Tangerine Dream created their first film score in 1977 for Sorcerer, directed by William Friedkin. Friedkin later said he would’ve used the Dream for The Exorcist if he’d known about them.
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Thursday June 22nd, 2017-Echoes Program 1725D
Tag: Tangerine Dream
CD of the Month
May CD of the Month: Johann Agebjörn & Mikael Ögren
Swedish electronic musicians Johann Agebjörn and Mikael Ögren take a trip to the Russian-Finish border and come back with an album of evocative tone poems, We Never Came to the White Sea.
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Weekend April 29 & 30, 2017-Echoes Program 1717A
Ron Boots is a prolific Dutch electronic artist who has been recording since the 1980s when he released his music on cassette. He’s a musical child of German space music and his music is full of Tangerine Dream style sequencer drive and Vangelis style drama.
Reviews & Commentary
Klaus Schulze’s Mirage at 40: An Electronic Milestone
While German space music was creating sequencer driven grooves Klaus Schulze created an ambient dreamscape, Mirage: A Winter Landscape in 1977. John Diliberto looks back.
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Wednesday, April 26th, 2017-Echoes Program 1717C
We celebrate the 40th anniversary of Klaus Schulze’s epic album, Mirage, an album often cited by electronic musicians like Steve Roach and Michael Shreeve.
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Monday April 24th, 2017-Echoes Program 1717A
Ron Boots is a prolific Dutch electronic artist who has been recording since the 1980s when he released his music on cassette. He’s a musical child of German space music and his music is full of Tangerine Dream style sequencer drive and Vangelis style drama.
Reviews & Commentary
Electronic Easter: David Borden and Mother Mallard
Mother Mallard’s Portable Masterpiece Co. was the first modern electronic ensemble, playing live in 1970. That same year MMPMCo’s David Borden composed Easter in Robert Moog’s basement.
Playlists
Friday, April 14, 2017-Echoes Program 1715E
Tangerine Dream and Steve Roach provide the electronic part of a Slow Flow Echoes.
CD of the Month
April CD of the Month:Jean-Michel Jarre Oxygene Trilogy
Written by John Diliberto on April 3, 2017 It’s pretty rare that an artist could take three albums spanning 40 years, put them together, and have them sound like a coherent whole, as if it was the plan all along for them to sit together as a single epic work. But French electronic artist Jean-Michel…
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Weekend, March 18 & 19, 2016-Echoes Program 1711A
Jean-Michel Jarre’s 1976 album, Oxygene remains one of the signposts of electronic music. He returns to it with Oxygene 3 as he prepares to embark on his first ever US. Tour. He talks about his electronic evolution on Echoes.