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Tangerine Dream
From HitStory, the pop encyclopedia of School of Rock · Artist
Tangerine Dream was founded in West Berlin in 1967 by Edgar Froese. The group belonged to German electronic rock, also known as Krautrock. In the 1970s they worked with synthesizers and sequencers, devices that keep repeating short patterns automatically. The director William Friedkin asked them to score Sorcerer (1977), their first Hollywood film. Others followed, including Thief (1981) by Michael Mann and Risky Business (1983), with the track Love on a Real Train. For the American version of Legend (1985), their music replaced Jerry Goldsmith's orchestral score. Their pulsing sequencer patterns became the sound of the 1980s thriller.
Listening
Main Title · Tangerine Dream, 1977
Diamond Diary · Tangerine Dream, 1981
Love on a Real Train · Tangerine Dream, 1983
Discography
Studio albums
- 1970Electronic Meditation
- 1971Alpha Centauri
- 1972Zeit
- 1973Atem
- 1974Phaedra
- 1975Rubycon
- 1976Stratosfear
- 1977Sorcerer (soundtrack)
- 1978Cyclone
- 1979Force Majeure
- 1980Tangram
- 1981Exit
- 1981Thief (soundtrack)
- 1982White Eagle
- 1983Hyperborea
- 1983Wavelength: Original Soundtrack (soundtrack)
- 1984Firestarter (soundtrack)
- 1984Flashpoint (soundtrack)
- 1985Heartbreakers (soundtrack)
- 1985Le Parc
- 1986Green Desert
- 1986Legend: Music From the Motion Picture Soundtrack (soundtrack)
- 1986Underwater Sunlight
- 1987Near Dark (soundtrack)
- 1987Shy People (soundtrack)
- 1987Three O’Clock High (soundtrack)
- 1987Tyger
- 1988Optical Race
- 1989Catch Me… If You Can (soundtrack)
- 1989Destination Berlin (soundtrack)
- 1989Lily on the Beach
- 1989Miracle Mile (soundtrack)
- 1990Melrose
- 1991Canyon Dreams (soundtrack)
- 1991Dead Solid Perfect (soundtrack)
- 1991L’Affaire Wallraff / The Man Inside (soundtrack)
- 1992Deadly Care (soundtrack)
- 1992Quinoa
- 1992Rockoon
- 1992The Park Is Mine (soundtrack)
- 1994The Keep (soundtrack)
- 1994Turn of the Tides
- 1995Tyranny of Beauty
- 1996Goblins’ Club
- 1996Zoning (soundtrack)
- 1997Ambient Monkeys
- 1997Oasis (soundtrack)
- 1998Luminous Visions (soundtrack)
- 1998The Hollywood Years, Volume 1
- 1998The Hollywood Years, Volume 2
- 1998Transsiberia (soundtrack)
- 1999Mars Polaris
- 1999What a Blast: Architecture in Motion (soundtrack)
- 2000Great Wall of China (soundtrack)
- 2000The Seven Letters From Tibet
- 2003Mota Atma (soundtrack)
- 2004Purgatorio
- 2005Jeanne d’Arc
- 2005Kyoto
- 2005Phaedra 2005
- 2006Blue Dawn
- 2006Paradiso
- 2006Tangerine Dream Plays Tangerine Dream
- 2007Madcap’s Flaming Duty
- 2007One Times One
- 2007Springtime in Nagasaki
- 2007Summer in Nagasaki
- 2008Autumn in Hiroshima
- 2008Hyperborea
- 2008Purple Diluvial
- 2008Tangram 2008
- 2008Views From a Red Train
- 2009Chandra: The Phantom Ferry, Part I
- 2009Flame
- 2009Winter in Hiroshima
- 2010The Endless Season
- 2010Under Cover: Chapter One
- 2011Edgar Allan Poe’s The Island of the Fay
- 2011James Joyce: Finnegans Wake
- 2011Mona da Vinci
- 2011The Angel of the West Window
- 2011The Gate of Saturn
- 2012Machu Picchu
- 2013Cruise to Destiny: Topographic Dreamtime
- 2013Franz Kafka: The Castle
- 2013One Night in Africa
- 2014Chandra: The Phantom Ferry, Part II
- 2014GTA5: The Cinematographic Score (soundtrack)
- 2014Mala Kunia
- 2014The Soldier (soundtrack)
- 2017Light Flux
- 2017Quantum Gate
- 2019Oedipus Tyrannus
- 2019Recurring Dreams
- 2022Raum
- 2022Strange Behavior: Original Soundtrack (soundtrack)
Other work
- 1983Risky Business
- 1985Legend
In School of Rock
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- Film Music MapNL Map
- Mixtape 8: Electronic MusicNL Reader
- The Dream Factory: Film Reel 5NL Reader
Mentioned in other articles
- Synthesizer orchestra, ambient and new age Genre
Tangerine Dream and Klaus Schulze in Berlin had preceded them, and in 1978 Brian Eno gave the genre its name, ambient, with Music for Airports.
- Early synthesizer scores (Moog, Berlin School, Vangelis) Genre
The Berlin group Tangerine Dream, with sequencers that play endless, pulsing patterns, made the music for William Friedkin's Sorcerer (1977).