[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.
[Review] Tangerine Dream: Phaedra (1974)
Noting the success of Tubular Bells, TD release their most accessible album yet and create an international sensation.
[Review] Edgar Froese: Aqua (1974)
Tangerine Dream’s leader releases an album of exploratory electronic music designed for artificial heads. For realsies.
[Review] Tangerine Dream: Rubycon (1975)
A purely electronic album that is both more streamlined and improvisational than Phaedra, but no less inspired.
[Review] Edgar Froese: Ypsilon In Malaysian Pale (1975)
A travelogue of electronic music that is separate from but connected to the TD masterworks around it.
[Review] Tangerine Dream: Ricochet (1975)
A live album featuring two new sides of music that continue on the same journey as the albums before and after.
[Review] Peter Baumann: Romance ’76 (1976)
A solid electronic debut with classical overtones from the junior (in tenure) member of Tangerine Dream.
[Review] Tangerine Dream: Stratosfear (1976)
One of the group’s more overtly proggy efforts that continues to find them refining the formula of Phaedra.
[Review] Edgar Froese: Stuntman (1979)
A musical, melodic and slightly more streamlined vision of Tangerine Dream’s electronic music at the time.
[Review] Tangerine Dream: Force Majeuere (1979)
Intoxicating sequencer patterns, heroic themes and mountains of mind candy await on this wonder-full album.
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…
[Review] Tangerine Dream: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack “Thief” (1981)
This was actually voted one of the worst soundtracks of the year, proving that no one saw Shock Treatment.