News
October 10, 2025
Tangerine Dream Live Across Scandinavia
The magic of the North awaits!
March 1, 2024
50th Anniversary of PHAEDRA
Half a century ago, a groundbreaking electronic music masterpiece was born.
January 12, 2024
Concerts in 2024
Happy New Year! Wishing you all a fulfilling one!
May 12, 2023
UK Tour 2023
New concert dates added for the UK!
March 24, 2022
TD Finish UK Tour
TD have now reached the end of their unforgettable 'From Virgin To Quantum Years' tour.
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
Music
2023
The Sessions VIII
THE EP contains a real time composition from the TD line-up Thorsten Quaeschning, Hoshiko Yamane, Paul Frick. As a guest musician they invited Michał ...
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 ...
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 ...
2008
Das Romantische Opfer
Limited edition single composition of 14 minutes running time. Released on the occasion of the "Night Of The Prog Festival" at Loreley Rock at the ...
2007
Orange Odyssey
Live set from of Inauguration Ceremony of the Paul Wunderlich Museum in Eberswalde near Berlin.
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.
1987
Canyon Dreams
This score was composed for a documentary video on the Grand Canyon. TD received its first Grammy nomination with Canyon Dreams.
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 ...
1976
Stratosfear
Stratosfear marks the beginning of the development away from their sequencer-driven sound toward a more melodic one.
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 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 ...
Members
Lineup
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
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
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 Administrator
Edgar designs most of the TD album covers. How does he reach the point where he’s finally satisfied with the end product?
Edgar studied arts and crafts in university and worked for a few years as a graphic designer before becoming a professional musician. This taught him to make his ideas real visually. The original idea was to give all the covers a certain identity that ...
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