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West Berlin, Germany (1967 – present)

Founded in 1967 by Edgar Froese in Berlin, Tangerine Dream 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.

Froese, born in Tilsit, East Prussia, in 1944, was little influenced by music while growing up. Instead, he looked to the Dadaist and Surrealist art movements for inspiration, as well as literary figures such as Gertrude Stein, Henry Miller, and Walt Whitman. He organized multimedia events at the residence of Salvador Dali in Spain during the mid-’60s and began to entertain the notion of combining his artistic and literary influences with music; Froese played in a musical combo called the Ones, which recorded just one single before dissolving in 1967. The first lineup of Tangerine Dream formed later that year, with Froese on guitar, bassist Kurt Herkenberg, drummer Lanse Hapshash, flutist Volker Hombach and vocalist Charlie Prince. The quintet aligned itself with contemporary American acid rock (the Grateful Dead, Jefferson Airplane), and played around Berlin at various student events.
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  • 24db

    Ladies and gentlemen did you go to any of the following Tangerine Dream concerts?: Sheffield 1974 London 1975 Croydon 1975 Berlin 1976 Bilbao 1976 Nottingham 1976 Washington 1977 Hamburg 1978 Newcastle 1981 Frankfurt 1983 If you can help with any photos or ticket scans, adverts, local press reviews or personally memories then please drop me a line either here or at ZestAndy6304(AT)aol.co.uk (replacing AT with @). I don't need any photos or ticket scans from the Royal Albert Hall in 1975 - anything else - however small would be gratefully received.

    yesterday afternoon

  • bigballsdude

    Phaedra - album #1 for smokin )

    Monday afternoon

  • Vrednushka

    Высший класс.

    Saturday afternoon

  • tyom86

    Обожаю Tangerine Dream, №1 в моём плейлисте) Их музыка дышит свободой!

    Friday morning

  • Explorer2000

    Please listen to my first song. I play the keyboard just since 4 months. It's no masterpiece. But I look forward to hear your critics. I know that the song is a bit drab, but practice makes perfect.^^ Maybe the next song is better. Scrobbling would be nice. Have fun. http://www.lastfm.de/music/Explorer2000/Weed+&+Rainbows

    Wednesday evening

  • 24db

    July 13th - Uptown Theatre. Napa. 7.00pm. Tickets: $35/40

    last week

  • 24db

    July 11th - The Granada Theatre, Santa Barbara, CA. USA. Tickets: $26 - $62. Tickets go on sale on May 23rd.

    last week

  • TakeshiKovacs

    Such a fantastic band - their huge body of work will inevitably contain a number of albums of lower quality, but the highs are really high with TD !

    10 days ago
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