Tangerine Dream Dreams

I was trying to remember when I first got into Tangerine Dream. I remember the first album I bought from them was Tangram, shortly after I’d bought a turntable in late 2008. I found a copy of Tangram at Half Price Books for $1. It was what I’d call back in the day “The Nice […]

Journey Through A Burning Brain

The room is dark and humid. The only light I see in front of me seems hundreds of feet away. With each step I take the floor beneath me feels as if it’s getting softer and softer, limiting my stride as I make my way forward into the abyss. Where am I? How did I […]

Exit…Stage Froese

I don’t think there’s any other band that was as prolific as Tangerine Dream. In the 70s and 80s they were dropping albums once or twice a year. Once they started doing film scores that rate of creativity and productivity increased even more. Edgar Froese and whomever was in the band with him at the […]

Dr. Destructo Strikes Again

Summer break is winding down. It hasn’t really felt like much of a summer break, honestly. Amid an early summer infestation, gutting the upstairs, and just trying to find some kind of normalcy the new school year has snuck up on us without a sound. We hit the southern hills of Brown County for a […]

Edgar Froese: A Eulogy of Sorts

So back in the summer of 2014 I got on this Tangerine Dream kick. I mean, I’d owned a couple records of theirs since back in 2009, but I wasn’t really a fan until this past summer. My local record shop had pulled in this huge haul of used vinyl and amongst the giant catch […]