For fans of 80s Tangerine Dream

Hey everyone – I just released a new single and music video titled “After Hours.”

It’s the first single from my forthcoming album Portals, out August 8 on Bandcamp (CD + digital), and on streaming platforms August 22.

Portals is a deeply atmospheric journey through ambient electronic textures, blending cinematic synths, pulsing rhythms and moody soundscapes. Influenced by 80s-era Tangerine Dream, ambient film scores, and modern downtempo artists, it’s a sonic world made for introspection and late-night listening.

Would love your thoughts on the video or sound. Hoping to get a listing here on ProgArchives.

After Hours - Matt Goodluck

Matt Goodluck Bandcamp

Thanks octopus-4

I agree with you.

Cygnus74 wrote: Thanks moshkito, appreciate the feedback.

Hi,

What you might not see, is how Edgar Froese fought really hard against the commercialization of his music and the attempt and fights about his compositions, even after one group told him they wanted shorter pieces for the radio, to which I'm sure that EF gave them a finger and turned left with a fart!

You can see it in his live concerts ... it's about the MUSIC ... not the SONG ... and I would think that this is the distinction you have to make for yourself as to the music you want to create. If it is all songs, then it is not inspired by Tangerine Dream at all, since their work is very literary inspired and has a tendency to "follow" the story in the work with the music, so to speak, something that the majority of musicians these days can not see or understand, since they are just lost in their DAW, not in the arts per se.

I imagine that for many folks that is a very different way of working, but creating "songs" as you have, simply shows how (possibly) little of Tangerine Dream you have heard and appreciated ... I think you liked the sound a lot more than the music itself ... because you could not make sense of the music itself.

Just remember/imagine that many pieces are a novel, a story ... being told ... and then allow that to LIVE and LIVE some more ... until it is alive on its own.

I totally see how this is 80s TD inspired even though tracks are shorter and the themes change quicker. It's your own take of it, fine by me, and makes some sense. I didn't find the first half minute very attractive, but themes got much better later and by the end I quite liked it.

Cygnus74 wrote: ...What a strange thing to say. I'm very familiar with Tangerine Dream. I created a piece of original music that was simply 'inspired' by the band. Nothing more. ...

Hi,

It wasn't meant to sound bad at all ... just a good idea of someone I met, and enjoyed since 1974 on their first American tour.

But "inspiration" is another story.

Cygnus74 wrote: ... When you're creating original music (I'm not sure if you do), you bring your influences to the table and hope to create something new from the mix. I don't see the point in creating something that's a carbon copy of another musician's style.

I'm a writer, mainly, and I know about inspirations as I have been writing for 40 years, at least.

For me, with theater and film in the background, "inspirations", believe it or not, are a problem.

Using a STAGE/THEATER/FILM example, here goes. In an exercise during rehearsal, the director wants to do an improvisation, and gives us all a sort of theme for the whole thing, and we're the details and the folks to make it work.

Using an "inspiration" will be a problem. Watch this ... I like such and such, and start my part of the story and improvisation with that person (inspiration) and then continue until it dries up ... and I'm stuck without anything to do. On this example, if you start with "nothing" (as all improvisations should!!!), you are not "bound by any ideas or thoughts about your "inspiration".

Some folks, musicians mostly, do not think that makes for a good improvisation and the answer is easy ... they do their bits and pieces, and then are bored and not knowing what to do next. In most cases with musicians, they are way too attached to a beat, or an idea, like a sound or a guitar, and they depend on them for continuing the improvisation without any concerns or worries.

From an actor/actress side of things, here is the issue ... time out!!!! You are doing a play that is not exactly attached to anything, except your idea of how it flows and read for you ... with one major issue here which will affect the performance! Are you gonna be the "creation" that you made, or are you going to be the "idea" (inspiration) that you had?

That's 2 VERY DIFFERENT things and results. And the last thing you want as an actor about to perform (or musician) is hickups, as this example will show you. You need to stick to what you created, however, by using your "idea" as an "inspiration" it's not going to be consistent and it will vary from day to day, because how you do it all has a tendency to vary.

You saying, stating, that TD is an inspiration is just fine ... no worries there, but to think that your work has to sound like and be similar to TD, is kinda .... kinda ... yeah ... not sure it's gonna help you much as you grow forwards and decide to become a composer. You can't be Edgar, or Thorsten, and thinking you can do something like them, is only going to eventually break you apart ... you are not developing YOU ... I mean YOU ... and that music is about YOU ... not anything having to do with Tangerine Dream. It may have similarities, but that's not the same thing, since your focus, is YOU and your ability to work that sound and piece of music ... and TD being an inspiration is not necessary at this point ... because it's all about YOU ... not TD.

I would like to recommend reading Edgar's book, if it is not a budget breaker for you, as it makes a lot of things clear ... and it kinda explains the long cuts and things, because it was how long it took them to get the synthesizers going (the book is heavy on Christopher Franke's efforts and Edgar laughing at them) so they could create something, and this was the main reason why in the early days their stuff was bootleg'd senselessly ... they were all different and it was a few years before they were able to recreate the originals to at least be able to play them live.

For me, and remember this, I would rather be a fan of your music because it is very good, than care that it is inspired by TD ... you're not TD ... and thus your idea of inspiration is an idea, and let me tell you that "ideas" don't translate well in reality. Your music is what matters, not that it is inspired by anyone else, besides the fact that in reality you are the inspiration, and that is not an idea!