Tangerine Dream

Tangerine Dream (Official-Soundcloud-Account)

Tangerine Dream:

Thorsten Quaeschning (Synthesizer, Musical Director)
Ulrich Schnauss (Synthesizer)
Hoshiko Yamane (Violin)

Tangerine Dream are a German electronic music group founded in 1967 by Edgar Froese.

Tangerine Dream released more than one hundred albums. Their early "Pink Years" albums had a pivotal role in the development of Krautrock. Their "Virgin Years" albums helped define what became known as the Berlin School of electronic music. These and later albums were influential in the development of electronic dance music, and also the genre known as new-age music, though the band themselves disliked the term. From the late 1990s into the 2000s, Tangerine Dream also explored some styles of electronica.

Although the group released numerous studio and live recordings, a substantial number of their fans were introduced to Tangerine Dream by their film soundtracks, which total over sixty and include Sorcerer, Thief, Risky Business, The Keep, Firestarter, Legend, Near Dark, Shy People, and Miracle Mile. They most recently composed the original score for the video game Grand Theft Auto V.

The band's influence can be felt in ambient artists such as The Future Sound of London and Global Communication, as well as rock, pop, and dance artists such as Radiohead, Porcupine Tree, M83, DJ Shadow, Cut Copy, and Kasabian. The band also clearly influenced 1990s and 2000s Trance music, where lush soundscapes and synth pads are used along with repetitive synth sequences, much like in their 1975 releases Rubycon and Ricochet, as well as some of their music from the early 1980s. The group have also been sampled countless times, more recently by Recoil on the album SubHuman, by Sasha on Involver, and on several Houzan Suzuki albums.'

The New York Times proclaimed seven-time Grammy nominee Tangerine Dream 'the best synth band of the world.

Tangerine Dream’s tracks

• Excerpt - 10.32pm Session - Persepsjonstransformasjon by Tangerine Dream
• Excerpt - 11.27pm Session - Four Degrees Parallax by Tangerine Dream
• Excerpt - 9.10pm Session - OST by Tangerine Dream
• Excerpt - 10.05pm Session - HANSEATIC HARBOUR LIGHTS by Tangerine Dream
• Excerpt - 10.50pm Session - TULIP RUSH by Tangerine Dream
• Excerpt - 9.55pm Session - THE FLOATING DUTCHMAN by Tangerine Dream
• Excerpt - 10.00pm Session at A38 - Budapest (BLUE ARCTIC DANUBE) by Tangerine Dream
• Excerpt - 9.35pm Session at AC Hall - Hong Kong (GLADIATORIAL DRAGON) by Tangerine Dream
• "Particles" - "Muon" & "Tau" - Double EP/Cupdisc - Release date 2016-12-15 - "Teaser" by Tangerine Dream
• Quantum Gate - Preview September 2016 by Tangerine Dream