[Review] Tangerine Dream: Electronic Meditation (1970)
The quark-gluon plasma of electronic music, representing a soupy state of quasi-classical music and experimental science.
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[Review] Tangerine Dream: Alpha Centauri (1971)
Part classical score for space, part science experiment, Alpha Centauri is your first destination.
[Review] Tangerine Dream: Zeit (1972)
The classic trio of Froese, Franke and Baumann create and then explore alien worlds in these four electronic tone poems.
[Review] Tangerine Dream: Atem (1973)
With no strings (guitar, cello) attached, Tangerine Dream freefalls through forty minutes of exciting electronic music that will blow and/or expand your mind.
Edgar Froese: Aqua (1974)
Long before Underwater Sunlight reached our ears, Edgar Froese went on an aquatic excursion of his own, the first of several ‘70s solo…
Tangerine Dream: Phaedra (1974)
Phaedra is considered by many to be the band’s magnum opus. The side-long title track is a high-water mark in electronic music: a…
Tangerine Dream: Ricochet (1975)
I often wondered how Tangerine Dream would reproduce their amorphous tone poems on stage. Ricochet, their first live album, answers that question by…
Tangerine Dream: Stratosfear (1976)
Tangerine Dream, which enjoyed an association with the progressive rock movement because of shared ideals, actually began to sound like a progressive rock…
Tangerine Dream: Force Majeuere (1979)
The sequencer-based arrangements of past albums find their fruition on Force Majeure. With Steve Jolliffe gone and Klaus Krieger reduced to an ancillary…
Tangerine Dream: Tangram (1980)
With the addition of keyboardist Johannes Schmoelling, Tangerine Dream adopted a more melodic and accessible sound on Tangram. The fluidity of movement and…
Tangerine Dream: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack “Thief” (1981)
As a rule of thumb, mine’s decidedly pointed down on the TD soundtracks. Their music is a natural for film, especially in concert…
Tangerine Dream: Exit (1981)
Exit is a departure from the side-long tone poems of the past. The six songs are self contained, largely static, featuring sampled sounds…