Tangerine Dream S/D

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

I always think abt that Gabriel Garcia Marquez quote where he says that nobody really dies until all the people who knew them die

and in the case of artists, obv, their work lives on thru eternity, a fitting memorial to this great musician

RIP

For anyone interested, a quick playlist of the original 'bootleg' version of the Legend soundtrack:

http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLSfxjgIYjeGaIhocOC6NK7CsuLwUeiMeD

And here is what's become my go-to version of The Keep soundtrack. Much better sound than other boots. Parts 2 and finale can be found under the same YT user's account:

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=7VPKs1Io7A0

Oops that's the mobile version. Again:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7VPKs1Io7A0

just heard about this. :(

jesus christ, Logos is just ridiculously good

Logos & White Eagle have been my go-tos for a while now.

white eagle was my entry point.

i had read re the band somewhere, so went into my local record shop where they had listening posts.

i took white eagle to the counter and asked if i could hear it.

the opening 20 seconds scared the shit out of me, so i bought it there and then.

to this day its still one of my favourite albums of theirs.

and yes the reissue of logos where they put side one and two together as a whole makes it just brilliant.
question : did the band only ever appear on stage if there was an announcement re the band : logos, poland etc .
thread idea : albums where the band is introduced
this doesn't seem to happen anymore (last one i know of is public enemy, nations .. )
i guess it was a thing that is no longer in favour.

on yr feet or on yr knees from long island it's the blue oyster cult

The bootleg serious is on Spotify. We have an old iPhone hooked up to a cube speaker in the kitchen and it's been pretty much all live Tangerine Dream for the last two days. Absolutely the best.

Does that have a bunch of crossover with the Tangerine Tree torrent collection? I'm listening to the Reims cathedral show (1974 iirc?) right now and it's just tremendous

(Reims from tangerine tree volume 30)

I never had that collection, Tangerine Dream is an act I've always enjoyed kinda passively -- I had some of the early LPs but haven't really dug in. I assume it'd cross over since this is called "The Bootleg Series" - Vol. 1 is Reims and Mannheim. It's just incredible stuff, you can open any one of 'em and find yourself completely immersed

These are guys who figured out how to be on a stage IMO

Cool yeah it looks like a official release of the t tree stuff awesome! I hope they release more after these two volumes. They gotta get to those 1981 shows with the ultrakiller themes from The Keep in there

I don't know if it's on Spotify but the Zeit-era live recording that's included in the last Zeit reissue CD is super great.

That Reims show is amazing, as are the live shows appended to Zeit and Atem.

Here's more on the release. Very very nice