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seismic1 · Post by **seismic1** » Sat Jan 24, 2015 6:52 pm

You may have seen this before - it's 20 years old, but I found it interesting

http://www.electronicsound.co.uk/edgar- ... interview/

this one goes into a lot more detail:-

http://www.ambientcentury.co.uk/classic ... tings.html

Here is another link containing a Froese solo Jam from '81 - PPG fans will like this.

http://www.synthtopia.com/content/tag/edgar-froese/

Here is something for the old fogeys:-

http://www.modulator-esp.co.uk/document ... ndM_01.htm

himalaya · Post by **himalaya** » Sat Jan 24, 2015 10:12 pm

I was reminded today of his solo work and just remembered that I used to listen to the Pinnacles album a lot back in the day:

Love this track:

and this:

full album:

fmr · Post by **fmr** » Sat Jan 24, 2015 10:27 pm

Sad news. Another great name that is gone. TD marked an era in the eighties, and are responsible for many synth addicts (myself included). RIP.

himalaya · Post by **himalaya** » Sat Jan 24, 2015 10:28 pm

I was hooked on this part from Rubycon for a very long time. Played it on a loop, which wasn't easy on a cassette since rewinding back would rarely take me back to the very spot where the track begun, ha. The hi res sweeps, rolling arp bass, mellotron strings, rhodes...what a sound. Listen from the bookmark to at least 12min:

Obviously the credit goes to all three members of TD at the time: Edgar Froese, Peter Baumann, Christopher Franke.

fmr · Post by **fmr** » Sat Jan 24, 2015 10:33 pm

himalaya wrote:I was hooked on this part from Rubycon for a very long time. Played it on a loop, which wasn't easy on a cassette since rewinding back would rarely take me back to the very spot where the track begun, ha. The hi res sweeps, rolling arp bass, mellotron strings, rhodes...what a sound. Listen from the bookmark to at least 12min:

Obviously the credit goes to all three members of TD at the time: Edgar Froese, Peter Baumann, Christopher Franke.

Froese, Franke, Baumann or Froese, Franke, Schmoelling, these two line-ups made some of the best synth music I ever heard. But the heart of TD was undoubtedly the tandem Froese-Franke. When those two fall apart, TD was no more.

Aleatoriac · Post by **Aleatoriac** » Sat Jan 24, 2015 10:37 pm

This was my first TD experience, a local college radio station played it frequently (among other things I loved from that time)

It wasn't until the early 1990's that I had funds to explore TD's back catalogue, and my favorite first discovery of their old material was Atem... I was completely hooked

himalaya · Post by **himalaya** » Sat Jan 24, 2015 10:47 pm

Froese, Franke, Baumann or Froese, Franke, Schmoelling, these two line-ups made some of the best synth music I ever heard. But the heart of TD was undoubtedly the tandem Froese-Franke. When those two fall apart, TD was no more.

yes.

This is another good example of this collaboration. A simple piano motif evolves into a stampede of Berlin School arpeggios:

Chris-S · Post by **Chris-S** » Sun Jan 25, 2015 9:24 am

Codestation wrote:This was my first TD experience, a local college radio station played it frequently (among other things I loved from that time)

Yes, that was a very nice intro music for the streethawk tv series.

My start with TD was the 80's with Exit, PPG sounds on so on.
But also love some of the old stuff and some of the new stuff.

They had such a large scale of musical styles over the years.

I even like some of their vocal tracks.

crimsonwarlock · Post by **crimsonwarlock** » Sun Jan 25, 2015 11:00 am

TD has always been a big influence for me, and still is. My track for last December's OSC (Dreaming of Tangerines) was heavily inspired by TD from the early period (hence the title). Just a week ago I felt the urge to watch 'The Keep' again (and I did). A great synthesizer pioneer has left this mortal stage. RIP.

SODDI · Post by **SODDI** » Sun Jan 25, 2015 10:09 pm

The collective hand of Tangerine Dream looms large over electronic music, just in the sounds a lot of us use and the way those sounds are handled. More than Carlos, more than Tomita; Froese, Franke, Bauman et. al. handed us a vocabulary.

Chris-S · Post by **Chris-S** » Wed Jan 28, 2015 6:58 pm

For our german speaking guys:

Today EF memorial in radio eins elektrobeats:

http://www.radioeins.de/programm/sendun ... ream-.html

23:05 GMT+1.

thecontrolcentre · Post by **thecontrolcentre** » Wed Jan 28, 2015 7:23 pm

In my youth I skinned up on the Rubycon cover many times ...

RIP Edgar.

Numanoid · Post by **Numanoid** » Wed Jan 28, 2015 8:35 pm

One of a kind.

How many rockstars where born in Eastern Prussia, and hung out with Salvador Dali ?

Gucky · Post by **Gucky** » Thu Jan 29, 2015 7:11 am

I am very sorry to hear that Edgar Froese passed away.

He was a great idol for me. His music was the reason that I started making music and my music project "Faber".
"Exit" is my all time favourite album.
I made a little track called "Tangerine moon" as a tribute to Edgar.
https://soundcloud.com/musikus/tangerine-moon

zag4139@comcast.net · Fri Jan 30, 2015 12:40 am

Absolutely fantastic! Really captures the essence of Froese and Tangerine Dream, again very compelling piece. Like the guitar leads.
May I ask what vsti you used in the dream?

Edgar Froese - RIP