Tangerine Dream - Improvisation (1976)

[TheRosePhantom]

Amazing.

[echoes707]

ha ha ha noow i need some palkalolo well done my friend very good

[aegisgfx]

Great music, but seeing them in concert is like watching people paint a house.

[WeHaveExplosive]

@aegisgfx Oh I dunno, I'd have loved to have seen them back in the day, vintage synths like these are fascinating. A bit of knob-twiddling is always good to watch.

[Squeller5]

I thought I knew all the works of Tangerine Dream of the 70's. This one I didn't know.. and it's great!

[MrLizardisle]

THIS is my kind  of DREAM !

[mootbooxle]

Those Mellotron tapes!!!

[stab912]

they utilitty Korg ms 2000 and ARP 2600 e

[ogrebattle22763]

Excellent.... Classic Tangerine Dream Live On German T.V.

[runrunrun6777]

This clip is absolutely priceless!

[richardbates1]

We will indeed in the future merge in with machines but what we will give to machines is the organic and they will benefit and hopefully by merging with machines we will benefit. But in the 70's when machines were more organic we all benefited.

[alexnordh]

"Crazy longhair art teachers that somebody had trusted with machinery worth a million" (John Peel describing the krautrock years)

[eggfleece]

modern electronic cant touch this stuff even with all its attention to detail and the amount of control you can excert with music software these days. Music like this has a much more primal and human spirit vibe..... maybe were subconciously becoming machines.

[bmet47]

Agree wholeheartedly with scitsalcoryp.'74-'77 was their best years with Bauman.I prize recording of concerts in this era above all others! Long live the mellotrons,rythmn machines,moogs and the VC3s!

[scitsalcoryp]

@bmet47 Aye mate...Hearty !

[kernel409]

For me, there was more lysergic band, experimental and surreal of the 70 electronically speaking, than Tangerine Dream!

[scitsalcoryp]

@kernel409 By all means if you are tripping..you should try Klaus Schulze

[mingepotato]

It really was like exploring a new frontier back then. All new, exciting, dangerous, dark, uplifting, thought provoking and colourful.

I wish I could switch my brain into innocent mode and enjoy this at the 100% I used to before all the pollution of the last 30 years clouded my immagination. Still fantastic though thankfully :).

[stulle63]

Nice video, the music is

a dream*****

[scitsalcoryp]

This was back when they were really good..and not ripping off their audiences with prerecorded junk..watch the Poland videos if you don' t believe it . There is no evidence on those videos that any sounds audible were corresponding to any keys hit .

I used to be the worlds #1 TD fan..even got a cool letter from Edgar Froese and a box set to go with it..a great guy for sure .

I read an interview with Edgar in '86 and he mentioned they didn' t even need all that junk on stage.

[mercman159]

For me they were at there best in the 70's and 80's saw them live in 78 always amazing. Its incredible that today you can make this music on a laptop wow how times change.

[keesvangelis]

great video thanks

have seen them often but nice to see this one

[jacktheknife57]

indimenticabili anni 70/80 con Schulze e Vangelis e i primi Kraftwerk

Mon Dieu mon Dieu

[soundmanhaven1]

lovely orignal retro sounds that you can't do with the new stuff that out today.....

[kovalmoog]

That's partially true, specially if you mention the software synths (or even DSP ones). But right now there are real analog equipments. One of them is the élkorus (please, see synthoma(dot)net), a chorus unit that produce the exact behavior of the most ancient string ensembles, like the Elka Rhapsody on this very video, Solina, Crumar Performer, etc, mainly because the élkorus use the same chips of those chorus. Best regards.

[Heliosphan15]

i love their murky old music so much. i was listening to music from Metroid Fusion and it reminds me of this kinda stuff

[licencefreeham]

chris franke is like neil out of the young ones

[dbbification]

great performance!

this is scary and creepy at times, but very futuristic and sounds like some space travel

[licencefreeham]

@dbbification actually it sounds like my bowels after a special kebab!

[MORIBOSA]

OUTSTANDING!! when i was young in the late 70s i would have never believed i would ever see this. amazing.

[JAL2K]

This is brilliant

I love music when its improvised

[discouniverse]

some sounds are new and beautiful, some are ugly

[sheepmeat]

Improvising on a theme is a classic tradition among musicians of many types.

I love seeing the gear looking so...new. Beginning with the Beatles experimental sounds using mellotrons sound sampling was made popular in modern times!

[MarkJenkinsMusic]

It's the Mellotrons really. Because TD had theirs filled with custom tapes, they effectively had sound samplers (for acoustic rather than purely synthetic sounds) years before anyone else, like the knitting machine noise (as well as the male choirs and oddly on this piece, the grand piano). See my book "Analog Synthesizers" available through Amazon.

[WagnerDisaster]

3:33

[jimbomak]

Peter Baumann with a Radio Clyde t shirt on. That's where I first heard them one Saturday night in 1975. A show called ' New To You ' on Radio Clyde ( Glasgow ) played Rubycon and Phaedra. Have liked them since then...

[nichelodeonband]

Everything of this sounds incredibly actual.

[ysgwy]

Get the Champagne out

[ysgwy]

Party Time

[kaplanyorks]

It's not 100% improvised - variations on this (untitled) piece cropped up throughout their 1976 gigs and never made it onto official releases. But yes, there was a lot of improvisation involed; no two renditions were exactly the same.

[mushyrhum]

They're supreme, they got the most fabolous synths i've ever seen!!!

[droogless]

Retro futurist music. I would love them to reform and get out the big old analog synths. How good would that be?

[doctorwhonico]

Look at the equipment they play. Isn't that beautifull? IMPROVISATION!!!

[devoxtc]

great clip. love those scanning lights at the top of the (?sequencer modules)

half the time they didn't seem to know what they were doing though; listening to some of the bootlegs from the early 70s

[Strombolifan]

To me 1976 is *the* year for TD, never did they play better improvised live music (the 1975 shows were hit and miss, and the 1977 "Encore" sometimes sounded a bit too streamlined, even though large parts were still improvised). This video was used for the May 1976 documentary "Signale aus der Schwäbischen Strasse", I once had a VHS master copy which I bought fromthe SFB and used excerpts for the "Tangerine Tree" fan series which I put out a few years ago.

[beyondthesevoices]

Is it their best lineup or are they fighting for superiority?

[beyondthesevoices]

This could be the best TD live video on here!

[theo9952]

first time i saw them live was in the october 1974 in london. i didn't know the band at all and i was amazed at what i heard and saw. i am not sure but i think they improvised a lot in that show too.

[rhodochrosite123454]

baumann and Franke were the true masters.. Froese was a necessary inconvenience....With his crap guitar playing..He tuned it into popcorn music..yes tuned....and Royal Albert Hall 1976 was probably their best performance..i know I recorded it..D..London UK.

[docraymond]

Wow... considering Edgar Froese FOUNDED the group, you might show a bit more respect. Using the guitar as the melodic device in this piece gave it a distinct thread and the sound itself is so morphed, it's barely a guitar. It's no different then any of the other sounds weaving in and out of the tapestry. Either you like the music or you don't; take a part of it away and it's something else.

[beyondthesevoices]

The guitar was made to mesh with the synth sounds, and might not fit the preconceived notion of "guitar jamming" that some people are used to.

[esirenbotdon]

At last someone else also thinks froese was the least talented of the trio.People forget he was "co-founder".Thats not to say the best,listen to sorcerer he distroys the album with his guitar at the end.

[pathdaly]

I've been a TD fan for a good 3 decades now and as much as I love them I have to agree that Edgar's guitar work often leaves a lot to be desired. Sometimes it fits, sometimes it doesn't. I have friends who can play better, none of them have any fame or fortune however.

[rhodochrosite123454]

Ah those were the days..Im 53 now and was at some of that vseries of concerts..access all areas....they did practise but only briefly..it was ALL IMPROVISATION...and they made mistakes live..and their machinery played up....ah those were the days...and klause Schulze at the london Planetarium...TG Royal Albert Hall 1976 was far better than this..I know I recorded it...Im deadly serius.D.LONDON..UK.

[jimbomak]

Peter Baumann wearing a Radio Clyde t shirt. First time I heard them was on a Radio Clyde radio show in 1975. They played all of Rubycon and a side of Phaedra. Loved their music since that Saturday night.

[WagnerDisaster]

Tangerine Dream is THE group.

1976 is THE year.

[jokijarvi]

I'd really love to see WDR programs like this today!

not the global bullshit all over

[fabrikk60]

Modular synths rule!

[joangape]

A mi parecer, una de las mejores etapas de Tangerine Dream.

[lsdmadman]

krikey!!! i'm appalled yet again at their zany trippiness

[d3p3ch3mod3]

How many electronic bands have you seen in the past 15 years that can do an 8 minute live improvisation from scratch like this

[RhesusVX]

No practice beforehand eh?  Riiiiight, and you all believed it...

[whitegale]

Franke, Froese & Baumann - without doubt the best TD line-up ever.

ZUGABE!

[d3p3ch3mod3]

agreed. it would be cool if franke would team up with froese for just a little studio song or two for the hell of it, with all the technology they have now

[Jauly]

cool, but would sadly sound digital ;)

[quasarsphere]

It would be, but they hate each other now unfortunately. Froese has said that of all the musicians he's ever worked with, Franke is the only one he wouldn't so much as have a coffee with.

[eselsdistel]

When Franke left Tangerine Dream, they had a strong discussion about who would keep a recording studio that both parts claimed as his. At the end, Franke did, much to Froese's disillusion. He also took offence at some comments of Franke on Tangerine Dream having become a production line and not being cutting edge music anymore (no way you want to stay friends spreading around such stuff). You can take for granted that they 100% definitely WON'T reunite.

[believerornot]

This is great. Thanks for posting this. I´ve been a fan of theirs since the mid seventies and I´ve never seen this.

[AngelundJo]

Tangerine Dream mit Improvisationen immer noch am besden.

[zxcitaly]

bravo!!!

[400026]

fuckin fantastic. can never watch all those damn laptop performances again...

[ocvirk]

Isn't it pity that such musical jewel didn't find place on some album?

Stuff is just fantastic!