Tangerine Dream

"'Tangerine Dream … are a band I think deserve at least more credit than they generally get. I mean, it's always Can that everybody cites as an influence, and yet when you listen to the records, you think, 'I suspect you've heard one or two Tangerine Dream records as well down the line'.' (Peel discusses four influential artists he will be writing about for an unnamed Sunday newspaper, 23 May 1997 (BFBS))"

thumb|320px|right|Atem, from Peel's 1973 album of the year

Tangerine Dream is a German electronic music group founded in 1967 by Edgar Froese. The band has undergone many personnel changes over the years, with Froese being the only continuous member. Drummer and composer Klaus Schulze was briefly a member of an early lineup, but the most stable version of the group, during their influential mid-1970s period, was as a keyboard trio with Froese, Christopher Franke, and Peter Baumann. Early in the 1980s, Johannes Schmoelling replaced Baumann, and this lineup, too, was stable and extremely productive. Tangerine Dream's early "Pink Years" albums had a pivotal role in the development of Krautrock. Their "Virgin Years" and later albums became a defining influence in the genre known as New Age music, although the band themselves disliked the term ... (read more at Wikipedia)

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Festive Fifty Entries

 * None

Sessions

 * Two sessions

Recording date: unknown (private tape, appears to be advance copy of Phaedra LP, which was released 1974-02-20). First broadcast: 21 February 1974. Repeat: 11 April 1974
 * Mysterious Semblance At The Strand Of Nightmares / Movements Of A Visionary / Sequent C / Phaedra

Recording Date: unknown (private tape). First broadcast: 11 July 1974. Repeated: 29 August 1974
 * Overture / Zeus / Baroque

Other Shows Played

 * 1973


 * 03 April 1973: Fly and Collision of Comas Sola (LP – Alpha Centauri) Polydor
 * 10 April 1973: Sunrise In The Third System (LP – Alpha Centauri) Polydor
 * 17 April 1973: Fly And Collision Of Comas Sola (LP – Alpha Centauri) Polydor
 * 24 May 1973: Wahn (LP – Atem) Ohr
 * 29 May 1973: Circulation Of Events (LP – Atem) Ohr
 * 05 June 1973: Fauni-Gena (LP - Atem) Polydor
 * 24 July 1973: Sunrise In The Third System (LP - Alpha Centauri) Polydor


 * 1975
 * 21 November 1975: Ricochet (side 1)
 * 25 November 1975: Ricochet (side 2)


 * 1980s and after


 * Peel Feb Mar 1988: Phaedra (24 February 1988)


 * 15 December 1995: Circulation Of Events (LP – Atem) Ohr


 * 23 February 2000: Recalls watching an early 1970s Tangerine Dream concert in York Minster, sitting between Sheila and Richard Branson.
 * 03 September 2003: Asche Zu Asche (LP - Electronic Meditation) Froese (“a bit of a kind of krautrock classic really”)