Tracks: 01. Phaedra 17:46 02. Mysterious Semblance At The Strand Of Nightmares 9:55 03. Movements Of A Visionary 8:02 04. Sequent C' 2:18 Total running time: 38:01
Details Recording date December 1973 Recording site(s) The Manor (Shipton-on-Cherwell) Recording engineer(s) Phil Becque Composer(s) Edgar Froese, Chris Franke, Peter Baumann Musician(s) Edgar Froese, Chris Franke, Peter Baumann Producer(s) Edgar Froese
Tracks: 01. Green Desert 19:33 02. White Clouds 5:10 03. Astral Voyager 7:12 04. Indian Summer 6:53 Total running time: 39:48
Details Recording date August 1973 Recording site(s) Skyline Studio (Berlin) Recording engineer(s) Pete Beaulieu Composer(s) Edgar Froese, Chris Franke Musician(s) Edgar Froese, Chris Franke Producer(s) Edgar Froese
Tracks:
01. Birth Of Liquid Plejades 19:55
02. Nebulous Dawn 17:58
03. Origin Of Supernatural Probabilities 19:36
04. Zeit 17:00
Total running time: 74:29
Details
Recording date 1972
Recording site(s) Dierks Studio (Cologne)
Recording engineer(s) Dieter Dierks
Composer(s) Edgar Froese, Chris Franke, Peter Baumann
Musician(s) Edgar Froese, Chris Franke, Peter Baumann, Florian Fricke (†),
Steve Schroyder, Christian Vallbracht, Jochen von Grumbcow, Hans Joachim Brüne,
Johannes Lücke
Producer(s) Edgar Froese, Chris Franke, Peter Baumann
Tracks: 01. Sunrise In The Third System 4:29 02. Fly And Collision Of Comas Sola 13:32 03. Alpha Centauri 22:14 Total running time: 40:15
Details Recording date January 1971 Recording site(s) Dierks Studio (Cologne) Recording engineer(s) Dieter Dierks Composer(s) Edgar Froese, Chris Franke, Steve Schroyder Musician(s) Edgar Froese, Chris Franke, Steve Schroyder, Udo Dennebourg, Roland Paulyck Producer(s) Edgar Froese, Chris Franke, Steve Schroyder
Notes In October 1970 Edgar Froese had been asked by a friend to co-produce the German version of the Simon and Garfunkel song "The Boxer" for a German artist. He still did some of these "bread and butter" jobs at that period of time and was looking for a good drummer after Klaus Schulze had left the group. During that recording session, Edgar Froese met Chris Franke, a drummer who had just turned 17 and whose drumming was unusually varied. Edgar hired him for various studio jobs before he asked him if he wanted to play with TD.
The line-up Edgar Froese/Chris Franke/Conrad Schnitzler gave many concerts and TV appearances, since their music was considered very exotic at that time. TD gave a TV concert for twelve pinball machines, guitar, cello and drums - it was a live TV broadcast and caused a wave of public protest. In spite of this, TD was well booked at home and abroad, though there are no album releases with this line-up. After Conrad Schnitzler had left the group he was replaced by Steve Schroyder. For their second album, Alpha Centauri, TD experimented for over three weeks making their original organ sound, that was pure luxury in those days. The spacey image of the music began during these years.
Tracks:
01. Genesis 5:58
02. Journey Through A Burning Brain 12:33
03. Cold Smoke 10:50
04. Ashes To Ashes 3:59
05. Resurrection 3:22
Total running time: 37:42
Details
Recording date October 1969
Recording site(s) Mixed Media (Berlin)
Recording engineer(s) Klaus Freudigmann
Composer(s) Edgar Froese, Klaus Schulze, Conrad Schnitzler
Musician(s) Edgar Froese, Klaus Schulze, Conrad Schnitzler, Jimmy Jackson,
Thomas Keyserling
Producer(s) Edgar Froese
Notes
In autumn/winter of 1969 Edgar Froese, founder of Tangerine Dream, met Klaus
Schulze and Conrad Schnitzler. This trio formed the line-up of Tangerine Dream
to record the debut album Electronic Meditation. The band was supported by two
other musicians: Jimmy Jackson (organ) and Thomas Keyserling (flute), but both
were mysteriously left out of the credits of the original album.
Klaus Schulze later remembers: "We recorded and toured Electronic
Meditation. That for me is the primary electronic album. Edgar played guitar,
Schnitzler organ and me drums through loads of effects. We were experimenting
with a lot of random stuff and were making up our own sounds. I remember Conrad
had this metal cup full of these bits of glass in which he stuck a microphone
attached to each machine. I played a lot of different percussive sounds that
were then altered by machines. It was just great to be in a band who were open
to so much experimentation."
