Sunday Synth Jam: This video, via PressureDrop.tv, captures another live performance by Tangerine Dream.
The group – made up of Thorsten Quaeschning, Hoshiko Yamane & Ulrich Schnauss – perform an hour+ set. The concert features some classic Kosmische Musik and a classic from the 80’s, balanced with pieces from their recent albums and an extended improvisation.
The performance was filmed at the Øya Festival 2018.
Set list:
Tangram (2018) 1:19
Betrayal (Sorcerer Theme) 6:52
Love On A Real Train 14:14:
It Is Time to Leave When Everyone Is Dancing 22:09
Roll the Seven Twice 28:54
Stratosfear (2018 version) 37:05
Oslo By Night (Improvisation) 48:31
It’s like a covers band doing their thing
I too do think with the last original founder / member gone, the name of a band should not be continued to be used….
then they wouldn’t be able to sell nearly as many tickets.
Cover bands don’t do 25 minute long improv. Pure nonsense Mike, very inaccurate remark (did you even bother watching the whole video ?), but par for the course for comments on here, shame really as otherwise Synthtopia is pretty good site.
Wonder how many Ableton instances and Push controllers are up there!!
@Kait two. Hoshiko is using an Ableton Push whereas Ulrich is using an AKAI APC-40.
Its not a cover band when one of the founders hand-picked you to play *as* T-Dream when he was alive. Its proper for them to play the classics, but also their new works. I see little real musical difference between a Push and the old Moog sequencers the band started with when the tech was all new. The gear has defined the style from day one. Berlin and trance have a certain crossover point for me, but when its done well, give cred, because its never easy to pull off live. Its part of my lexicon as both a listener and player. IMO, this concert is a winner that satisfies my Tangerine Dream glands. I’d have to wear Depends if I tried to perform that live, amen!
So if Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr hand picked a group of four guys to play *as* the Beatles, that doesn’t make them the Beatles! I’d have much more respect for this new band if they chose their own name instead of riding on the coattails of a famous band from the past. The whole reason I loved TD was that they never did the same thing twice, their early music was electronic improvisational excellence that they never repeated (and probably couldn’t if they wanted to), very much like a painter paints a singular work of art. To see this band do TD “classics” like they’re the greatest hits of a pop band is ludicrous. Face it, they’re a cover band, like it or not.
Ringo was really handpicked by the rest of the band to play the drums later, he did not play from day one with them, and yes, he has become a member of Beatles. These guys also played long time with Edgar to gain such a “real” TD membership.
Utterly laughable that people think TD are a covers band, no effort to find out the facts of the matter. TDs last album has been the biggest success that the band have had in almost 25 years, both critically and in sales. The band have also had sold out shows throughout this year. Real fans voting with their feet, rather than having purile dogma cloud their view. Face it YOU are the minority on this. The anger needs needs to go gentlemen or it’s you who will look ridiculous in the end.
Their last album was sublime! Please play in Canada.
The Tangerine Dream cover band with not one of the original founding members but still the same name …….
Best line-up in 30 years. I’m being serious. When they play their own compositions, it’s the spirit of TD.
I totally agree, wonderful music, and yes the best lineup since Franke left and wasted his time in Hollywood, Chris why mate?
I don’t have a problem with their own compositions, it’s when they call themselves Tangerine Dream and they play old TD that I have a problem with them. Like I said, if they played under a different band name, that would be fine by me.
Yeah but they’ve got the permission from the copyright holder therefore opinions mean zip my man. Edgar wanted it to continue and it will until they want to stop
Loving the current lineup and for me that’s all that matters
Having seen the 1980’s line up of TD four times (with and then without Schmoeling, then Haslinger), I too initially fell for the ‘it ain’t TD without Edgar’ line. But I was wrong. This concert is absolutely f**king brilliant and I really enjoyed it. However I should add that I thought the transition from Tangram to Betrayal was a bit bad. Tangram, or this version, was utterly beautiful, and although I loved Sorcerer, I didn’t think that transition between pieces worked as well. Maybe TD should now do tours which are exclusively based on periods of their past, like the Baumann era, or the Schmoelling period, and then the new line up period? Just a suggestion… Guys and gal?! Unashamedly though I have to confess that TD now sound *better* without Edgar! Flame me now! 😉