Over the last 50 years the group has gone through many different line-up changes. The final project that founder Edgar Froese completed together with Tangerine Dream was Zero Gravity, a track performed together with Jean-Michel Jarre for his collaborative album Electronica. Tangerine Dream received the VGX GAMES AWARD in 2013 for the best soundtrack in a computer game. In 2013, Tangerine Dream composed the music for the video game Grand Theft Auto V, which became one of the most successful games in history. Rockoon was Grammy nominated as 'Best New Age Album 1992' and reached the Top Ten in the Billboard New Age charts and the Top Twenty in Billboard. The following releases Rubycon, Ricochet, Stratosfear and Force Majeure were also similarly successful.

It reached #15 in the UK album charts and became one of Virgin's first hits.

The band, then consisting of Edgar Froese, Christopher Franke and Peter Baumann, signed to Richard Branson’s Virgin Records in the same year and released the album Phaedra, the first commercial album ever to feature sequencers. Tangerine Dream's international career started when the band's 1973 record Atem was named as Album of the Year by BBC Radio DJ John Peel. This style, often described as the Berlin School and later Kosmische Musik, has influenced the electronic music genre to the present day and is the blueprint for contemporary music genres like Ambient or Trance. Continuous modified structures – known as sequencing – were combined with distinctive solos. Tangerine Dream composed long pieces with unique structures, opening new dimensions in sound. Ī short outline on TD's history The early yearsĮdgar Froese initially started his playing career at the famous Zodiak Club in Berlin-Kreuzberg where he met new band member Steve Schroyder, and subsequently added Klaus Schulze and Conrad Schnitzler, a former student of Joseph Beuys, to the band's line-up.Įschewing their traditional rock influences, the group were pioneers in innovating a new style of electronic music, which began with Bob Moog's invention of the Moog synthesizer. In 1967, Edgar founded the band Tangerine Dream and started to experiment with sequencers and synthesizers, exploring.

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