Top 10 Tangerine Dream albums

Thanks. Actually if I had read the information on the back of the CD cover it tells me that it's an 'EP' anyway, so that was a clue lol.

Things to keep in mind with Green Desert:

Chris Franke hadn't touched a drumkit for at least ten years. Those drums on the title cut are from the '70s. And so are the drums on "White Cloud."

Edgar's guitar tone is his '70s psych tone. Compare it to his tone on Underwater Sunlight.

Some of the synth pads are discernibly modern, but they're layered over the '70s tapes. Altogether, the results feel very organic and I love the album.

The Tangerine Tree project was something done around 2002 or so where fans sent in recordings: soundboards, master tapes, audience tapes, films etc to the curators who then cleaned them up and sorted them according to sound quality. The really good stuff became Tangerine Tree, and the lesser quality but still good stuff became the Tangerine Leaves series. There's about 90 releases totaling about 300 hours of unreleased stuff in this project. It was then remastered and full color cd covers were designed, often with stage photos from the event. They were distributed on the web by the tree/leaf method where one person fed others the files, creating more trees along the line to keep feeding the end users, the leaves, who were encouraged to become trees themselves. They adhered to a strict deadhead style of tape trading, absolutely NO cash could trade hands or you found yourself banished for life from the program. I remember getting a bag of Cds from Europe that my friends could not believe. I had to print out the covers and assemble the finished product with cannibalized jewel cases. Great stuff!