Music
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.
2021
Live at Reims Cathedral 1974
The concert at Reims Cathedral has gone down in Tangerine Dream history as a legendary event.
2019
Recurring Dreams
RECURRING DREAMS contains music of a magical combination of old and new.
2009
Flame
EP (more than 40 minutes) with stunning new compositions and two well-known pieces in different so far unheard versions
2008
Hyperborea 2008
The re-recorded version of the 1983 classic.
2008
Tangram 2008
The re-recorded version of the 1980 classic.
2007
One Times One
One Times One, released in late 2007, is the beginning of the so-called 'cupdisc' series by Eastgate.
2005
Phaedra 2005
When the album Phaedra hit the album charts worldwide back in 1974, no one had foreseen such a remarkable career of a new musical sound.
1976 / 2000
Soundmill Navigator
Live at the Philharmonics 1976.
2000
Antique Dreams
Antique Dreams contains rare and unreleased material from the years 1971 – 1988.
1986 / 1991 / 1999
Canyon Dreams
This score was composed for a documentary video on the Grand Canyon. TD received its first Grammy nomination with Canyon Dreams.
1988
Near Dark
The neo-western horror movie, by the Time Magazine considered as "weird (and) beautiful", was directed by Kathryn Bigelow and scored by Tangerine ...
1988
Shy People
Soundtrack to the 1987 movie by director Andrei Konchalovsky, starring Jill Clayburgh and Barbara Hershey.
1987
Livemiles
Livemiles was the last album on the Jive Electro label and the departure of Chris Franke, leaving TD after 16 years immediately after the Reichstag ...
1987
Tyger
Released on Jive Electro, Tyger featured vocals by Jocelyn Bernadette Smith. The album is based on poems by the English mystic and painter William ...
1987
Canyon Dreams
This score was composed for a documentary video on the Grand Canyon. TD received its first Grammy nomination with Canyon Dreams.
1987 / 1992
Deadly Care
The soundtrack of the movie Deadly Care was composed and recorded back in 1987 but not released until 1992.
1987
Three O’Clock High
In 1987 TD contributed parts of the music for the movie Three O'Clock High.
1973 / 1986
Green Desert
This recording was supposed to be released instead of Phaedra in 73. It then disappeared into TD's safe until it was discovered again and released in ...
1985
Legend
Legend is a 1985 US-American fantasy film directed by Ridley Scott and starring Tom Cruise.
1985 / 1991
The Park is mine
The soundtrack music of the film The Park Is Mine, starring Tommy Lee Jones, had been composed back in 1985 but was released in 1991.
1985
Streethawk
The title track of the album Le Parc is also the title theme of the US-American television series Streethawk starring Rex Smith.
1985
Heartbreakers
The soundtrack album for Heartbreakers, photographed by Michael Ballhaus and directed by Bobby Roth, was released only in Germany by Virgin in summer ...
1985
Le Parc
The 1985 album Le Parc was the last official studio release with Johannes Schmoelling, who left Tangerine Dream in October 1985. The title track of ...
1984
Flashpoint
The movie Flashpoint starred Kris Kristofferson and Treat Williams.
1984
Firestarter
The movie Firestarter is based on a novel by Stephen King, starring Drew Barrymore, Heather Locklear and Martin Sheen. According to the director Mark ...
1984
Poland – The Warsaw Concert
In December 1983 Tangerine Dream played two concerts at the Warsaw Ice Stadium. After their concert at Palast der Republik in East-Berlin played ...
1983
Hyperborea
The original recording session back in 1983 had a bitter-sweet aspect. TD's contract with Virgin expired and Hyperborea became the last official ...
1983
Risky Business
The movie Risky Business starring Tom Cruise and Rebecca DeMornay, was directed by Paul Brickman in 1983. Besides well-known tracks by artists like ...
1983
Wavelength
Wavelength is the fourth soundtrack album for an independent science fiction film, set in the Hollywood Hills and the Mojave Desert.
1983
Logos
This live album from the concert at the Dominion Theatre in London captured a period of Tangerine Dream's evolution from experimental to melodic ...
1982
Das Mädchen auf der Treppe
The remix of the title track named 'Das Mädchen auf der Treppe' became the theme music for an episode of the German TV crime series 'Tatort'. After ...
1982
White Eagle
White Eagle reached No. 57 in the UK album charts in a 5-week run. The title track remix became the soundtrack for the German TV series Tatort (Crime ...
1981
Thief
Thief, a thriller by Michael Mann was the second big Hollywood project that Tangerine Dream worked on and one of the most unusual scores for American ...
1981
Exit
Exit containes six tracks produced with the then latest equipment.
1980
Tangram
The first official studio album with the line-up Franke, Froese, Schmoelling goes back again to the classic sequencer sound but also contains ...
1980 / 1985
Pergamon
On Pergamon, Johannes Schmoelling was introduced on a TD album for the first time. The new line-up’s first concert at Palast der Republik in ...
1979
Force Majeure
Recorded at the famous Hansa Studios in Berlin, this album shows Tangerine Dream's further evolution to a more melodic sound, with electric guitars, ...
1978
Cyclone
The first album to feature vocals, by Steve Joliff, marked a turn toward progressive rock. Despite being much maligned over the years, Cyclone has ...
1977
Encore
Double-Live-Album from the band's 77 USA-Tour which included places as the Greek Theatre in L.A. and the Avery Fisher Hall in New York. Encore was ...
1977
Sorcerer
The director William Friedkin (The Exorcist) decided to make the film Sorcerer based on Tangerine Dream’s music. Sorcerer is TD’s first soundtrack ...
1976
Stratosfear
Stratosfear marks the beginning of the development away from their sequencer-driven sound toward a more melodic one.
1975
Ricochet
The first live album and seventh album overall consists of two side-long compositions mixed from recordings of the UK and France concerts of their ...
1975
Rubycon
When Rubycon was released, it went straight to number 12 in the British charts, staying there for 14 weeks. It is TD’s highest-charting album in the ...
1974
Phaedra
This is the first Tangerine Dream album to feature their now classic sequencer-driven sound, which later became known as their trademark and of the ...
1973
Atem
Released in March 1973, Atem was nominated Album of the Year by pioneering BBC Radio DJ John Peel. This album was a keystone which cleared the way ...
1972
Zeit
Zeit (English: Time) is the third studio album and subtitled as 'Largo in Four Movements'.
1971
Alpha Centauri
Besides the classic organ and flute, Alpha Centauri features keyboards and electronic instruments. It’s the beginning of Kosmische Musik and it’s ...
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 ...
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.
Members
Lineup