Tangerine Dream Announces 7-Album Box Set In Search of Hades Featuring Work from 1973-1979 for June 2019 Release

Tangerine Dream has announced the release of 7-album Box Set, In Search of Hades, which features their work from 1973-1979, to be available in June. The albums included in the set are Phaedra(1974), Rubycon (1975), Ricochet (1975), Stratosfear (1976), Encore(1977), Cyclone (1978), and Force Majeure (1979). These albums include the German band’s eclectic mixture of new age electronic music from the psychadelic “Phaedra” to the synth trip of “Cherokee Lane.”

Over the past 40 years, Tangerine Dream has released over 100 albums of instrumental surreal music that feels straight out of “Stranger Things.” The prolific band has cemented themselves as perhaps the most important and influential group of the new age music movement, inspiring artists such as Jimmy Urine of Mindless Self Indulgence. In one particular interview with MXDWN, Urine said of his his style, “I’ll make it all analog synth like fucking Vangelis and Tangerine Dream came into the music and then I came and sang in falsetto like Kate Bush over it.”

Tangerine Dream has decided to release In Search of Hades both as a testament to the greatest albums of their career and to honor their founding member, Edgar Froese, who passed in 2015.

The box set includes:

8 CDs of formerly published Tangerine Dream music and audio

8 CDs & 2 Blu-Rays of previously unreleased audio and video content

68-page Hard-back book containing new essay and unseen photographs

Sleeve notes by Wouter Bessels, with contributions by Steven Wilson, with quotes from Edgar Froese and Steve Joliffe

Store Exclusive: Limited edition rare original Ricochet promo poster

CD One: “Phaedra” – Released as Virgin V 2010 in 1974

1. Phaedra (Remastered 2018)
2. Mysterious Semblance at the Strand of Nightmares (Remastered 2018)
3. Movements of a Visionary (Remastered 2018)
4. Sequent C’ (Remastered 2018)
5. [Bonus track] Phaedra (Steven Wilson 2018 stereo remix 19.37)
6. [Bonus track] Sequent C’ (Steven Wilson 2018 stereo remix 2.21)

CD Two: November 1973 – Phaedra outtakes volume one – previously unreleased

1. 2nd Day (20.30)
2. Flute Organ Piece (10.58)
3. Phaedra Out-Take version 2A (20.36)

CD Three: November 1973 – Phaedra outtakes volume two – previously unreleased

1. Phaedra Out-Take 1 (11.42)
2. Phaedra Out-Take 2B (5.42)
3. 2nd Side piece 1 (13.05)
4. 2nd Side piece 2 (9.18)
5. Organ piece (5.48)

CD Four: “Live at the Victoria Palace Theatre, London – 16th June 1974” Previously unreleased

Manor Mobile recording, mixed by Phil Newell, produced by Tangerine Dream. 

1. The Victoria Palace Concert Part One (46.54)

CD Five: “Live at the Victoria Palace Theatre, London – 16th June 1974” Previously unreleased

1. The Victoria Palace Concert Part Two (28.15)
2. The Victoria Palace Concert – Encore (13.01)

CD Six: “Oedipus Tyrannus” – Recorded in July 1974.  Previously unreleased Mixed by Steven Wilson

1. Overture (10.58)
2. Act 1 (16.42)
3. Act 2: Battle (10.05)
4. Act 2: Baroque (8.53)
5. Act 2: Zeus (5.39)
6. Act 3 (22.08)

CD Seven: “Live at the Rainbow, London – 26th October 1974” Previously unreleased

Manor Mobile recording, mixed by Ben Wiseman at Broadlake Studios, Herts – June 2018.

1. Introduction by John Peel (2.35)
2. The Rainbow Concert Part One (36.51)
3. The Rainbow Concert Part Two (29.22)

CD Eight: “Live at the Rainbow, London – 26th October 1974” Previously unreleased

1. The Rainbow Concert Part Three (37.55)
2. The Rainbow Concert Encore (12.27)

CD Nine: “Rubycon” – Released as Virgin V 2025 in 1975 Mixed by Steven Wilson Previously unreleased

1. Rubycon Part One (Remastered 2018)
2. Rubycon Part Two (Remastered 2018)
3. [Bonus track] Rubycon (extended introduction 15.04)

CD Ten: “The Royal Albert Hall, London 2nd April 1975”

NEW stereo master tape version with full John Peel intro, mixed by Phil Newell, produced by Tangerine Dream. 

1. The Royal Albert Hall Concert – Part One (1.10.33)

CD Eleven: “The Royal Albert Hall, London 2nd April 1975”

1. The Royal Albert Hall Concert – Part Two (40.12)
2. The Royal Albert Hall Concert – Encore (13.44)

CD Twelve: “Ricochet” – Released as Virgin V 2044 in 1975

1. Ricochet Part One (Remastered 2018)
2. Ricochet Part Two (Remastered 2018)
3. [Bonus track] Ricochet Part One – Steven Wilson 2018 stereo remix (17.06)
4. [Bonus track] Ricochet Part Two – Steven Wilson 2018 stereo remix (21.21)

CD Thirteen: “Stratosfear” – Released as Virgin V 2068 in 1976

1. Stratosfear (Remastered 2018)
2. The Big Sleep in Search of Hades (Remastered 2018)
3. 3am at the Border of the Marsh from Okefenokee (Remastered 2018)
4. Invisible Limits (Remastered 2018)
5. [Bonus track] Coventry Cathedral – The original film soundtrack (34.02)
6. [Bonus track] Stratosfear (single edit) Previously Unreleased (4.20)
7. [Bonus track] The Big Sleep in Search of Hades (single edit) (3.24)

CD Fourteen: “Encore” – Released as Virgin VD 2506 in 1977

1. Cherokee Lane (Remastered 2018)
2. Monolight (Remastered 2018)
3. Coldwater Canyon (Remastered 2018)
4. Desert Dream (Remastered 2018)
5. [Bonus track] Encore (3.14)
6. [Bonus track] Hobo March (4.19)

CD Fifteen: “Cyclone” – Released as Virgin V 2097 in 1978

1. Bent Cold Sidewalk (Remastered 2018)
2. Rising Runner Missed by Endless Sender (Remastered 2018)
3. Madrigal Meridian (Remastered 2018)
4. [Bonus track] Haunted Heights by Peter Baumann (6.11)
5. [Bonus track] Barryl Blue by Edgar Froese (7.19)

CD Sixteen: “Force Majeure” – Released as Virgin V 2111 in 1979

1. Force Majeure (Remastered 2018)
2. Cloudburst Flight (Remastered 2018)
3. Thru Metamorphic Rocks (Remastered 2018)
4. [Bonus track] Chimes and Chains by Christoph Franke (4.47)

Disc Seventeen – Blu Ray: 5.1 Surround Sound & 96 kHz / 24-bit stereo Steven Wilson Mixes

NB all Blu Ray discs are region free

1. Phaedra [Phaedra]
2. Mysterious Semblance at the Strand of Nightmares [Phaedra] Penteo up-mixes (5.1)
3. Movements of a Visionary [Phaedra] Penteo up-mixes (5.1)
4. Sequent C’ [Phaedra]
5. Overture (10.58) [Oedipus Tyrannus – Recorded in July 1974]
6. Act 1 (16.42) [Oedipus Tyrannus – Recorded in July 1974]
7. Act 2: Battle (10.05) [Oedipus Tyrannus – Recorded in July 1974]
8. Act 2: Baroque (8.53) [Oedipus Tyrannus – Recorded in July 1974]
9. Act 2: Zeus (5.39) [Oedipus Tyrannus – Recorded in July 1974]
10. Act 3 (22.08) [Oedipus Tyrannus – Recorded in July 1974]

Disc Eighteen – Blu Ray: 5.1 Surround Sound & 96 kHz / 24-bit stereo Steven Wilson Mixes

1. Ricochet Part One [Ricochet]
2. Ricochet Part Two [Ricochet]
3. Tangerine Dream at Coventry Cathedral [Visual content, BBC TV 3rd October 1976] (27.20)
4. Signale aus der Schwäbischen Strasse – Tangerine Dream documentary & performance (NDR / SFB TV Germany – 23rd May 1976). (44.44)