Anthology - The Tangerine Dream Collection Part 8 of 8 (2007 to 2008)

Without doubt, the recordings of Tangerine Dream have made the greatest impact on the widest variety of instrumental music during the 1980s and '90s, ranging from the most atmospheric new age and space music to the harshest abrasions of electronic dance. Founded in 1967 by Edgar Froese in Berlin, the group has progressed through a full three dozen lineups (Froese being the only continuous member with staying power) and four distinct stages of development: the experimentalist minimalism of the late '60s and early '70s; stark sequencer trance during the mid- to late '70s, the group's most influential period; an organic form of instrumental music on their frequent film and studio work during the 1980s; and, finally, a more propulsive dance style, which showed Tangerine Dream with a sound quite similar to their electronic inheritors in the field of dance music.

This anthology is the most complete (and of course, the largest) collection of TD albums that is roaming the net these days. Together with the "Tangerine Tree"-collection, it contains more then 200 albums from five decades! Nevertheless, there are better-quality versions of some of these albums floating around, especially here on AvaxHome, the place for high quality music. Those of you, who can tell the difference between 192kbps and 256 kbps or between 320kbps and FLAC, you may like to regard this collection as a basis and upgrade your archive from time to time with better bitrate versions if and when they're available. Anyway, I hope you enjoy the work and art of Tangerine Dream as much, as I do.


For Anthology Part 1 (1969 to 1980) see here.
For Anthology Part 2 (1980 to 1984) see here.
For Anthology Part 3 (1984 to 1989) see here.
For Anthology Part 4 (1989 to 1992) see here.
For Anthology Part 5 (1992 to 1997) see here.
For Anthology Part 6 (1997 to 2003) see here.
For Anthology Part 7 (2003 to 2007) see here.


List of Recordings:



Tracks:
01. Bells of Accra 14:28
Total running time: 14:28

Details
Recording date 2007
Composer(s) Edgar Froese
Musician(s) Edgar Froese
Producer(s) Edgar Froese

Notes
On July 1st, 2007 the city of Eberswalde (Germany) celebrated the opening of its new "Paul-Wunderlich-Haus", a huge public building complex including an Art Center with permanent exhibitions of the famous painter and sculptor Paul Wunderlich who was born in Eberswalde and became 80 years now. The highly acclaimed surrealist artist has given his name to the Center. Paul Wunderlich's paintings and sculptures can be found within the art collections of Tina Turner, Elton John, Madonna and many others. Tangerine Dream celebrated this opening with a free open air concert and light show on the town's marketplace.

On the occasion of this event the EP Bells Of Accra has been released which is dedicated to Wunderlich. It consists of one track of some 14 minutes, composed and performed by Edgar Froese and is said to be a limited release.

The Eastgate Music Shop advertises this release with the following words: "Only a few artists who are known for their very strange view regarding reality – "reality" as we are used to perceive it… – have the impact to give us that special mental herb needed to put things upside down. Paul Wunderlich who became 75 [sic!] this year is one of the few who gets his own museum in his lifetime – which isn't common business in the art's landscape. His paintings and sculptures are collected by many artists especially by musicians. Tangerine Dream had the honour to write this piece of music on the occasion of the inauguration of his museum on 1st July 2007 in Eberswalde/Germany. For some reason we realized an atmospherical connection to some West African art forms – that's why this recording is called Bells Of Accra."

Quality
MP3@256 kbps CBR, 26.5 MB




Tracks:
01. One Night in Space 6:57
02. Hyper Sphinx 14:21
03. Metaphor Part One 5:03
04. Metaphor Part Two 5:04
05. The Greek Mirror 7:40
06. Lady Monk 4:51
07. I Could Hear It When the Moon Collapsed on Broadway 5:22
08. Logos 5:18
Total running time: 55:36

01. Tangram Chin Part 7:25
02. Sleeping Watches Snoring in Silence 6:01
03. Tangines on and Running 4:46
04. All Thirsty Angels Pass 7:24
05. World Away From Gagaland 7:01
06. Big Sur and the Oranges From Hieronymus Bosch 6:03
08. Bells of Accra 14:28
08. Ça Va - Ça Marche - Ça Ira Encore 4:56
Total running time: 58:04

Details
Recording date 2007
Composer(s) Edgar Froese, Chris Franke, Johannes Schmoelling, Thorsten Quaeschning
Musician(s) Edgar Froese, Thorsten Quaeschning

Notes
The double CD release Booster compiles a number of rare (and some not so rare) compositions that had been mostly released on limited edition singles so far. It contains tracks from Ça Va - Ça Marche - Ça Ira Encore (1998, one of three tracks), Space Flight Orange (2005, one of two tracks), 40 Years Roadmap To Music (2006, one of three tracks), Blue Dawn (2006, one of ten tracks), Metaphor (2006, two of four tracks), Sleeping Watches Snoring In Silence (2007, complete), Bells Of Accra (2007, complete), and One Night In Space (2007, complete); as well as two remixed excerpts of compositions that had been released on the albums Tangram (1980) and Logos Live (1982), respectively. Furthermore this compilation features two completely new tracks that are unavailable on any other release.

The Eastgate Music Shop advertises this release with the following words: "Booster comes as a double CD and contains some real goodies from the alchymical soundboard of TD. There are two brand-new compositions and some tracks which aren't available on various EP's anymore. Of course you will hear music you've probably heard before – no-one forces you to stress your credit card again! :-). But for some of you it will become a collector's item as a pack of tracks which definitely will become 'classics' out of the first decade of the new musical Century. The first 200 CDs will come with a signed card by Edgar Froese himself."

Quality
MP3@256 kbps CBR, 100.0 MB & MP3@256 kbps CBR, 106.3 MB




Tracks:
01. Cool Shibuya 3:55
02. Culpa Levis 10:09
03. Sad Merlin´s Sunday 8:49
04. Exit 4:33
05. Elf June And The Midnight Patr 4:42
06. Forth Worth Runway One 5:30
07. Order Of The Ginger Gild 9:07
08. Iguana 5:35
09. At Darwin´s Motel 7:32
10. United Goblins Parade 5:48
Total running time: 66:40

Notes
Listen to this record at 5 pm when the afternoon sun falls noiseless on the carpet of your private flat - past, present and future will melt to that what really happens: That very moment when time seems to be absent nothing can disturb you. It's just consciousness and sound that could be more than the sum of yourself. Sounds crazy? True, because it's so close to reality - your reality.
PS: All tracks on this compilation are completely remastered!

Quality
MP3@256 kbps CBR, 120.1 MB




Tracks:
01. Astrophel And Stella 9:47
02. Shape My Sin 4:50
03. The Blessed Damozel 5:16
04. The Divorce 4:47
05. A Dream Of Death 7:47
06. Hear The Voice 5:09
07. Lake Of Pontchartrain 7:24
08. Mad Song 5:09
09. One Hour Of Madness 8:30
10. Man 4:48
11. Hymn To Intellectual Beauty 6:25
12. Solution Of All Problems 6:24
Total running time: 76:16

Notes
TD’s performance of all 13 new songs - including a bonus song -, shows the Band in a very cool and relaxed atmosphere. Additionally you’ll see some ‘making of images’ as well as a 6 minutes Intro. It is probably the most intimate and private session the Band has done so far. Sit back and relax while watching parts of a very different world of Tangerine Dream’s musical universe.

Quality
MP3@189.72 kbps VBR, 103.5 MB




Tracks:
01. Quinoa 20:52
02. Ancient Power Plant 4:32
03. Speed Dragon 3:15
04. Oceanride 8:16
05. Sundance Kid 6:28
06. Hamlet 8:10
Total running time: 52:33

Notes
Cool breeze for some sensual summernight activities. Completely remastered from previous releases on the TDI label. Even if you already got the originals which had been spread out over a couple of different CD's, this carefully chosen compilation will lead you to a new emotional edge within the surreal Tangerine Dream landscape.

Quality
MP3@256 kbps CBR, 94.3 MB




Tracks:
01. One Night In Space 6:57
02. I Could Hear It When The Moon Collapsed On Broadway 5:20
Total running time: 12:17

Details
Recording date 2007
Recording site(s) Eastgate Studios (Vienna)
Composer(s) Edgar Froese
Musician(s) Edgar Froese
Producer(s) Edgar Froese

Notes
The tracks 'One Night In Space' and 'I Could Hear It When The Moon Collapsed On Broadway' will accompany TD's Frankfurt gig on Oct 7th 2007. They come as an EP in a limited version. No further pressings will be manufactured from this EP title (in this form) - definitely a collector's item! So, enjoy yourself in orbit!!

Quality
MP3@320 kbps CBR, 28.2 MB




Tracks:
01. Sadness of Echnaton Losing the World Child 6:26
02. Man (Instrumental) 4:53
03. Modesty and Greed 7:05
04. Loved by the Sun (Instrumental) 3:39
05. Gleeful Poets Crying Softly 8:23
06. Daughters of Time 9:02
Total running time: 39:28

Details
Recording date 2007
Composer(s) Edgar Froese, Chris Franke, Johannes Schmoelling
Musician(s) Edgar Froese

Notes
The Eastgate Music Shop advertises this release with the following words: "One Times One is not just a new CD release we can offer you – it's a NEW FORMAT which can be seen as a fair priced – so far missing – link between single disc formats and the regular CD format. The playing time will be at least 35 minutes minimum and will not exceed 45 minutes. Surprise price: 10 € for each coming CD of this new series. This first release of our so-called CUPDISC contains four brand-new tracks and two familiar ones in a new instrumental shape. […] Eastgate Music will continue this series on a regular basis. Enjoy these partly very ambient tracks while having a cup of tea or coffee with your friends! :-)"

Quality
MP3@320 kbps CBR, 90.3 MB




Tracks:
01. Beauty of the Blast 4:00
02. Longing for Cashba 7:40
03. Bois de Boulogne 5:17
04. Stoneyard 6:13
05. Akash Deep 7:28
06. Storm Seekers 5:23
07. Gaudi Parc 5:21
08. Last Trumpet on 23rd Street 4:33
09. Silver Siren 4:45
10. Dream Sculpture 5:29
Total running time: 56:09

Details
Recording date 1985 - 1999
Composer(s) Edgar Froese, Chris Franke, Johannes Schmoelling, Paul Haslinger

Notes
"Art has nothing to do with taste. Art does not exist to be tasted."

The Silver Siren Collection features a number of tracks originally released on the soundtrack album What A Blast (1999) and on the box set i-Box (2000). Five tracks have been selected from each of the original releases. This compilation contains no new material.

This album had initially been released as a virtual album in January 2007, available from the Tangerine Dream Download Shop only. Eventually, in October 2007, it became available as CD release as well.

The Eastgate Music Shop advertises this compilation with the following words: "The third release out of the Antique Dream Land series is a musical power pack. A must for those of you who are very much into TD’s tasteful melodic approach. Specifically with this recording you can hear the causal context which combines most of TD’s work through the decades. Figure out if the keynote you might have personally about the band will effect you like a 'chain reaction' as it has been quoted recently. Entirely remastered –- enjoy the superb sound!"

Neither CD nor the paper inserts show any order number or barcode, but the CD has the matrix number listed below. The number given in brackets is the order number the Eastgate Music Shop lists this release.

Quality
MP3@256 kbps CBR, 102.8 MB




Tracks:
01. Hyper Sphinx 14:22
02. Lady Monk 4:51
03. Sleeping Watches Snoring In Silence 5:59
Total running time: 25:12

Details

Recording date 2007
Composer(s) Edgar Froese, Chris Franke, Johannes Schmoelling, Thorsten Quaeschning
Musician(s) Edgar Froese, Chris Franke, Johannes Schmoelling, Thorsten Quaeschning

Notes
On April 20th, 2007 Tangerine Dream performed at the London Astoria Theatre. This concert was later released on DVD as London Astoria Club Concert 2007.

On the occasion of this event the EP Sleeping Watches Snoring In Silence has been released, containing three tracks, two of them being reworkings of older material from the eighties (which both were performed live that evening), and the completely new title track (which was not performed live).

The Eastgate Music Shop advertises this release with the following words: "This collector's item […] contains 20 minutes of 'diehard' material which has been produced on the occasion of TD's Astoria gig on April 20th, 2007. This EP will not contain any vocal parts. There are three tracks of TD at its best." The mention of vocals obviously corresponds to the then current album release Madcap's Flaming Duty which was performed during the first set of the evening. Like everytime when TD experimented with vocals the fans' reactions were quite mixed about that album, so this EP can be understood as some kind of present to those fans who are not that happy with the direction TD took with that album and prefer a more 'classic', that is purely instrumental, approach.

Quality
MP3@256 kbps CBR, 46.0 MB




Tracks:
01. Navel of Light Part One 8:03
02. Navel of Light Part Two 14:44
03. Navel of Light Part Three 7:42
04. Persistence of Memory Part Four 6:33
05. Persistence of Memory Part Five 13:12
06. Persistence of Memory Part Six 3:51
Total running time: 54:05

Details
Recording date February 2007
Recording site(s) Eastgate Studios (Vienna)
Recording engineer(s) Christian Gstettner & Gerd Palkovits
Composer(s) Edgar Froese, Thorsten Quaeschning
Musician(s) Edgar Froese, Thorsten Quaeschning
Producer(s) Edgar Froese

Notes
Without much prior announcement, fans were surprised in early 2007 by Springtime In Nagasaki, a new release by Tangerine Dream.

This is the first album of the 'Five Atomic Seasons' cycle by Tangerine Dream that so far includes the following albums:

* Springtime In Nagasaki (2007)
* Summer In Nagasaki (2007)
* Autumn In Nagasaki (2008)

Here's what the Eastgate Music shop says about this release: "In November 2006 TD got the offer from a Japanese Business Manager, who turned 82 last year, to compose and record the so-called 'Five Atomic Seasons'. As it was clear that this was a real serious assignment, TD were told that the person who ordered the composition did study during his youth in the two cities which had been destroyed by atomic bombardments back in 1945, Nagasaki and Hiroshima. The five compositions had to be in length 54 minutes each. Part one and two – Spring and Summer 1945 – the client spent living in Nagasaki, while he lived in Hiroshima in Autumn and Winter of 1945, where he survived one of the most lunatic and barbarian war crimes ever done by mankind. Spring and Summer will describe the normal atmosphere in a Japanese city with some of the rising premonitions of what will happen on August 9th 1945. Autumn and Winter in Hiroshima will musically mirror what happened after August 6th 1945. The Fifth Season supposes to be the 'time after', the so-called 'endless season'.

According to information from the Eastgate Music shop, Springtime In Nagasaki is a limited pressing, but the number of copies is unknown at time of writing.

The six compositions float seamlessly one into the other; three of them are composed by Edgar Froese, the other three by Thorsten Quaeschning. According to the album's theme, Springtime In Nagasaki has a somewhat dark mood, stylistic it is much more a 'classic' TD album, quite different to Madcap's Flaming Duty, which can be regarded as the 'major' TD release of the year.

Quality
MP3@195.87 kbps VBR, 75.6 MB




Tracks:
01. Climbing Mount Inasa 10:57
02. In The Cherry Blossom Hills 5:16
03. Mystery Of Life And Death 13:33
04. Dreaming In A Kyoto Train 7:00
05. Ayumi's Butterflies 5:00
06. Presentiment 4:06
07. 11:02 AM 10:52
Total running time: 57:44

Details
Recording date May 2007
Recording site(s) Eastgate Studios (Vienna)
Recording engineer(s) Christian Gstettner & Gerd Palkovits
Composer(s) Edgar Froese
Musician(s) Edgar Froese
Producer(s) Edgar Froese

Notes
This is the second album of the 'Five Atomic Seasons' cycle by Tangerine Dream that so far includes the following albums:

* Springtime In Nagasaki (2007)
* Summer In Nagasaki (2007)
* Autumn In Nagasaki (2008)

Quality
MP3@320 kbps CBR, 129.8 MB




Tracks:
01. After The Call 5:13
02. Barbakane 6:02
03. Horizon (Warsaw Gate Mix) 8:16
04. House Of The Rising Sun (Southend Mix) 4:59
05. Livemiles (Morning Glow Mix) 9:03
06. Storm Seekers / Cool Shibuya 8:45
07. Story Of The Brave (Vienna Mix) 5:20
08. Sungate (Red Rock Version) 4:47
09. Teetering Scale 3:43
10. Underwater Sunlight 5:50
Total running time: 62:58

Details
Recording date 1983 - 2000
Composer(s) Edgar Froese, Chris Franke, Johannes Schmoelling, Paul Haslinger, Ralf Wadephul, Linda Spa
Musician(s) Edgar Froese, Chris Franke, Johannes Schmoelling, Paul Haslinger, Linda Spa

Notes
Tangines Scales compiles ten tracks that had originally been released on the albums Poland (1983), Underwater Sunlight (1986), Livemiles, Optical Race (both 1988), Miracle Mile (1989), Turn Of The Tides (1994), and i-Box (2000). With the exception of the unique version of House Of The Rising Sun this compilation contains no new material.

The Eastgate Music Shop advertises this compilation with the following words: "Tangines Scales is the second release out of the Antique Dream Land series. An interesting mixture of studio, live and soundtrack work will take you on to a strange journey passing landscapes of sound sculpturing which probably couldn't have been produced by anybody else but Tangerine Dream. Enjoy the ride with an ultra fresh remastering and take a chance to escape a few minutes from today's gagaland."

Quality
MP3@256 kbps CBR, 113.4 MB




Tracks:
01. Boat To China 7:30
02. Landing On 51 7:57
03. Exit To Heaven 4:47
04. Silver Pendulum 4:59
05. Shy Shila 5:24
06. Sunset In The Fifth System 6:41
07. Borealis 4:49
08. Run To Vegas 10:12
09. The Seventh Folder 7:41
10. Pink Ashes 4:12
11. The Burning Hole 3:39
12. Huckebees Dream 10:46
Total running time: 79:37

Notes
This recording out of four TD decades creates memories for those ones who were grown up with the band and their various moves and changes within their hystory. But it’s definitely not a ‘Best of’ or a compilation of formerly released material. It mirrors the timeless, floating character of TD’s music philosophy which never aimed to become a hit monster. Carefully restored and remastered or even newly recorded, this selection of sounds and music will help you to find your own individual path from the present to the past including a return ticket.

Quality
MP3@320 kbps CBR, 179.8 MB




Tracks:
01. Armageddon In The Rose Garden (Part II) 7:16
02. Purple Diluvial 19:23
03. Babylon The Great Has Fallen 13:19
Total running time: 40:58

Notes
This second cupdisc recording contains nearly 40 minutes of new music for the fairest price possible. TD can be heard here within a strong rhythm and soundscape oriented musical landscape. It is a real ‘open sky’ recording which gives the listener the absolute freedom of choice on which point he want’s to start his travel to the unknown. Eastgate Music will continue this series - so enjoy the music while having another cup of tea or coffee with your friends!:-)

Quality
MP3@192 kbps CBR, 54.9 MB




Tracks:
01. Carmel Calif 7:32
02. Passing All Signs 6:14
03. Leviathan 7:01
04. Hunter Shot By A Yellow Rabbit 9:33
05. Nutshell Awakening 6:38
06. Serpent Magique 9:20
07. Lord Of The Ants 9:41
08. Fire On The Mountain 7:41
09. Sound Of A Shell 6:42
Total running time: 70:22

Notes
'Views From A Red Train' is the new studio album by Tangerine Dream. Three tracks from the album have already made their first public appearance during the Frankfurt gig (at Alte Oper/"One Night In Space Concert") last year. The CD contains 10 tracks of very pulsating and energy driving material. Maybe the most rocktype oriented recording TD ever did. The fans who just love the EM ambient background stuff should maybe safe their money on this one. Fair advise – but if you’re willing to do the test of expanding your tolerance, you’re always welcome.

Quality
MP3@192 kbps CBR, 96.6 MB