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Anthology - The Tangerine Dream Collection Part 1 of 8 (1969 to 1980)

Posted By: pjotr_panski
Anthology - The Tangerine Dream Collection Part 1 of 8 (1969 to 1980)

Anthology - The Tangerine Dream Collection Part 1 of 8 (1969 to 1980)
Electronica / Krautrock | MP3@192kbps-256kbps | Artwork included
119 albums and growing | studio/soundtrack/concert | 1.1 GB

Without doubt, the recordings of Tangerine Dream have made the greatest impact on the widest variety of instrumental music during the 1980s and '90s, ranging from the most atmospheric new age and space music to the harshest abrasions of electronic dance. Founded in 1967 by Edgar Froese in Berlin, the group has progressed through a full three dozen lineups (Froese being the only continuous member with staying power) and four distinct stages of development: the experimentalist minimalism of the late '60s and early '70s; stark sequencer trance during the mid- to late '70s, the group's most influential period; an organic form of instrumental music on their frequent film and studio work during the 1980s; and, finally, a more propulsive dance style, which showed Tangerine Dream with a sound quite similar to their electronic inheritors in the field of dance music.

This anthology is the most complete (and of course, the largest) collection of TD albums that is roaming the net these days. Together with the "Tangerine Tree"-collection, it contains more then 200 albums from five decades! Nevertheless, there are better-quality versions of some of these albums floating around, especially here on AvaxHome, the place for high quality music. Those of you, who can tell the difference between 192kbps and 256 kbps or between 320kbps and FLAC, you may like to regard this collection as a basis and upgrade your archive from time to time with better bitrate versions if and when they're available. Anyway, I hope you enjoy the work and art of Tangerine Dream as much, as I do.


For Anthology Part 2 (1980 to 1984) see here.
For Anthology Part 3 (1984 to 1989) see here.
For Anthology Part 4 (1989 to 1992) see here.
For Anthology Part 5 (1992 to 1997) see here.
For Anthology Part 6 (1997 to 2003) see here.
For Anthology Part 7 (2003 to 2007) see here.
For Anthology Part 8 (2007 to 2008) see here.


List of Recordings:


Tangerine Dream - Electronic Meditation (1969)
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Anthology - The Tangerine Dream Collection Part 1 of 8 (1969 to 1980)


Tracks:
01. Genesis 5:58
02. Journey Through A Burning Brain 12:33
03. Cold Smoke 10:50
04. Ashes To Ashes 3:59
05. Resurrection 3:22
Total running time: 37:42

Details
Recording date October 1969
Recording site(s) Mixed Media (Berlin)
Recording engineer(s) Klaus Freudigmann
Composer(s) Edgar Froese, Klaus Schulze, Conrad Schnitzler
Musician(s) Edgar Froese, Klaus Schulze, Conrad Schnitzler, Jimmy Jackson, Thomas Keyserling
Producer(s) Edgar Froese

Notes
In autumn/winter of 1969 Edgar Froese, founder of Tangerine Dream, met Klaus Schulze and Conrad Schnitzler. This trio formed the line-up of Tangerine Dream to record the debut album Electronic Meditation. The band was supported by two other musicians: Jimmy Jackson (organ) and Thomas Keyserling (flute), but both were mysteriously left out of the credits of the original album.

Klaus Schulze later remembers: "We recorded and toured Electronic Meditation. That for me is the primary electronic album. Edgar played guitar, Schnitzler organ and me drums through loads of effects. We were experimenting with a lot of random stuff and were making up our own sounds. I remember Conrad had this metal cup full of these bits of glass in which he stuck a microphone attached to each machine. I played a lot of different percussive sounds that were then altered by machines. It was just great to be in a band who were open to so much experimentation."

Quality
MP3@256 kbps CBR, 67.1 MB


Tangerine Dream - Alpha Centauri (1971)
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Anthology - The Tangerine Dream Collection Part 1 of 8 (1969 to 1980)


Tracks:
01. Sunrise In The Third System 4:29
02. Fly And Collision Of Comas Sola 13:32
03. Alpha Centauri 22:14
Total running time: 40:15

Details
Recording date January 1971
Recording site(s) Dierks Studio (Cologne)
Recording engineer(s) Dieter Dierks
Composer(s) Edgar Froese, Chris Franke, Steve Schroyder
Musician(s) Edgar Froese, Chris Franke, Steve Schroyder, Udo Dennebourg, Roland Paulyck
Producer(s) Edgar Froese, Chris Franke, Steve Schroyder

Notes
In October 1970 Edgar Froese had been asked by a friend to co-produce the German version of the Simon and Garfunkel song "The Boxer" for a German artist. He still did some of these "bread and butter" jobs at that period of time and was looking for a good drummer after Klaus Schulze had left the group. During that recording session, Edgar Froese met Chris Franke, a drummer who had just turned 17 and whose drumming was unusually varied. Edgar hired him for various studio jobs before he asked him if he wanted to play with TD.

The line-up Edgar Froese/Chris Franke/Conrad Schnitzler gave many concerts and TV appearances, since their music was considered very exotic at that time. TD gave a TV concert for twelve pinball machines, guitar, cello and drums - it was a live TV broadcast and caused a wave of public protest. In spite of this, TD was well booked at home and abroad, though there are no album releases with this line-up. After Conrad Schnitzler had left the group he was replaced by Steve Schroyder. For their second album, Alpha Centauri, TD experimented for over three weeks making their original organ sound, that was pure luxury in those days. The spacey image of the music began during these years.

Quality
MP3@256 kbps CBR, 73.6 MB


Tangerine Dream - Zeit (1972)
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Anthology - The Tangerine Dream Collection Part 1 of 8 (1969 to 1980)


Tracks:
01. Birth Of Liquid Plejades 19:55
02. Nebulous Dawn 17:58
03. Origin Of Supernatural Probabilities 19:36
04. Zeit 17:00
Total running time: 74:29

Details
Recording date 1972
Recording site(s) Dierks Studio (Cologne)
Recording engineer(s) Dieter Dierks
Composer(s) Edgar Froese, Chris Franke, Peter Baumann
Musician(s) Edgar Froese, Chris Franke, Peter Baumann, Florian Fricke (†), Steve Schroyder, Christian Vallbracht, Jochen von Grumbcow, Hans Joachim Brüne, Johannes Lücke
Producer(s) Edgar Froese, Chris Franke, Peter Baumann

Notes
In 1972 the line-up Edgar Froese/Chris Franke/Peter Baumann got down to work on a huge double album called Zeit with Franke and Baumann on VSC3 synthesizers, Froese on Mellotron, organ and guitar, Florian Fricke (†) of Popol Vuh on the big Moog, and four cello players. It was called a "Largo in Four Movements" and was completely experimental.

In October of the same year Tangerine Dream played their shortest gig ever: They had just given up 'normal' instruments (like guitar, drums, bass etc.) and replaced them with self-built electronic equipment. In the Bavarian city of Bayreuth they were booked as a support act for some Blues band to headline the evening. Shortly after they opened the show, juice cans, apples and other waste started flying across the stage. Finally, after 15 minutes the noise from the audience had become much louder than any music played on the stage. TD had to walk off, they did not get payed and thereby learned an early lesson about what was to be an ongoing unattractive relationship between their music and their homecountry.

Quality
MP3@256 kbps CBR, 136.3 MB


Tangerine Dream - Atem (1973)
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Anthology - The Tangerine Dream Collection Part 1 of 8 (1969 to 1980)


Tracks:
01. Atem 20:29
02. Fauni Gena 10:49
03. Circulation Of Events 5:53
04. Wahn 4:30
Total running time: 42:41

Details
Recording date December 1972 - January 1973
Recording site(s) Dierks Studio (Cologne)
Recording engineer(s) Dieter Dierks
Composer(s) Edgar Froese, Chris Franke, Peter Baumann
Musician(s) Edgar Froese, Chris Franke, Peter Baumann
Producer(s) Edgar Froese, Chris Franke, Peter Baumann

Notes
Tangerine Dream's final album for Ohr Records, Atem, released in early 1973, was much more accessible than Zeit. The British DJ John Peel was a big fan of Atem and wrote and phoned Edgar Froese to tell him how much he loved their music. Atem became his album of the year 1973, and this might be the reason TD got a contract with the London-based Virgin Records.

Quality
MP3@256 kbps CBR, 76.3 MB


Tangerine Dream - Green Desert (1973)
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Anthology - The Tangerine Dream Collection Part 1 of 8 (1969 to 1980)


Tracks:
01. Green Desert 19:33
02. White Clouds 5:10
03. Astral Voyager 7:12
04. Indian Summer 6:53
Total running time: 39:48

Details
Recording date August 1973
Recording site(s) Skyline Studio (Berlin)
Recording engineer(s) Pete Beaulieu
Composer(s) Edgar Froese, Chris Franke
Musician(s) Edgar Froese, Chris Franke
Producer(s) Edgar Froese

Notes
Back in summer 1973 Peter Baumann had left Berlin to travel in Nepal and India, so TD were reduced to the duo Edgar Froese and Chris Franke. Virgin Records in London were impressed by the burgeoning following of the group and wanted to sign them up. In Peter Baumann's absence, Edgar Froese and Chris Franke entered the Skyline Studios in Berlin to record Green Desert, using such devices as a rhythm controller and phaser along with the usual synthesisers and keyboards. As Chris Franke remembers: "The rhythm controller came from Italy and looked like something from science fiction with its console of 128 buttons which all lit up. It could be programmed, it was analogue and it was polyphonic! The lights blinked, I had hands on control and later I used it as a sequencer to trigger other synthesizers."

After Peter Baumann had returned, Green Desert was not completed; instead TD began to work on Phaedra that would become their next release. Eventually in 1984, the music material that was to become Green Desert was "found" by Edgar Froese in the archives and reworked to form a complete album. It was remixed using some sounds from the mid-80's, thus the music is more rhythmic and melodic than TD's works from the early 70's. In 1986 the album was released for the first time in album format and as part of the set In The Beginning. The album releases had a totally different cover artwork in the USA and the UK.

Quality
MP3@256 kbps CBR, 71.0 MB


Tangerine Dream - Phaedra (1974)
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Anthology - The Tangerine Dream Collection Part 1 of 8 (1969 to 1980)


Tracks:
01. Phaedra 17:46
02. Mysterious Semblance At The Strand Of Nightmares 9:55
03. Movements Of A Visionary 8:02
04. Sequent C' 2:18
Total running time: 38:01

Details
Recording date December 1973
Recording site(s) The Manor (Shipton-on-Cherwell)
Recording engineer(s) Phil Becque
Composer(s) Edgar Froese, Chris Franke, Peter Baumann
Musician(s) Edgar Froese, Chris Franke, Peter Baumann
Producer(s) Edgar Froese

Notes
The first album released worldwide by Virgin Records, Phaedra, was recorded in less than three weeks. The title originates from the Greek myth of Phaedra, the daughter of Minos and Ariadne's sister. She committed suicide after her stepson refused her advances. The album is divided into four compositions: two credited to the group, one each to Edgar Froese and Peter Baumann. Along with conventional instruments like guitar, bass, organ and flute, each member used a VCS 3 synthesiser. Edgar Froese played his Mellotron, Chris Franke the big Moog and Peter Baumann electric piano. Phaedra was released on February 20th, 1974 and went straight into the album charts, reaching number 15 of the British Top 20 and staying on the chart for 15 weeks.

Quality
MP3@230.04 kbps VBR, 62.5 MB


Tangerine Dream - Ricochet (1975)
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Anthology - The Tangerine Dream Collection Part 1 of 8 (1969 to 1980)


Tracks:
01. Part 1 17:03
02. Part 2 21:11
Total running time: 38:14

Details
Recording date 1975
Recording engineer(s) Chris Blake
Composer(s) Edgar Froese, Chris Franke, Peter Baumann
Musician(s) Edgar Froese, Chris Franke, Peter Baumann
Producer(s) Edgar Froese, Chris Franke, Peter Baumann

Notes
Tangerine Dream's second album of 1975, Ricochet, was mixed from tapes of their French and British tours. Like Rubycon before, it featured two long compositions, each of them filling one side of the vinyl album. According to Chris Franke, the concerts were much too long to use in one context. So Tangerine Dream had to edit about 40 to 50 hours of music, kilometres of tape, to find the most important parts that eventually were released on their first live album. The photography on the front cover was taken by Monika Froese on the ocean shore near Bordeaux.

Quality
MP3@192 kbps CBR, 52.5 MB


Tangerine Dream - Rubycon (1975)
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Anthology - The Tangerine Dream Collection Part 1 of 8 (1969 to 1980)


Tracks:
01. Part One 17:21
02. Part Two 17:34
Total running time: 35:55

Details
Recording date January 1975
Recording site(s) The Manor (Shipton-on-Cherwell)
Recording engineer(s) Mike Glossop
Composer(s) Edgar Froese, Chris Franke, Peter Baumann
Musician(s) Edgar Froese, Chris Franke, Peter Baumann
Producer(s) Edgar Froese, Chris Franke, Peter Baumann

Notes
The title Rubycon relates to a story about Julius Caesar crossing the river Rubycon in 49 BC. He did it for "all or nothing", running into an unstoppable war. Hence the phrase "crossing the Rubycon" points out that a unreversable decision is made - a point of no return.

TD entered the Manor Studio again in 1975 to record an album on which they developed a new kind of electronic rhythm. Rubycon featured much the same instrumentation as Phaedra. It also showed a certain distance to mainstream rock, in that it was a suite in two parts, taking up two entire sides of the album – as did Mike Oldfield's mid-'70s albums Tubular Bells, Hergest Ridge and Ommadawn which were released by Virgin as well.

On the cover, Tangerine Dream fans can find a small photo of Froese's son Jerome hidden inside the gatefold, a touch that can be traced right back to Alpha Centauri. At that time no one could expect that Jerome Froese would become a regular member of Tangerine Dream fifteen year later. When Rubycon was released, it went straight to number 12 in the British charts, staying there for 14 weeks.

Quality
MP3@192 kbps CBR, 48.0 MB


Tangerine Dream - Stratosfear (1976)
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Anthology - The Tangerine Dream Collection Part 1 of 8 (1969 to 1980)


Tracks:
01. Stratosfear 10:38
02. The Big Sleep In Search Of Hades 4:29
03. 3 AM At The Border Of The Marsh From Okefenokee 8:50
04. Invisible Limits 11:26
Total running time: 35:23

Details
Recording date August 1976
Recording site(s) Audio Studios (Berlin)
Recording engineer(s) Ottmar Bergler
Composer(s) Edgar Froese, Chris Franke, Peter Baumann
Musician(s) Edgar Froese, Chris Franke, Peter Baumann
Producer(s) Edgar Froese, Chris Franke, Peter Baumann

Notes
In summer 1976 Peter Baumann recorded his first solo album Romance '76, being quite different from TD's music of that period. That year Virgin had re-released the early TD records Electronic Meditation (1970), Alpha Centauri (1971), Zeit (1972) and Atem (1973), but the most important news was the August recording of Stratosfear (note the play on words!) at Audio Studios in Berlin. Besides the well-known instrumentation of mellotron and moog synthesisers, Tangerine Dream surprised their listeners with their use of acoustic instruments like harpsichord, acoustic guitars, grand piano and mouth organ. On the other hand, Peter Baumann used a new Project electronic rhythm computer which gave the percussive sequences a very dry, precise finish.

According to Edgar Froese, Stratosfear was the most complicated and nerve-wracking of any TD production, as there were lots of problems with Peter Baumann's new sequencer. Additionally, both of the multi-track machines in the studio broke down, and after their repair the Dolby units in the recording room were defunct, master tapes at times disappeared from the studio, finished tracks were mysteriously erased and the mixing console finally went up in smoke. Also there were a number of musical problems amongst the group about which tracks were to be chosen. When Edgar Froese appeared in the studio one day with a harmonica the absurdity of the situation was revealed. It was supposed to be a joke, a retort to the unpredictability of the technology, but after playing it during the beginning of 3 a.m. At The Border Of The Marsh From Okefenokee the group decided to leave it on.

Quality
MP3@256 kbps CBR, 64.8 MB


Tangerine Dream - Encore (1977)
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Anthology - The Tangerine Dream Collection Part 1 of 8 (1969 to 1980)


Tracks:
01. Cherokee Lane 16:25
02. Monolight 19:38
03. Coldwater Canyon 17:41
04. Desert Dream 17:38
Total running time: 71:22

Details
Recording date March - April 1977
Recording engineer(s) Edgar Froese, Chris Franke, Peter Baumann
Composer(s) Edgar Froese, Chris Franke, Peter Baumann
Musician(s) Edgar Froese, Chris Franke, Peter Baumann

Notes
In spring 1977 Tangerine Dream performed two sell-out tours in the USA. They were supported by the visual effects of a Krypton gas laser by Laserium. Tickets in Los Angeles, Cleveland, Washington and New York were all sold-out within days. In October 1977 Virgin released the double-album Encore that featured four long tracks recorded during the tour. Some of the music based on themes from Ricochet, Stratosfear and Sorcerer. The titles Coldwater Canyon (including Edgar Froese's longest guitar solo on record) and Cherokee Lane originate from the roads in Coldwater Canyon near Los Angeles, where TD lived for a while during the tour.

Encore is supposed to be the definitive live TD album among fans, and it was the last record featuring Peter Baumann, for after a concert in Denver, Colorado, during the second half of their tour, he informed Edgar Froese and Chris Franke that his private obligations no longer allowed him a full-time collaboration with TD. In November 1977 Peter Baumann left TD for good and started working as a solo artist and producer. He built his own studio in Berlin, before finally leaving that city and moving to New York.

Being asked in 1985, if TD often used old pieces of music for films, TV or the theatre and gave them further exposure on an album, Edgar Froese answered: "No, although we counted around ten whole albums' worth of unused material from our last years with Virgin. When we were doing Encore in 1977 we used a piece of music that we'd made for the play Oedipus Tyrannus at the Chichester Festival under Keith Mitchell a couple of years before. Generally we wouldn't do that, but one of the reasons was the departure of Peter Baumann. The whole record was done when Peter decided to stay in the States so we looked back to what we had and used a couple of pieces from rehearsals we did, and the Oedipus pieces which came from CBS studios in London in '74 - '75."

Edgar Froese about the question, whether Coldwater Canyon was a genuine live piece: "Why do you think it wasn't? In fact we played that piece on a lot fewer dates than the others because it came from the second half of the tour. The first part went very well but the second half was knocked down after three concerts. We always said I broke my arm falling off a horse, which was b*******. I can hardly ride a horse." Chris Franke: "That's probably why you fell off it." Edgar Froese: "The real reason was that all the concert promoters went bankrupt because Emerson, Lake and Palmer had just cancelled their massive tour with a 120 piece orchestra. We were part of the disaster and we lost a lot of money on the tour. We had to grab together some bits and pieces - on Cherokee Lane there were pieces from three of four concerts, so we got a lot of letters saying 'I've got the tape from the concert you played here and I can't find that part anywhere!'"

Quality
MP3@192 kbps CBR, 97.9 MB


Tangerine Dream - Patrolling Space Borders (1977)
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Anthology - The Tangerine Dream Collection Part 1 of 8 (1969 to 1980)


Tracks:
01. Sequence I 17:18
02. Sequence II 5:44
03. Sequence III 22:32
04. Sequence IV 6:05
05. Sequence V 10:04
06. Sequence VI 11:52
Total running time: 74:35

Details
Recording date April 9th, 1977
Recording site(s) Place des Arts (Montreal)
Composer(s) Edgar Froese, Chris Franke, Peter Baumann
Musician(s) Edgar Froese, Chris Franke, Peter Baumann

Notes
Tangerine Dream's gig at the Montral 'Place des Arts' probably was one of the most famous concerts during their 1977 North America tour. It had been aired by the Canadian CHOM-FM, and so this concert has circulated among collectors as a tape recording in quite good quality. In early 1996 the tape had been transferred to CD and was available on the black market. The CD contains live material similar to the style of the official album Encore (1977), though the music is quite different. Varied themes from Monolight, Stratosfear or Betrayal (Sorcerer Theme), long improvisations and sequencer patterns can be heard as well as the main theme which appears on the Fotzenslecker bootleg with little variations. The result is a CD which adds important material to the music of that era.

The CD features six excerpts of the concert in quite good, but not excellent sound quality. In Sequence II at 2:30 and Sequence III at 13:10, a whispering voice-over appears: "This is Tangerine Dream on CHOM-FM… live from 'Place des Arts'". There are also some cnackles in Sequence II at 4:05 and Sequence III at 17:58, and the right channell drops out on Sequence I and Sequence IV.

The back cover mentions the concert date and place, but cover and booklet do not contain any additional information about TD or this North American tour. The back side of the four-page insert shows a well-known photo of Edgar Froese, Chris Franke and Peter Baumann, while the two inner pages of the insert are left unprinted. The CD back cover shows a surreal photograph of a metallic ball breaking through a metal landscape.

Obviously, initially the CD was planned with a different cover showing typical 'Laserium' artwork and also with the CD title Laserium. A handful of copies have been distributed with this totally different cover and title. Those who get hold of Patrolling Space Borders will find the original title Laserium only on the body of the (identical) CD.

The CD is alleged to come from 'Laserium Records' and to be produced by 'Wernherr von Braun' - a name obviously inspired by Wernher Freiherr von Braun (1912-1977), the famous German physician who migrated to the USA and constructed the Apollo space ship for man's first flight to the moon. The origin of the CD obviously is in Germany.

This bootleg became obsolete due to the release of Tangerine Tree Volume 18: Montreal 1977.

Quality
MP3@192 kbps CBR, 101.0 MB


Tangerine Dream - Sorcerer (OST) (1977)
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Anthology - The Tangerine Dream Collection Part 1 of 8 (1969 to 1980)


Tracks:
01. Main Title 5:31
02. Search 2:56
03. The Call 2:01
04. Creation 5:02
05. Vengeance 5:36
06. The Journey 2:01
07. Grind 2:52
08. Rain Forest 2:37
09. Abyss 7:12
10. The Mountain Road 1:57
11. Impressions of Sorcerer 2:56
12. Betrayal (Sorcerer Theme) 3:44
Total running time: 44:25

Details
Recording date 1977
Composer(s) Edgar Froese, Chris Franke, Peter Baumann
Musician(s) Edgar Froese, Chris Franke, Peter Baumann
Producer(s) Edgar Froese, Chris Franke, Peter Baumann

Notes
After the European tour in 1976 Tangerine Dream started to work on a soundtrack for William Friedkin, the director of "The French Connection" and "The Exorcist". Sorcerer was a remake of Clouzot's "The Wages Of Fear" from 1953 about a risky truck transport, featuring now Roy Scheider, Bruno Cremer, Francisco Rabal, Amidou and Ramon Bieri. William Friedkin had decided to make a film around whatever music TD would produce.

William Friedkin about the movie and the music: "I first heard Tangerine Dream while in Munich for the opening of 'The Exorcist'. Had I heard them sooner I would have asked them to score that film. A year later, we met in Paris. I told them the story of the film and gave them a script. It took more than two years to make Sorcerer. One day in the middle of a primeval forest in the Dominican Republic, about six months into shooting, a tape arrived from the Dream, containing ninety minutes of musical impressions. It is from this tape that the film has been scored, though the musicians had not then nor even now as this is written seen any of the footage. Yet somehow they were able to capture and enhance every nuance of each moment where the music is heard. The film and the score are inseparable."

Though the film was no great success, the soundtrack went Top 25 in the UK charts and was a milestone in TD's future career as film composers. Fans had to wait nearly 16 years to get a CD release of the soundtrack. Finally, after several delays, it was released in early 1993.

Quality
MP3@229.32 kbps VBR, 72.8 MB


Tangerine Dream - Cyclone (1978)
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Anthology - The Tangerine Dream Collection Part 1 of 8 (1969 to 1980)


Tracks:
01. Bent Cold Sidewalk 13:10
02. Rising Runner Missed By Endless Sener 5:03
03. Madrigal Meridian 20:30
Total running time: 39:43

Details
Recording date January 1978
Recording site(s) Audio Studios (Berlin)
Recording engineer(s) Ottmar Bergler
Composer(s) Edgar Froese, Chris Franke, Steve Jolliffe
Musician(s) Edgar Froese, Chris Franke, Steve Jolliffe, Klaus Krüger
Producer(s) Edgar Froese, Chris Franke, Steve Jolliffe

Notes
After Peter Baumann had left Tangerine Dream, Edgar Froese and Chris Franke were joined by Steve Jolliffe and Klaus Krüger, two musicians Edgar Froese knew since the sixties. This quartet recorded TD's most controversial album Cyclone, as Steve Jolliffe's vocals broke from the otherwise pure instrumental music of TD. Although Jolliffe was also a skilled wind instrumentalist, most TD fans disliked this kind of music - as did Edgar Froese himself. After the album release and the following European tour Steve Jolliffe again left the group, and Tangerine Dream did not again use vocals on their records until 1987 (with the only exception of the spoken Russian words on Kiew Mission in 1981).

In 1995 Virgin re-released the album on CD in the so-called "Definitive Edition" series, featuring the original front cover artwork. The sound quality of this release, using the Super Bit Mapping technology, is probably the best up to now, but like most of the other releases of this series, it contains some little errors: The first track is misspelled Bent Cold Side Walk on the CD body, and drummer Klaus Krüger's name does not appear in the booklet credits and on the backside insert at all.

Quality
MP3@256 kbps CBR, 70.9 MB


Tangerine Dream - Force Majeure (1979)
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Anthology - The Tangerine Dream Collection Part 1 of 8 (1969 to 1980)


Tracks:
01. Force Majeure 18:23
02. Cloudburst Flight 7:29
03. Thru Metamorphic Rocks 14:31
Total running time: 40:23

Details
Recording date August - September 1979
Recording site(s) Hansa Studios (Berlin)
Recording engineer(s) Eduard Meyer
Composer(s) Edgar Froese, Chris Franke
Musician(s) Edgar Froese, Chris Franke, Klaus Krüger, Eduard Meyer
Producer(s) Edgar Froese, Chris Franke

Notes
After Steve Jolliffe had left the group, Edgar Froese and Chris Franke recorded the album Force Majeure on their own in Berlin. Klaus Krüger played drums again before changing to the band of Iggy Pop. Force Majeure was critically acclaimed and went Top 30 in the UK. Up to now this album is one of the most famous among Tangerine Dream fans.

Quality
MP3@192 kbps CBR, 55.4 MB


Tangerine Dream - Pergamon (Live in Berlin) (1980)
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Anthology - The Tangerine Dream Collection Part 1 of 8 (1969 to 1980)


Tracks:
01. Quichotte Part I 23:23
02. Quichotte Part II 22:53
Total running time: 46:16

Details
Recording date January 31st, 1980
Recording site(s) Palast der Republik (East Berlin)
Recording engineer(s) Juergen Lahrtz
Composer(s) Edgar Froese, Chris Franke, Johannes Schmoelling
Musician(s) Edgar Froese, Chris Franke, Johannes Schmoelling
Producer(s) Edgar Froese, Chris Franke, Johannes Schmoelling

Notes
TD's 1980 concert in the East Berlin Palast der Republik, originally released as Quichotte on the (now discontinued) East german Amiga label, became available under its new name Pergamon and with new cover worldwide in 1986.

The original, untouched evening concert (taken from a radio broadcast) has been fan-released as Tangerine Tree Volume 17: East Berlin 1980 and is considerably different from the official album release.

Quality
MP3@224 kbps CBR, 74.1 MB