Tangerine Dream live in London 1976 (added video)

TRANSIENT BASS ALERT: This has some booming bass notes. I filtered out the worst of it, but it still "sets off" my desktop speakers.

Long before Kraftwerk hit the airwaves (well, not that long - I bought Autobahm in 1974), Tangerine Dream had a sizeable portion of the collective public's ear. They just had "that" sound - even if if wasn't too removed from Karlheinz Stockhausen.

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• Tangerine
• Dream
• live
• London
• 1976

[HanzSygnal]

sososos dope

[Synthiman2600]

There was nothing else that sounded remotely like TD back then - I couldn't get enough. I bought every album, some I wore out and had to buy 2nd and 3rd copies. Soon after I heard Klaus Schulze on another late night radio show... I still look forward to his new releases. TD, not so much now - There is now and then a good to great track but I miss the days where I knew the whole album would fly my to another world without having to pre-listen first.

[Synthiman2600]

Over here in California, we weren't exposed to a lot of what was apparently commonplace in Germany at the time... Kraftwerk's Autobahn got radio play but was treated like a novelty record by most radio stations... then one night i was up after midnight painting and the DJ was playing a lot of darker prog, Pink Floyd and then he faded up Phaedra - I was transfixed! I loved TD right up until Chris Franke left in the mid 80s. After that, the music lost something it never reacquired, IMO.

[Papa7851]

Its always fun,seeing them,performing live and doing some improvisation on the equipment of yesterday,a science and philosophy based music,that trasponded that idees very well!

[Alun53]

I really liked Tangerine Dream up to and including Rubycon. Post Rubycon I feel they ceased to be as innovative. Edgar Froese's guitar playing I also found did not always fit well for me. Its great watching this though. I saw them live around this time, at the Corn Exchange in Cambridge. An hypnotic experience. I had not heard a purely improvised performance before and did not realise it was possible. They opened my ears to so much in music!

[satin123]

thx for uploading ;)

[spillo64100]

Che musica fantasmagorica bellissima.......

[LichfeldianSuttonian]

1976:

Baumann, yes.

Schmoelling, no (not until 1980).

Franke, yes.

Schulze, no (left in 1970).

[bearmare]

The period with Baumann, Schmoelling Franke, and Schulze are by far their most focused and inventive.

[securityrobot]

Fantastic and still ahead of its time. Thanks for posting this.