Name: Electronic Meditation
Brand: Tangerine Dream

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ereacd1025

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Format Music GB

Limited edition

Release date

2012-03-26

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Cherry Red (ADA)

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Standard:20

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1 / CD / Extended format: No / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No

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Tangerine Dream

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Krautrock

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Founded by the late Edgar Froese, Tangerine Dream is a German group that played a significant role in introducing synthesizer- and sequencer-based electronic music to the Western rock world. They started as a "free-rock" band in the krautrock scene before evolving into a synthesizer-based trio signed to Virgin Records. During the mid to late 1970s, their spacey, pulsing music gained them a devoted cult following. In the late Seventies, their lineup and musical style changed towards more conventional rock music. By the early 1980s, they focused on releasing influential soundtracks before transitioning into New Age content.

Tangerine Dream was formed in Berlin in 1967 with an initial lineup that included Edgar Froese, Conrad Schnitzler (cello), and Klaus Schulze (drums). Their experimental improvisations were influenced by London's psychedelia but had a unique krautrock twist. The addition of Christopher Franke replaced Schulze for their second album, Alpha Centauri, while Peter Baumann joined for Zeit. Their signature style emerged with Phaedra released under Virgin Records in 1973 - long melodic pieces featuring understated keyboard and guitar melodies intertwined with ambient electronic textures created using synthesizers and sequencers.

The band went through various lineup changes over the years but maintained their focus on rhythmic textures during the first half of the 1980s. This shift divided fans as Tanger

esoteric recordings release a newly remastered edition of tangerine dream's classic and legendary debut album 'electronic meditation'. recorded in berlin in october 1969, the album featured the first tangerine dream line-up of edgar froese (guitars, organ, tapes, sound effects), klaus schulze (drums, percussion) and conrad schnitzler (cello, violin, typewriter). upon its release in 1970 'electronic meditation' and tracks such as 'journey through a burning brain' would define a genre of music and herald the massive creative musical explosion that would emerge in germany in the early seventies. this esoteric reactive edition is newly remastered, fully restores the original album artwork and includes a lavishly illustrated booklet with new essay.

Electronic Meditation

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