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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 ...
Music
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 ...
2022
Raum
On their new album 'Raum', Tangerine Dream develop the concept of its precursor EP ('Probe 6-8') further.
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 ...
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 ...
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.
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
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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