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Founded in 1967 by Edgar Froese in West-Berlin, Tangerine Dream was formative in the genre of electronic music. After Edgar Froese’s death in 2015, ...
Music
Over the last 50 years the band released far more than 100 studio albums, created over 60 film scores and was seven times Grammy nominated. The 1974 ...
News
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
2022
Raum
On their new album 'Raum', Tangerine Dream develop the concept of its precursor EP ('Probe 6-8') further.
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
The Sessions I
The EP contains real time live compositions from the TD line-up Thorsten Quaeschning, Ulrich Schnauss, Hoshiko Yamane. (60 min)
2017
Revolution of Sound
A tribute to the musician Edgar Froese and the era of electronic music.
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
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
Zero Gravity
For his album Electronica, Jean Michel Jarre collaborated with Tangerine Dream on the track Zero Gravity. Jarre has dedicated the limited vinyl ...
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 ...
2007
Madcap's Flaming Duty
TD's performance of all 13 new songs - including a bonus song - shows the band in a very cool and relaxed atmosphere. Additionally you'll see some ...
2007
Madcap's Flaming Duty
This CD was recorded in January 2007 in Vienna and you will hear 13 new songs with the phenomenal singer Chris Hausl whose voice has often been ...
2005
Rocking Mars (Vault 5)
The fifth album of the 'Vault' series, featuring unaltered remastered original concerts.
2005
Jeanne D’Arc
This album is inspired by the history of the Hundred Years' War in the 15th Century, in which the brave and - in modern terms - emancipated young ...
1995
Tyranny of Beauty
TD's 1995 studio album Tyranny Of Beauty was the seventh Grammy nominated TD product in a row and follows the stylistic tradition of its ...
1992 / 1999
Rockoon
Rockoon was Grammy nominated as "Best New Age Album 1992" and reached the Top Ten in the Billboard New Age charts and the Top Twenty in Billboard ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
1970
Electronic Meditation
Electronic Meditation is the only album of the line-up Edgar Froese, Klaus Schulze and Conrad Schnitzler.
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 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.
Tangerine Dream from 2020
In June 2020, Paul Frick who is also member of the electronic music ensemble Brandt Brauer Frick, joined Tangerine Dream as an official member.
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
Any chance in considering a TD sound without electronics?
What is normally called music has nothing to do with electronics in the first place. Music is what a composer and/or musician wants to say or portray in terms of sound and a structured pattern. The second step is to find the shortest and most effective ...
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
In 1974, Tangerine Dream left their birth place Berlin for London – was this decision important for their career?
It was the most important decision in the forty years TD’s existence. If we had stayed in Berlin and in Germany then, a diffusion of our music at an international level wouldn’t have been possible. Concerning progressive rock music, Germany was nothing ...
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 about new technologies? In former times TD was a current topic in professional magazines. The music has stopped in the TD Hightech Laboratories.
If you stop shouting out loud and driving certain gazettes crazy with hightech spins, that doesn’t mean that our development has stopped. It’s just the opposite. It should be clear that, given the incredible oversupply in electronic rubbish on CD-ROM, ...
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