Sat 15 Oct – E-Live 2011

Loom offered us a great concert, with material from Jerome Froese (solo material), Johannes Schmoelling (solo material) and from Tangerine Dream. plus some new Loom tracks.
The pure and clean sound from the 80`s was back, so it felt like
we were back in time at some point. It was truly fantastic to hear this, and see Johannes performing again. Johannes and Jerome had a great connection on stage, and let the instruments speak.
Johannes opened the concert with the piano track, that he opened with in 1980 (his first show with TD) Quichotte…

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Tangerine Dream - Official Releases
Since 1970 Tangerine Dream have released a large number of records, including studio, live and soundtrack records. This section features a complete list of these official releases. It is organized in seven time periods, commonly known to TD collectors. The records are listed in order of their initial release date, not in order of the date of their original recording. Plus Videos and DVD Live concerts.


- 'The Pink Years' - 'The Virgin Years' - 'The Blue Years' - 'The Melrose Years' - 'The Seattle Years' - 'The TDI Years' - 'The Eastgate…

In 1985, a small milestone in electronic music occurred: Tangerine Dream became 15 years old. In that time, they've defined and expanded the parameters of electronic sound by traveling through psychedelia, space music, and the current New Age movement.

The recent explosion of synthesizer technology can be traced in large part to the personal, highly developed music of Tangerine Dream. Their first recording, Electronic Meditation, was a Stockhausen songbook played by acid heads. Electric guitars, organs, violins, metal, whips, and cellos were distorted to the limits by founder Edgar Froese and Conrad Schnitzler, and set against Klaus Shulze's free jazz…

Tangerine + Dream

To collect music from your favourite band is a funny disease! You MUST get the latest album or single. When it comes to rare or hard to get albums, you try any cd store out there, before checking Ebay. My passion is the german Instrumental-Electronic band Tangerine Dream. It started back in 1982, when I heard the 20 min. long track "Mojave Plan" from the album White Eagle. From that moment there was no way back!

The band released it`s first album "Electronic Meditation" back in 1970, with the members Edgar Froese, Klaus Schulze and Conrad Schnitzler.…

Yello founder and member Dieter Meier has finally confirmed that a new album will be released, and that for the first time, Yello will be on stage, presenting their own music.

On their official (and rarely updated) website, Yello has now confirmed their new album, as does band boss Dieter Meier in an interview with his sound technology company, Euphonix. The new album has been in the works for some time and there have been delays, but October 2, 2009 is now confirmed as the release date. The title is Touch Yello, and for the first time the band is…

A book by Steven Hager; 1986 St. Martin's Press.

The first part is from chapter two "New Wave Vaudeville"; this chapter concerns the performance scene in New York's East Village centering around a series of events known as the "New Wave Vaudeville".

"Toward the end of the show, the lights dimmed and the room was filled with a thundering musical ovation. The curtains opened and the spotlight fell on a strange, unearthly presence wearing a black gown, clear plastic cape, and white gloves. As the orchestral refrain from Saint-Saens' 'Samson And Delila' was played, this strange Weimar version of Mickey…

UNCUT magazine August 1999
"STRANGE DAYS - The underbelly of showbiz: David Bowie's favourite operatic oddball, KLAUS NOMI"

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It'S December 15, 1979 and every self-respecting American Bowie fan nervously anticipates his performance on that evening's Saturday Night Live. But when at last he makes his entrance, David himself is imprisoned in an inverted plastic triangle like some human Dairy lea, carried on by two similarly spikey freaks who, having planted him centre stage,take up position as backing singers. One of them acts permanently startled - but with a bleached white face and jagged Toblerone hair-do, who wouldn't? As Bowie…

KLAUS NOMI - RIDING THE NEW WAVE
by Madeline Bocchiaro

(From Roctober #19, 1997)

The transitional period between decades is always highly charged with the excitement of things to come, and of an era coming to an end. The 1970's had their final burst of energy with Punk rock, but by 1979, the New Wave was already upon us. Simmering beneath the deliberate crudeness, realism and rage of Punk was the slick, brightly coloured, cosmetic, futuristic fantasy world of New Wave. The movement's forerunners were fans of British Glam rock, especially of David Bowie and of American disco music. It…

from ATTITUDE, vol 1 Number 3, July 1994, London, England
Klaus Nomi
Like a shooting star, he exploded into the world then fell from the heavens after a glittering, all-too-brief career. Now largely forgotten, Nomi remains rock music's queerest exponent, who outshone the many acts following in his wake.
text - RUPERT SMITH
ONE NIGHT IN 1980, during an otherwise routine episode of BBC2's The Old Grey Whistle Test, a strange vision was beamed into British living rooms. A stark, angular figure – heavily made up, his hair teased into three points and wearing a high-fashion Blake's 7-style outfit -…

This Interview was made by French Television in 1982, the year before Nomi died.
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Interviewer : When you arrived to NY, how did you earn a living?

Klaus : Hum… like Rudolph Valentino*. Hehe, kidding. Well, I did everything, even dirty jobs, like dishwashing or delivery boy for a grocer, delivering flowers, cooking, peeling vegetables… it was a curious story, up to a point it became unbearable. The urge to sing was stronger, so one day I performed in a club and it was very successful ; then I could give up all those dreadful jobs, and devote my…