News
October 10, 2025
Tangerine Dream live across Scandinavia
The magic of the North awaits!
May 2, 2025
Celebrating 50 years of Phaedra in France
Tangerine Dream bring the Phaedra experience to France – two exclusive shows this October!
April 5, 2024
Grafenegg (AT) Concert Postponed!
New Date June 29, 2025
January 12, 2024
Concerts in 2024
Happy New Year! Wishing you all a fulfilling one!
April 28, 2023
USA & Canada Tour 2023
This autumn will be really exciting: Tangerine Dream is announcing its first full tour of the United States and Canada since 2012 - apart from two ...
October 28, 2022
New Live Album Release
We are happy to announce a great new Tangerine Dream box set of more than 8 hours of new live music: The Sessions. United Kingdom & Ireland 2022.
February 4, 2022
UK Tour 2022
TD is finally touring again in March 2022 and are bringing along special guest Steve Rothery for 3 concerts!
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 ...
Sep 19, 2020
Book Release: The Concert Memorabilia 1970-2014
Tangerine Dream - Itinerary: The Concert Memorabilia 1970-2014 by American author Brad Duke
June 2020
Paul Frick joins TD
We are thrilled to announce that Paul Frick - who has joined the group on stage for several concerts during the last years - will now be an official ...
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 ...
Music
2020
Pilots of Purple Twilight
Continuing the great success of the 'In Search Of Hades' Box Universal Music presents this 2020 10CD Box showcasing the next chapter in this period ...
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 ...
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
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.
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.
2013
Booster VI
The sixth release of the Booster series (Booster I – VII)
2013
Cruise to Destiny
A sonic ghostly gig on a vessel that happens even if no one of the band was present…
2013
Live at Admiralspalast
This is not just a concert, it’s a historic document.
2012
Live at Admiralspalast
Enjoy a warm early summer night in Germany's capital with a score by TD.
2011
Booster IV
The fourth release of the Booster series (Booster I – VII)
2011
The Gate of Saturn - Studio
Limited album out of Eastgate's Cupdisc series, released in 2011.
2010
Zeitgeist Concert - London 2010
Live recording from the Royal Albert Hall concert on April 1, 2010 in London.
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
The London Eye Concert
The London Eye Concert was recorded during the live concert at the Forum at London Kentishtown on November 1, 2008.
2008
Booster II
The second release of the Booster series (Booster I – VII)
2007
One night in space
From Linda Spa's music box playing at the beginning of the concert on October 7, 2007 up to the last chord you will hear and see everything happens ...
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 ...
1996 / 2004
Goblin’s Club
This album was released by the British Castle Communications company. This would become the only new regular album on the new label, as only a few ...
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 ...
1994 / 1999
Turn of the Tides
The first album with Linda Spa performing as a full time member despite joining in 1990. It was nominated for Best New Age Album at the 1995 Grammys.
1993 / 1999
220 Volt Live
This album was 3 times GrammyTM nominated in 1993 and reached top ten in Billboard.
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 ...
Biography
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.
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
Have you ever regretted taking the step from classical rock instruments to the "musical switchboard?"
In 1971, when we gave our first concert performed with synthesizers only, no one had ever before seen this kind of a stage setup. It revolutionized the entire music business and what happened is that a huge industry was created and would continue to ...
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
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 ...
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