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• I was first attracted to Tangerine Dream when they performed the soundtrack for the William Friedkin film Sorcerer (1977) that stars Roy Scheider. 

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Tangerine Dream – Das Mädchen auf der Treppe (1982):  Tangerine Dream is a long-lived and highly influential German electronic band that was founded by Edgar Froese in 1967 as a psychedelic rock band.  Typically operating as a trio with each bandmember having a huge bank of available instruments and synthesizers, Edgar Froese was the constant in Tangerine Dream among a rotating line-up of musicians until his death in January 2015.  According to Wikipedia:  “Since Froese‘s death in 2015, the group has been under the leadership of Thorsten Quaeschning (Froese’s chosen successor and the current longest-serving band member, having joined in 2005).” 

Most of the music by Tangerine Dream is instrumental, although several albums feature vocals that are similar to those on Pink Floyd albums.  I was first attracted to Tangerine Dream when they performed the soundtrack for the William Friedkin film Sorcerer (1977) that stars Roy Scheider.  They also provided the soundtrack for a long-time favorite Michael Mann film called Thief (1981), starring James Caan, Tuesday Weld, Robert Prosky, and James Belushi (John Belushi’s brother).  I purchased a live double-album shortly after I saw the former movie called Encore (1977), featuring four side-long instrumental performances.  Their recorded output is enormous, with Wikipedia stating that over 300 recordings have been released by Tangerine Dream, including 104 live and studio albums – not counting dozens of bootleg albums, and the more than 300 hours of authorized fan-collected recordings that are circulated by Tangerine Tree.  Thus, when I run across Tangerine Dream albums, I never really know what to buy.  Since Encore has still not been cleaned up, I am presenting a short soundtrack EP called Das Mädchen auf der Treppe (“The Girl on the Steps”), the music for an episode of Tatort (“Crime Scene”), the longest-running German television drama in history that has been broadcasted continuously for more than 50 years.