Tangerine Dream
Posted by: jcs_smith on 07 June 2006
I've always been a big fan of earlier Tangerine Dream but for some reason I lost track of them around the time of Pergammon and Tyger. Pretty much when Paul Haslinger joined. I think I was put off by the fact that they had started to spernd most of their time doing dodgy soundtracks. Anyway have they done anything decent since? My favourite Tange albums are Atem, Zeit, Force Majeure, Tribute to Rainer Werner Fassbinder and Pergamon if that helps. I also like the Edgar Froese albums, Michael Hoenig's Departure From Northern Wasteland and Johannes Scmoeling's Wuivend Riet.
Posted on: 07 June 2006 by Guido Fawkes
You kept going longer than me. I only went as far as Hyperborea. Atem remains my favourite T-Dream album though there is plenty of fine music on their others.
Posted on: 08 June 2006 by Brucie
jcs,
I thought Tyger really sucked but the album that I think proceeded it, Underwater sunlight is excellent. If you stoped at Tyger then you have all the albums mentioned by Munch so I don't know why he said you missed it all?
I think the modern stuff is very bland. I've heard Optical Race and one or two other but I would not buy them. I have 15 or so Dream albums so I'm pretty much dreamt out.
b
Posted on: 08 June 2006 by jcs_smith
I'll have to listen to Underwater Sunlight again. I haven't heard it for years and I don't remember liking it very much but I may not have given it justice. I actually liked Tyger a lot at the time - I was probably unique in that respoect. It may be because I liked William Blake.
You're right about Much, I have all the albums he mentioned
Posted on: 08 June 2006 by Brucie
jcs,
The reason I didn't like Tyger was the vocals but if I recall it had similar sounds to Underwater S.
b
Posted on: 08 June 2006 by jcs_smith
I know what you mean. The vocals weren't wonderful - I think she was an actress rather than a singer. But I like the texts theyt were taken from. If they had been different words I would probably thought it was rubbish
Posted on: 08 June 2006 by cider glider
IMHO TD lost it when Peter Baumann left, Cyclone is too rocky, and after that thing blanded out.
I remember when the Tangs toured the UK to promote Cyclone, Edgar Froese claimed that they had stuff on tape which they couldn't release yet, because it was just too advanced for us. I wonder if that stuff ever did see the light of day?
Mark S
Posted on: 08 June 2006 by jcs_smith
Probably not. I think the best thing they ever did was their first single Ultima Thule Parts 1 and 2, with Edgar Froese, Conny Schnitzler and Claus Shulze. Good luck finding a copy though
Posted on: 08 June 2006 by Guido Fawkes
To be released 19 June 2006.
Disc 3 contains Ultima Thule I and II
£11 or so for 3 discs of vintage T.Dream - it's an electronic meditation
Posted on: 08 June 2006 by Brucie
The v.early stuff is OK but a bit dreary sometimes. I still think their best stuff is from Phaedra onwards up until about Le Parc.
Posted on: 09 June 2006 by jcs_smith
quote:
Originally posted by ROTF:
To be released 19 June 2006.
Disc 3 contains Ultima Thule I and II
£11 or so for 3 discs of vintage T.Dream - it's an electronic meditation
Wow. Gotta get it. I only know Ultima Thule from an x-generation copy on cassette. I heard that the single is going for 200-300 now
Posted on: 10 June 2006 by Steve2701
Hmmm, right up to when I was eighteen these were my band of choice. Their sequences were utterly sublime, many of them still stand the test of time. Once the tracks started to shrink to 3 / 4 minutes they went off the boil for me. I have said this before many times here, if you are a dream fan then you MUST get a listen to 'Redshift'. They out dream the tangs (imo) on many occasions. Even borrowing some sequences that you will recognise, and then build them into stunning lines. Siren, Faultline & Oblivion are truly awsome, and Halo is simply the darkest piece of music I own. As a complete piece of Tangerine Dream - Rubycon, followed by Phaedra are when they were at their best for me.
