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Tangerine Dream is a German electronic music band founded in 1967 by Edgar Froese. The group has seen many personnel changes over the years, with Froese having been the only continuous member until his death in January 2015. The best-known lineup of the group was its mid-1970s trio of Froese, Christopher Franke, and Peter Baumann. In 1979, Johannes Schmoelling replaced Baumann. Since Froese's death in 2015, the group has been under the leadership of Thorsten Quaeschning (Froese's chosen successor and the current longest-serving band member, having joined in 2005). He was joined by violinist Hoshiko Yamane in 2011, Ulrich Schnauss in 2014 and Paul Frick in 2020.

Tangerine Dream are considered a pioneering act in electronica. Their work with the electronic music Ohr label produced albums that had a pivotal role in the development of the German musical scene known as kosmische ("cosmic"). Their "Virgin Years", so called because of their association with Virgin Records, produced albums that further explored synthesizers and sequencers, including the UK top 20 albums Phaedra (1974) and Rubycon (1975). The group also had a successful career composing film soundtracks, creating over 60 scores.

From the late 1990s into the 2000s, Tangerine Dream continued to explore other styles of instrumental music as well as electronica. Their recorded output has been prolific, including over one hundred albums. Among other scoring projects, they helped create the soundtrack for the video game Grand Theft Auto V. Their mid-1970s work has been profoundly influential in the development of electronic music styles such as new-age and electronic dance music.

On 29 September 2017, the band released an all-new music studio album entitled Quantum Gate. In December 2019, they released Recurring Dreams, a compilation of new recordings of some of the band's classic compositions. On 26 November 2021, the band (whose line-up include Thorsten Quaeschning, Hoshiko Yamane and Paul Frick) released an EP entitled Probe 6-8 (including three tracks: "Raum", "Para Gu" and "Continuum") whose concept was developed further on their following album Raum, their latest studio album to date which was released on 25 February 2022.

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Discography

Tangerine Dream has released over one hundred albums (not counting compilations and fan releases) over the last five decades. A project to collect and release fan concert recordings, known as the Tangerine Tree, was active from 2002 to 2006.

Studio, EP or mini albums

  1. Electronic Meditation (1970)
  2. Alpha Centauri (1971)
  3. Zeit (1972)
  4. Atem (1973)
  5. Phaedra (1974)
  6. Rubycon (1975)
  7. Stratosfear (1976)
  8. Cyclone (1978)
  9. Force Majeure (1979)
  10. Tangram (1980)
  11. Exit (1981)
  12. White Eagle (1982)
  13. Hyperborea (1983)
  14. Le Parc (1985)
  15. Green Desert (1986, recorded in 1973)
  16. Underwater Sunlight (1986)
  17. Tyger (1987)
  18. Optical Race (1988)
  19. Lily on the Beach (1989)
  20. Melrose (1990)
  21. Rockoon (1992)
  22. Quinoa (1992, revised 1998)
  23. Turn of the Tides (1994)
  24. Tyranny of Beauty (1995)
  25. The Dream Mixes (1995)
  26. Tangerine Ambience (1996)
  27. Goblins' Club (1996)
  28. Tangerine Ambience Vol II (1997)
  29. TimeSquare – Dream Mixes II (1997)
  30. Ambient Monkeys (1997)
  31. Der Meteor (1997)
  32. The Hollywood Years Vol. 1 (1998)
  33. The Hollywood Years Vol. 2 (1998)
  34. Mars Polaris (1999)
  35. The Seven Letters from Tibet (2000)
  36. The Past Hundred Moons (2001)
  37. The Melrose Years (2002) (Re-recordings of Optical Race, Lily on the Beach and Melrose)
  38. DM 4 (2003)
  39. Purgatorio (2004)
  40. Kyoto (2005)
  41. Space Flight Orange (2005) (EP)
  42. Jeanne d'Arc (2005)
  43. Phaedra 2005 (2005) (Re-recording)
  44. Blue Dawn (2006)
  45. Paradiso (2006)
  46. Metaphor (2006) (EP)
  47. Springtime In Nagasaki (2007) (Five Atomic Seasons)
  48. Madcap's Flaming Duty (2007)
  49. Summer In Nagasaki (2007) (Five Atomic Seasons)
  50. One Times One (2007)
  51. Purple Diluvial (2008)
  52. Views from a Red Train (2008)
  53. The Anthology Decades (2008)
  54. Tangram 2008 (2008) (Re-recording)
  55. Hyperborea 2008 (2008) (Re-recording)
  56. Fallen Angels (2008) (EP or single?)
  57. Autumn in Hiroshima (2008) (Five Atomic Seasons)
  58. Choice (2008) (EP)
  59. Flame (2009)
  60. Chandra - The Phantom Ferry Part I (2009)
  61. A Cage in Search of a Bird (2009) (EP)
  62. Winter in Hiroshima (2009) (Five Atomic Seasons)
  63. DM V (2010)
  64. Zeitgeist (2010) (EP)
  65. Run to Vegas (2010)
  66. Under Cover – Chapter One (2010)
  67. The Endless Season (2010) (Five Atomic Seasons)
  68. The Island of the Fay (2011) (Eastgate's Sonic Poems Series)
  69. The Gate of Saturn (2011) (mini-album or EP)
  70. The Angel of the West Window (2011) (Eastgate's Sonic Poems Series)
  71. Mona da Vinci (2011) (mini-album or EP)
  72. Finnegans Wake (2011) (Eastgate's Sonic Poems Series)
  73. Machu Picchu (2012) (mini-album or EP)
  74. Cruise to Destiny (2013)
  75. Franz Kafka — The Castle (2013) (Eastgate's Sonic Poems Series)
  76. Chandra - The Phantom Ferry Part II (2014)
  77. Josephine The Mouse Singer (2014) (mini-album)
  78. Mala Kunia (2014) (mini-album)
  79. Zero Gravity (2015) (EP with Jean-Michel Jarre)
  80. Quantum Key (2015) (mini-album)
  81. Particles (2016) (mini-album or EP)
  82. Light Flux (2017)
  83. Quantum Gate (2017)
  84. Recurring Dreams (2019)
  85. Probe 6-8 (2021) (EP)
  86. Raum (2022)


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