Tangerine Dream discography

Tangerine Dream has released over one hundred albums (not counting singles, compilations and fan releases) over the last four decades.

Live and studio albums

The border between Tangerine Dream's studio and live albums is quite a blurred one. Albums billed as "live" commonly include overdubs and original material added in studio. The extreme case is "Live Miles", of which less than a third had been performed live at the time of its release. Given the fact that the band's live albums often consist of original music not available on any studio album, the distinction between studio and live albums is less useful with Tangerine Dream than with most bands. The group has only somewhat recently (1997 onwards) started releasing "normal" live albums, that is, recordings in which the band primarily performs pieces from previous studio albums. These are listed below in the "Collections" section.

The major original albums (excluding soundtracks) released by the group are:

The Pink Years

Tangerine Dream's first releases were on the Ohr label. The Ohr logo was a pink ear, thus fans refer to this era as the "Pink Years".

The Melrose Years

The "Melrose Years" started when Tangerine Dream switched to Peter Baumann's Private Music label, located on Melrose Avenue in Los Angeles, California.

The Millennium or TDI Years

Named after the timeframe. Tangerine Dream moved to the Castle label in 1996 briefly before Edgar Froese created his own TDI label.

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The Dream Mixes

A side-project initiated by Jerome Froese, the series has a dance music slant and primarily consists of remixes of other TD material. TimeSquare however forms an exception to this, only two of its seven tracks actually being remixes.

The subtitle-less DM 4 is in effect Jerome's first solo album, as Edgar was not involved in the production.

Five Atomic Seasons

A series consisting of 5 parts (each on one CD) commissioned by a Japanese businessman who turned 82 years old in 2006. Series tells musically about his youth when he was studying and living in two cities - Nagasaki and Hiroshima. The five compositions had to be in length 54 minutes each. Part one and two, - Spring and Summer 1945 -, the client spent living in Nagasaki while he lived in Hiroshima in autumn and winter of 1945, where he survived the dropping of the first atomic bomb. Spring and Summer describes normal atmosphere in city (of Nagasaki) with some of the rising premonitions of what will happen on August 9th 1945. Autumn and Winter in Hiroshima will musically mirror what happened after August 6th 1945. The Fifth Season supposes to be the "time after", the so called "Endless Season". ("Information taken with minor edits from "Springtime in Nagasaki" booklet")

Archive releases

Tangerine Dream have in recent years released archive material, mostly live concerts. "Sohoman" and "Soundmill Navigator" are edited, remixed concert recordings. "Rockface", "East", "Arizona Live", "Vault IV", and "Rocking Mars" are complete master recordings of concerts from 1986-1999. "Antique Dreams" is a compilation of studio singles, soundtracks, and rarities. "Kyoto" and "Blue Dawn" are reworkings of old studio tapes. Finally, "The Bootleg Boxes" and "The Bootmoon Series" are official releases based on the fan project "Tangerine Tree", consisting of fan-made recordings.

Compilations

There have been more than two dozen compilations of Tangerine Dream's music; most of these had a short market lifespan and covered either the Pink Years, the Blue Years, or both. From the Virgin Years, the collection "Dream Sequence" (released 1985) remains still in print.

There have also been three "major" compilations. "Tangents" from 1994 (covering the Virgin Years) and "The Dream Roots Collection" from 1996 (covering the Pink & Blue Years) are both five CD sets remixed by Edgar Froese himself; also, the fifth CD of both consists of previously unreleased material. The third similar compilation is "i-Box (1970-1990)", a six CD set released on the band's own TDI label in 2000. It is heavily based on the previous two sets, but also covers the Melrose Years, and has different bonus material. Also, many of the remixes on the "D.R.C." were earlier released on a 2CD collection titled "Book of Dreams".

It is worth noting that on these collections, the remixed material is presented instead of, rather than alongside the original versions, and without any explicit mention about the pieces being remixed. This practice is known as "tangentizing" among Tangerine Dream fans; the name may also refer to Froese's distinctive remixing style, which relies heavily on overdubbing.

This section also lists those live albums which are not original albums nor archive releases.

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Definitive Editions

There were 13 albums released in 1994-1995 by Virgin. They are remastered versions from originals using SBM (Super Bit Mapping) technology. This series of albums has the best sound quality for most of them to this day. They are also known for a large amount of mistakes made on cover art in personnel & track titles. For example, there's Peter Baumann instead of Johannes Schmoelling on "Exit" and "Thief", and so on.{| class="wikitable" border="1" |width=100%
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"Encore"
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"White Eagle"
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"Logos"
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"Hyperborea"
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"Phaedra"
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"Rubycon"
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"Ricochet"
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"Stratosfear"
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"Cyclone"
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"Force Majeure"
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"Tangram"
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"Thief"
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"Exit"
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