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Artist: Tangerine Dream Album: Collection Genre: Electronic Year: 1970-2013 Size: 33.1 gb Source: CDs Format: APE (image +.cue) Quality: lossless Sample Rate: 44.1 kHz / 16 Bit Description: Without doubt, the recordings of Tangerine Dream made the greatest impact on the widest variety of instrumental music during the 1980s and ’90s, ranging from the most atmospheric new age and space music to the harshest abrasions of electronic dance.
One of my favorite bands which I've followed since John Peel started playing them. I bought everything as it came out and got all the pre Phaedra albums as imports. I've always thought them best live and fondly remember the first time I 'saw' them at the Royal Albert Hall and was amazed at how loud they were (I'd never thought to play the albums loudly and still rarely do so) and how they made the music move through the air. I eventually found the Tangerine Tree Project and have all the Trees and Leaves (excepting Leaves Volume 32: Quebec, so if anyone has it on mp3/FLAC can they email me a copy at [email protected]) and recommend these as the best way to hear early TD.
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My collection continues to grow and I can't wait to hear them post Edgar - RIP - and I suspect that there is a goodly collection of unreleased items awaiting mastering mixing and release. Although their music evolved as the electronic industry evolved, I like it all, but listening to them live is best.
It's seemingly impossible to discuss TD without comparing eras, although this is occasionally a little unfair, especially given that there aren't many straight cut changes between them. Like many (possibly most), I hold the Virgin albums in highest esteem, particularly Phaedra, Rubycon, Tangram and Hyperborea. Over their ten years signed to Virgin, their stylistic progression was incredible: something which slowed down considerably shortly after they left. The rest of the '80s saw them ironing out the remaining kinks into the heavily streamlined, poppy sound found throughout the Froese/Haslinger lineup. These albums are much maligned by some, and although they are almost embarrassingly dated in their production, there are plenty of strong compositions waiting under the surface of rigid MIDI programming and harsh FM synths. The band sort of washed ashore at this point, most tellingly by the fact that Edgar is still using the same synth sounds to this day. Plenty of modern TD pieces could be little more than remastered Haslinger-era tracks.
Be it the heavy use of live instrumentation in the '90s, or the 'throw enough shit and some of it'll stick' approach to the modern heavy release schedule, there have been different attempts at hiding the staleness over the past twenty-odd years, although most see through them. There exists a modest sized fanbase who excitedly await everything put out under the TD name (a considerable proportion of the 'Eastgate Years' output is Edgar solo material) and seem to enjoy it, but the general consensus tends to be that although great tracks exist, they are few and far between. Personally, I stick to the Booster releases these days, which give a good representation of the various products and are the nearest thing to the 'an album every year or two' format Edgar would have been wise sticking to. I strongly disagree with the previous poster. While I find nearly all of TD albums great and very enjoyable from between 1974-1983, I'd absolutely leave the 'Zeit' out of any listings.
Tangerine Dream Discography
Very boring, fantasyless early athmospherics 'ambient'. I don't understand why did the early TD raises so much attention while there was not much music in those albums (I mean: the pre-1974 era). It's more for the 'psycho', flower-power, prog-rock fans.
Their 'mid-age' from '74-the eighties caused some extraordinary pioneering albums BUT the real-thing comes only after then: The EXIT is the highlight of the TD. Ask any fans! Incredible, rhythmised, prog electro-pop, very fresh and new.
I rate it among the best albums of the genre beside: Kraftwerk-Computer World, Logic System - Logic, Johan Timman - Trip into the body, just to name the bests. Their second best album is: WHITE EAGLE and every other come afterwards.
By the way, TD. Has incredible amount of bootleg live-recordings.
I very strongly advise them to be listened! They were the best in live-situations: endless sequencing, very great guitar and synth solos all the entire lenght.
Very dramatic, hypnotic soundscapes lead to exstatic solos. To cut it short: TD is from late 60'-1974 only for prog, psych, ambient, noise and hard-core TD fans.
1974-1979: The classic 'mid-age' with analog synths, Moogs and hypnotic sequencings. 1985: The appearing of the first digital synths and the birth of the automatised electronic music.
The birth of their best albums: Exit, and White eagle. Soon they fade away after 1982 and are not able to renew, nor create anything remarkable. Track is their very last great track, and I find one of their best and that's it. 1986- The TD becomes a cheap, cheesy, kitschy, extremely mindless new-age pop-trash. Trash and shit I can name with some of their albums. A few technical words about the Tangerine Dream 1970-1985: Now I see, how amatheur they really were.
The never made a proper, whistleable melody with the exception of 2-3 cases. Like at the level of a collage-band. The sound quality of their recordings were almost always trash. The mixing was always horrible. They had absolutely no real rhythmical sense, so the drummachine usage was always extremely bad and badly balanced.
As soon as the digital synths and synths with sound-patch memory appeared, they started to giving-up creating their own made sonic-timbres. By the mid '80s they only used factory-preset sounds from the synths and later they minimised the usage of the number of the synths too, so there came the time when they made entire albums on the cheapest and bad sounding Roland synth module(s). But anyway, they almost never made anything really interesting sonic-timbres apart from a few.
They had no real mind for that. The Mellotron usage was very typical to them and a listener can easily think that how great achievement was that. The typical Tangerine dream choir/flute/horn/strings/. Download all windows 7 update after sp 1200. Sounds came from the Mellotron which was the first 'preset' instument and the sound couldn't be altered or changed on the instrument and the sounds remained unchanged through the entire history of the Mellotron-era of TD. What they've made on synths were very amatheurish and all approach to the entire producing of music was also but even if so, at the end, the result was sometimes extraordinary. All had a very special mood, an electrifying feeling, an astonishing dreamscape and the birth of the 'Berlin-electro, old-school' genre in itself which were never paralelled by anybody other even if there were and even today there are countless efforts for it.
As far as I know, they didn't invented gears but gave comissions for electro-technicians. This is how the legendary PPG was born. I, myself own maybe the very first existing example which is often can be seen by the right hand side of Froese on the concerts 1975-onwards. There are only a few examples exist.
The other machine which is in my posession is the later PPG 340/380 large tower with Froese's signature. Only 6 pieces were ever made.
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Not much you can say about these guys - absolutely seminal, although they always seem to get overlooked in every 'electronica history/retrospective' sorta thing I've ever read. They did get namechecked in LFO's classic 'What Is House?' At one point though: 'The pioneers of the hypnotic groove: Brian Eno, Tangerine Dream, Kraftwerk, Depeche Mode and the Yellow Magic Orchestra.' It's been said you're either an early TD person or a late TD person.
Personally, I can't imagine most electronic fans being into their post 1980-stuff; some of the early 1980's material consists of some interesting ambient analog synthscapes but by the mid 1980's it's pretty much new age schlock in the realm of Vangelis or Jarre. Of course, there's people who love Jarre and think this is just noodling drug music. The five most essential TD albums are, IMHO: Zeit, Phaedra, Rubycon, Ricochet, and Stratosfear. Alpha Centauri is certainly interesting too, but not for just casual listening.
Start with the early stuff, which is extremely dark abstract material and not strictly electronic, and move into Pheadra and Rubycon, which are more 'purist' electronic albums. Ricochet and Stratosfear start to contain some more progressive rock elements.
What makes this music so impressive, and so timeless, is the sheer craftsmanship on the part of the members. When listening to this, I still can't help but think that the majority of today's laptop-produced electronica will wither in self-deserved obscurity the moment it is produced. Hell, Edgar Froese invented half of the synths for the TD project, and then just gave away the technology since he didn't care about making a buck on it.
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