Tangerine Dream
Background information
Origin	West Berlin, Germany
Genre(s)	Electronic music Krautrock Kosmische Musik Ambient music Berlin School New Age
Years active	1967 – present
Label(s)	Ohr Virgin Jive Electro Private Music Miramar TDI Eastgate
Members
Edgar Froese Thorsten Quaeschning
Former members
Peter Baumann Jerome Froese Michael Hoenig Steve Jolliffe Klaus Schulze Johannes Schmoelling Conrad Schnitzler Christopher Franke Paul Haslinger Kurt Herkenberg Linda Spa Charles Adams Prince Ralf Wadephul Steve Schroeder Lanse Hapshash Volker Hombach

Tangerine Dream is a German electronic music group founded in 1967 by Edgar Froese. The band has undergone several personnel changes over the years, with Froese the only continuous member. Drummer and composer Klaus Schulze was a member of an early lineup, but the most stable version of the group during their influential mid-1970s period was as a keyboard trio with Froese, Christopher Franke, and Peter Baumann. Early in the 1980s, Johannes Schmoelling replaced Baumann, and this lineup, too, was stable and extremely productive. Image File history File links Download high resolution version (1200x1402, 162 KB) Licensing This is a copyrighted image that has been released by a company or organization to promote their work or product in the media, such as advertising material or a promotional photo in a press kit. ... Location of Berlin within Germany / EU Coordinates Time zone CET/CEST (UTC+1/+2) Administration Country NUTS Region DE3 City subdivisions 12 boroughs Governing Mayor Klaus Wowereit (SPD) Governing parties SPD / Left. ... This article or section does not adequately cite its references or sources. ... It has been suggested that Electronica be merged into this article or section. ... Krautrock is a generic name for the experimental bands who appeared in Germany in the late 1960s and gained popularity throughout the 1970s. ... It has been suggested that Chicago Industrial be merged into this article or section. ... Ambient music is a musical genre that incorporates elements of a number of different styles - including jazz, electronic music, new age, modern classical music, traditional, world, and noise. ... The Berlin School of electronic music, or just Berlin School, was a development of New Age electronic music in the 1970s, shaped by Berlin-based artists like Klaus Schulze, Tangerine Dream and Ash Ra Tempel. ... New Age music, is a vaguely defined style of music that is generally quite melodic and often primarily instrumental. ... This does not adequately cite its references or sources. ... Edgar W. Froese (born June 6, 1944) is an artist and electronic music pioneer, best known for co-founding the electronic music act Tangerine Dream. ... Peter Baumann (born January 29, 1953 in Berlin) formed the core line-up of the German electronic group Tangerine Dream with Edgar Froese and Christopher Franke in 1971. ... Jerome Froese of Tangerine Dream, circa 1997 Jerome Froese (b. ... Michael Hoenig (born January 4th, 1952 in Hamburg) is a German composer who, in addition to two solo albums, has composed music for several movies and games. ... Steve Jolliffe (born April 28, 1949) is an English musician. ... Klaus Schulze is a German electronic music composer and musician. ... Conrad Schnitzler (b. ... Christopher Franke (born Berlin, 6 April 1953) was a member of the German New Age electronic group Tangerine Dream with Edgar Froese and Peter Baumann from 1970. ... Paul Haslinger (born 1962) is an Austrian-born composer and musician currently based in Los Angeles, California. ... Ralf Wadephul (born 1958) is a German keyboardist/composer who collaborated with Tangerine Dream (Edgar Froese, Paul Haslinger) in the late 1980s on their first Melrose Years album Optical Race (1988). ... Steven A. Schroeder is Distinguished Professor of Health and Health Care at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF). ... It has been suggested that Electronica be merged into this article or section. ... Edgar W. Froese (born June 6, 1944) is an artist and electronic music pioneer, best known for co-founding the electronic music act Tangerine Dream. ... Klaus Schulze is a German electronic music composer and musician. ... Christopher Franke (born Berlin, 6 April 1953) was a member of the German New Age electronic group Tangerine Dream with Edgar Froese and Peter Baumann from 1970. ... Peter Baumann (born January 29, 1953 in Berlin) formed the core line-up of the German electronic group Tangerine Dream with Edgar Froese and Christopher Franke in 1971. ...

Tangerine Dream's early "Pink Years" albums had a pivotal role in the development of Krautrock. Their "Virgin Years" and later albums became a defining influence in New Age music, although the band themselves dislike the term. Krautrock is a generic name for the experimental bands who appeared in Germany in the late 1960s and gained popularity throughout the 1970s. ... New Age music, is a vaguely defined style of music that is generally quite melodic and often primarily instrumental. ...

Although the group has released numerous studio and live recordings, a substantial number of their fans were introduced to Tangerine Dream by their film soundtracks, which numbered over forty and included Sorcerer, Thief, The Keep, Risky Business, Firestarter, Legend, Near Dark, and Miracle Mile. Sorcerer is a 1977 film produced and directed by William Friedkin, starring Roy Scheider, Bruno Cremer, Francisco Rabal and Amidou. ... Thief is a 1981 noir crime drama written and directed by Michael Mann, based on the novel The Home Invaders by Frank Hohimer (the pen name of real-life jewel thief John Seybold). ... The Keep is a 1983 horror film directed by Michael Mann and starring Scott Glenn, Gabriel Byrne, Jürgen Prochnow, and a dubbed Ian McKellen. ... Spoiler warning: Risky Business is a 1983 film written and directed by Paul Brickman. ... FireStarter (Japanese ファイスタ Fai Suta) is the second episode of the anime FLCL. Spoiler warning: Summary The Episode starts out with Mamimi playing some handheld videogame about burning stuff to please a dark god Cantide. ... Legend is a 1985 fantasy film released by 20th Century Fox (in Europe) and Universal Pictures (in the U.S. and Canada), directed by Ridley Scott and starring Tom Cruise, Mia Sara, Tim Curry, Alice Playten, and Billy Barty. ... Near Dark (1987) is a vampire Western film, written by Eric Red and Kathryn Bigelow, and directed by Bigelow. ... Miracle Mile is a 1988 thriller film directed by Steve de Jarnatt and starring Anthony Edwards and Mare Winningham. ...

Line-up

In the late 60s and early 70s, several short-lived incarnations of Tangerine Dream were formed by Froese teaming up with various musicians of West Berlin's underground scene. A few of these collaborators included Steve Jolliffe, Klaus Schulze and Conrad Schnitzler. Steve Jolliffe (born April 28, 1949) is an English musician. ... Klaus Schulze is a German electronic music composer and musician. ... Conrad Schnitzler (b. ...

The most notable of Froese's collaborations ended up being his partnership with Christopher Franke. Franke joined Tangerine Dream in 1970 from the group Agitation Free to replace Schulze as the drummer, and eventually (together with Peter Baumann, whose sequencer work is often mislabelled as 'all' Franke's work) became Tangerine Dream's sequencer guru and was responsible for some of the pulsing rhythmic synthesizer lines that came to define the band's music. Franke left Tangerine Dream over creative differences with Froese nearly two decades later in 1987. Christopher Franke (born Berlin, 6 April 1953) was a member of the German New Age electronic group Tangerine Dream with Edgar Froese and Peter Baumann from 1970. ... Agitation Free were a German avant-garde rock band. ... Peter Baumann (born January 29, 1953 in Berlin) formed the core line-up of the German electronic group Tangerine Dream with Edgar Froese and Christopher Franke in 1971. ...

Other long-term members of the group included Peter Baumann (1972-1977), who later went on to found the New Age label Private Music, to which the band was signed from 1988 to 1991; Johannes Schmoelling (1980-1985); Paul Haslinger (1986-1990); and, most recently (1990 onwards), Froese's son Jerome. Peter Baumann (born January 29, 1953 in Berlin) formed the core line-up of the German electronic group Tangerine Dream with Edgar Froese and Christopher Franke in 1971. ... Private Music is a subsidiary record label of BMG. See also List of record labels Categories: Record labels | Stub ...

A number of other members were also part of Tangerine Dream for shorter periods of time. In contrast to session musicians, they also contributed to some compositions of the band during their stay. The five most notable such members are Steve Schroyder (organist, 1971-72), Michael Hoenig (who replaced Baumann for a 1975 Australian tour and a London concert, included on Bootleg Box Set Vol. 1), Steve Jolliffe (wind instruments and vocals on Cyclone and the following tour; was also part of a short-lived 1969 line-up), Ralf Wadephul (credited for one track on Optical Race (1988) and toured with the band in support of this album), and Linda Spa (saxophonist who appeared on numerous albums and concerts between 1990 and 1996, as well as 2005 onwards). Star Sounds Orchestra are Steve Schroyder and Jens Zygar, a psychedelic trance project from Germany. ... Michael Hoenig (born January 4th, 1952 in Hamburg) is a German composer who, in addition to two solo albums, has composed music for several movies and games. ... Steve Jolliffe (born April 28, 1949) is an English musician. ... Ralf Wadephul (born 1958) is a German keyboardist/composer who collaborated with Tangerine Dream (Edgar Froese, Paul Haslinger) in the late 1980s on their first Melrose Years album Optical Race (1988). ...

As of 2007 Tangerine Dream is formed by Edgar Froese alone, with the collaboration of Thorsten Quaeschning, who helped in the composition of Jeanne D'Arc (album) (2005), for concerts and recordings they are joined mainly by Iris Camaa and Linda Spa.

History

Edgar Froese arrived in West Berlin in the mid-1960s to study art. He worked as a sculptor and studied under Salvador Dalí, among others. His first band, the R&B-styled The Ones, was gradually dismantled after releasing only one single, and Froese turned to experimentation, playing minor gigs with a variety of musicians. Most of these gigs were in the famous Zodiac nightclub, although Froese's band was also invited to play for his former teacher Dalí. Music was mixed with literature, painting, early forms of multimedia, and more. Only the most outlandish ideas attracted any attention, and Froese summed up this attitude with the phrase: "In the absurd often lies what is artistically possible". As members of the group came and went, the direction of the music continued to be inspired by the Surrealists, and the group came to be called by the surreal-sounding name of Tangerine Dream. Boroughs of West Berlin West Berlin was the name given to the western part of Berlin between 1949 and 1990. ... Salvador Felipe Jacinto Dalí Domènech Marquis of Pubol (May 11, 1904 – January 23, 1989), popularly known as Salvador Dalí, was a Spanish (Catalan) artist and one of the most important painters of the 20th century. ... Rhythm and blues (also known as R&B or RnB) is a popular music genre combining jazz, gospel, and blues influences — first performed by African American artists. ... The Zodiac is a club on the Cowley Road in Oxford, UK. It is famed for performances by underrated and up and coming bands and has been Oxfords main music venue since its reopening in 1995. ... Old book bindings at the Merton College library. ... For building painting, see painter and decorator. ... ... Yves Tanguy Indefinite Divisibility 1942 Surrealism[1] is a cultural movement that began in the mid-1920s, and is best known for the visual artworks and writings of the group members. ...

Froese was fascinated by technology and skilled in using it to create music. He built instruments and, wherever he went, collected sounds with tape recorders for use in constructing musical works later. His early work with tape loops and other repeating sounds was the obvious precursor to the emerging technology of the sequencer, which Froese quickly adopted. In the field of electronic music, a sequencer was originally any device that recorded and played back a sequence of control information for an electronic musical instrument. ...

The first Tangerine Dream album, Electronic Meditation, was a tape-collage piece, using the technology of the time rather than the synthesized music they later became famous for, and was a collaboration between Froese, Klaus Schulze, and Conrad Schnitzler. Electronic Meditation was published by Ohr in 1970, and began the period known as the Pink Years (the Ohr logo was a pink ear). Beginning with their second album, Alpha Centauri, the group tended to be a duo or trio of electronic instruments augmented by Froese's guitar, Franke's drums, and sometimes assorted guest musicians. They were particularly heavy users of the Mellotron during this period. Electronic Meditation (1970) is the debut album by the German electronic music group Tangerine Dream. ... Conrad Schnitzler (b. ... 1986 reissue Alpha Centauri (1971) is an album by the German electronic music group Tangerine Dream. ... The Mellotron is an electromechanical polyphonic keyboard musical instrument originally developed and built in Birmingham, England in the early 1960s. ...

Tangerine Dream signed to the fledgling Virgin Records in 1973 and soon afterward released the album Phaedra, an eerie soundscape that unexpectedly reached #15 in the United Kingdom album charts and became one of Virgin's first bona-fide hits. Phaedra was the first commercial album to feature sequencers and came to define much more than just the band's own sound. The creation of the album's title track for was something of a fluke; the band was experimenting in the studio with a recently-acquired Moog synthesizer, and the tape happened to be rolling at the time. They kept the results and later added flute and Mellotron performances. The cantankerous Moog, like many other early synthesizers, was so sensitive to changes in temperature that its oscillators would drift badly in tuning as the equipment warmed up, and this drift can easily be heard on the final recording. This album marked the beginning of the period known as the Virgin Years. Virgin Records is a British recording label founded by British entrepreneur Richard Branson, and Nik Powell in 1972. ... Phaedra (1974) is an album by the German electronic music group Tangerine Dream. ... The term Moog(pronounced // as in moan) synthesizer can refer to any number of analog synthesizers designed by Dr. Robert Moog or manufactured by Moog Music, and is commonly used as a generic term for analog and digital music synthesisers. ...

In the 1980s, along with other electronic music pioneers such as Jean Michel Jarre and Vangelis, the band were early adopters of the new digital technology which revolutionized the sound of the synthesiser. Their technical competence and extensive experience in their early years with self-made instruments and unusual means of creating sounds meant that they were able to exploit this new technology to make music quite unlike anything heard before. To the modern listener, their albums of that period may not seem so exceptional, but only because the technology they adopted at that time is now used almost universally. Jean-Michel André Jarre (born August 24, 1948 in Lyon, France) is a French composer, performer and music producer. ... Evangelos Odysseas Papathanassiou (Ευάγγελος Οδυσσέας Παπαθανασίου) [IPA: ] is a world-renowned Greek composer of electronic, New Age and classical music and musical performer, under the artist name Vangelis Papathanassiou (Βαγγέλης Παπαθανασίου) or just Vangelis (a diminutive of Evangelos) [IPA: or ]. He is best known for his Academy Award winning score for the film Chariots of... A digital system is one that uses discrete values (often electrical voltages), especially those representable as binary numbers, or non-numeric symbols such as letters or icons, for input, processing, transmission, storage, or display, rather than a continuous spectrum of values (ie, as in an analog system). ...

Through the 1970s and 1980s the band toured extensively. The concerts generally included large amounts of unreleased and/or improvised material, and were consequently widely bootlegged. They were notorious for playing extremely loudly (reaching 134db in 1976) and for a long time. The band released recordings of a fair number of their concerts, and on some of these the band worked out material which would later form the backbone of their studio recordings (for example, Pergamon, which documents a concert given in East Berlin shortly after Johannes Schmoelling joined the group, contains many themes that would appear later on Tangram). An assortment of bootleg recordings A bootleg recording (or simply bootleg or boot) is an audio and/or video recording of a performance that was not officially released by the artist, or under other legal authority. ... Track Listing Tangram Set One (19:47) Tangram Set Two (20:28) Line up Edgar Froese Chris Franke Johannes Schmoelling Categories: | ...

Most albums were purely instrumental—two albums that prominently featured lyrics, Cyclone (1978) and Tyger (1987) (the latter featuring poems by William Blake recited over music) were met with disapproval from some fans. While there have occasionally been a few vocals on the band's other releases, such as the track "Kiew Mission" from 1981's Exit, the group only recently returned to featuring vocals in a musical trilogy based on Dante's The Divine Comedy and their new album Madcap's Flaming Duty due for release in april 2007. This is album is also noteworthy as it is dedicated to the late Pink Floyd member Syd Barrett who died in 2006. Cyclone is a 1978 album by Tangerine Dream, and the first in their canon to feature proper vocals and lyrics. ... William Blake (November 28, 1757 – August 12, 1827) was an English poet, visionary, painter, and printmaker. ... Exit is an electronic music album released in 1981 by the German group Tangerine Dream. ... Dante in a fresco series of famous men by Andrea del Castagno, ca. ... The Divine Comedy (Italian: Commedia, later christened Divina by Giovanni Boccaccio), written by Dante Alighieri between 1308 and his death in 1321, is widely considered the central epic poem of Italian literature, and is seen as one of the greatest works of world literature ever. ...

Tangerine Dream's earliest concerts were visually quite dull by modern standards, with three men sitting motionless for hours alongside massive electronic boxes festooned with patch cords and a few flashing lights. Some concerts were even performed in complete darkness.^{[citation needed]} As time went on and technology advanced, the concerts become much more elaborate, with visual effects, lighting, lasers, pyrotechnics, and projected images. By 1977 their North American tour featured full-scale Laserium effects. Laserium is a registered trademark of Laser Images, Inc. ...

After their 1980 East Berlin gig, when they became one of the first major Western bands to perform in a Communist country, Tangerine Dream became very popular behind the Iron Curtain. They were one of the most popular bands in Poland in the early 1980s and even released a double live album of one of their performances there called Poland. Because of the abstract nature of the music—and, arguably, the lack of lyrics—they did not attract censure from the authorities, unlike many other Western bands. With Poland, the band moved to the Jive Electro label, marking the beginning of the Blue Years. East Berlin was the name given to the eastern part of Berlin between 1949 and 1990. ... This article is about communism as a form of society and as a political movement. ... Warsaw Pact countries to the east of the Iron Curtain are shaded red; NATO members to the west of it — blue. ...

Along the 1980s, Tangerine Dream composed scores for more than twenty films. This had been an interest of Froese's since the late 1960s, when he scored an obscure Polish film. Many of the group's soundtracks were composed at least partially of reworked material from the band's studio albums or work that was in progress for upcoming albums; see, for example, the resemblance between the track "Igneous" on their soundtrack for Thief and the track "Thru Metamorphic Rocks" on their studio release Force Majeure. Their first exposure on television came when a track for the then in-progress album Le Parc was used as the theme for the television program Street Hawk. Some of the more famous soundtracks have been Sorcerer, The Keep, Risky Business, and Legend. At their best, the soundtracks have been as musically successful as the regular studio albums, and many fans discovered them through their film or television work. Street Hawk was an American television series that aired for 13 episodes on ABC in 1985. ...

In the past, the group has had recording contracts with Ohr, Virgin, Jive Electro, Private Music, and Miramar, and many of the minor soundtracks were released on Varese Saraband. In 1996, the band founded their own record label, TDI. Subsequent albums are today generally not available in normal retail channels but are sold by mail-order. The same applies to their Miramar releases, the rights to which the band has bought back to themselves. Meanwhile, their Ohr/Jive Electro catalogs (known as the "Pink" and "Blue" Years) are currently in the hands of Sanctuary Records. This article or section does not adequately cite its references or sources. ...

Edgar Froese also released a number of solo recordings which are similar in style to Tangerine Dream's work. Jerome Froese released a number of singles as TDJ Rome, that are similar to his work within the "Dream Mixes" series; in 2006 he released his first solo album "Neptunes". Jerome is presently on hiatus from Tangerine Dream to concentrate on his solo career. He has recently finished his second solo album "Shiver Me Timbers" to be released in September 2007.

To celebrate their 40th anniversary (1967-2007), Tangerine Dream announced their only UK concert at London Astoria on Friday 20th April. At this the band performed their studio album Madcap's Flaming Duty (released in the UK by Voiceprint on 2nd April)^[1]. In addition TD will also be playing a totally free (open air) concert in the German town of Eberswalde on July 1st 2007 and at the Alte Oper in Frankfurt on Main on October 7th 2007. Madcaps Flaming Duty is a 2007 album by Tangerine Dream. ... A spectrogram of violin playing with linear frequency on the vertical axis and time on the horizontal axis. ... Eberswalde is a major town and the administrative seat of the district Barnim in the German Federal State (Bundesland) of Brandenburg, about 50 km northeast of Berlin. ... The Alte Oper circa 1900 The Alte Oper (Old Opera) is a major concert hall and former opera house in Frankfurt am Main, Germany. ... For other uses, see Frankfurt (disambiguation). ...

Influences

Although Tangerine Dream began initially as a surreal rock band, each of the members contributed different things. Edgar Froese's guitar style was inspired by Jimi Hendrix ^[2], while Chris Franke contributed the more avant garde elements of Stockhausen and Terry Riley. Finally, Peter Baumann contributed imaginative composition techniques the band often used to make up for his lack of keyboard skills (especially Rhythmic ideas). Of course, this changed over the years as members joined and left, from the Yes-like influence of Steve Joliffe on Cyclone to the sample-based sound collages of Johannes Schmoelling on Exit and Hyperborea. Pink Floyd were also an influence on Edgar Froese and Tangerine Dream. The band's 2007 album Madcap's Flaming Duty is dedicated to Syd Barrett's memory. Their modern influence can be felt in ambient artists such as Deepspace, M83, DJ Shadow, Ulrich Schnauss, Kasabian and Global Communication. This article contains a trivia section. ... The Love of Zero 35 mm film by Robert Florey 1927 Avant-garde (pronounced ) in French means front guard, advance guard, or vanguard. ... Karlheinz Stockhausen (born August 22, 1928) is a German composer, and one of the most important and controversial composers of the 20th century. ... Terry Riley – (Portrait by Betty Freeman) Terry Riley (born 24 June 1935) is an American composer associated with the minimalist school. ... This article or section does not cite any references or sources. ... Steve Jolliffe (born April 28, 1949) is an English musician. ... Pink Floyd are an English rock band that earned recognition for their psychedelic rock music, and, as they evolved, for their avant-garde style and for being pioneers of progressive rock music. ... This article is an autobiography, and may not conform to Wikipedias NPOV policy. ... Messier Object 83, the Southern Pinwheel Galaxy. ... Josh Davis, a. ... Ulrich Schnauss (b. ... Kasabian are an English rock band from Blaby and Countesthorpe, formed by Tom Meighan (vocals), Sergio Pizzorno (guitar and vocals), Chris Edwards (bass) and Chris Karloff (guitar and keyboards), who met while attending Leysland High School and Countesthorpe Community College. ... Global Communication is an electronic music act, comprised of Tom Middleton and Mark Pritchard, that produces ambient and house music. ...

Discography

Main articles: Tangerine Dream discography and Tangerine Tree

Tangerine Dream has released over one hundred albums (not counting singles, compilations and fan releases) over the last four decades. Tangerine Tree was a series of releases of Tangerine Dream concerts and other materials based on fan recordings. Tangerine Dream has released over one hundred albums (not counting singles, compilations and fan releases) over the last four decades. ... Tangerine Tree is a project dedicated to the collection, preservation and distribution of unreleased concerts and other audio material by the band Tangerine Dream. ...

Trivia

• Japanese electronic musician Susumu Hirasawa dedicated his song Island Door (Paranesian Circle) to Tangerine Dream. It is considered Hirasawa's longest composition (13 minutes).
• Science Fiction author Alastair Reynolds makes reference to one of the gas giant planets in the Epsilon Eridani system as being named Tangerine Dream.

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See also

• Krautrock
• Experimental music
• Avant garde music

Krautrock is a generic name for the experimental bands who appeared in Germany in the late 1960s and gained popularity throughout the 1970s. ... For experimental rock music, see experimental rock. ... Experimental music is any music that challenges the commonly accepted notions of what music is. ...

References

1. ^ Tangerine Dream announce rare London concert
2. ^ Washington Post

• Stump, Paul (1999). Digital Gothic - A Critical Discography of Tangerine Dream. Firefly Publishing. ISBN 0-946719-18-7. 

External links

• The official Tangerine Dream website
• Discussion forums:
  • TaDream – The Tangerine Dream mailing list
• Discographies:
  • Voices in the Net – A comprehensive discography
  • Tangerine Dream Database from Rainer Rutka
• Misc. resources:
  • Tangerine Dream links @ DMOZ
  • The Dream Gallery – fansite featuring a cover art gallery and a listing of known live concerts
  • What Dreams Are Made Of – The Tangerine Dream Concert Track Listing 1980-2005 By John Burek and Mark Schaffer
• Other
  • An informative fan site is hosted by Armagh Observatory [1], an Astronomical Observatory in Northern Ireland.
  • Tangerine Dream Live at Coventry Cathedral 1975 on DVD
  • Linda Spa (in German)