Edgar Froese, founder of Tangerine Dream, died in Vienna on the 20th of January, 2015 from a pulmonary embolism.

In 2014, Ulrich Schnauss joined Tangerine Dream. His first live appearance with the band was a five-gig tour in Australia, later released as the live-album Supernormal - The Australian Concerts. Mala Kunia was the first album featuring Ulrich. Two compositions were co-composed by the new band member, together with Edgar Froese.

Shortly before this, Edgar had decided to go back to basics to create a more electronic sound without the acoustic instruments. The band’s line-up from that moment on was Froese, Quaeschning, Yamane, Schnauss.

Ulrich Schnauss, Hoshiko Yamane, Thorsten Quaeschning, Edgar Froese 2014

Edgar Froese, founder of Tangerine Dream, died in Vienna on the 20th of January, 2015 from a pulmonary embolism. On the 6th of April, 2015, the  remaining members Thorsten Quaeschning, Ulrich Schnauss and Hoshiko Yamane together with Bianca Froese-Acquaye, Edgar’s wife and the manager of TD, agreed to continue working together to fulfill Edgar's vision for Tangerine Dream. As well as the concepts and ideas Edgar had outlined, he left a large number of musical sketches which he had already prepared during the initial phase of the band’s reformation process.

Tangerine Dream played their first show following Edgar's death on the 9th of June, 2016 in Szczecin, Poland.

Four TD tracks are featured in the Netflix series Stranger Things, including Exit, Rare Bird, Green Desert and Horizon. The composers of the original music for the TV show, Kyle Dixon and Michael Stein from the band SURVIVE, have referenced the Tangerine Dream scores for Sorcerer and The Keep as major influences. As an homage to this tribute, TD covered the Stranger Things Theme and uploaded it onto their SoundCloud page.

On the 29th of September, 2017, the band released their new studio album Quantum Gate, coinciding with the 50th anniversary of the founding of Tangerine Dream.

In 2018, the band, consisting of Thorsten Quaeschning, Ulrich Schnauss and Hoshiko Yamane, played live performances throughout Europe. Highlights from these concerts were the sold out Elbphilharmonie in Hamburg, two nights at the Union Chapel in London, performing with Richard Barbieri, and opening up the Dekmantel Festival Amsterdam alongside Four Tet.

Thorsten Quaeschning, Hoshiko Yamane and Ulrich Schnauss

Black Mirror: Bandersnatch, the first interactive Netflix film was released on the 28th of December, 2018. It features TD-classics like Phaedra, Mysterious Semblance at the Strand of Nightmares and Love on a Real Train. In the week after its release, Phaedra jumped to #1 on the Amazon ambient sales rankings, and the CD was sold out on Amazon UK.

The live set-list contains music from the 1970s and 1980s albums, as well as new material from the Quantum Gate album. Each show ends with a real-time composition lasting around 20 minutes, called a Session. These sessions were released as so far 5 mini-albums The Sessions I, The Sessions II, The Sessions III, The Sessions IV and The Sessions V.