Tangerine Dream

Artist: Tangerine Dream
P: 1995
Tyranny of Beauty's sound is marked by fast rhythms and various guitar and saxophone parts. Most of the run-time of this album, however, remains instrumental, and the music is similar to the other work of Tangerine Dream--fervent, provocative and ever-changing with a focus on electronic keyboards. People like to crucify Miss Smith but the truth is, she sings beautifully. The engineering in this one though, was not too bright. Not to mention that the attempt to put together poems by William Blake and their sound was not the best idea either. They seem to run in different direction, music and words. Nevertheless, this work has very good moments, especially "Alchemy Of The Heart" and "21st Century Common Man (Part I)". It is a more commercial Tangerine Dream than we are used to hear.


This is the original first version on the Virgin label!

Artist: Tangerine Dream
P: 1995 / 1999   
Tyranny of Beauty's sound is marked by fast rhythms and various guitar and saxophone parts. Most of the run-time of this album, however, remains instrumental, and the music is similar to the other work of Tangerine Dream--fervent, provocative and ever-changing with a focus on electronic keyboards. People like to crucify Miss Smith but the truth is, she sings beautifully. The engineering in this one though, was not too bright. Not to mention that the attempt to put together poems by William Blake and their sound was not the best idea either. They seem to run in different direction, music and words. Nevertheless, this work has very good moments, especially "Alchemy Of The Heart" and "21st Century Common Man (Part I)". It is a more commercial Tangerine Dream than we are used to hear.
This is the 1999 TDI version with new cover.
Remarkable is the fact that "Quasar" is not listed on the cover but is #10 on the CD. The track clocks at 3:46 which is 3 seconds more than the previous TOB version.

Artist: Tangerine Dream
P: 2008   
This double CD is a vast retrospective on the evolution of Tangerine Dream. A dream come true for electro-ambient fans. Contains the 1967 singles by the band’s first incarnation (The Ones) plus the 1972 epic “Ultima Thule” and numerous fan favorites from the ‘70s and early ‘80s!
Tracks selected by TD founder Edgar Froese with detailed personnel listings.

Artist: Tangerine Dream
P: 2013
This double CD is a vast retrospective on the evolution of Tangerine Dream. A dream come true for electro-ambient fans. Contains the 1967 singles by the band’s first incarnation (The Ones) plus the 1972 epic “Ultima Thule” and numerous fan favorites from the ‘70s and early ‘80s!
Tracks selected by TD founder Edgar Froese with detailed personnel listings.

Artist: Tangerine Dream
P: 2016
A superb collection of rare early tracks from electronic pioneers Tangerine Dream!
Features 2 tracks from the '60s psych-rock band that preceded Tangerine Dream, The Ones, plus rare tracks from the early '70s era of the band when they were at their most adventurous, composing epic pieces that clocked in at over 10 minutes each such as Asteroid Agenda and Overture!

Artist: Tangerine Dream
P: 2010
There was a bet between TD´s American promoter and the band in a small Sushi restaurant in Los Angeles during TD´s performance on the West Coast end of 2008. The Promoter just joked around by asking how it would sound like if TD would record all time top 40 stuff. After a big laugh, everybody thought about the´impossible´project. What a surreal idea if TD could do a most modern cover version of songs lots of people know, love and would have chosen as their own soundtrack for various parts of their life. ´If you do it I´ve got a good offer, if you fail, all of you have to ride the distance LA - Las Vegas by bike – so it´s a bet…´The rest will become history – here it is, TD´s ´just-for-fun´ project: UNDER COVER !!

Artist: Tangerine Dream
P: 2010 / 2012
Here the Cleopatra label version.
There was a bet between TD´s American promoter and the band in a small Sushi restaurant in Los Angeles during TD´s performance on the West Coast end of 2008. The Promoter just joked around by asking how it would sound like if TD would record all time top 40 stuff. After a big laugh, everybody thought about the´impossible´project. What a surreal idea if TD could do a most modern cover version of songs lots of people know, love and would have chosen as their own soundtrack for various parts of their life. ´If you do it I´ve got a good offer, if you fail, all of you have to ride the distance LA - Las Vegas by bike – so it´s a bet…´The rest will become history – here it is, TD´s ´just-for-fun´ project: UNDER COVER !!

Artist: Tangerine Dream
P: 1986 / 1996
Reissue of 1986 album. Six tracks, including the title track & the two part 'Song Of The Whale'. All tracks are digitally remastered from the original master tapes. Also features the original cover art.
Tangerine Dream's 1986 album "Underwater Sunlight" is the second of their major themed studio albums, building on the success of their previous release, "Le Parc". It also marks Paul Haslinger's debut with the band, following the departure of Johannes Schmoelling some six months earlier. Inspired perhaps by Edgar Froese's love for scuba diving, this album evokes various aspects of the underwater world. Don't worry that this disc is awash with `soothing and relaxing synthesiser sounds (TM)' played over taped whale and dolphin sounds and the splashing of the sea, though! Rather, what you'll find here are truly musical portraits - albeit of synthesiser origin - and all of the highest possible order.The major work on the disc is the two-part `Song of the Whale' - a classic Tangerine Dream composition. For almost 20 minutes, mellifluous guitar and soft synthesiser melodies build music which dips and soars majestically, at times driven along by sequencer-powered synthesiser rhythms, at other times drifting calmly in currents of its own making. Paul Hasslinger stamps his mark on this album very early on with his rhythm guitar work permeating both parts of `Song of the Whale' and with a sparkling grand piano solo, introducing part II. Hasslinger's rhythm guitar is in evidence, too, in the next track, `Dolphin Dance', which is an altogether more playful piece, featuring more classic TD alternating synthesiser and guitar riffs over pulsing percussion and jangling guitar. `Ride on the Ray' is a more stately affair, its melodies gliding effortlessly over a glittering array of percussion elements, while `Scuba scuba' uses a serious of flowing synthesiser voices to portray the scuba diver's distorted aural perspective of the world. Finally, the closing `Underwater twilight' evokes the somewhat unnerving serenity of the half-light found in deeper waters. Starting with a subdued and rather sedate synthesiser chorus, out of whose dulcet tones an electronic tom and percussion pulse emerges, with a shower of keyboard runs slowly rising like a flow of bubbles to the surface, this track draws the album to a powerful but gentle and satisfying conclusion.

Artist: Tangerine Dream
P: 1986 / 2011
Reissue of 1986 album. Seven tracks, including the title track & the two part 'Song Of The Whale'. All tracks are digitally remastered from the original master tapes. Also features the original cover art.
Tangerine Dream's 1986 album "Underwater Sunlight" is the second of their major themed studio albums, building on the success of their previous release, "Le Parc". It also marks Paul Haslinger's debut with the band, following the departure of Johannes Schmoelling some six months earlier. Inspired perhaps by Edgar Froese's love for scuba diving, this album evokes various aspects of the underwater world. Don't worry that this disc is awash with `soothing and relaxing synthesiser sounds (TM)' played over taped whale and dolphin sounds and the splashing of the sea, though! Rather, what you'll find here are truly musical portraits - albeit of synthesiser origin - and all of the highest possible order.The major work on the disc is the two-part `Song of the Whale' - a classic Tangerine Dream composition. For almost 20 minutes, mellifluous guitar and soft synthesiser melodies build music which dips and soars majestically, at times driven along by sequencer-powered synthesiser rhythms, at other times drifting calmly in currents of its own making. Paul Hasslinger stamps his mark on this album very early on with his rhythm guitar work permeating both parts of `Song of the Whale' and with a sparkling grand piano solo, introducing part II. Hasslinger's rhythm guitar is in evidence, too, in the next track, `Dolphin Dance', which is an altogether more playful piece, featuring more classic TD alternating synthesiser and guitar riffs over pulsing percussion and jangling guitar. `Ride on the Ray' is a more stately affair, its melodies gliding effortlessly over a glittering array of percussion elements, while `Scuba scuba' uses a serious of flowing synthesiser voices to portray the scuba diver's distorted aural perspective of the world. Finally, the closing `Underwater twilight' evokes the somewhat unnerving serenity of the half-light found in deeper waters. Starting with a subdued and rather sedate synthesiser chorus, out of whose dulcet tones an electronic tom and percussion pulse emerges, with a shower of keyboard runs slowly rising like a flow of bubbles to the surface, this track draws the album to a powerful but gentle and satisfying conclusion.

Artist: Tangerine Dream
P: 1997 / 2009
On November 6th 1997 Tangerine Dream performed a sold-out concert at the Shepherds Bush Empire in London. Here is the first half of the show - the "Vintage Set". You will hear such classics like "Beach Theme" from the legendary "Thief Soundtrack, the "Sorcerer" theme and many more. It is great that TD at times play some of the old material using the original tunes in their recent performances (e.g. 'Betrayal' or 'Poland' in this album), but also throw into the mix some of the newer stuff as well.