This is a more aggressive edition of the band Something of an anomaly in that it features a drummer, Klaus Krüger, and gives the Dream a more fluid and aggressive sound, especially in the screaming side long title track. This is definitely no a “ghost” band, and this album sends me into orbit as much as any record on this list. This band, with Synth players Thorsten Quaeschning, Ulrich Schnauss and violinist Hoshiko Yamane was in the last band with Edgar, and they have carried on Froese’s works but definitely added some new twists that I find refreshing.
TANGERINE DREAM BEST ALBUM FULL
Quantum Gate is the first, full album from the post Edgar Froese edition of Tangerine Dream. Another two-sided excursion that moves from the quietest solo piano spot to thundering sequencers from the heavens. Ricochet was their first live album, although it was all new materiel and sounds like a studio recording. Part of the classic quartet of albums, this was their most commercial release to date and the first album with real melodies. Originally a two sided work, Tangram is a multi-movement opus sometimes sabotaged by episodic writing, but still with some haunting themes amidst the pounding sequencers and more melodic invention than most prior Dream albums. This is one of the last long-form Dream recordings.
TANGERINE DREAM BEST ALBUM FREE
This 1972 recording is a drone zone manifesto, and a beautifully enveloping work free of melody, rhythm and just about any other conventional music signpost. Ambient before ambient, but owing much to Gyorgy Ligeti pieces like “Atmospheres,” synths, gliss guitar, organ and “noise generators” unfold in undulating, slow motion patterns across what was a double LP. Playing with a cello quartet, it’s a journey of interwoven tones phasing through each other from acoustic to electric to something entirely new. It’s been called their most experimental CD, but I think it’s their most thoughtful, controlled and uncontrived album. Subsequent live albums would be more pre-programmed performances. This was really the truly last live recording from the group. Johannes Schmoelling had been in the group for a while at this point and his influence is felt in gorgeous melodies and rhythms that have you ricocheting off your seat and between your headphone cups. This was the Dream working with a precision and structure that earlier works didn’t have, but they were still creating in long-form with a fair amount of improvisation. Listening to Logos, from 1982, you can hear why. Tangerine Dream was an exciting live band in the 70s and half of the 80s. Phaedra is transitional, retaining some of the avant-garde Ligeti-esque texturalism from Zeit on the mellotron drenched “Mysterious Semblance at the Strands of Nightmare,” but the title track and Rubycon, an album length composition were definitive journeys into inner space. The Dream bound them in interlocking patterns, mellotron chords and synthesizer textures. The classic trio of Edgar Froese, Christoph Franke and Peter Baumann found the secret of rubber band sequencer patterns discovered by Tonto’s Expanding Headband 2 years earlier. These are the signature Dream albums, the blueprint for every retro-space artist out there, the sound that influenced ambient, techno, and more. Phaedra and Rubycon have always been a pair for me and that pair is half of a quartet with Ricochet and Stratosfear. On the air I said I’d pick five, but I decided to go with ten. This last spot could also be given to Rubycon, Pergamon, Turn of the Tides or Canyon Dreams.10 Best Tangerine Dream Albums From Number Six of 20 Icons of Echoes Tangerine Dream often miss the mark when making concept albums, yet The Seven Letters From Tibet stands as their best concept album, with some incredibly emotional melodies matching the awe-inspiring themes.Įach song on Force Majeure could stand easily on its own, yet all three songs come together in unison to make what can only be considered beauty. The only other TD album from the 80s to come close to it was Canyon Dreams. Tangram marked a turning point for TD, that resulted in a hit-and-miss 80s decade. Each peace features a wide range of moods and sounds, from frantic complex patterns to peaceful arias. Stratosfear is easily the best guitar-focused Tangerine Dream album ever. Not quite as jaw-dropping as Phaedra, but has its own vivid detail that puts Stratosfear in the same class as Phaedra.
The intricate detail in creating immersive musical worlds is mindblowing, making this one of the best electronic albums of all time. Quite easily the quintessential TD album, created at the peak of a unfledging bands career.
They represent TD at their best, and all of them make for great starting points when discovering TD. These are the top 5 Tangerine Dream albums of all time in my opinion.
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