Tangerine Dream S/D

I'll keep my eye out!

Pity spotify doesnt work in america, theres loads of TD on it. Sadly the 1st 5 arent but the ones you mentioned are on it, most of the other 70s stuff is on it as well as the dodgy 80s stuff.

I've become a big fan of Green Desert over the last few years. It's prime era 70s TD that wasn't released until the mid 80s. And it has DRUMS.

"Dolphin Dance" from the Underwater Sunlight LP is a banger.

man "Lana" is so great

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OJVouCbneGM

Not much love for my favorite, Hyperborea.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QxPTjPzTVdM&feature=related

Caveat: the visuals are, predictably, total cheese.

Poland is pretty fucking massive I must say.

i don't suppose anyone's listened to the new one, the gate of saturn?

it finally occurs to me today after many years that "Ricochet, Part Two" is fucking sick

I have been playing the two Virgin box sets a lot recently. I had some of the lps originally but not all of them. You can hear the synth technology getting better as time goes on, but "Hyperborea" is still a classic way to end their Virgin contract. And the Edgar Froese set which came out a few months ago is very very good, his first two solo albums are nearly the equal of "Rubycon" and "Ricochet".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4w8pbGz7E8c
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4uPfuh6rkAw

I saw the sdtk for Three O'Clock High at the store today and did not buy it. Did I make a mistake?
Something tells me it's gotta be terrible, but I see Tangerine Dream and my brain can't make rational decisions.

i've decided to buy up any TD soundtracks i see. i passed on 'shy people' once and then listened online and realized i had erred. 'three o'clock high' sounds pretty decent from the allmusic samples.

if you haven't heard it yet, get 'firestarter'. pretty splendid.

after 1986, ignore
before 1986, mostly good
before 1983, even better

I normally go by these ^^^ rules but I just didn't feel like this soundtrack was going to be good -- now i am having second thoughts about my second thoughts. i should have just bought it!
i'll see if it's there next time. if so, it was meant to be. if not, so be it.

the post-'86 rule is ok but still, '87:

http://d2oz5j6ef5tbf6.cloudfront.net/cd/large/Near_dark_Varese_VSD_47309.jpg

well i'd buy that on the cover alone without any idea what it sounds like but

this doesn't inspire a similar confidence

http://991.com/newGallery/Tangerine-Dream-Three-OClock-High-537421.jpg

yeah that's an unfortunate cover.

I just realized my itunes library contains 7 different versions of the Keep soundtrack...still shooting for perfection.

Three O'Clock High is a great movie.
I have zero recollection of its Tangerine Dream soundtrack, though.

I went back and it was there! Someone had moved it from the new arrivals but it was still there.
The songs are all really short. Will report back once I've heard the whole thing (am between classes, so this is basically my evening before I go back to work in a few hours).
So far the slower themes are pretty good and have a very pleasantly familiar late 80s incidental music vibe.

It's like the sonic equivalent of Anne Ryan's lite gothy smart/stylish girl look in the movie
http://cineplex.media.baselineresearch.com/images/262122/262122_large.jpg

I had a pretty big crush on that character when I was twelve.

Or however old I was when I first saw Three O'clock High. I feel like it was on HBO one day when I stayed home sick from school.

She and Michelle Meyrink were like supplemental Andies or Winona's cool older sister. Style icons for the unconventionally attractive.

The soundtrack is...not that good, unfortunately. It's not awful or shameful or anything, but the songs are all really short and don't go anywhere. I guess they (TD) did the best they had with what they had. I don't imagine there was a lot of need for expansive 20 minute journeys into outer space in this movie.

The Thief soundtrack is much better.

http://farm3.staticflickr.com/2771/4269692309_43b6c89b01.jpg

<swoon>

Score at the store today! Got Stratosfear and Cyclone. Can honestly say I have never heard anyone sing the words "bent cold sidewalk" with such zeal.

Bought Tangram on vinyl today for a few quid...what's the general consensus on it? Wasn't sure what to make on first listen.

Not bad, but you can tell everything after it was going to suck.

I love the beginning of part 2, but the rest never sticks in my memory.

Really love the use of "Love on a Real Train" in The Squid and the Whale. Made me LOL each time.

Bought Tangram on vinyl today for a few quid...what's the general consensus on it? Wasn't sure what to make on first listen.

it finally occurs to me today after many years that "Ricochet, Part Two" is fucking sick

― korea opportunities (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, May 30, 2012 11:16 AM (1 year ago)

this. this this.
after years of focusing on the final virgin trilogy, today i picked up 'stratosphere' and 'encore' today which are good and all, but this one is just insanely good.
oh, and these sbm remasters sound fantastic.

just to clarify, i picked up force majeure and ricochet as well.

also announced to be doing the GTA V soundtrack

Unless they're planning on recording that soundtrack in 1981 I wouldn't bother.

too late!

thats a bit weird.

old hippy fuckers being asked to do sonic stuff for game aimed at granny killing young'uns.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HRU6Cnd4YgI

This thread has made me want to see Michelle Meyrink films, never heard of her before. Turns out she is a serious buddhist now.

Their Thief soundtrack won a Raspberry award for worst soundtrack but it is a fan favorite. I've looked at all the previous awards of that ceremony recently and some are pretty dumb choices.

I saw The Keep recently and was blown away by the soundtrack. The film is interesting and I'd like to see the directors cut finally come out someday, but I think Tangerine Dream was the real star of that film, they made it far more atmospheric and strange than it might have been otherwise. The acting is a bit rough in places and I almost feel as if TD make it seem surreal enough for it all to work. I'm not sure. But the "Silver Crosses" track really haunted me in a way nothing has for quite a long time. Really annoying that there is so many versions of the soundtrack, and that some versions are said to be different recordings than the film. I have looked through different youtube versions and I'm not enough of an audiophile to be able to spot differences for sure.

Their Thief soundtrack won a Raspberry award for worst soundtrack

Craziness. There's one especially good track on it, if I remember correctly.

This thread has made me want to see Michelle Meyrink films, never heard of her before. Turns out she is a serious buddhist now.
She's the best!

I like the whole Thief sdtk too, but I don't really remember much about any individual tracks.

Tangerine Dream was the real star of that film

Totally agree. Thief is not a great film, but the way the soundtrack works with the production design, especially the opening nine-minute segment, is excellent.

They're currently touting what is being described as their "farewell" (hmm) tour next year. It's billed as the Phaedra tour but as yet there is no word on whether that actually means that Phaedra will be performed in its entirety. If it is then I might be tempted.

The GTA soundtrack is brilliant.

I'd certainly go see them play Phaedra or any of their seventies albums.

There has only been one official release of The Keep and it was v limited and heavily re-recorded and re-composed iirc. Some of the music trickled out on other albums here and there in the 80s. I have an mp3 boot of the film tracks which is challenging in terms of sound quality but the music transports nonetheless.

I'd like to hear more about the gta soundtrack!

ooh that sounds v appealing
i haven't listened to TD in a long while and maybe it is time

I think I have a review of it in the issue of The Wire that comes out tomorrow. If it does get published, I'll post it here.

As promised:

Tangerine Dream
50 Years Of Phaedra: At The Barbican
Kscope 2xCD/DL/3xLP

It's usually a given that Legacy Act Performs Old Album In Full concerts are lame. But Tangerine Dream have carried on in a surprisingly non-embarrassing manner since founder Edgar Froese's death in 2015 - the current incarnation, featuring Thorsten Quaeschning, Hoshiko Yamane and Paul Frick, have been putting out strong new material (though it should be noted that both 2017's Quantum Gate and 2022's Raum featured archival performances by Froese). They've also toured extensively, playing new material and reworking old TD classics and improvising.

Quaeschning refers to the improvised portions of their concerts as sessions, and they've released eight volumes of those live recordings. Another such session, running to nearly 40 minutes, takes up the middle portion of this two and a half hour concert, and it's captivating, like wandering through someone else's dream.

The main focus of the concert heard here is a performance of Phaedra, their 50 year old fifth album and first for Virgin Records, and their commercial breakthrough. They don't simply play the album's four tracks in order and exactly as they appear on the original LP, though. Quaeschning and company update the music and make it their own. The title piece, for example, originally a nearly 18 minute slow drift through the universe, is only about six minutes long here, and tucked into the middle of the aforementioned improv session.

Meanwhile, "Sequent 'C'", originally a two minute flute coda, is more than twice that length this time round, and opens the show, while "Movements Of A Visionary" and "Mysterious Semblance At The Strand Of Nightmares" are close to their studio running time but still updated with modern synths and more precise timing. After an hour of greatest hits, "Phaedra" is played again, as a seven minute encore with surprisingly aggressive programmed rhythms.

Tangerine Dream are unwilling to surrender to nostalgia; they're still looking forward and journeying outward.

There is what I suppose is a Tangerine Dream side project called Bioscope which is Thorsten Quaesching and Steve Rothery, from Marillion. It's really good, no surprise but it kinda sounds like Ricochet. I had my doubts about Rothery but it sounds like this is an album he's wanted to make his whole life. Adds a real Pink Floyd dimension to it. But it's got a lot of Krautrocky stuff too. Plus its just a real great sounding album, its got that expansive spacey sound to it that Steven Wilson goes for a lot. This track isn't really representative of the album, but man its like psychedelic Neu!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P9HMLKJ4OVM

sounds great
so rothery could also be a description then?