Facing the start of the 80s with a new three-man line up, ‘Tangram’ found Tangerine Dream taking their hypnotic instrumentals into jazzier territory.
The band's 1978 album was their first to feature formal vocals and lyrics, and followed film and live recording projects.
It was the 1974 record that provided the international awakening of the progressive masters.
‘Force Majeure’ saw Tangerine Dream close the 70s with one of their most enduring Virgin masterpieces, paving the way for yet another decade of innovation.
The career-shaping studio releases 'Phaedra' and 'Rubycon' were followed by the band's first live album, 'Ricochet.'
The track features on the band's new 'Pilots Of Purple Twilight' box set out on October 30.
The 10-disc set features everything of note the electronic pioneers recorded from 1980-1983, including previously unreleased material.
The German electronic group founded by Edgar Froese have spent their fifty-year-plus career redefining the sound of the synth in pop.
The upcoming exhibition will feature uncovered photographs and videos, original synthesisers, cassettes and vinyl.
The titles the pioneering Berlin outfit recorded for Virgin Records between 1973 and 1979 remain electronic music classics.
Progressive rock pioneers Tangerine Dream will release a two-CD edition of Quantum Gate on 20 April 2018 on Kscope, now including the Quantum Key EP.
Legendary electronic outfit Tangerine Dream have announced the release of a new studio album 'Quantum Gate' for September 2017
Tangerine Dream's Quantum Key EP, released last autumn as their first music since the death of Edgar Froese, will be out on vinyl in the new year.
By 1973, German electronic experimentalists Tangerine Dream had hit upon their “classic” line-up, releasing ‘Atem’, John Peel's eventual album of the year.
Released by the Froese-Schultze-Schnitzler line-up in 1971, Tangerine Dream’s, ‘Alpha Centauri’, is a key release in the development of electronica.
