Tangerine Dream: Where to start?

1974-1984, anything (well, maybe not the soundtracks right away) - or maybe only up to 1980's Tangram, in terms of studio albums.

Start with Ricochet, Phaedra, Rubycon, Tangram and Stratosfear, preferably in that order. If you're curious about the pink years, Alpha Centauri is probably the most accessible.

colorofmoney91 wrote: I would say either Phaedra, Rubycon, or Stratosfear for a beginner.

Yep.

The Miracle wrote: Start with Ricochet, Phaedra, Rubycon, Tangram and Stratosfear, preferably in that order. If you're curious about the pink years, Alpha Centauri is probably the most accessible.

Man With Hat wrote: The Miracle wrote: Start with Ricochet, Phaedra, Rubycon, Tangram and Stratosfear, preferably in that order. If you're curious about the pink years, Alpha Centauri is probably the most accessible.   Agreed. Ricochet, Phaedra, and Rubycon are probably the best entry points.

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Edited by moshkito - January 10 2012 at 14:39

Their '70's albums are the best place to start with the exception of Electronic Meditation which is difficult listening music.  I've had it for years but it never clicked with me.

Slartibartfast wrote: Their '70's albums are the best place to start with the exception of Electronic Meditation which is difficult listening music.  I've had it for years but it never clicked with me.

That illustrates how it's just a  matter of taste.  I started seriously listening at the beginning with Electronic Meditation, and loved it on first list and found it easy to listen to.  It isn't a highly rated album, though, so I may well be more of an exception (not that popular so maybe not the best place to start despite my experience).  I had heard a track off of it before that which I liked enough to get the album.  I found Phaedra much harder.  My favourites are the first four TD albums, with Zeit being one of my favourite albums in PA.

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Deus ex Populo, since you've sampled music, I would suggest getting any album in which a particular track has caught your fancy.  If none seemed better than the others to you, then that approach doesn't work well, but....  I often finish a post with "but"  when I can't quite express what I want to say next, or I think what I'm going to say isn't really worth saying, and sometimes if I think my advice was not worthwhile to begin with (often all of the above).

if you don't start at the beginning like me, or like the early album samples that much, and it does depend on taste, Force Majeure might be a good one (would be a pretty easy one for a lot of people, I would think, but then it does depend on the person's taste, as I said).   For me, I commonly like to start at the beginning and work my way up.


Edited by Logan - January 12 2012 at 12:22

Start at T and finish when you get to M

Then when you've done 70s TD try some Klaus Schulze