“Today kids get an instrument and see what they can do with it. Then they look around and start to copy, which is okay to start [with]. We were in the position that we didn’t have anyone to copy. We ...

Tangerine Dream’s Edgar Froese at The Royal Albert Hall, 2 April 1975. In front of him, a sequencer-equipped EMS synthesiser A little earlier, in 1971, the British company Electronic Music Studios ...

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The most effective way into Tangerine Dream’s five-CD box set is to start with the four live CDs. They were essentially an improvisation trio, and founder Edgar Froese said he sought “transparency” in ...