Classic electronic music fans have a reason to get excited. The German electronic band Tangerine Dream announced that their most popular albums will be remastered, reissued, and released this June 2019. The works to be released will include seven of Tangerine Dream’s most groundbreaking albums including Phaedra (1974), Rubycon (1975), Ricochet (1975), Stratosfear (1976), Encore (1977), Cyclone (1978), and Force Majeure (1979). The remastered albums will be available to stream online and in CD form. Additionally, each album will have one or more bonus tracks added on.  

We have Tangerine Dream to thank for much of the electronic music available to us today. The group acted as one of the pioneers of the genre and made great strides in developing synth and incorporating it into pop music. In Germany, Tangerine Dream helped solidify and push the genre of krautrock, an experimental genre which started in the 70s that relied heavily on electronic music and had its foundations in funk and jazz. Tangerine Dream and Krautrock had a heavy influence on the sound of the 80s. This can be heard in the numerous 80s films the group scored including Risky Business, Thief, Three O’Clock High, and Miracle Mile.

Tangerine Dream is quite an active band and throughout their career they’ve released over one hundred albums. Their often synth based songs are complicated works that are truly unpredictable and experimental. When listening to later albums and works they’ve done you can hear the evolution of the group and how they’ve built off of works like Stratosfear and Phaedra. Many of their songs layer sounds throughout and others feel like a collage of many different tracks as every twenty seconds the sound goes somewhere totally new. Their albums are exciting to listen to and it will be intriguing to hear the bonus tracks and remixes of their most popular works on their remastered albums.

Here are the album covers for the seven albums that will be reissued and remastered:

Here are the track listings for the remastered albums below:

CD1:

‘Phaedra’

1.            Phaedra (17.36)
2.            Mysterious Semblance at the Strand of Nightmares (9.41)
3.            Moments of a Visionary (7.55)
4.            Sequent C (2.18)

Bonus tracks:

5.            Phaedra (Steven Wilson stereo remix) (19.37)
6.            Sequent C (Steven Wilson stereo remix) (2.21)

CD2:

‘Rubycon’

1.            Rubycon Part One (17.14)
2.            Rubycon Part Two (17.35)

Bonus track:

3.            Rubycon (extended introduction) (15.04)

CD3:

‘Ricochet’

1.            Ricochet Part One (16.59)
2.            Ricochet Part Two (21.04)

Bonus tracks:

3.            Ricochet Part One (17.06) (Steven Wilson stereo remix)
4.            Ricochet Part Two (21.21) (Steven Wilson stereo remix)

CD4:

‘Stratosfear’

1.            Stratosfear (10.33)
2.            The Big Sleep in Search of Hades (4.27)
3.            3am at the Border of the Marsh from Okefenokee (8.48)
4.            Invisible Limits (11.25)

Bonus tracks:

5.            Coventry Cathedral – The Original Film Soundtrack (34.02)

Previously unreleased (other than original broadcast)

6.            Stratosfear (single edit) (4.17)
7.            The Big Sleep in Search of Hades (single edit) (3.24)

CD5:

‘Encore’

1.            Cherokee Lane (16.24)
2.            Monolight (19.53)
3.            Cold Water Canyon (18.05)
4.            Desert Dream (17.47)

Bonus tracks:

5.            Encore (3.14)
6.            Hobo March (4.49)

CD6:

‘Cyclone’

1.            Bent Cold Sidewalk (13.07)
2.            Rising Runner Missed by Endless Sender (5.02)
3.            Madrigal Meridian (20.30)

Bonus tracks:

4.            Haunted Heights (6.11)
5.            Barryl Blue (7.19)

CD7:

‘Force Majeure’

1.            Force Majeure (18.18)
2.            Cloudburst Flight (7.28)
3.            Thru Metamorphic Rocks (14.30)

Bonus track:

4.            Chimes and Chains (4.47)