Sorcerer
Released: 1977
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Released: 1977
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The German group's lucrative film scoring career began here, one year before Peter Baumann left for a solo career. The trio's eerie electronica was an early inspiration for Sorcerer, director...
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Encore
Released: 1977
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Released: 1977
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Encore -- Tangerine Dream Live, 1977 is one of the better concert albums from Tangerine Dream. As with most of their live releases, this disc features all new material. Each of the long-form (over...
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Cyclone
Released: 1978
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Released: 1978
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A welcome reissue and one that marks an interesting transition in Tangerine Dream's existence -- this was the first TD album to incorporate lyrics and vocals (from Steve Jolliffe, who also...
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Force Majeure
Released: 1979
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Released: 1979
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Although Tangerine Dream is usually associated with synthesizers and the ambient movement that followed over a decade after such albums as Phaedra, Stratosfear, and Rubycon were recorded, Force...
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Tangram
Released: 1980
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Released: 1980
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Tangram is the beginning of a new musical direction: closer to straightahead, melodic new age music and more tied to their soundtrack material. The first of the two side-long pieces progresses...
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Pergamon
Released: 1986
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Released: 1986
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Pergamon is a live album that was recorded in East Berlin on January 31st, 1980. It was the first concert in East Germany given by Western musicians, which makes it a historical curio, at the very...
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Thief
Released: 1981
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Released: 1981
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Tangerine Dream scored director Michael Mann's film debut, Thief (released as Violent Streets outside of the US market), adding their patented pulses, blips and whooshes to the film's highly...
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Exit
Released: 1981
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Released: 1981
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Exit marks the beginning of a new phase in Tangerine Dream's music: Gone were the side-long, sequencer-led journeys, replaced by topical pieces that were more self-contained in scope, more...
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White Eagle
Released: 1982
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Released: 1982
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Tangerine Dream experiments with an ever-widening lexicon of sound on White Eagle, though the arrangements tend to suffer for it. The album's principle work is "Mojave Plan," a four-movement,...
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Hyperborea
Released: 1983
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Released: 1983
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Tangerine Dream set the stage for the style of "artsy" soundtrack music that dominated the '80s. Although Hyperborea is not a soundtrack, it was clearly influential on some of the work the group...
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