Tangerine Dream S/D

i find it interesting how edgar has never done the 'lets revive the old school' thing.
i mean even jarre did when he redid oxygene live in the studio, he dig out all the original analogue kit, and with a couple of mates, recreated the album live, brilliantly.
but t'dream seem to have burnt their bridge to their past.
or, have they (i say they, but its basically edgar + extras now innit) ?

Edgar and son and co.

oh.
did not know that.
that makes it even weirder then as you would think a younger influence would be all :
'dad, its all about the old analogue groove now, not this preset digital shit ..'

Iirc his son has been in the band almost since they first went in their current ambient-dance direction? So he's probably not the one who's gonna bring that truth bomb

fair enough.
someone needs to have a word with them as the current love for analogue noises and drawn out grooves could easily be a thing for them.
i mean, if only there was a rick rubin of the electronica world.
cos, i genuinely believe that edgar and a revised crew could kill it if they revisited their glory days.

i once posted 'no mans land' on my site with no detail as to who it was.
my inbox was flooded with requests for info.
made in 1983, that track is pure proto-rave.

Their live rerecording of Sorcerer from this year was surprisingly not that bad

Hyperborea is such a great record xp

Well they did new versions of a few of their classic albums so they aren't against revisiting the past.

yeah, but revisions of their classics !!?
behave.
(i only mentioned jarre as an example of someone who is clearly aware that his excesses are no longer in demand .. )
wire up the modulars and tour without the singers.
that said, i would not turn down seeing them live with/without the excess.
however, the band only do one night in london now, and then head home.

and yes, hyperborea is insanely good .. i mean really really good.

i still say that electronica needs a rick rubin.
someone to come along and kick bands of the era up the arse and make them realise the errors of their recent ways.

all that aside .. should i track down the revisions then ?

I'll vouch for sorcerer. Not sure about the other remakes.

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