The journey last week to find the graves of Jaki Liebezeit, Holger Czukay and his wife U-She might have piqued your interest in the German post-war experimental music scene of the seventies. By watching this very well put together documentary first aired on BBC 4 in 2009 you will have a much better understanding of […]
“There is no death, there is just a change of our cosmic address”. These are the words of Edgar Froese who died suddenly last Tuesday as a result of a pulmonary embolism, he was 70 years old. Froese was the founder of the hugely influential Tangerine Dream along with Conrad Schnitzler and Klaus Schulze. Both of them left after the […]
Tangerine Dream’s music is the perfect companion for images of space, exploding suns, colliding planets and spewing volcanoes. I wasn’t able to find much good early footage of the band so I thought why not just post a whole lot of images put together by a fan. Here is that footage, for 17 minutes using […]
Phaedra was the first album by Tangerine Dream to be released on Virgin Records and it seems that Richard Branson knew a thing or two about turning left of centre music into success. After Mike Oldfield’s Tubular Bells became so popular, Virgin Records were financially able to sign other interesting arty, underground acts in the […]
As I can’t find any early Ash Ra Tempel clips, here is some footage of Klaus Schulze. Originally the drummer in Tangerine Dream, then the drummer in Ash Ra Tempel before becoming one of the innovators of the electronic music scene in Germany in the early seventies. This clip from German TV 1977 sees him […]