Tangerine Dream - My Appraisal.

[DSJR]

Rubycon has been compared to a drift through an oceanic soundscape...

TeeDee's Edgar Froese was/is a master of sewing different sessions together to make a beautiful whole - that's how the first few Virgin-Records' albums they made were constructed. Today, it just seems to me to be preset 5 and 7 on a midi-laptop emulation of classic keyboards (this could be the live show though, with plasma screens showing a synth control board)..

Try son Jerome Froese instead. I prefer his current stuff to anything he did with his father...

LOADS of EM, past influenced and present out there. Groove (nl) Records often have samples to try in their extensive catalogue.

[Simon]

Presumably then I'm in rather a small club in rating Force Majeure as one of TM's most listenable - albeit as background music I confess - albums.

[DSJR]

It's one of the greatest according to me anyway.. I think it really started to go bland after Franke and then Haslinger left - just my opinion like.....

[The Barbarian]

I must have missed this Topic!

Believe it or not TD were one of the first bands i got into..I do have all the 'Pink Years' {'Electronic Meditation' - 'Atem'} & all the 'Virgin Years' {'Phaedra' - 'Hyperborea'} i am gradually replacing them all with original vinyl editions.. There has always been something about TD that has kinda been an obsession with me, probably my love for Analogue Synthesizers.. ofc i do have all the Klaus Shulze, Edgar Froese, Peter Baumann solo LP's on CD again soon to be swapped for Records.

This may sound odd but Edgar Froese is actually a guitar player & both Chris Franke {Agitation} & Klause Shulze {Ash Ra Tempel} were previously drummer in other bands..

However one thing i wish people would not do is mix Early Electronic bands that emerged from the Berlin School of electronic music with other electronic music in general! there's a big difference.

[Barry]

How about writing some of this up for us André? We could put it in The Knowledge.

[The Barbarian]

Writing what up Barry? Bands that emerged from the school?

[Barry]

Yes, bands such as Can, Amon Düül II, Popol Vuh, Faust, Ash Ra Tempel, Neu!, Guru Guru, Agitation Free, Continuum (?) etc., as well as Tangerine Dream (and Kraftwerk).

[The Barbarian]

There is quite a few works that lovers of TD type music would like for example the Swiss F.G Experimental Labs {Fredy Guye} 'Journey Into A Dream' LP which is ofc great & very rare on record being only around 100 copies.

[The Barbarian]

Yes, bands such as Can, Amon Düül II, Popol Vuh, Faust, Ash Ra Tempel, Neu!, Guru Guru, Agitation Free, Continuum (?) etc., as well as Tangerine Dream (and Kraftwerk).

This can get messy if we are not careful. Not dissimular to the 1960's USA each state had a different style of music, pretty much the same in Germany, different areas had different sound style with quite a few Sub geners of Kr*utrock.. However all these experimental band were very quick to evolve into a whole new sound. For example the first TD LP would sound nothing like 'Phaedra' within a short period of say four years, Gone are the Drones & effects for full on killar Analog Sequencing..

As you mention Kraftwerk. The pre-Kraftwerk: Organisation 'Tone Float' LP & the first titled Kraftwerk LP both had proper drummers. by the time of 'Kraftwerk 2' LP drummer was dropped for drum machine..from then on this band could be deemed an Electronic band..

Continium was not Kr*utrock they were a Dutch band with Eastern European member. Good band though all the same.'Autumn Grass' is great LP..

Early german Experimental bands that are worth a listerm DOM 'Edge of time', lovers of really early TD are bound to love this one.. Limbus are great bands too especially Limbus 4 'Mandalas' LP.. Not forgetting Probably the first experimental German band Zweistein 'Trip+Flip+Out+ Meditation' is really far out triple album..

btw: Bands from both Austria & Switzerland are also branded as Kr*utrock

If your after far out bands such as The Cosmic Jokers, Dreamlab etc you should be looking under Kosmiche Musik sector..

[sparrow]

My fave ensemble..still going today...there are loads of bands/artists doing similar to what TD were doing in dem dark but good 70's..I like a lot of them. TD are nowhere near as popular these days and are currently doing their farewell tour of de world. Klaus Schulze is another fave but a very different kettle o fish. His more recent output although fairly good IMO..is pedestrian compared again to dem dark but good 70's. Electronic music in general is a fairly niche market these days with very few newer acts making a living from it.

long live TD..