News
March 1, 2024
50th Anniversary of PHAEDRA
Half a century ago, a groundbreaking electronic music masterpiece was born.
February 25, 2022
New Album 'Raum' released
Tangerine Dream are happy to announce their latest studio album 'Raum' which was released on February 25, 2022.
From 19th July 2021
Exhibition scheduled to reopen in July
Exhibition has been prolonged until 15th December 2021! Tangerine Dream: Zeitraffer is the first exhibition about ...
21 Feb – 25 Oct 2020
"K"-PROJECT - Franz Kafka - The Castle
Open again & extended until 25th October!Martin Kippenberger’s legendary artwork "The Happy End of Franz Kafka’s ...
May 2020
EFMD 2019 - Klangtraube Release
A dignified and extraordinary session of four exceptional musicians in memory of Edgar Froese: Hans Joachim Roedelius, Paul Frick, Thorsten ...
Music
2025
Platz der Republik, West-Berlin, August 1st 1987
This famous concert presents the line-up composed of Edgar Froese, Christopher Franke & Paul Haslinger.
2025
Phaedra Anniversary Box Set
Phaedra is one of Tangerine Dream’s most successful and acclaimed albums and this limited edition 5CD/Blu-ray box set is a deep-dive celebration of ...
2024
Live at the Kelvin Hall Glasgow, November 20th 197
This famous concert presents the line-up composed of Edgar Froese, Christopher Franke & Peter Baumann.
2023
Live au Palais dès Congrés 1978 (Paris)
This famous concer presents the line-up composed of Edgar Froese, Christopher Franke, Steve Jolliffe & Klaus Krüger.
2022
The Sessions Box Set
The Sessions Box Set: United Kingdom & Ireland 2022
2022
Live At Reims Cinema Opera 1975
During this famous concert, which features the iconic 1975 line-up of Edgar Froese, Chris Franke and Peter Baumann, Tangerine Dream performs the ...
2022
La Divina Commedia Earbook (Box Set)
In memory of Dante Alighieri (700th Anniversary of Death in 2021) and Edgar Froese (7th Anniversary of Death in 2022)
INFERNO PURGATORIO PARADISO
2022
Raum
On their new album 'Raum', Tangerine Dream develop the concept of its precursor EP ('Probe 6-8') further.
2019
Recurring Dreams
RECURRING DREAMS contains music of a magical combination of old and new.
2019
Live at Augusta Raurica - Switzerland 2016
September 8, 2016 - the open air live concert of Tangerine Dream at the amphitheatre Augusta Raurica in Switzerland (close to the city Basel) was one ...
2017
Quantum Gate
Tangerine Dream's studio album QUANTUM GATE was due for release on September 29, 2017, coinciding with the 50th anniversary of the foundation of the ...
2017
Light Flux EP
This CD was an addition to the pre-sale of Edgar Froese's printed autobiography 'Force Majeure'.
2017
Revolution of Sound
A tribute to the musician Edgar Froese and the era of electronic music.
2016
Particles
A wonderful mixture of live and studio tracks will surprise your ears.
2016
Live at the Philharmony Szcecin
This was the first official concert for the three remaining TD members to perform live within the new musical period of THE QUANTUM YEARS, the period ...
2015
Phaedra Farewell Tour 2014
The London concert of the PHAEDRA FAREWELL TOUR 2014 on 23rd May at O2 Shepherd's Bush Empire was the second concert in a row of a long multi-week ...
2015
Quantum Key
The continuation of the Quantum Years...
2015
Supernormal – The Australian Concerts
Recorded during the first concerts of the line-up Froese, Quaeschning, Yamane, Schnauss.
2015
Out of this world
This is the first album compiled by Bianca Froese-Acquaye (Edgar Froese's wife) after the passing of her husband on January 20, 2015.
2014
Mala Kunia
Mala Kunia is the first compositional work of the line-up comprising Edgar Froese, Ulrich Schnauss, Thorsten Quaeschning and Hoshiko Yamane.
2014
Phaedra Farewell Tour 2014 – The Concerts
Material from Tangerine Dream’s Phaedra Farewell Tour through various places around Europe in 2014.
2014
Sorcerer 2014 - The Cinematographic Score
At the time Sorcerer was composed in 1976, Tangerine Dream had about ninety minutes on tape and another sixty minutes written down on sheet paper.
2014
GTA 5 - The Cinematographic Score
The score for the groundbreaking game GTA 5 was based on the merging of four different artist inputs, a procedure the music supervisor of the game ...
2014
Chandra The Phantom Ferry (Part II)
The continuation of the Chandra story: Part two – exciting and unique music developed from of a mysterious unusual story.
2013
Cruise to Destiny
A sonic ghostly gig on a vessel that happens even if no one of the band was present…
2013
Franz Kafka - The Castle
There is a hidden secret behind this unfinished story of Franz Kafka.
2013
Lost in Strings - Vol. I
Edgar Froese's guitar landmarks.
2013
Live at Admiralspalast
This is not just a concert, it’s a historic document.
2012
Live in Budapest
The Budapest concert was the opener for Tangerine Dream’s Electric Mandarine Tour on April 10, 2012.
2012
Booster V
The fifth release of the Booster series (Booster I – VII)
2012
Live at Admiralspalast
Enjoy a warm early summer night in Germany's capital with a score by TD.
2004 / 2012
Machu Picchu
Machu Picchu at first was never meant to be released. Edgar Froese dedicated it to John Peel who passed away in Cusco, Peru in 2004. The BBC Radio DJ ...
2011
Booster IV
The fourth release of the Booster series (Booster I – VII)
2011
The Gate of Saturn - Live
The Lowry concert in Manchester from May 28, 2011 in FULL LENGTH.
2011
The Gate of Saturn - Studio
Limited album out of Eastgate's Cupdisc series, released in 2011.
2011
The Angel of the West Window
The album is based on the novel The Angel Of The West Window by Gustav Meyrink, written in 1927 by Gustav Meyrink (original German title: 'Der Engel ...
2011
The Island of the Fay
Based on the short story by Edgar Allan Poe, The Island of the Fay is composed by Edgar Froese and Thorsten Quaeschning.
2010
Zeitgeist - Live in Lisbon
Live recording from the Coliseum theatre in Lisbon, March 25, 2010.
2010
Zeitgeist Concert - London 2010
Live recording from the Royal Albert Hall concert on April 1, 2010 in London.
2010
The Endless Season
The fifth part of 'The Five Atomic Seasons'
2010
Zeitgeist
The album accompanied TD on the occasion of the European Tour 2010.
2010
Dream Mixes V
DM V is the fifth album of the 'Dream Mixes' series and was released in 2010.
2010
Izu - Live in Japan
Recorded live at Peninsula Izu (Japan) on 5th September 2009, Metamorphose '09 Festival.
2009
Booster III
The third release of the Booster series (Booster I – VII)
2009
The Epsilon Journey
The Epsilon Journey presents the complete concert Tangerine Dream performed on the E-Day festival on April 13, 2008 in the Technical University ...
2009
A Cage in Search of a Bird
Released on the occasion of Tangerine Dream's concerts in Europe and Asia in September 2009 with three previously unreleased tracks.
2009
Izu - Live in Japan
Recorded live at Peninsula Izu (Japan) on 5th September 2009, Metamorphose '09 Festival.
2009
Rocking out the Bats
'Rocking Out The Bats' concert in Berlin on August 30, 2009. The concert was part of the 'Citadel Music Festival'.
2009
The London Eye & The Los Angeles Concert
Two weekends early November 2008 – first weekend, a night in the freezing cold and rainy city of London and a week later the 2nd night out in sunny ...
2009
The London Eye Concert
The London Eye Concert was recorded during the live concert at the Forum at London Kentishtown on November 1, 2008.
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Biography
Biography
Founded by Edgar Froese in 1967, Tangerine Dream were formative in the genre of electronic music, with long instrumental tracks based on synthesizer ...
The TD-history (extended)
When the term Berlin School is used in the music scene, a musical style is being referred to which has influenced electronic music up to and ...
Tangerine Dream 1967 – 1973
The first concert ever given by Tangerine Dream was in January 1968 in the Technical University of Berlin.
Tangerine Dream 1974 – 1983
TD’s first release on Virgin Records was the album Phaedra in 1974. The album marked the beginning of the group's international success, achieving ...
Tangerine Dream 1984 – 1988
Tangerine Dream then reduced their number of live appearances and increased their activity in the film music industry.
Tangerine Dream 1988 – 1990
Optical Race moved the band's sound into a different direction when compared to recordings from the 1970s.
Tangerine Dream 1990 – 2000
At the beginning of 1990, Edgar Froese was looking for a saxophone and flute player. Friends in Vienna recommended Linda Spa.
Tangerine Dream 2001 – 2014
On January 2001 TD started working on Dante Alighieri´s La Divina Commedia. This deeply philosophical and mysterious story tells the reader the paths ...
Tangerine Dream 2014 – 2019
Edgar Froese, founder of Tangerine Dream, died in Vienna on the 20th of January, 2015 from a pulmonary embolism.
Members
Lineup
Edgar Willmar Froese
In 1967, Edgar founded the band Tangerine Dream and started to experiment with sequencers and synthesizers, exploring and innovating with sound and ...
FAQs
Answered by Edgar Froese
Some people argue that electronic music is nothing other than a bunch of dogs barking at the moon?
I love dogs and that’s their way of sending bio e-mails with a very strong message. Seriously, it’s the same story all over. If people don’t have a clue about something, they start whining about the way things have to be. They get upset if something ...
Answered by Edgar Froese
Is it true that the final part for soundtrack for the film Thief ended up being locked in an LA restroom?
Sitting with Director Michael Mann in a Burbank Studio finishing the Thief score, suddenly someone ripped open the door and pushed us into a broom closet filled with cleaning articles .It was a very tight squeeze and very dark. I thought I was getting ...
Answered by Edgar Froese
You drove in a military tank to a concert in Spain – is that trash or a true story?
Trash and truth often go hand in hand as we all know, but here the story is slightly different. We played at the great sports hall of Bilbao back in 1978. In the middle of the concert something showered against the glass walls of the building. It ...
Answered by Edgar Froese
Does playing guitar still touch you as “deeply as it did” – in your own words – 40 years ago?
Yes, it does – but surprisingly it’s different. Many years back, playing guitar was really just linked to my ego. It sounds strange at first, but identifying yourself with what you do can easily get you into a trap of pure egotism. Inundated with ...
Answered by Edgar Froese
Musicians do not always focus their careers on politics and social movements. What is said in public very often reflects the public’s naivety and ignorance about the subject in question. There are of course exceptions, like Bono or Geldorf, but is there a better way to go about changing the world and humanity?
It’s astonishing how much energy and careful thinking has been put into various projects set up by colleagues of mine through the years. It would be a false and inhuman reaction to capitulate about what we experience every day worldwide. That fact that ...
Answered by Edgar Froese
Your successful collaboration with former band mate Johannes Schmoelling on the Kyoto recording triggers the hope of further co-projects together with other former members of TD. Any plans?
Yes, the both of us had real fun jumping into our musical time machine and travelling back a few years. We’ve also released a studio CD with compositions by Ralf Wadephul and myself. The material was originally composed in 1988 for the summer American ...
Answered by Edgar Froese
Record companies and distributors are obviously an important part of the business who set up a functional link between musicians and fans/customers. Which company have you been most happy with during the years of your artistic career?
Maybe there is an unknown planet somewhere in our solar systems with a race just like humans and lots of happy artists who feel perfectly represented by agents, record companies or distributors. I would be very pleased – along with thousands of other ...
Answered by Edgar Froese
Do you think it is really just a problem with the music business which doesn’t have any new ideas and keeps using the same old ideas and then suffers from its own mediocrity? Or is it due to the dream of young artists to achieve the wealth and fame, their hopes of living a glorious lifestyle, that drives them to sign every last crazy paragraph?
If someone is dying of thirst, whose fault is it if vinegar is given to him instead of water? I can say from experience that companies search with great effort to find young, inexperienced, but very talented musicians who would do anything to have a ...
Answered by Edgar Froese
Why popular art forms are so often nothing more than hype machines – the deeper meaning, the wounded flesh of the artist, the philosophy, the tears and pain under which much work has been brought to life seems to be just worthless on the screaming marketplace. Is that part of the Zeitgeist in the 21st century?
Let me answer with a perfect statement from Ken Egbert of Tone Clusters magazine who wrote the following notes for a TD anthology release a few years ago: “The eternal problem: music cannot exist in a vacuum. It needs patrons to thrive; unfortunately, ...
Answered by Edgar Froese
Fans sometimes argue that you’ve ruined the original version of a sound or record by adding new layers and/or changing parts of the original composition.
Nothing on the planet has an immortal value, nothing will survive forever. Every life form exists because of the fact that changing forms is a vital part of existence. Should an artist be jailed and locked in a mental framework by a group of fans who in ...
Answered by Edgar Froese
Has America never been a real alternative as a place to live and work?
It’s just right after flying over from Europe that you get a very positive impression of the lifestyle and the easy way of putting the artistic possibilities into practice. You really get the feeling of living in an open society. This will work out, as ...
Answered by Edgar Froese
Have you never experienced anything you like to remember when working in the USA for such a long time?
Once again – my relationship with the USA is excellent and there are many things in the US that I still appreciate very much. Due to the tough competition, a professionalism emerged in many fields of art that you will hardly find anywhere in Europe. You ...
Answered by Edgar Froese
Who was your most faithful audience and which social classes do your fans come from?
At the beginning, we played nearly exclusively in the lecture auditoriums of universities, then in larger locations for artistic events and expositions or at special events, where a group of parrots or birds of paradise making music were required. But ...
Answered by Edgar Froese
Do you have any direct contact with your fans? Do you know what they really think about TD and what the group means in their daily life?
Well, the only personal contact occurs during the various concerts around the globe. Often we spend some time after gigs giving autographs and talking to fans. A lot of fans are quite cool and open-minded. It’s interesting how they’ve managed to make ...
Answered by Edgar Froese
But without fans or an audience, an artist has nothing to reflect his art off of. Do you sometimes feel you need to put your artistic desires aside and give your fans what they are looking for? Do you feel the need to serve your customers?
Of course you have to respect those people who are following you and spending their hard earned money on concert tickets or buying your records. It would be totally arrogant to ignore such facts and an artist should be very conscious of the way die hard ...
Answered by Edgar Froese
On one of your latest releases, Paradiso, which was composed by you exclusively, what was the most crucial part as far as the orchestration goes?
There were both major and minor problems. To name them all here would take half of the FAQ on this Site. After composing most of the stuff on a grand piano and arranging everything on synth modules and plugs, the two hour and eight minute long piece had ...
Answered by Edgar Froese
Were these tasks of composition and performance technology in any way similar to the tasks accomplished for the first two parts “INFERNO” and “PURGATORIO”?
Thematically, this was the third part, following the first and the second one. Of course, this fact did have an influence on the composition. Transforming a linguistically difficult contents into music was very difficult here. Some fans of our music ...
Answered by Edgar Froese
There were some really strange comments on the representation of part 2, “PURGATORIO”, in the Royal Festival Hall in London in 2004. Can you give any background information about this concert that might make these comments easier to understand for some fans?
It was definitely a very strange premiere of this 2nd part. An invitation for a concert in the RFH was put on our table by a promoter in London in November 2003. We only got the information that is was a special cycle of performances with several ...
Answered by Edgar Froese
What does TD music mean to someone who has composed and produced the largest part of this music himself or together with other musicians?
As I am a professed dadaist and surrealist, I think that, in addition to many statements in the corresponding Russian and French manifests, a sentence of Hugo Ball is very pertinent: "What we call Dada, is an extremely serious fool’s game coming ...
Answered by Edgar Froese
In his book “Digital Gothic” Mr. Paul Stump did not exactly write extremely positive comments on TD. Why has TD never tried to adjust some of the statements – some parts are apparently pure fiction.
The writer has the right to give his opinion on a matter. It would really be a very good book if some pages had remained white. Stump is a little sorcerer’s apprentice who is extremely sure of himself when permanently chosing exactly the wrong way of ...
Answered by Edgar Froese
Within your Press Clips Library you must have tons of stuff that’s not even worth reading twice, but some of it would be quite interesting to if released to the public to give others an impression of how you’ve been treated around the world by the professional critics. If you had to say just one good thing about their work, what would it be?
Yes, definitely not everything that’s been written about us is crap and I’ve never claimed that it was. Unfortunately, in the public eye, the positive side of something isn’t half as interesting than dirtying someone’s reputations. Is that odd? But one ...
Answered by Edgar Froese
Why TD did never get into making scores for video games or producing music and sounds for PC entertainment in general?
There is definitely good earning potential in that, but the price you have to pay as an artist is far too high in my eyes. I don’t want to see all of the violence and crap that characterizes most of the games that exist. Killing, fighting, monsters ...
Answered by Edgar Froese
There are a few paperbacks about TD on the market. Anything you like?
The covers of these books are too far apart (note by Ambrose Bierce). I can´t think of a better answer.
Answered by Edgar Froese
What is TD’s stance on bootlegs?
The group accepts and tolerates the deep desire of many die hard fans to obtain every single note ever performed. Thus, as long as no one is earning a profit and as long as no recordings are commercially available are exchanged, we tend not to ...
Answered by Edgar Froese
What is the meaning of the album title Hyperborea?
“Hyperborea” is a term often used in conjunction with the history of the planet earth. In some anthroposophical writings, “hyperborea” is defined as the second race of pre-history. It was preceded by the Polarian race and succeeded by the Lemurian and ...
Answered by Edgar Froese
Is it true that Nick Mason of Pink Floyd was brought to the Hansa at the Wall studios in Berlin in 1976 to do the final mix for Stratosfear?
Yes, that’s true. Nick was with us on the mixing for about a week. He was a very nice guy and pleasant to work with. He liked our stuff a lot. For some reasons we finalized the mix on our own. The way we set our recordings up at that time wasn’t easy to ...
Answered by Edgar Froese
What about the UFO’s? Any belief in their existence?
What human eyes can perceive represents just a very small fragment of the frequency spectrum of light which ranges from ultraviolet to infrared. That very little part of a vast expanse of frequencies is what we call our visible world. What we can’t ...
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