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The London Concert

Search: Cloudburst Flight
by: Christopher Franke

Release Date February 24, 1998
This live concert release dates from 1992 and presents music from Chris Franke's former time as part of Tangerine Dream, as well as extended live versions of music from his first solo album, "Pacific Coast Highway". The blend (dubbed here 'Circular Signs Suite') works well, with the welcome return of obviously synthesised textures providing a more balanced mix of materials than can be found on the solo album alone. In fact, the live versions of the solo material are quite considerable improvements on the originals, with the extended version of 'Purple Waves' presented here (complete with embedded TD quotes) proving beyond doubt that this man is indeed king of the arpeggiator!

In addition to the concert suite and an encore, ... Read More:

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The London Concert [CASSETTE]

Search: Cloudburst Flight
by: Christopher Franke

Release Date July 23, 1996
This live concert release dates from 1992 and presents music from Chris Franke's former time as part of Tangerine Dream, as well as extended live versions of music from his first solo album, "Pacific Coast Highway". The blend (dubbed here 'Circular Signs Suite') works well, with the welcome return of obviously synthesised textures providing a more balanced mix of materials than can be found on the solo album alone. In fact, the live versions of the solo material are quite considerable improvements on the originals, with the extended version of 'Purple Waves' presented here (complete with embedded TD quotes) proving beyond doubt that this man is indeed king of the arpeggiator!

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The London Concert

Search: Cloudburst Flight
by: Christopher Franke

Release Date February 02, 1993
This live concert release dates from 1992 and presents music from Chris Franke's former time as part of Tangerine Dream, as well as extended live versions of music from his first solo album, "Pacific Coast Highway". The blend (dubbed here 'Circular Signs Suite') works well, with the welcome return of obviously synthesised textures providing a more balanced mix of materials than can be found on the solo album alone. In fact, the live versions of the solo material are quite considerable improvements on the originals, with the extended version of 'Purple Waves' presented here (complete with embedded TD quotes) proving beyond doubt that this man is indeed king of the arpeggiator!

In addition to the concert suite and an encore, ... Read More:

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The London Concert

Search: Cloudburst Flight
by: Christopher Franke

Release Date July 23, 1996
This live concert release dates from 1992 and presents music from Chris Franke's former time as part of Tangerine Dream, as well as extended live versions of music from his first solo album, "Pacific Coast Highway". The blend (dubbed here 'Circular Signs Suite') works well, with the welcome return of obviously synthesised textures providing a more balanced mix of materials than can be found on the solo album alone. In fact, the live versions of the solo material are quite considerable improvements on the originals, with the extended version of 'Purple Waves' presented here (complete with embedded TD quotes) proving beyond doubt that this man is indeed king of the arpeggiator!

In addition to the concert suite and an encore, ... Read More:

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The London Concert [CASSETTE]

Search: Cloudburst Flight
by: Christopher Franke

Release Date April 27, 1993
This live concert release dates from 1992 and presents music from Chris Franke's former time as part of Tangerine Dream, as well as extended live versions of music from his first solo album, "Pacific Coast Highway". The blend (dubbed here 'Circular Signs Suite') works well, with the welcome return of obviously synthesised textures providing a more balanced mix of materials than can be found on the solo album alone. In fact, the live versions of the solo material are quite considerable improvements on the originals, with the extended version of 'Purple Waves' presented here (complete with embedded TD quotes) proving beyond doubt that this man is indeed king of the arpeggiator!

In addition to the concert suite and an encore, ... Read More:

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Tangents 1973 - 1983

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by: Tangerine Dream

Release Date January 19, 2004
I can't decide whether Edgar Froese is basically insecure, a total perfectionist or just plain cavalier when it comes to revisiting the past achievements of Tangerine Dream. Perhaps it's a mix of all three? The "Tangents" boxed set of 5 CDs certainly demonstrates something of all of these attitudes.

The music on these disks is drawn from the period 1973-83, during which time Tangerine Dream were signed to Virgin Records. The set ignores only "Cyclone" of the 12 principal TD Virgin releases and incorporates a single passing nod to "Pergamon" (CDs 1-3). It also covers the main OST releases of the Virgin Years, "Sorcerer (1977 Film)", "Risky Business", "Thief", "Firestarter", "Wavelength" and "Flashpoint" (CD 4). The final CD presents ... Read More:

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Dream Sequence

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by: Tangerine Dream

Release Date November 25, 1985
This 2 CD set contains a fair representation of almost all of the Tangerine Dream albums recorded in the period 1973 to 1983 (the only ones missing are "Sorcerer", "Pergamon" and "Cyclone"). While it is not always the best track from each album that makes it into this set, and some are presented in bleeding chunk form only, these discs do give the listener a good overview of each album, making this a good sampler set from which to set out on an exploration of the music of Tangerine Dream's so-called Virgin Years. I don't usually approve of 'best of' collections, and usually rate them accordingly, but I'm prepared to make an exception in this case because of the completeness, variety of programming and value ... Read More:

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Force Majeure

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by: Tangerine Dream

Release Date July 01, 1987
Force Majeure is without doubt one of Tangerine Dream's finest albums if not their finest. It's certainly the best album of the band's 1970s output.
After experimenting with a singer on the previous year's 'Cyclone', the group returned to a trio and played to their musical strengths.
The title track opens the album and what a number it is. It brings together everything that Tangerine Dream are about. Moody, atmospheric soundscapes, memorable melodies and a decent rhythmn section. It's twenty minutes of sheer excellence and moves along at an awesome pace.
'Cloudburst Flight' is, to these ears anyway, the best 'short' number the band have ever recorded. A moody, acoustic guitar led opening is broken by synthesizers and then the drums ... Read More:

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Dream Sequence: the Best of Tangerine Dream

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by: Tangerine Dream

Release Date May 15, 2000
Perhaps I should have said "Most Consistant Years" of this band.

I bought this originally years ago for two tracks only - "Love On A Real Train" and "The Dream Is Always The Same". These two discs have since served well subsequently in the car.

Not sure if the mastering is from the "Definitive" work done in the nineties, or whether it's just the original that's been repackaged, but WELL WORTH IT as an introduction to their "classic" years with Virgin.

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Essential Tangerine Dream

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by: Tangerine Dream

Release Date July 10, 2006
Perhaps I should have said "Most Consistant Years" of this band.

I bought this originally years ago for two tracks only - "Love On A Real Train" and "The Dream Is Always The Same". These two discs have since served well subsequently in the car.

Not sure if the mastering is from the "Definitive" work done in the nineties, or whether it's just the original that's been repackaged, but WELL WORTH IT as an introduction to their "classic" years with Virgin.