Which Tangerine Dream album should I buy next?

Depends on what you're looking for:

Edited by Modrigue - February 10 2017 at 08:20

Rather late to join this possibly,but I have recently re-joined this site after an absence of some years,and I notice that no one has recommended any of the 21st century TD albums,a lot of which I think are really good. The 90' were the wasted TD years,largely,but I think Edgar regained his creativity in this century and made some rather excellent albums,worthy to rank among the best in the TD canon.Albums such as Finnigan's Wake,both the Chandra albums,Mota Atma,The Angel Of The West Window,The Five Atomic Seasons albums,and especially the last one Edgar managed to complete,Mala Kunia,which is one of my favourite TD albums of all time.

Except when it comes to analog!

Intruder wrote: I really dig three live TD albums - Encore, Logos and the double Warsaw Poland.

Sean Trane wrote: Flight123 wrote: Intruder, isn't Ricochet a live album?   Partly anyways, but with TD, live albums were always new stuff album, so they (Encore, Logos & Poland for ex) can be considered as studio albums recorded live

Intruder, isn't Ricochet a live album?

I have bought Rubycon for £3.52 off Amazon.

verslibre wrote: condor wrote: I have White Eagle and Exit as well as the track Mysterious Semblance at the Strand of Nightmares. Any help would be gratefully appreciated.   Exit is one of my favorite TD albums (it happened to be my introduction to them 30 years ago). That and White Eagle were recorded by the Franke, Froese, Schmoelling line-up.   I'm not sure how large your budget is, but at the very least you want the other albums by the same line-up. The ones I would acquire first: Tangram, Thief, Wavelength, Poland.   Pergamon – Live at Palast der Republik (1980) — the first studio live album   Tangram (1980) — the first FFS studio recording   Thief (1981) — an essential album, the first FFS original soundtrack, with a sound very close to Exit as it more or less utilizes the same sonic palette   Logos – Live at the Dominion (1982) — second FFS live album, some of the music turned up on the band's soundtrack of The Keep   Hyperborea (1983)   Wavelength (1983) — a brilliant score with fantastic sounds and a unique remix of "Remote Viewing" from Exit, called "Sunset Drive"; this was released last year as a remaster with restored artwork, new liner notes and much improved sound   Poland – The Warsaw Concert (rec. 1983, rel. 1984) — hands down, one of the greatest live albums of all time — four original suites of awe-inspiring music with melodies to spare, and some of the best sequences they ever laid down   Le Parc (1985) — more contemporary sounding but just as compositionally integral as its predecessors — also the final recording by the FFS line-up (Johannes Schmoelling left, to be replaced by Paul Haslinger on 1986's Underwater Sunlight, another classic TD album)   You mentioned you also like "Mysterious Semblance at the Strand of Nightmares," so naturally you need the entirety of Phaedra, the title suite of which is among TD's most famous excursions.   I'm going to assume you'll be swallowed whole by the immersive brilliance that is Tangerine Dream, and you'll eventually want three other great studio albums of the '70s: Rubycon (1975), Stratosfear (1976), and Force Majeure, which ranks highly with man non-TD fans as well. All of these can be readily listened to in HD on YouTube.

I agree Luca.....and then again there is something uniquely Taj Mahal Travellers about Taj Mahal Travellers that you just don't get anywhere else. Some kind of magic mix of Terry Riley, Stockhausen and an ethereal take on Faust.

Edited by Guldbamsen - August 31 2015 at 10:10

dr wu23 wrote: Nogbad_The_Bad wrote: Depends what you want, if it's more stuff like White Eagle & Exit I'm not sure I can help. If you want what would be considered their classic Berlin School stuff go for Phaedra Ricochet Stratosfear Rubycon If you want their earlier more experiment psyche drone stuff Zeit Atem ^ this...those are all excellent choices by Nogbad.