Anthology - The Tangerine Dream Collection Part 4 of 8 (1989 to 1992)

Without doubt, the recordings of Tangerine Dream have made the greatest impact on the widest variety of instrumental music during the 1980s and '90s, ranging from the most atmospheric new age and space music to the harshest abrasions of electronic dance. Founded in 1967 by Edgar Froese in Berlin, the group has progressed through a full three dozen lineups (Froese being the only continuous member with staying power) and four distinct stages of development: the experimentalist minimalism of the late '60s and early '70s; stark sequencer trance during the mid- to late '70s, the group's most influential period; an organic form of instrumental music on their frequent film and studio work during the 1980s; and, finally, a more propulsive dance style, which showed Tangerine Dream with a sound quite similar to their electronic inheritors in the field of dance music.

This anthology is the most complete (and of course, the largest) collection of TD albums that is roaming the net these days. Together with the "Tangerine Tree"-collection, it contains more then 200 albums from five decades! Nevertheless, there are better-quality versions of some of these albums floating around, especially here on AvaxHome, the place for high quality music. Those of you, who can tell the difference between 192kbps and 256 kbps or between 320kbps and FLAC, you may like to regard this collection as a basis and upgrade your archive from time to time with better bitrate versions if and when they're available. Anyway, I hope you enjoy the work and art of Tangerine Dream as much, as I do.


For Anthology Part 1 (1969 to 1980) see here.
For Anthology Part 2 (1980 to 1984) see here.
For Anthology Part 3 (1984 to 1989) see here.

For Anthology Part 5 (1992 to 1997) see here.
For Anthology Part 6 (1997 to 2003) see here.
For Anthology Part 7 (2003 to 2007) see here.
For Anthology Part 8 (2007 to 2008) see here.


List of Recordings:




Tracks:
01. Alexander Square (LP Version) 4:51
02. Emperors Castle 2:08
03. Hitchhikers Point 5:02
04. Brandenburg Gate 3:27
05. Wall-Street 3:18
06. Peacock Island 3:27
07. Down The Avus 4:39
08. Midnight In Bear City 4:24
09. Berlin Summer Nights 4:12
10. Alexander Square (Reprise) 2:17
Total running time: 38:45

Details
Recording date 1989
Composer(s) Edgar Froese, Paul Haslinger
Musician(s) Edgar Froese, Paul Haslinger
Producer(s) Edgar Froese, Paul Haslinger

Notes
Another soundtrack recorded by TD in 1989 was Destination Berlin. Film and music were specifically created for the world premier of the 'Imagine 360' system at the 360 degree cinema in West Berlin near the famous Gedächtniskirche. There they showed a film about Berlin, made with a 360 degree camera. Spectators stood in the middle of the room while the pictures were shown on all walls of the round building. After a few years the cinema was closed; later it was used as a TV studio for the talk show production "Sabine Christiansen" of the German ARD-TV.

Quality
MP3@256 kbps CBR, 69.0 MB




Tracks:
01. Too Hot For My Chinchilla 3:48
02. Lily On The Beach 4:15
03. Alaskan Summer 3:37
04. Desert Drive 3:50
05. Mount Shasta 4:27
06. Crystal Curfew 5:03
07. Paradise Cove 3:51
08. Twenty-Nine Palms 3:23
09. Valley Of The Kings 5:10
10. Radio City 4:08
11. Blue Mango Cafe 4:13
12. Gecko 3:35
13. Long Island Sunset 7:01
Total running time: 56:21

Details
Recording date July - August 1989
Recording engineer(s) Edgar Froese, Paul Haslinger
Composer(s) Edgar Froese, Paul Haslinger
Musician(s) Edgar Froese, Paul Haslinger, Jerome Froese, Hubert Waldner
Producer(s) Edgar Froese, Paul Haslinger

Notes
"Lily got in from nowhere
Stayed in the house for a lifetime
And disappeared suddenly
Through the west window -
Why couldn't she go through the east?
She didn't know!
Have a cup of coffee
And
Relax"
- T. Dream

Lily On The Beach, recorded and released in 1989, had two aspects showing TD's musical direction for the nineties: It was the first TD album featuring Edgar Froese's then 19 year old son Jerome Froese as guest musician playing lead guitar on the track Radio City; Jerome would become a regular member of TD in the next year and get more and more influence on TD's work in the future. On the other hand Long Island Sunset was the first TD composition featuring saxophone, an uncommon type of instrument for TD's music of the eighties, but becoming a strong part of their work in the early nineties.

In 1997, the Italian magazine "Il meglio della musica new age" ("The best of New Age music"), issue #11, featuring artists with the initial letter "F", came with a reissue of TD's 1989 album Lily On The Beach, licensed by the Italian BMG Ricordi company. The magazine was available with the record alternatively in CD or in MC format. The music material was identical, but the cover only adapted some graphical elements of the original artwork. The 16-page magazine does not contain any TD story but short texts about Edgar Froese and Chris Franke.

Quality
MP3@320 kbps CBR, 129.1 MB




Tracks:
01. Teetering Scales 3:41
02. One For The Books 3:07
03. After The Call 5:14
04. On The Spur Of The Moment 3:03
05. All Of A Dither 3:27
06. Final Statement 3:16
07. In Julie's Eyes 3:16
08. Running Out Of Time 3:31
09. If It's All Over 4:37
10. People In The News 5:12
11. Museum Walk 3:13
Total running time: 42:37

Details
Recording date 1989
Recording site(s) Berlin & Vienna
Composer(s) Edgar Froese, Paul Haslinger
Musician(s) Edgar Froese, Paul Haslinger
Producer(s) Edgar Froese, Paul Haslinger

Notes
In 1989 TD scored the music for the apocalyptic movie Miracle Mile (German title was Nacht der Entscheidung), directed by Steve De Jarnatt, starring Anthony Edwards and Mare Winningham. The soundtrack album was released by Private Music the same year.

Quality
MP3@256 kbps CBR, 76.1 MB




Tracks:
01. Sequence I 8:48
02. Sequence II 8:00
03. Sequence III 5:29
04. Sequence IV 4:06
05. Sequence V 6:23
Total running time: 33:46

Details
Recording date November 6th, 1990
Recording site(s) Colston Hall (Bristol)
Composer(s) Edgar Froese, Chris Franke, Johannes Schmoelling, Paul Haslinger, Jerome Froese
Musician(s) Edgar Froese, Paul Haslinger, Jerome Froese, Linda Spa, Paul Griesbach

Notes
Back in the UK after four years, Tangerine Dream's 1990 tour was a mixed success. They faced packed as well as only quarterly filled venues. One of the hotter shows was held at Bristol, and an excellent recording came out in 1991 as Bicycle Race with a nice, printed cover based on the cover artwork of Melrose. The album title itself was obviously inspired both from the album photo as well from the 1988 album title Optical Race.

In 1992 copies of Bicyle Race appeared on black vinyl. The cover was identical, but the records did not contain any TD music but heavy metal music. No information was given on the labels. It is unknown whether this was only a mistake or some bootleggers' very special way of making money.

In late 1993 the bootleg album was reissued under the strange name Singet denn der Gesang vertreibt die Wölfe / Sing For Song Drives Away The Wolves. The matrix numbers are identical. The A side of the picture-LP shows a rocky landscape and, in the center, a photograph of Paul Haslinger, Chris Franke and Edgar Froese (who are the wrong line-up for this period). On the B side there is a photograph of a canyon landscape at dawn, a photo of Edgar Froese and the track listing. On Bicycle Race the compositions were titled Sequence I through VI, now they got new German fantasy titles. The text wrongly mentions that the concert took place in Bristol/USA. The number of copies circulating is unknown.

Some more of the Bristol concert was released on the bootleg CD In den Gärten Pharaos / Bicycle Race.

Quality
MP3@160 kbps CBR, 37.5 MB




Tracks:
01. Marakesh 8:56
02. Atlas Eyes 3:16
03. Gaudi Park (Guell Garden Barcelona) 5:05
04. Cat Scan 4:52
05. Teetering Scales 3:27
06. Lily On The Beach 4:05
07. Nomad's Scale 8:36
08. Daybreak On The River Spree 3:47
09. Longing For Cashba 9:34
10. Mount Shasta 4:29
11. Alaskan Summer 3:31
12. Wall-Street 3:18
13. Hitchhikers Point 4:55
14. Long Island Sunset 7:39
15. Berlin Summer Nights 4:32
Total running time: 80:02

Details
Recording date February 20th, 1990
Recording site(s) Werner-Seelenbinder-Halle (East Berlin)
Composer(s) Edgar Froese, Chris Franke, Johannes Schmoelling, Paul Haslinger
Musician(s) Edgar Froese, Paul Haslinger, Jerome Froese, Linda Spa, Hubert Waldner
Producer(s) Edgar Froese

Notes
This is the second album of the so-called 'Vault' series by Tangerine Dream, featuring unaltered remastered original Tangerine Dream concerts. The series includes the following albums:

* Rockface (Recorded 1988, released 2003)
* East (Recorded 1990, released 2004)
* Arizona Live (Recorded 1992, released 2004)
* Vault IV (Recorded 1986, released 2005)
* Rocking Mars (Recorded 1999, released 2005)

East includes the complete main set plus one encore of the one-off concert TD performed in February 1990 in East Berlin, about three months after the fall of the Berlin wall, sometimes referred to as the "Brand'n'burger Concert".

This was a very special show for various reasons. It was the only gig remotely supporting the studio album Lily On The Beach (1989), as the next live performances of Tangerine Dream took place in late 1990 during the UK Melrose tour. Other tracks performed were taken from Le Parc (1985), Optical Race (1988), Miracle Mile, and Destination Berlin (both 1989). Furthermore, as a novelty, TD appeared with a line-up of five musicians for the first time; in fact this was the first live appearance of both Jerome Froese and Linda Spa as part of the band (Hubert Waldner did no other live performance with TD, but he did appear as guest on Lily On The Beach and Melrose). Finally, this was the last occasion that the band would play live in a divided Berlin, roughly ten years after their famous concert in the Palast der Republik (see Pergamon and Tangerine Tree Volume 17: East Berlin 1980).

Besides the compositions from the studio and soundtrack albums mentioned above, this record features a number of previously unreleased tracks, making it an interesting album for friends of TD's style of the late eighties and early nienties.

The album was available only through the TDI internet shop (and later from a small number of mail order companies). The first 200 customers who ordered this release received their copies autographed by Edgar Froese and Jerome Froese on the front page of the booklet; the back insert was hand-numbered. Additionally each of these 200 customers got one copy of the limited East (Bonus Disc) release, hence there are only 200 copies of the bonus disc but slightly more numbered copies of East, as some fans ordered more than one copy but got only one bonus disc. These first 200 copies were sold-out during the first 24 hours after announcement.

The front of the four page booklet contains a quiet strange collagesque artwork by Edgar Froese while the two inner pages show twelve photos taken during the concert.

Quality
MP3@320 kbps CBR, 183.1 MB




Tracks:
01. Alchemy Of The Heart 4:39
02. Alexander Square 7:02
03. Ruling the Waves 6:03
04. Berlin Summer Nights 4:32
05. House Of The Rising Sun 6:04
Total running time: 28:20

Details
see above

Notes
see above

Quality
MP3@320 kbps CBR, 64.9 MB




Tracks:
01. Chor Der Sterne 3:29
02. Schattentanz 3:10
03. Erstes Morgenrot 2:50
04. Karawane Am Meer 3:57
05. Treibsand 9:07
06. Erscheinung 6:16
07. Im Tal Der Pharaonen 5:06
08. Die Sonne Verdüstert Sich Allmählich 8:14
Total running time: 42:09

Details
Recording date November 6th, 1990
Recording site(s) Colston Hall (Bristol)
Composer(s) Edgar Froese, Chris Franke, Peter Baumann, Johannes Schmoelling, Paul Haslinger, Jerome Froese
Musician(s) Edgar Froese, Paul Haslinger, Jerome Froese, Linda Spa, Paul Griesbach

Notes
The bootleg CD In den Gärten Pharaos / Bicycle Race has nothing to do with a LP of the former German band Popol Vuh, In den Gärten Pharaos. The same name might be a joke; Florian Fricke (†) of Popol Vuh had been guest on TD's album Zeit back in 1972. The music material is taken from the Bristol concert during TD's 1990 UK tour. The cover names only 12 tracks with fantasy titles that do not correspond to the original names of the compositions. In fact, the CD contains 13 excerpts of the concert, but their order differs from the bootleg LP Bicycle Race / Singet, denn der Gesang vertreibt die Wölfe, and some tracks are mixed together. The tracks Sequence I and II are not part of the bootleg LP, although this is alleged on the cover. The last three tracks are identical to the first 16 minutes of the LP.

The CD comes with a one-page coloured cover. Many different colour versions of the CD are available. On the CD body, there is no title or reference to TD, but the information: "Realm Of Nightmares - Pharao's Garden". On the CD body the record company is called 'Ricochet Records', while the backside paper insert states "All titles licensed from CHRYSTAL PARADISE-Records" and "CD distributed by Eulenspiegel-Vertriebs-GmbH". All company names are obviously faked. The origin of the CD is Germany.

Quality
MP3@160 kbps CBR, 48.2 MB




Tracks:
01. Melrose 5:47
02. Three Bikes In The Sky 6:02
03. Dolls In The Shadow 5:11
04. Yucatan 5:18
05. Electric Lion 8:18
06. Rolling Down Cahuenga 6:46
07. Art Of Vision 5:33
08. Desert Train 10:20
09. Cool At Heart 6:09
Total running time: 59:24

Details
Recording date June - July 1990
Recording site(s) Vienna & Berlin
Composer(s) Edgar Froese, Paul Haslinger, Jerome Froese
Musician(s) Edgar Froese, Paul Haslinger, Jerome Froese, Hubert Waldner
Producer(s) Edgar Froese

Notes
"The crows maintain, a single crow could destroy heaven, that is doubtless, but doesn't move heaven, for heaven implies precisely: impossibility of crows."
- Franz Kafka

The 1990 studio album Melrose is the only one featuring the short time line-up Edgar Froese/Paul Haslinger/Jerome Froese. After his guest appearance on a single track on the album Lily On The Beach (1989), Edgar Froese's son Jerome had joined TD officially in January 1990 for a live performance, and Melrose was the first record composed and performed by the reformed band. But after a lengthy stay in the USA and the release of Melrose Paul Haslinger wished to leave Europe and live and work in Los Angeles. So TD did an already planned tour in the UK in autumn 1990 and the Paul Haslinger left the band at the end of the year, making TD a duo again.

Quality
MP3@320 kbps CBR, 136.1 MB




Tracks:
01. Shadow Flyer 5:50
02. Canyon Carver 4:22
03. Water's Gift 5:30
04. Canyon Voices 4:32
05. Sudden Revelation 4:51
06. A Matter Of Time 8:59
07. Purple Nightfall 2:07
08. Colorado Dawn 4:27
Total running time: 41:38

Details
Recording date 1986 - 1999
Recording site(s) The Cave (Berlin), Polygon Studios (Berlin), Eastgate Studios (Vienna)
Recording engineer(s) Edgar Froese, Chris Franke, Paul Haslinger
Composer(s) Edgar Froese, Chris Franke, Paul Haslinger, Jerome Froese
Musician(s) Edgar Froese, Chris Franke, Paul Haslinger, Jerome Froese
Producer(s) Edgar Froese

Notes
In 1991 the soundtrack of the video release Canyon Dreams was released officially as the first TD album by the Seattle based Miramar company: 'The Seattle Years' had begun. In the USA Canyon Dreams was nominated for the Grammy as "Best New Age Album 1991". Some months before a bootleg version of the soundtrack had already been released, titled The Canyon Dreams, featuring the music from the video. The music material on the official soundtrack was partially remixed, has slightly different running times and features the bonus track Colorado Dawn composed by Jerome Froese.

The 1999 re-release by TDI features one more additional track, Rocky Mountain Hawk. The entirely new designed booklet includes the following sleeve notes about the Grand Canyon: "Two billion years of geological evidence of the earth's history is exposed in the canyon's rock walls, more than can be observed anywhere else in the world. Travelling The canyon's length requires a river journey of 277 miles, through canyons varying in distance from less than a half mile to more than eighteen miles apart, and through depths reaching nearly 600 feet. Early visitors named many of the large buttes after ancient gods. Jupiter, Juno, Apollo, Venus, Vishnu, Deva, Shiva or Brahma have temples here, while Vulcan and Wotan have thrones named in their honor. The Paiute Indians believed the canyon had been created by the god Tavwoats to separate the world of the living from the lands beyond death. Havasupai and Hulapai Indians believed the river was the runoff from an earth-covering flood, much like the one Noah experienced."

Quality
MP3@256 kbps CBR, 74.4 MB




Tracks:
01. Theme From 'Dead Solid Perfect' 3:21
02. In The Pond 1:16
03. Beverly Leaves 0:59
04. Of Cads And Caddies 2:13
05. Tournament Montage 2:38
06. A Whore In One 2:14
07. Sand Trap 1:22
08. In The Rough 0:43
09. Nine Iron 1:39
10. U.S. Open 1:41
11. 'My Name Is Bad Hair' 2:32
12. In The Hospital Room 0:37
13. Welcome To Bushwood-Golfus Interruptus 1:33
14. Deja Vu (I've Heard This Before!) 1:32
15. Birdie 1:21
16. Divot 1:19
17. Kenny And Donny Montage 1:40
18. Off To See Beverly 0:33
19. Phone To Beverly 1:19
20. Nice Shots 2:43
21. Sinking Putts 2:04
22. Kenny's Winning Shot 1:02
Total running time: 36:21

Details
Recording date 1989
Composer(s) Edgar Froese, Paul Haslinger
Musician(s) Edgar Froese, Paul Haslinger
Producer(s) Edgar Froese

Notes
Having scored the movies Heartbreakers and Tonight's The Night before, in 1989 TD composed the music for a third film of director Bobby Roth - Dead Solid Perfect, starring Randy Quaid. Three more movies should follow in the early '90s: L'Affaire Wallraff, Rainbow Drive (both 1990) and The Switch (1993).

Bobby Roth remembers: "I'd done two films with TD prior to Dead Solid Perfect and I've done two more since. I chose them for a 'Dan Jenkins' working-class comedy about golf precisely because of how strange it seemed. I tried both American blues and country and western songs with the rough cut but both seemed too much in keeping with the existing images. Neither lifted the film to a new place or transformed it with counterpoint. Choosing a German band known for electronic music seemed bizarre to the film's producers, but when they heard the score they loved it as I did. It made golf more interesting and let people who were adverse to the game see it with new eyes. Ask any hard and fast golfer about the film and they'll say the music is perfect (though it's certainly not music one would associate with the game under traditional circumstances). Ironically, of the five films I've done with TD, the score for Dead Solid Perfect probably did the most for the movie."

Quality
MP3@320 kbps CBR, 83.1 MB




Tracks:
01. Wallraff's Theme 1:49
02. Tendency Of Love 4:08
03. Addicted To The Truth - 03/11 4:47
04. World Of The 'standard' 4:12
05. Purposes Of Brevity 4:31
06. Tobel`s Death By The River - 06/11 4:34
07. Taboo Society 3:28
08. The Drive To Hanover 4:52
09. Correlation Of Lies 3:57
10. Investigation 4:21
11. News And Morality 4:42
Total running time: 45:21

Details
Recording date 1989
Composer(s) Edgar Froese, Paul Haslinger
Musician(s) Edgar Froese, Paul Haslinger
Producer(s) Edgar Froese, Paul Haslinger

Notes
Back in 1989 Edgar Froese and Paul Haslinger had supplied the soundtrack music for the movie The Man Inside, starring Peter Coyote, Jürgen Prochnow and Nathalie Baye. It is the story of a journalist working undercover at a well-known German yellowpress newspaper with the intention to write a book about the way how to abuse press freedom. The story was based on a true history, and in France this film was a great cinema success, thus the music was released in 1992 on a CD with the French movie title L'Affaire Wallraff in France only; furthermore it was available for a short time only what made the CD to one of the most rare and expensive items for TD collectors.

In 2001 a counterfeit of this CD appeared: The official version had been reproduced with almost identical cover artwork, but the music material was mastered poorly, containing breaks in serveral tracks. The two versions can be distinguished by the different matrix number on the CD body: The regulary version has the number "PAT 7956172 MPO 02 @@@", while the counterfeit version has the number "M7E4 7956172". There is a third version with the matrix number "EMI 7956172"; at time of writing it is unknown whether this is a second official pressing or just some kind of "improved counterfeit" as it does not contain the mastering faults mentioned above.

Quality
MP3@179.90 kbps CBR variable, 58.4 MB




Tracks:
01. Rumpelstiltskin theme 2:54
02. Rumpelstiltskin Theme 2:54
03. Alchemy Of Straw 2:52
04. Rumpel Town 4:21
05. The Countryside 2:24
06. A Walk Through The Woods 4:35
07. Dance On The Hill 3:09
08. A Mother's Triumph 2:22
Total running time: 26:31

Details
Recording date 1991
Recording site(s) Eastgate Studios (Vienna)
Recording engineer(s) Edgar Froese, Jerome Froese
Composer(s) Edgar Froese, Jerome Froese
Musician(s) Edgar Froese, Jerome Froese
Producer(s) Edgar Froese

Notes
The story Rumpelstiltskin is following a fairy-tale by German middle age authors Gebrüder Grimm: A gnomus named Rumpelstiltskin helps a girl to make gold out of straw for the price of her firstborn child, unless she guesses his name. At last she finds out, and the story turns towards a happy end.

In 1992, the US based Rabbit Ear label released the tale in their audio novel series for children. The story was told by famous actor Kathleen Turner and the accompanying music was composed and performed by Tangerine Dream exclusively for this recording. During the 22 minute story the material is used as background and intermediate music, and additionally the album features all seven compositions as instrumental tracks.

Quality
MP3@199.49 kbps VBR, 36.5 MB




Tracks:
01. Deadly Care Main Theme 4:57
02. Paddles – Stolen Pills 2:56
03. A Strong Drink – A Bad Morning 2:05
04. Wasted And Sick 1:25
05. Hope For Future 4:05
06. The Hospital 5:45
07. In Bed 1:54
08. Annie & Father 1:29
09. More Pills 1:29
10. In The Head Nurse's Office – At The Father's Grave 1:29
11. Clean And Sober 4:58
Total running time: 33:32

Details
Recording date 1987
Composer(s) Edgar Froese, Chris Franke
Musician(s) Edgar Froese, Chris Franke
Producer(s) Edgar Froese, Chris Franke

Notes
Another TD soundtrack that saw the daylight years after its recording was Deadly Care, a TV movie that was composed and recorded back in 1987 by Edgar Froese and Chris Franke but not released until 1992. The CD contains all of the music as supplied by TD to Universal Television. The CD booklet has liner notes, titled "Health Care Has Its High Price", by Matt Hargreaves, co-author of the printed TD discography Voices In The Dunes; it also contains contact addresses for obtaining the book.

Quality
MP3@192 kbps CBR, 44.7 MB




Tracks:
01. Complete Album 59:14
Total running time: 59:14

Details
Recording date October 4th, 1992
Recording site(s) Music Hall (Toronto)
Composer(s) Edgar Froese, Jerome Froese, Paul Haslinger
Musician(s) Edgar Froese, Jerome Froese, Linda Spa, Zlatko Perica

Notes
Dreaming On Danforth Avenue is a bootleg of quiet good sound quality from the 1992 North American tour. It was released some months prior the official live recording 220 Volt Live that was recorded during the same tour but features different material.

The CD comes with a 4-page full colour folder sheet including the band history. A photo of the correct tour line-up is printed on the front page, but on the back side is stated "composed and performed by Edgar Froese, Zlatko Perica and Linda Spa", leaving out the name of Jerome Froese. The tracks are not seperately listed on CD or cover, and the composition 220 Volt is split into two tracks. The alleged record company is called 'Blue Moon Records', being the same company that released the bootleg Sonambulistic Imagery a few months later. The CD body has white background colour with orange writing, stating the CD title but not the name Tangerine Dream.

Quality
MP3@160 kbps CBR, 67.8 MB




Tracks:
01. Voxel Ux 12:02
02. Quinoa 28:29
03. Lhasa 9:50
Total running time: 50:21

Details
Recording date 1992 - 1997
Recording site(s) The Cave (Berlin)
Recording engineer(s) Edgar Froese, Jerome Froese
Composer(s) Edgar Froese, Jerome Froese
Musician(s) Edgar Froese, Jerome Froese
Producer(s) Edgar Froese

Notes
Quinoa was released first in 1992 as a limited edition of 1,000 copies and sent as a gift to the members of the then discontinued official TD International Fan Club (TDIFC) only. Thus, this release became a very rare collector's item. The last CDs which had remained in TD's stock had been sold during TD's German tour in 1997 for 50 DM each. The CD featured one single composition of nearly half an hour, its title originating from a kind of grain which was a essential part of the meals of the Incas in South America.

In June 1998, TD re-released this album on their then new label TDI, including two bonus tracks: Voxel Ux had originally been composed for a website competition on TD's official internet homepage in 1996. There had been just one single CD-R released for the winner of this competition only. Lhasa was described to be the first movement from a so-called 'Tibetan Cycle', containing six other movements which were unreleased so far. Two years later TD released the cycle in form of the album The Seven Letters From Tibet; Lhasa was extended by an opening of some four minutes and became the fifth composition of the cycle, being re-titled The Blue Pearl.

Quality
MP3@320 kbps CBR, 115.1 MB




Tracks:
01. Big City Dwarves 6:06
02. Red Roadster 8:14
03. Touchwood 4:28
04. Graffiti Street 4:49
05. Funky Atlanta 4:08
06. Spanish Love 5:41
07. Lifted Veil 3:36
08. Penguin Reference 4:48
09. Body Corporate 3:48
10. Rockoon 7:20
11. Girls On Broadway 4:42
Total running time: 58:40

Details
Recording date March 1991 - January 1992
Recording site(s) The Cave (Berlin) & Eastgate Studios (Vienna)
Recording engineer(s) Jeff Robinson, David Marino, Phillip Calvert
Composer(s) Edgar Froese, Jerome Froese
Musician(s) Edgar Froese, Jerome Froese, Enrico Fernandez, Zlatko Perica, Richi Wester
Producer(s) Edgar Froese

Notes
"All that we see or seem
Is but a dream within a dream."
- Edgar Allen Poe

Edgar Froese about the 1992 studio album Rockoon: "We started in March 1991 and finished the production, with some interruptions, of course, in January 1992, so Rockoon was the longest production ever in the history of the band. Of course you never achieve 100 percent of your own preconceptional ideas, but you have to have the longing for the hundred percent - I guess that's very important. As far as Rockoon as a final product is concerned we are very glad and satisfied that we could move that far."

In the USA Rockoon was nominated for the Grammy as "Best New Age Album 1992", and it reached both the Top Ten in Billboard New Age charts and the Top Twenty in Billboard Jazz charts.

Besides the well-known 1992 and 1993 versions of Rockoon, there is another release which is widely unknown because only very few copies have been made. In 1994, Les Editions Atlas, a giant French company specialized in books, had decided to offer only to their mail order subscribers a batch of CDs in a limited edition series called "Les genies du Rock". Many artists were available, such as Velvet Underground, Eric Clapton, The Nixe and some others - including Tangerine Dream. The music material is identical to Rockoon which is also the subtitle of this CD, but the cover artwork is completely different; it shows a photograph of the line-up Chris Franke/Peter Baumann/Edgar Froese probably from 1975. Liner notes in French language explain the influence of bands like TD, Can and Kraftwerk onto the musical style of the '70s and also tell some musical roots and milestones of TD.

Quality
MP3@320 kbps CBR, 132.1 MB