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Wild drawing instruments6/12/2023 ![]() This is on top of over 100 live and studio albums. To date, they have done 36 soundtracks spanning the years 1977 to 2013, including of all things two separate released soundtracks for Grand Theft Auto V. That they would become a go-to group for soundtrack work for decades then feels like an obvious development in their career. While we often discuss the parallels of rock, pop and jazz to orchestral works in terms of programmatic intent, very few bands ever, let alone their peers, have so thoroughly crossed that bridge from this side as Tangerine Dream have. ![]() Their blend of icy synthesizers and dreamlike ambiance developed far afield from what the colliding worlds of rock and roll and progressive music had developed thus far, seizing upon the space music of early Pink Floyd and expanding it to the very outer limits of the sound. While the genre they helped develop had other practitioners and to some avant-rock cognoscenti the true wielders of the throne are Can (or, perhaps, Kraftwerk), it is instead to Tangerine Dream that I must hand the crown. It helps, for instance, that it’s undeniably true. The shortest description would be: “The kings and founders of kosmische music.” In a pinch, this would do. Summing up the decades-long and still-ongoing career of Tangerine Dream quickly evolves from simple to impossible the longer you stare at the problem.
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