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Miles Archer

(18,837 posts)
Sat Jan 24, 2015, 05:27 PM Jan 2015

Tangerine Dream Founder Edgar Froese Dead at 70

Tangerine Dream Founder Edgar Froese Dead at 70



http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/tangerine-dream-edgar-froese-dead-20150124

Edgar Froese, founding member and keyboardist of the long-running band Tangerine Dream and an electronic music pioneer, passed away after suffering a pulmonary embolism on January 20th. Froese was 70.

"This is a message to you we are very sorry for… On January 20th, Tuesday afternoon, Edgar Froese suddenly and unexpectedly passed away from the effects of a pulmonary embolism in Vienna," the band posted on Facebook Friday afternoon. "The sadness in our hearts is immensely. Edgar once said: 'There is no death, there is just a change of our cosmic address.' Edgar, this is a little comfort to us."

Formed in 1967 in West Berlin and born out of the same Krautrock scene that produced Kraftwerk, Cluster, Neu! and Can, Tangerine Dream's 1970 debut LP Electronic Meditation, which featured fellow electronic music giant Klaus Schulz, shared many of the same musical qualities as their German peers.

However, by the early Seventies, Froese and his reformed Tangerine Dream soon journeyed toward more celestial, synthetic soundscapes as featured on albums like 1971's Alpha Centauri and 1973's Atem. After being among the first artists to sign with Virgin Records, Tangerine Dream released their seminal 1974 album Phaedra, where Froese experimented with sequencers and launched the Berlin School style of electronic music. The album is widely considered the band's masterpiece.
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Tangerine Dream Founder Edgar Froese Dead at 70 (Original Post) Miles Archer Jan 2015 OP
He was born on D-Day in East Prussia. rug Jan 2015 #1
Rest In Peace I was listening to Rubycon this morning Tom Ripley Jan 2015 #2
This hit me hard Ron Obvious Jan 2015 #3
This is quite depressing. TM99 Jan 2015 #4
A terrible loss-I liked many works from TD TK421 Jan 2015 #5
 

Ron Obvious

(6,261 posts)
3. This hit me hard
Sat Jan 24, 2015, 06:38 PM
Jan 2015

i just posted this in GD too, but I didn't know if it had been posted before. This was the music of my childhood and adolescence.

Damn!

-=R

 

TM99

(8,352 posts)
4. This is quite depressing.
Sun Jan 25, 2015, 12:02 AM
Jan 2015

Tangerine Dream and Froese were so formative in my musical development as a lad. I grew up on TD, Jarre, Oldfield, Vangelis, and tons of synth fueled prog rock.

I am very sad to see him gone.

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