1. Sunrise In the Third System 04:21            play
2. Fly And Collision of Comas Sola 13:23
3. Alpha Centauri 22:04

Musicians:
* Edgar Froese – guitar, organ, bass, coffee machine, composer
* Steve Schroyder – organ, voice, echo machines, iron stick.
* Christopher Franke – drums, percussion, flute, zither, piano, VCS3
* Udo Dennebourg – flute, voice
* Roland Paulyck – synthesizer

As if the sound is breaking through your speakers, Alpha Centauri begins its journey. Crackling and swirling synthesizers seize control of your stereo. Like a call to psychedelic arms, the first track "Sunrise in the Third System" marches on with its organ. The mixing of the three tracks found on Alpha Centauri leaves something to be desired, in that the tracks are not mixed the way they would be today with each track endlessly flowing into the next like a stream. Nonetheless, when one is not paying too close attention to such details, the album seems to flow quite smoothly. The sound is not of the highest standards either, as should be expected, this being a 1971 release of "space music." Tangerine Dream's style of "space music" had not yet been refined and revolutionized as it was a couple of releases later with Phaedra and Rubycon. Regardless, for those interested in a wilder and more reckless ride on the "space music" autobahn, Alpha Centauri should satisfy the need. ---Michael G. Breece, AllMusic Review

Drugi album Tangerine Dream przynosi pewne istotne zmiany. Nie mogło być inaczej, skoro znacząco zmienił się skład. Po odejściu Klause'a Schulze'a (do Ash Ra Tempel) i Conrada Schnitzlera (do Kluster), Edgar Froese nawiązał współpracę z klawiszowcem Steve'em Schroyderem i byłym perkusistą Agitation Free, Christopherem Franke'em. Ten ostatni zagrzał miejsce w zespole na dłużej i znacząco przyczynił się do stylistycznego zwrotu w kierunku muzyki elektronicznej. Już na "Alpha Centauri" można usłyszeć jego grę na analogowym syntezatorze VCS3, choć brzmienie albumu wciąż zdominowane jest przez tradycyjne instrumenty, jak organy, flet, pianino, gitara czy cytra.

Zmiany w muzyce zespołu są jednak wyraźnie słyszalne. Zamiast improwizowanych jamów, muzycy kreują kosmiczne pejzaże dźwiękowe. Na album składają się tylko trzy utwory, podpisane przez Froese'a. Zaledwie czterominutowy otwieracz "Sunrise in the Third System" (zainspirowany kompozycją "Song of the Youths" Stockhausena) stanowi swego rodzaju introdukcję, z podniosłym tłem organów oraz pojedynczymi dźwiękami cytry i syntezatora. "Fly and Collision of Comas Sola" to już dłuższy, trzynastominutowy utwór. Początek to wyłącznie syntezatorowe szumy, z czasem prawie całkiem ustępujące miejsca partiom organów, gitary, fletu i pojawiającej się po dłuższym czasie perkusji. Brzmi to trochę jak kolejna wariacja na temat floydowskiego "A Saucerful of Secrets", jednak o zdecydowanie swobodniejszym charakterze. Najważniejszym utworem jest tu jednak tytułowy, trwający ponad dwadzieścia minut i wypełniający całą drugą stronę winylowego wydania. To nagranie najmocniej zapowiada późniejsze dokonania Tangerine Dream, ze swoim ambientowym klimatem i większą rolą elektronicznych efektów, choć nie brakuje też bardziej tradycyjnych dźwięków, głównie pod postacią ładnych partii fletu i organowego tła.

Co ciekawe, podczas sesji nagraniowej "Alpha Centauri" powstało też znacznie bardziej rockowe nagranie "Ultima Thule", kojarzące się z Pink Floyd z czasów Syda Barretta lub grupą Arzachel. Utwór wydano na singlu (gdzie został podzielony na dwie części), a obecnie można go znaleźć na kompaktowych wznowieniach drugiego longplaya Tangerine Dream.

"Alpha Centauri" to album przejściowy, wciąż będący eksperymentalną wariacją na temat rocka psychodelicznego, ale już wyraźnie kierujący się w bardziej elektroniczne rejony. Brzmi to całkiem intrygująco, tak w teorii, jak i praktyce. ---Paweł Pałasz, pablosreviews.blogspot.com

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1. 	"Atem"   	20:27
2. 	"Fauni-Gena"   	10:47
3. 	"Circulation of Events"   	5:52
4. 	"Wahn"   	4:29

Edgar Froese – mellotron, organ, guitar, voice
Peter Baumann – organ, piano, VCS3
Christopher Franke – VCS3, drums, percussion, organ, voice

Atem is more melodic and less dissonant than Tangerine Dream's other early works. The lineup of Edgar Froese, Christopher Franke, and Peter Baumann puts a nice topspin on the old prog rock sound. They take it to the edge -- as in cutting -- and beyond. While it is still very common to see TD listed as progressive rock and art rock, this album is pure space music. It goes beyond the confines of rock & roll. ---Jim Brenholns, allmusic.com

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1 Devotion 7:26
2 Betrayal (Sorcerer Theme) 3:50
3 Three Bikes in the Sky 6:01
4 A Wise Fisherman's Nocturnal Song 4:07
5 The End of Bondage 5:31
6 Too Hot for my Chinchilla 3:51
7 Dream Phantom of the Common Man 8:31
8 Sungate 4:52
9 Hoël Dhat the Alchemist 7:10
10 Cat Scan 5:47
11 Paradise Cove 3:51
12 Dreaming in a Kyoto Train 7:30
13 Moon River 4:54

Line-up / Musicians
- Edgar Froese - Keyboards
- Thorsten Quaeschning - Keyboards
- Bernhard Beibl - Electric Guitar
- Linda Spa - Saxophone, Flute, Keyboards
- Hoshiko Yamane - Electric & Acoustic Violin
- Iris Camaa - Electronic Drums, Percussion, Vocals

TD hoped to do the Cruise To The Edge gig with several other rock legends, including, of course, Yes but unfortunately the founding member of TD, Mr Edgar Froese, had a bad fall in icy conditions early in the year and ended up with a badly fractured jaw, plus another member of the band also fell ill and required surgery so they had to cancel. Luckily they had rehearsed about 60% of the concerts they were going to perform on board the boat and this is they. A fine collection of tracks, several from the Lily On The Beach period, and climaxing in an instrumental version of Moon River, which, if they had done the cruise, would have included vocals by a well known female artist but I have not heard, as yet, who that would have been. Anyway, a nice album to remind us of what might have been. Certainly a must for all the diehard TD fans out there, of which I am one. ---R. King, amazon.com

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01. Phaedra (Chris Franke, Edgar Froese, Peter Baumann) - 17:39
02. Mysterious Semblance At The Strand Of Nightmares (Edgar Froese) - 9:41
03. Movements Of A Visionary (Chris Franke, Edgar Froese, Peter Baumann) - 7:52
04. Sequent C' (Peter Baumann) - 2:17

- Edgar Froese - Mellotron, bass-guitar, organ, VCS 3 synthesizer, producer
- Chris Franke - Moog synthesizer, keyboards, Vcs 3 SA
- Peter Baumann - organ, electric piano, VCS3 synthesizer, flute

Phaedra is one of the most important, artistic, and exciting works in the history of electronic music, a brilliant and compelling summation of Tangerine Dream's early avant-space direction balanced with the synthesizer/sequencer technology just beginning to gain a foothold in nonacademic circles. The result is best heard on the 15-minute title track, unparalleled before or since for its depth of sound and vision. Given focus by the arpeggiated trance that drifts in and out of the mix, the track progresses through several passages including a few surprisingly melodic keyboard lines and an assortment of eerie Moog and Mellotron effects, gaseous explosions, and windy sirens. Despite the impending chaos, the track sounds more like a carefully composed classical work than an unrestrained piece of noise. While the title track takes the cake, there are three other excellent tracks on Phaedra. "Mysterious Semblance at the Strand of Nightmares" is a solo Edgar Froese song that uses some surprisingly emotive and affecting synthesizer washes, and "Movements of a Visionary" is a more experimental piece, using treated voices and whispers to drive its hypnotic arpeggios. Perhaps even more powerful as a musical landmark now than when it was first recorded, Phaedra has proven the test of time. --- John Bush, allmusic.com

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1. Armageddon In The Rose Garden Part II 7:13    play
2. Purple Diluvial 19:21
3. Babylon The Great Has Fallen 13:24


- Edgar Froese - performer (1), producer
- Thorsten Quaeschning - performer (2,3)

Short, concise, yet innovative even if released in 2008 this album represents a very nice offering from the band. It has been quite a while that they didn't release such an "old" album.

While I was listening to this, I was wondering to myself: hey! is this really a new TD album? Or was it just a dream while I was awaken! The short "Armageddon" is such a brilliant track that will undoubtedly remind you of the superb past. This is by far my favourite song from this album and one of their best for some twenty years. Easily. This great band could of course rest on their laurel's (as some of their earlier production) but they were doing better with "Purple Diluvial". The title track and "epic" of this album (almost twenty minutes) offers some average electronic rock parts, upbeat at times and frankly not too much of a glory particularity. Just good and keyboarding as hell.

But I assume that it is what we are expecting from TD every time they are releasing an album. The closing section of this "Purple Diluvial" does "speak" more to my bones and heart and is really poignant. Another great TD moment should I say. But there are an awful lot of these ones of course throughout their immense discography. I consider this album as one of their good ones from this millennium, even if the dance beats of "Babylon The Great Has Fallen" are quite unbearable. But he closing part is such memorable... ---Zowie Ziggy, progarchives.com

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1. Beauty Of The Blast (4:00)
2. Longing For Cashba (7:40)
3. Bois De Boulogne (5:17)
4. Stoneyard (6:12)
5. Akash Deep (7:27)
6. Storm Seekers (5:22)
7. Gaudi Parc (5:21)
8. Last Trumpet On 23rd Street (4:33)
9. Silver Siren (4:45)
10. Dream Sculpture (5:29)

Edgar Froese - keyboards, mixing, producer
Jerome Froese - keyboards

CD reissue of this title from the innovative German Electronica outfit, one of the most influential instrumental outfits of the 20th century. Tangerine Dream has never produced anything calculated to make the masses jump off their chairs and start screaming Top 40 tunes, but they have managed to have an immense impact in the world of Electronic and soundtrack music. Their 107 (and counting) studio, live and soundtrack releases have their own driving hypnotic pieces that might differ from release to release, but they are all uniquely Tangerine Dream. Document. 2009. ---Editorial Reviews

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1 _Where Dreams Are Large And Airy (6:21) 
2 _Riding The Wind (4:37) 
3 _Thunderheads (7:27) 
4 _Eagle's Crest (5:37) 
5 _Food For The Gods (8:24) 
6 _Without A Bad Conscience (6:02) 
7 _Cardamom Route (5:02) 
8 _A World Away From Gagaland (7:06) 
9 _Native Companions (4:14) 
10 _Blue Dawn (7:01)

- Edgar Froese - guitar, synth, electronics, producer
- Ralf Wadephul - synth, electronics

The 'Blue Dawn' is a collaboration between an old chap of Edgar, Ralf Wadephul (he accompanied TD on their US tour in 1988) and Edgar Froese himself.

It contains unreleased stuff from the two guys which came out of nightliner sessions, hotel suite compositions and later collaborations.

The material of this album was composed during Tangerine Dream's North American tour back in August/September 1988. weeks after weeks in tour buses, planes, hotels and various locations gave the two guys here the opportunity to get musically into something different off stage. The plan was to release the stuff as an on and off the road album later in the year. The road feeling as well as the summertime in the states had been a strong influence for these compositions. The album was completed while hanging out after the tour at a friend's place in LA. Because of various reasons the album had a delay for over about seventeen years before it now will be presented to the public.” ---audio-music.info

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1. Poland 6:44             play
2. Tangent 19:55
3. Barbakane 13:52
4. Horizon 20:50

Musicians:
* Edgar Froese - guitar, organ, bass
* Christopher Franke - drums, percussion, flute, zither, piano, VCS3
* Johannes Schmoelling – organ, voice, echo machines, iron stick

Tangerine Dream – niemiecki zespół rockowy grający muzykę elektroniczną, założony w 1967 roku przez Edgara Froese. W ciągu swego istnienia zespół wielokrotnie zmieniał skład, z wyjątkiem samego Froese, który w zespole pozostaje do dziś. We wczesnym okresie członkiem Tangerine Dream był perkusista i kompozytor Klaus Schulze, ale najtrwalsza była formacja z połowy lat 70. – klawiszowe trio w składzie: Froese, Christopher Franke, Peter Baumann. Z początkiem lat 80. Baumanna zastąpił Johannes Schmoelling; także ten skład utrzymał się dość długo i był bardzo twórczy.

Po występie w Berlinie Wschodnim w 1980 roku, kiedy to Tangerine Dream stali się jednym z pierwszych znaczących zachodnich zespołów, jakie wystąpiły w krajach komunistycznych, zespół zyskał ogromną popularność za żelazną kurtyną. W Polsce wczesnych lat 80. byli jednym z najpopularniejszych zespołów, a ich występ w Warszawie uwieczniony został na dwupłytowym albumie Poland. Abstrakcyjny charakter muzyki i zasadniczo brak tekstu nie przyciągał uwagi państwowej cenzury, czego nie można było powiedzieć o wielu innych zespołach zachodnich. Album Poland był pierwszym wydanym przez wytwórnię Jive Electro, rozpoczynając tym samym "okres niebieski" ("Blue Years").

Poland - The Warsaw Concert is an album of electronic music released by Tangerine Dream in 1984. It spent one week on the UK Albums Chart at number 90.

The early to mid-'80s were a particularly fertile time for Tangerine Dream: the Froese/Schmoelling/Franke lineup had been together for several years, and they had been quite busy with soundtrack work and had just signed with Zomba Records after a longtime association with Virgin. For this concert (their second appearance behind the Iron Curtain), Tangerine Dream turned in an excellent performance, despite battling technical problems and the extreme cold of the Polish winter. The four long tracks build and unfold slowly, in classic Tangerine Dream style. Poland captures Tangerine Dream at a high point in their career -- before the advent of sampling and the departure of Schmoelling (in 1985). ~ Sean Westergaard, allmusic.com

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1. Ricochet part one 17:03
2. Ricochet part two 21:11

Personnel
* Edgar Froese – keyboards, guitar
* Peter Baumann – keyboards
* Christopher Franke – keyboards, drums

"Part One," recorded in Autumn 1975 in France, opens up with a solemn march. Froese's fuzzed guitar introduces the main theme of the piece (a repeated melody of C-Bflat-Aflat-G-F-G), then the keyboards latch on to it, doubling the melody and adding harmonic variations. Of note, there are real drum sounds (presumably Chris Franke, given his earlier role in the band and the emphasis on toms) in addition to synthetic percussion. The march builds and builds, before being intruded upon by a sudden barrage of garbled sound samples. At about eight minutes into "Part One", the second half turns an urgent pace. Now the instantly recognizable, classic Tangerine Dream sound flows in: looping melodic patterns and rhythmic sequencing to weave a soft thread of hypnosis about the listener. The band explode with a bouquet of different sounds, the layering of which is astounding, if you really sit and listen to everything that's going on. Again, did just three people play all of what we hear at once live? Incredible, if so; they must have had state-of-the-art equipment. The main theme resurfaces soon enough to lend some thematic cohesion.

"Part Two" was recorded in Croyden, England (October 23, 1975) and contains a prelude with a delicate piano ringing out lonely notes with just the right amount of echo, before a flute mellotron wanders into the picture to provide companionship. Though brief, this is one of the most beautiful moments on the album, with higher notes twinkling in the distance somewhat recalling Frippertronics. Then, it's off to another wave or two of racing, mechanistic sequencing and kaleidoscopic patterns, sometimes louder and sometimes softer, more or less seeing us through the remainder of "Part Two."

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01 - The Mysterious Gift to Mankind
02 - The Evening Before Easter		play
03 - Living in Eternity			play
04 - The Silver Boots of Bartlett Green
05 - Hosanna of the Damned
06 - Dream Phanton of the Common Man
07 - The Strange Idol of Baphomet
08 - Hoel Dhat the Alchemist
09 - The Invisible Seal of the Holy Tribe

- Edgar Froese - performer (1-3,5,6,8)
- Thorsten Quaeschning - performer (4,7,9)
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- Hoshiko Yamane - electric violin (1,3,9)

It seems to this writer that Edgar Froese has decided to renew his inspiration for demanding electronic music by returning to more challenging soundscapes with the release in 2011 of a couple of astonishing albums, part of what he calls "the Eastgate's Sonic Poem Series". After decades of continuous releases, Tangerine Dream has finally resolved itself to return to what it does best: orchestral electronic music with powerful rhythmic movement and seamless instrumentation including visceral soloing. Surely, one has to admit that there were some stuff that just did not meet the "progressive rock" label at all, veering too close to New Age preachiness and mellow pillow music. Their once legendary citrus tang somehow became bland and flavorless, with maudlin albums such as most of the 90s productions (with a few exceptions such as the delightful Dream Mixes series). Many long-time fans have despaired at the artistic fizzle of a once stupendous band of sonic pioneers. Well, I am pleased to say that they are back in the saddle again!

The Eastgate series are "non-verbal musical translations" of celebrated authors like Edgar Allan Poe and German writer Gustav Meyrink. All the recordings were done in Vienna, a city that has a somewhat legendary musical history, to say the least! On "The Angel of the West Window" the casual listener is immediately reminded that the once-fabled TDream sound is back to the forefront, with pulsating sequencers, massive synthesized cascades and intense electric guitar soloing from the master himself. Inspired by Austrian author Meyrink's work, Froese and company (the amazing Thorsten Quaeschning) flourish with shimmering fire by combining deep rhythmic foundations, using real drums with celestial ripples of electronics. It's edgy, nervous, almost eerie, showcasing a psychotic sheen that was sorely missing for so many years. Slithering electric violin also adorns the tracks where needed and the vibrancy is evident when the synthetic meets the organic. Therein lies the clues to their musical renaissance. The metallic sheen is back and the sonic density has returned, all under the spell of sensitive melodies that emote deeply like the forlorn piano melody on the magnificent "The Idol of Baphomet" as well as the spooky synthesized veil on the opening track "The Mysterious Gift to Mankind". The latter's main exalted theme is elevated by some surly guitar soloing that will please progfans to no end. The achingly beautiful melody on "Living in Eternity" is pure heaven, classical music of the very highest order, something Mozart, Shubert, Liszt and co would revel in.

Truth is the entire album is sparkling material, loaded with inspired playing, crafty musical designs that reject any simplistic formula, and in accordance with their true vocation, ideal soundtrack music for some imaginary movie or novel. Tangerine Dream has been a perennial favorite as sonic backdrop for all of my home parties as well as perfect restaurant audio décor. Some of their work is ideally suited for long car drives into scenic landscapes, a beguiling universe of towering mountains, torrential rivers and reflective lakes. ---tszirmay, progarchives.com

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