Tangerine Dream
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This excellent documentary looks at how a radical generation of musicians created a new German musical identity out of the cultural ruins of war.
Featured musicians include Tangerine Dream, Kraftwerk, Klaus Schulze and Faust.
You can view the first part above. See the rest on YouTube – while you can. Read more…
Krautrock: The Rebirth of Germany is a new documentary film that examines how a generation of” Krautrockers” built a new German musical identity out of the cultural ruins of war.
The documentary will debut Friday October 23rd on BBC 4 at 9pm. No word on when it will be available outside the UK.
Description:
Between 1968 and 1977, bands including Neu!, Faust, Can and Kraftwerk looked beyond Anglo-American pop to create some of the most radical and original sounds ever heard in the country.
The experiments of Tangerine Dream, Kraftwerk and Cluster would give the world its first taste of electronica.
By the late Seventies, some famous English and American ears took notice as David Bowie, Brian Eno and Iggy Pop decamped to Germany in an attempt to tap into the Zeitgeist. Meanwhile, in a studio overlooking the Berlin Wall, Iggy and Bowie would record Low, Heroes and Lust For Life, taking the sound and feel of Krautrock to the bank and to the world at large.
Torley’s Tangerine Dream Love On A Real Train Piano Variations is a classical piano work based on Tangerine Dream’s electronic music based on Steve Reich’s classical ensemble works based on his experimental electroacoustic work and his experiences with West African rhythms.
Torley explains it better:
I was humming Tangerine Dream’s Love on a Real Train (as featured in Risky Business) so much (mostly because I can’t whistle) that I decided to improvise some piano variations around it.
It’s a free download, from the player above or via Torley’s site, where you can also watch his piano-roll style video for the work. To download, click the down arrow in the SoundCloud player.
Leave a comment with your thoughts on Torley’s take on a Tangerine Dream classic.
If you like old-school Klaus Schulze and Tangerine Dream, you’ll want to check out RJ Vanderson’s Earth Moving, above, a tasty bit of Berlin-school synthesis.
More about Vanderson below and at his SoundClick page. Read more…
Paul Wiffen demonstrates a 1984 Elka Synthex – most famously used on Jean Michel Jarre’s Rendezvous as the Laserharp sound.
Paul also originally programmed the original presets.
Released in 1982, the Elka Synthex was an attempt to get a slice of the professional synth market, which was at that time dominated by Sequential Circuits’ Prophet 5 and Oberheim’s OBn polysynths. Read more…
