Tangerine Dream S/D

ok, the remastered edition of 'exit' arrived yesterday.
this means i now have the complete set of virgin era releases, apart from 'theif'.
as that's a soundtrack release, i never felt the urge to go that deep, am i missing out ?
i used to have 'exit' on cassette, so not heard this in years.
wasn't even aware that there are 2 variations of the cover art until i ripped it into the archive, and it displayed a different cover to the one i have seen for the last 30 odd years.
they did it with tangram as well, 2 different covers.

"Thief" is great in places, there's bootlegs of it with a LOT more tracks too.

Perseverance put out a reissue of thief not long ago in pretty good sound. I think it's essential td.

"Kiew Mission" and the title track of Exit are two of my very favorite TD tracks. The PPG Wave was a good sound for these guys.

i'm still enjoying the GTA V sdtk! the first song is still totally my jam
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cETBCvKnu0Q

Did u get gta v as a cd or a download? I keep forgetting it's out there

did the GTA soundtrack get a proper release ?

I think I dl'ed it from emusic? It's really videogamey probably but I don't play video games so it just sounds like dramatic music to me!

ahh .. well that tells me all i need to know.

ta.

i.e. i am more than happy re my virgin era completion.

('thief' seems to be one release that is seriously complicated !)

All the GTA stuff was released digitally before the retail release. On Spotify. This is kinda a weird direction for TD. More interesting than pretty much anything they've done in a generation. But odd nonetheless.

Whoa, news out of nowhere -- Edgar Froese has passed on:

http://www.tangerinedream-music.com/index.php?/news_more.php

Dear Friends,
This is a message to you we are deeply sorry for…
On January 20th, Tuesday afternoon, Edgar Froese suddenly and unexpectedly passed away from the effects of a pulmonary embolism in Vienna.
The sadness in our hearts is immensely.
Edgar once said: “There is no death, there is just a change of our cosmic address."
Edgar, this is a little comfort to us.
Yours,
EB (ADMIN) & the whole EASTGATE MUSIC TEAM

what the

RIP

this sucks, I want to go home and listen to the Virgin Years instead of being at work.

:(

RIP cosmic weirdo

Oh no!!!!!!!!! RIP Edgar :((((

oh no

:(

Holy shit

I was just listening to stuntman yesterday and thinking how amazing it was

wow, what an incredible shock. dude had been pumping out albums so frequently for so long a part of me kinda assumed he was gonna live another 30 years.

Doing a lot of travelling by train this weekend, time to load up on the TD/Edgar albums.

RIP

One feels that if there really is such a thing as resting in peace, froese will be doing so.

:(((

i rarely connect with rock star deaths, but this is sooo very different for me.
tangerine dream were my first band that i discovered beyond my parents/radio 1/radio 2.
they became very special to me.
hence when i got to see them in the mid 80s and they still looked like 3 mad professors in front of their banks of modular synths making sounds that made my inner gut wobble i knew this was a band i would love forever.

Fuck fuck fuck... RIP

RIP

RIP...

Oh man, I've been on massive TD loop lately. RIP Mr. Froese, hope you're traveling with the radiowaves in the void now.

damn... RIP!

time for me to put on Epsilon in Malaysian Pale

been spending a lot time recently with early TD albums and bootlegs, RIP

Np the keep, so beautiful

yeah been playing TD a lot over the winter and again tonight.

during the summer and early autumn while my mother in law (in boston) was dying, I was taking millions of train trips between NYC and there and listening to tons of TD on those rides. And concurrently going on a huge jag of reading every TD article and interview I could find online. Definitely more TD in my life this year than ever before.

^^^^^^^^^^^^ TD is perfection for such a groove.

now this is some shitty news. RIP

Rest in someplace like a Tangerine Dream inspired heaven.

bumping Choronzon right now

He gave us so much great music... respect.

I spend a lot of morning and evening commutes on the train listening to either 70s TD or 70s Klaus Schulze.

RIP Mr. Froese, finding that used 5 LP Tangerine Dream "In the Beginning" box set in high school radically diverted my musical path into fantastic cosmic places.

RIP - of the solo albs, Aqua esp a long time favourite

RIP

Ulrich Schnauss on Facebook:

it's very hard to find words in such an unbearably painful and sad time.
edgar froese (tangerine dream) has died on tuesday.
i will remember edgar as a person
who's been caring and empathetic in dark times,
who was never afraid to give either encouraging or critical feedback wherever necessary,
who's been incredibly inspirational on a philosophical level (far beyond just plain musical concerns) and had a profound impact on my thinking.
i guess i've often struggled to recognize authority figures - however, it's never been like that with edgar: even when we disagreed, i always respected his input and more than once had to acknowledge that he was right in hindsight.
essentially, in many ways edgar had the qualities of the kind of father most of us would like to, but few are actually lucky enough to have.
i'm eternally grateful for the advice and wisdom edgar has shared - and i will treasure it for the rest of my life.
finally, the world of electronic music has lost one of its most unique talents - and an artist who constantly managed to challenge and re-invent himself. rather than one of the classics from the 70s or 80s i'm therefore posting a video for a recent work by edgar below - one of my favourite pieces of the last ten years.
the dream will never be the same.

The song in question he linked:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=78uu2_h4Z-Y

It's odd, I've never really listened to their albums, though I know I would like them, but their '80s films scores are always floating around in my brain somewhere: Thief, Near Dark, Risky Business, Sorcerer ...

Half explains why I always think of them as a piece with Popol Vuh.

oh damn this doesn't seem right at all. epsilon otm, now and forever.

Listening to Ricochet, feelin it. Dying is sad, but he was obvs able to take ppl to alternate planes while he was alive.

and still