best tangerine dream smooth track

mmmmm....it 's very hard to choose....

i'll go with hyperborea

but the one that transports me the most is definitely love on a real train! 

 

 

i forgot to say: "a track past the 70's"

Edited by greenback

I’m not much for live albums and yet, I just can’t get enough of a 21-minute live epic called “Ricochet, part two” they wrote around the mid 70’s. It’s one of the most fascinating TD tracks I know. It starts off with delicate piano and then slowly builds up to a frenzy of unearthly sounds. Very eerie, trippy and trance like but absolutely not boring (unlike much of TD music, I’m sorry to say).

 

Now, I have over 25 TD albums but have yet to hear “Hyperborea”. So you’ve got me all curious now…

 

(Btw, nice sig!)

Has anyone heard Tangerine Dream's latest album Jeanne D'Arc?  I hope it's not too new agey like Oldfield's Light and Shade.  

The only tracks i know from this list are Remote Viewing, Kiev
Mission and Hyperborea. I choose the last one, which I think is close
their masterpieces of the 70s. BTW, TD have released more than 25
albums (see the discography in PA)
to Hibou: if you haven't already, check out their "official bootlegs"
box sets, there are some gems in them (especially the 1975 london
concert)

darren wrote: I voted "Love On A Real Train". I think I would have gone for almost TD track off of "Risky Business". The track I would have voted for, if it was listed, would be "Beach Scene" from the ThIef soundtrack. This track was that lead me into TD music and is still by far my favourite. Just wondering, anyone else like "Beach Scene" or am I alone in this one?

no, you are not alone! love on a real train is among my favorite ones! very addictive & hypnotic! beach scene is very good, but i did not put it on the list, because not so smooth.

Invisible Limits, to me... 

Fantômas wrote: Invisible Limits, to me...

Stratosfear, Ricochet and Encore are my three favourite TD albums. I heard some 80ties work but missed the warm sounds of these albums. Is it the difference between analog and digital equipment? Or is it because one of the bandmembers was replaced by someone else?
 

Yes, I do. It’s light, ethereal and it has that hypnotizing little groove to it. It’s the kind of tune I listen to intuitively at first, until I realize I'm actually riding with it full spin. It's a little spooky and hard to snap out of it. 

UncleMeat wrote: Fantômas wrote: Invisible Limits, to me...  Stratosfear, Ricochet and Encore are my three favourite TD albums. I heard some 80ties work but missed the warm sounds of these albums. Is it the difference between analog and digital equipment? Or is it because one of the bandmembers was replaced by someone else?

Early digital synths certainly sounded "colder" than analogue ones,
but I think the main issue with TD's 80s albums is that they changed
musical direction. Whereas Tangram and Pergamon still retain much
of their late 70s production, Exit, Thief, White Eagle, Hyperborea
moved towards a more "updated" sound. In a way these records
broke new ground, however I don't think they compare to their older
masterpieces. As for the line-up changes, bear in mind that Peter
Baumann never was a stable member in the band, although he
played on all of their records from Zeit to Encore. Actually he left the
band from time to time, to be replaced in concert by Michael Hoenig
(I recommend his solo album Departure from the northern
wasteland), with whom the band played an incredible gig in London
in 1975 (see the Bootleg box set vol. 1), Maybe it was Schmoelling's
arrival that led the band to explore a more commercial territory,
however I think that it was primarily Froese 's responsibility (given
his solo output in the following years). Going back to you first
question I doubt Underwater Sunlight would have sounded better
with mellotrons and moogs instead of oberheims and ppgs... warmer
perhaps, but not any better

Hyperborea