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Tangerine Dream Live Across Scandinavia
The magic of the North awaits!
Concert Venue Change Update for Vienna/AT
Important Update: Change of Concert Venue – June 29, 2025
Celebrating 50 years of Phaedra in France
Tangerine Dream bring the Phaedra experience to France – two exclusive shows this October!
TD Touch Down in Australia
Tangerine Dream are coming back to Australia!
Tangerine Dream in Poland in 2025!
After four great shows in Poland in 2024, Tangerine Dream is coming back in 2025 with five new concerts.
Tangerine Dream in Spain in 2025!
Spain — The wait is over! Tangerine Dream are bringing their iconic live experience to Spain in 2025.
More Phaedra Concerts in Birmingham and Manchester
Tangerine Dream continue to celebrate their groundbreaking Phaedra album with two more incredible shows in May 2025!
2025 Germany Tour Announced!
After a successful Germany tour in 2023, we are delighted to announce a new Germany tour for 2025.
Celebrating 50 years of Phaedra in Oirschot/NL
After an unforgettable night in London, we're thrilled to bring the magic of PHAEDRA to Oirschot (near Eindhoven), NL, for a second anniversary ...

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Is live also live when it is not “now” does live remain ?

Answered by Edgar Froese

Good advertising slogan. In many old fotos and in films you can see that all three band members are having a very slow Revox tape machine. Of course, you might come to the idea that the music you can hear there comes from the sound storage media. The truth is very simple: At the beginning of the seventies, we had already charged an engineer from Berlin with transforming the motor control unit of the ribbon draft into a variably adjustable speed mechanism. So it became possible to variably duplicate the notes of a sequencer in triplets or other rhythmic parameters with the record and play button of the tape machine. When three synchronizing sequencers generated rhythmic patterns in this way, we had already reached the exact ideas of an earlier polyrhythmic sound landscape. So a tape machine was transformed into an echo machine – this had nothing to do with backup tapes. Today you can reach the same result in five minute’s time with a commercially available software sequencer – provided that you know what you want to produce.

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