300 hours of Tangerine Dream

AndyRubio
AndyRubio Posts: 880
edited August 2009 in The bottom bracket
I just downloaded 300 hours of Tangerine Dream bootlegs, outtakes, unreleased material etc. It's a collection called Tangerine Tree, not strictly legal but it seems to have the ok of the band.

Thing is, I quite liked their 70s stuff especially the pulsating sequencer ones like Ricochet. But in the 80s they became shite.

I know I'll never listen to this but I'm so relieved to have it. Just like the Tree Full Of Secrets collection of Pink Floyd stuff, a measley 19 CDs worth.

That is all.
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  • bigflangesmallsprocket
    bigflangesmallsprocket Posts: 2,443
    I picked up a couple of 12" vinyls many years ago. Never figured out if they were 33 or 45 rpm's..so I use to play them at both speeds. Didn't make a lot of difference, weird either way. When I was in the mood they could be relaxing, otherwise quite disconcerting.
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  • penugent
    penugent Posts: 913
    I loved both TD and PF and have all their early vinyl releases and some bootleg LPs.

    I once read that the bands agreed to a collaboration LP with each band cutting one side of the disc but the project was scrapped when the Floyd said they wouldn't let any of the TD members attend their sessions. I have often wondered if the tale was true or just another urban myth from those drug addled days!
  • Special K
    Special K Posts: 449
    Go original baby.

    Get yourself some gamelan music and understand the source. Then watch Baraka.
    "There are holes in the sky,
    Where the rain gets in.
    But they're ever so small
    That's why rain is thin. " Spike Milligan
  • captain_oakley
    captain_oakley Posts: 222
    Ahhhhhhh.... the nostalgia.

    Have been a huge TD fan for years, bought Force Majeure on LP eons ago. Was
    lucky enough to see them at Hammersmith in the late 70's, now have all the
    remastered CD's, still cannot beat Phaedra, Rubycon or Ricochet.

    How about their soundtrack for Michael Mann's classic 'The Keep' ?

    If your interested, have a look at; 'Kraftwerk and the Electronic Revoulution', there
    is an interview with Klaus Schulze.


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  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Posts: 79,666
    I once watched Apocalypse Now back to back for a weekend.

    Not really related but I thought it was in the spirit of this thread.

    "Charging a man with murder here was like handing out speeding tickets in the Indy 500..." Willard, on the Nung river on PBR Streetgang.

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  • AndyRubio
    AndyRubio Posts: 880
    Captain Oakley wrote:
    If your interested, have a look at; 'Kraftwerk and the Electronic Revoulution', there is an interview with Klaus Schulze.
    Cool never heard of this before but found it instantly, thanks.
    dmclite wrote:
    I once watched Apocalypse Now back to back for a weekend.

    Not really related but I thought it was in the spirit of this thread.
    Indeed so - and the relationship with cycling will be obvious to anyone who's done a 300k audax or La Vaujanay, the Prix Des Grandes Rousses and the Marmotte in the same week.

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  • Le Commentateur
    Le Commentateur Posts: 4,099
    Tracks like Phaedra, Rubycon or other Berlin electronica like Schulze's mid 70s stuff could indeed make cool cycling soundtracks to some epic long distance event.
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  • proto
    proto Posts: 1,483
    My daughter recently pointed me in the direction of Spotify, so last night I indulged in a spot of Tangerine Dream. Moved onto Faust (not the play!) and ended up with Terry Riley's Rainbow in Curved Air. Pure nostalgia fest. :)
  • The Kennington Kaiser
    The Kennington Kaiser Posts: 406
    LOL, Andy. All you need now is a big enough bong to help you while away those 300 hours. You should download some Gong and Yes while you're at it.....
  • CHRISNOIR
    CHRISNOIR Posts: 1,400
    I quite like a bit of Can / Faust / Neu! now and again. Any suggestions on where to start with Tangerine Dream? A full 300 hours may be pushing it for a noob...
  • Le Commentateur
    Le Commentateur Posts: 4,099
    CHRISNOIR wrote:
    I quite like a bit of Can / Faust / Neu! now and again. Any suggestions on where to start with Tangerine Dream? A full 300 hours may be pushing it for a noob...

    Somewhere between 1974 and 1977 for the classic studio albums or 1980-1983 for the less unpleasant commercial sounding stuff.
    Un uomo solo al commando
  • AndyRubio
    AndyRubio Posts: 880
    edited August 2009
    Yeah personally the mid 70s stuff is the best for me, it was those throbbing Moog sequencer bits that did it for me - and then 20 years later progressive trance took up where they left off.

    Try:

    Rubicon: http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZSt ... 2&s=143444

    Ricochet: http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZSt ... 6&s=143444

    Stratosfear: http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZSt ... 9&s=143444
    My hour on the plinth
  • grandad3
    grandad3 Posts: 322
    Wow you guys, great taste. check out porcupine tree
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  • Le Commentateur
    Le Commentateur Posts: 4,099
    Register at www.spotify.com and you can listen to entire albums for free. It's basically a record library on the web with an iTunes-like interface. It's the future of music "ownership-consumption" -- everything is stored online and you buy a degree of access and control.

    There are annoying little ads between tracks but with TD 's longer tracks that's not so often -- even better with Klaus Schulze as he had a tendency to squeeze 30 minutes onto a side of vinyl.

    With Schulze's music I see a similar situation to TD: masterful at getting amazing sounds out of the dozen or so analogue synthesizers in his set-up, but floundered more often than not with the move to digital technology in the 1980s. Favourite albums are Moondawn, Mirage, X.
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