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'''Tangerine Dream''' is a [[Germany|German]] group that specializes in [[electronic music]] (the members of the band strongly disagree with the New Age label).  It was founded in [[1967]] by [[Edgar Froese]] who had been studying painting and [[sculpture]]. The band has undergone several line-up changes over the years and Froese has been the only constant member. Drummer and composer [[Klaus Schulze]] was a member of an early line-up, but the most stable version of the group during their most influential mid-[[1970s]] period was as a keyboard trio with Froese, [[Christopher Franke]] and [[Peter Baumann]].

==History==
The genesis of the group was when Edgar Froese arrived in the mid-[[1960s]] in [[West Berlin]] to study art. He worked as a sculptor and studied under [[Salvador Dalí]] amongst others. His first band, the [[R&B]]-styled ''The Ones'', didn't succeed and was gradually dismantled after releasing one single. Froese turned to experimentation afterwards, playing minor gigs with various musicians. Most of these were in the famous [[Zodiac (nightclub)|Zodiac]] nightclub, but the band was even invited to play for Froese's former teacher Dalí. Music was mixed with [[literature]], painting, early forms of [[multimedia]] and more.  Only the absurdest ideas were able to gather any attention.  From this, Froese developed the phrase "in the absurd often lies what is artistically possible".  Various members of the group came and went, but the direction of the music continued to be inspired by the [[Surrealist]]s.

Froese was fascinated by technology, and skilled in using it to create music. He built instruments, and collected sounds with tape recorders wherever he went, using them to build musical works later. His early work with tape loops and similar repeating sounds was the obvious precursor to the emerging technology of the [[music sequencer|sequencer]] which Froese quickly adopted and developed to his own ends. 

Most notable of Froese's collaborations was his partnership with [[Christopher Franke]]. Franke transferred in [[1970]] from the group [[Agitation Free]] to replace Klaus Schulze as the drummer, and eventually he became Tangerine Dream's sequencer guru. He left the band, nearly three decades later, in [[1987]] for personal reasons. Many consider this to be the breakup of the band.  
Other long-term members of the group included Peter Baumann (1972-1977) (who later went on to form the Private Music label, on which the band was signed on on 1988-1991), Johannes Schmoelling (1980-1985), Paul Haslinger (1986-1990), and most recently (1990 onwards) Froese's son Jerome.  Most fans of the band consider the inclusion of Jerome into the band to be an abject disaster.  This decline in the band's popularity is seen subsequent decline in album sales.  Most stores stopped carrying Tangerine Dream CD's.  Tangerine Dream was reduced to a mail order outfit that put out substandard music.  A far cry from their formative days.

The first Tangerine Dream album, ''Electronic Meditation'', was a tape-sound piece, using the technology of the time rather than the synthesized music they later became famous for. It was a collaboration between Froese, Klaus Schulze, and [[Conrad Schnitzler]]. Beginning with their second album, ''Alpha Centauri'', the group tended to be a duo or trio of electronic keyboards augmented by Froese's guitar, Franke's drums, and sometimes assorted guest musicians. They were particular heavy users of the [[Mellotron]]. Most albums were purely instrumental--the band's two albums to prominently feature lyrics, ''Cyclone'' (1978) and ''Tyger'' (1987) (the latter set to poems by [[William Blake]]) were met with harsh response from the fans. There have been occasional vocal tracks on the band's other releases too. The band has however recently returned to this style with a (currently unfinished) musical trilogy based on [[Dante Alighieri|Dante]]'s [[The Divine Comedy]].
Tangerine Dream signed on to [[Virgin Records]] in [[1973]] and released soon afterwards their famous album, ''[[Phaedra]]'' (topping charts in the [[United Kingdom]]); one of the first ever albums released by the newly-formed label. This was the world's first commercial album to feature sequencers and came to define much more than just the band's own sound. 

Just as in the late [[1960s]] Edgar Froese had been amongst the first musicians to exploit electronic sound processing in rock-based music, in the early [[1980s]], along with some others such as [[Jean Michel Jarre]] and [[Mike Oldfield]], the band were early adopters of the new [[digital]] technology which was to come to revolutionise the sound of the synthesiser. Their technical competence and extensive experience in their early years with self-made instruments and unusual means of creating sounds meant that they were able to exploit this new technology and make music quite unlike anything which had been heard before. To a modern listener, perhaps many of their albums do not stand out in the way they would have at the time, for the musical technology they adopted at that time is now almost universally used.

Throughout the [[1970s]] and [[1980s]] the band played many live concerts (which were often improvised, and consequently widely [[Bootleg|bootlegged]]) and had numerous tours across the world. They were notorious for playing extremely loudly, and for a long time. The earliest concerts were visually quite dull by modern standards, with three men sitting motionless for several hours alongside massive electronic boxes with patch leads and a few flashing lights. Some concerts were even performed in complete darkness! As time went on, and technology advanced, the concerts become much more elaborate, with visual effects, lighting, lasers, pyrotechnics and projected images. By [[1977]] their North American tour was complete with full-scale Laserium effects.

Ever since their [[1980]] [[East Berlin]] gig (released as ''Pergamon'') when they became the first major western band to perform in a [[Socialism|socialistic]] country, Tangerine Dream were very popular behind the [[Iron Curtain]]. Especially, in [[Poland]] they were one of the most popular bands in the country in the early 1980s. They even released a live album called ''[[Poland (album)|Poland]]'' of one of their performances there. Because of the abstract nature of the music - and, arguably, the lack of lyrics - they did not attract censure from the authorities, unlike many other western bands.

In the [[1980s]], Tangerine Dream composed scores for over 20 [[Hollywood]] movies. Also, upon departing from the group, Franke went on to compose the score for the [[television]] [[science fiction]] series ''[[Babylon 5]]'' and several further Hollywood movies.

==Selected discography==
*''Electronic Meditation'' (1970)
*''Alpha Centauri'' (1971)
*''Zeit'' (1972)
*''Atem'' (1973)
*''Phaedra'' (1974)
*''[[Rubycon]]'' (1975)
*''Ricochet'' (Live) (1975)
*''Stratosfear'' (1976)
*''Encore'' (Live) (1977)
*''Sorcerer'' (Soundtrack) (1977)
*''Force Majeure'' (1979)
*''Tangram'' (1980)
*''Thief'' (Soundtrack) (1980)
*''Exit'' (1981)
*''White Eagle'' (1982)
*''Logos'' (Live) (1982)
*''Hyperborea'' (1983)
*''Poland'' (Live) (1983)
*''Le Parc'' (1984)
*''Green Desert'' (Recorded 1973, released 1986)
*''Dream Sequence'' (Compilation) (1986)
*''Underwater Sunlight'' (1986)
*''Tyger'' (1987)
*''Live Miles'' (1988)
*''Optical Race'' (1988)
*''Lily On The Beach'' (1989)
*''Melrose'' (1990)
*''Turn of the Tides'' (1994)
*''Tyranny of Beauty'' (1995)
*''Goblins Club'' (1996)
*''Oasis'' (Soundtrack) (1996)
*''Mars Polaris'' (1999)
*''I-Box 1970-1990'' (Compilation) (2000)
*''Inferno'' (2001)
*''Purgatorio'' (2004)

== Selected soundtracks ==
*''Sorcerer'' (This film is a remake of "[[The Wages of Fear]]") (1977)
*''Thief'' (1980)
*''Future War 198X'' (rumored 1982)
*''The Keep'' (1983)
*''Risky Business'' (1983)
*''Firestarter'' (1984)
*''Fright Night'' (1985)
*''Red Heat'' (1985)
*''Legend'' (U.S. theatrical version) (1985)
*''Miracle Mile'' (1989)
*''Mota Atma'' (2003)

== Selected live recordings ==
* ''Sohoman (Live in Sydney 1982)'' (1999)
* ''Soundmill Navigator (Live at the Berlin Philharmonie 1976)'' (2000)
* ''Rockface (Live in Berkley 1988)'' (2003)
* ''The Bootleg Box Set Vol. 1'' (Live, Compilation) (2003)
* ''The Bootleg Box Set Vol. 2'' (Live, Compilation) (2004)
* ''East (Live in Berlin 1990)'' (2004)
* ''Arizona (Live in Scottsdale 1992)'' (2004)
* ''Vault 4 (Live in Brighton U.K. 1986, Live in Cleveland U.S.A 1986)'' (2005)

==See also==
* [[Klaus Schulze]]
* [[Krautrock]]

==External links==
* [http://www.tangerinedream.org/ Tangerine Dream official website]
* [http://dmoz.org/Arts/Music/Bands_and_Artists/T/Tangerine_Dream/  DMoz entry on Tangerine Dream]
* [http://www.voices-in-the-net.de/ Comprehensive discography]
* [http://www.tangerinedream.pl/ Tangerine Dream – The Ultimate Online Encyclopedia] (being reconstructed)
* [http://www.opticaldream.de/ opticaldream.de - german Fan website]
* [http://www.edgarfroese.com/ Edgar Froese official website]
* [http://www.johannesschmoelling.de/ Johannes Schmoelling official website]

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[[fr:Tangerine Dream]This is [[April Fool's Day]], [[2002]]

April fools hoaxes for this year:
* [[The Register]]: reported [[AOL]] buying up [[weblog]]s
* The [[Open Directory]] re-branded itself as the 'Microsoft Directory Project'
* [[Kuro5hin]] acquired met4filter.org
* [[Slashdot]] announces that is will start posting advertiser-sponsored news stories, and disable anonymous posting.
* [[Google]] describes its [http://www.google.com/technology/pigeonrank.html PigeonRank] system.
* [[The Guardian]] profiled Harmony Cousins
* [[CPAN]] renamed itself the 'Comprehensive Java Archive Network'
* The annual spoof [[Linus Torvalds]] post on the [[Linux kernel mailing list]] announced his resignation from the Linux effort
* [[IETF]] published [[April 1st RFC]]s RFC3251 (Distribution of electricity over IP) and RFC3252 (Encapsulating IP in XML).
* The [[MIT]] home page was changed to a spoof of the [[Google]] home page.

''Please add more [[2002]] April Fool hoaxes here''

External links:
* [http://www.guardian.co.uk/g2/story/0,3604,677004,00.html Guardian profile of Harmony Cousins]
* [http://www.cs.helsinki.fi/linux/linux-kernel/2002-13/0063.html A letter 'from' Linus Torvalds]