R.I.P. Edgar Froese

[amidar]

I'm a huge fan of Tangerine Dream and electronics and synth music in general so this comes as very sad news.

http://consequenceofsound.net/2015/0...er-dead-at-70/

[moecurlythanu]

Yeah, this sucks. Another one of the giants has fallen. I was fortunate to have seen TD live in the late 80s on the Optical Race tour.

[Cacapo]

Didnt even make the German news.

[treeboy]

Provider of many a soundtrack to strange movies on the back of many an eyelid. Massively influential (whether you like them or not, there's no denying it). Very sad.

[amidar]

Yep, redefined the soundtrack in the eighties for a time, some classics from that era firestarter, wavelength, risky business, thief, sorcerer and the theme to street hawk! to name a few. Fair to say from the late eighties onwards they lost it though and became pretty much like any of the other synth based 'new age' bands in a scene they probably helped define. Candy Dulfer on sax, yikes, but still a huge body of work including his solo albums which are great.

[kestrel blazer]

Sad news, one of the first of the German bands I owned records by due to Virgin Records releases. It was years later that I heard all the early stuff. This compilation is well worth a watch, I love the band playing on the hillside, with cars passing by below.