE's three epic tracks have proved so enduring that pieces of them have cropped up in some of the Dream's better soundtracks (such as THIEF). This is cinema music for the mind's eye-a veritable feast for the senses, and a picturesque study in sonic architecture of an arresting, utterly alien nature. The indescribable analog treasures nestled within the classic FORCE MAJEURE are perhaps best appreciated via headphones. The charismatic sequencers and electronic ricochets striated throughout "Thru Metamorphic Rocks" pivot within the listener's cranium, eventually working their way permanently into the subconscious. The electronic drumming on the title track retains the thrust of rock, but this is music rooted in surrealism and abstraction.

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"Phaedra" (07/23/1996) Electronic Tangerine Dream, Virgin Records (USA)Tangerine Dream: Edgar Froese (guitar, organ, Mellotron, synthesizer, bass instrument); Peter Baumann (flute, electric piano, organ); Chris Franke (keyboards, Moog synthesizer). Recording information: The Manor, Shipton-On-Cherwell, England (12/1973). Widely considered one of Tangerine Dream's masterworks, fallout from the sonic phenomenon that is PHAEDRA can still be found lingering in the ambient movement of the early '90s and in much of contemporary electronica. The aural architecture that the band built from scratch remains unparalleled. Tangerine Dream was truly ahead of its time--the four epic-length tracks on PHAEDRA revealed a band that fully understood--and loved to manipulate--the complex array of knobs, dials, and switches that protruded from their synthesizer facades. The title track is an almost spooky exercise in synth/sequencer tension and dynamics: while eerie atmospheres of Mellotron go head to head with spiraling Moogs, dense, humming sequencer webs percolate along the surface, motile and mobile. The album's closer, "Sequent C," leaves the listener breathless, as black electronic clouds form and dissipate and the surrounding space becomes corporeal sound. PHAEDRA remains one of the seminal recordings of the electronic movement, and stands up--even years later--as an original, stunning piece of music.

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"Live Miles [Remaster]" (02/07/2005) Electronic Tangerine Dream, Sanctuary (USA)Tangerine Dream: Edgar Froese, Chris Franke, Paul Haslinger. Recorded live in Albuquerque, New Mexico and Berlin, Germany between 1986 & 1987. Includes liner notes by Paul Russell. Captured at a crucial mid-point juncture in Tangerine Dream's career, LIVE MILES was the trio's last recording for the Jive Electro label and, more importantly, the final appearance of long-time drummer/percussionist Chris Franke before he departed for America to work on his own music. The CD contains two half-hour sets, the first recorded in 1986 during a U.S. tour, the second in West Berlin in 1987. Avoiding both the bombast and the more experimental sounds of the band's earlier works, the mood here is reflective, at times even somber. Great swells of synthesizer chords rise up and roll away, gently supported by subtle percussion. Tempos rarely progress beyond a steady, walking beat. If ever the band's sound could be characterized as pure New Age music, it would be here. There are no pauses between songs, or audience interaction; just the uninterrupted flow of a band in its prime.

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"Encore: Tangerine Dream Live" (05/17/1994) Electronic Tangerine Dream, Virgin Records (USA)

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"Tangram" (08/02/2005) Electronic Tangerine Dream, Blue Plate

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"Atlantic Walls" (03/23/1999) Electronic Tangerine Dream, Tangerine Dream Int./TDI (Germany)Recorded between 1988 and 1998. Contains 12 tracks.

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"Alpha Centauri [Remaster]" (02/07/2005) Electronic Tangerine Dream, Sanctuary (USA)Tangerine Dream: Edgar Froese (vocals, guitar, organ, bass); Steve Schroyder (vocals, organ); Chris Franke (flute, pianoharp, synthesizer, percussion). Additional personnel: Udo Dennebourg (vocals, flute); Roland Paulick (synthesizer). Recorded at Dierks Studios, Cologne, Germany in January 1971. Originally released on Ohr. Includes liner notes by Julian Cope, excerpted from Cope's book "Krautrocksampler." All tracks have been digitally remastered. The second album by electronic innovators Tangerine Dream is often credited as the first to be called "space music." Heavily influenced by 1960s psychedelia on its debut album, ELECTRONIC MEDITATION (1970), Tangerine Dream quickly distinguished itself as an ensemble that took great pains to create interesting sounds by running everyday objects (such as a cash register) through a tape recorder. The progression to synthesizer music on this album marked a transition for the band, and this effort truly put them on the map. Composed of just three songs, ALPHA CENTAURI was recorded primarily with flute, electric guitar, organ, and synthesizer. The weeping and moaning guitar and organ in "Sunrise in the Third System" eventually lifts off, giving way to "Fly and Collision of Comas Sola," where a tweeting and twirling synthesizer sounds like electric raindrops hitting water. The drum solo in the same song is unexpected, an improvised bit of jazz in an otherwise unearthly place. The final piece, "Alpha Centauri," describes a merging of the natural world with another dimension, as flute mingles with oozing electronics and eventually fades away.

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"Tournado" (11/15/2001) Electronic Tangerine Dream, TdiContains 9 tracks.

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"The Hollywood Years Vol. 2" (04/20/1999) Electronic Tangerine Dream, Tangerine Dream Int./TDI (Germany)Personnel includes: Vicky McClure (vocals). Contains 15 tracks.(

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"Tangerine Dream" (n/a) Electronic Tangerine Dream, Disky

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"Dream Mixes 3" (04/24/2001) Electronic Tangerine Dream, Tangerine Dream Int./TDI (Germany)Tangerine Dream: Edgar Froese, Jerome Froese.

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"Mars Polaris" (07/27/1999) Electronic Tangerine Dream, Tangerine Dream Int./TDI (Germany)

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"Timesquare: Dream Mixes Two" (03/23/1999) Electronic Tangerine Dream, Tangerine Dream Int./TDI (Germany)Recorded in Vienna, Austria during the summer of 1997.

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"Valentine Wheels" (03/23/1999) Electronic Tangerine Dream, Tangerine Dream Int./TDI (Germany)Recorded live at The Shepherd's Bush Empire, London, England in November 1997.

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"Electronic Meditation [Remaster]" (02/07/2005) Electronic Tangerine Dream, Sanctuary (USA)Tangerine Dream: Edgar Froese (guitar, piano, organ, sound effects); Conrad Schnitzler (guitar, violin, cello, sound effects); Klaus Schulze (drums, percussion, sound effects). Additional personnel: Kristin Rojcewicz (chants); Jimmy Jackson (organ). Includes liner notes by Julian Cope. Digitally remastered by Edgar Froese.

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"Tangerine Dream" (n/a) Electronic Tangerine Dream, Disky

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"Tangerine Dream" (01/06/2004) Electronic Tangerine Dream, Disky (UK)This eponymous collection by Tangerine Dream, the soundtrack kings who straddle the border between progressive rock and ambient, contains an equal amount of tracks from the albums PHAEDRA, RUBYCON, and STRATOSFEAR.

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"Live Miles" (05/12/2003) Electronic Tangerine Dream, Castle Music Ltd. (UK)Tangerine Dream: Edgar Froese, Chris Franke, Paul Haslinger. Recorded live in Albuquerque, New Mexico and Berlin, Germany between 1986 & 1987. Includes liner notes by Paul Russell. U.K. repackaged rerelease. Captured at a crucial mid-point juncture in Tangerine Dream's career, LIVE MILES was the trio's last recording for the Jive Electro label and, more importantly, the final appearance of long-time drummer/percussionist Chris Franke before he departed for America to work on his own music. The CD contains two half-hour sets, the first recorded in 1986 during a U.S. tour, the second in West Berlin in 1987. Avoiding both the bombast and the more experimental sounds of the band's earlier works, the mood here is reflective, at times even somber. Great swells of synthesizer chords rise up and roll away, gently supported by subtle percussion. Tempos rarely progress beyond a steady, walking beat. If ever the band's sound could be characterized as pure New Age music, it would be here. There are no pauses between songs, or audience interaction; just the uninterrupted flow of a band in its prime.

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"White Eagle" (05/17/1994) Electronic Tangerine Dream, Virgin Records (USA)Despite the pundits who insist that anything post-ZEIT is scarcely worth a listen, Tangerine Dream's later recordings for Virgin still represent the band's watershed years. WHITE EAGLE, recorded in the waning '80s, brings back to life the startling sounds that crept up in such past achievements as PHAEDRA and FORCE MAJEURE. The 18-minute-plus "Mojave Plan" is nothing less than fascinating. Whistles erupt from the void, eventually coalescing around a slowly thumping synthesizer croak, while Christopher Franke fires up the sequencers around Froese and Schmoelling's riveting electronic chirrups, chimes, and cordials. It's a heady stew that brings to mind prairies brimming with non-human life and man-machines gasping for breath in desert oases amidst the disinterested chatter of mutant arachnids. "Convention of the 24" contains one of the Dream's more inebriating sequencer motifs, and the closing title track is a luxurious bath in simmering waters of liquid electronics and slippery beat smears. WHITE EAGLE remains one of TD's late-period triumphs.