For over thirty years Tangerine Dream have dominated
the ‘Synthesizer Music’ scene worldwide! Starting life
off as a psychedelic guitar-driven band with founding members, Edgar
Froese, Klaus Schulze and Conrad Schnitzler, they then changed direction
with the addition of two new members, Steve Schroyder and Christopher
Franke, to play more cosmic, spacey synthesizer-based compositions.
Releasing albums that featured long tracks, it was groundbreaking
music that quickly caught the ear of UK Disc Jockey John Peel and
Virgin Records boss Richard Branson.
With the exit of Schroyder and the addition of new guy Peter Baumann,
they recorded the legendary and groundbreaking album ‘Phaedra’
for Virgin Records, with a montage of Mellotrons and sequencers amid
layers of synthesizer layers, melodies and effects that would characterise
the group’s sound throughout the seventies. Several soundtracks
and many new albums followed, as did several more line-up changes,
but the sequencer-driven, spacey, synthesizer music of Tangerine
Dream has always been at the forefront, commercially and
musically, of the electronic music world, and remains there to this
day.
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