Tangerine Dream
i-Box
1970 - 1990
- Compilation/Live/Studio, released November 2000 -
Covers
CD release Germany 2000
Cover of box
Design: Edgar Froese
CD release Germany 2000
Cover of first and second CD
Design: Edgar Froese
CD release Germany 2000
Cover of third and fourth CD
Design: Edgar Froese
CD release Germany 2000
Cover of fifth and sixth CD
Design: Edgar Froese
Tracks
Total running time 394:58
Details
Recording date 1970 - 2000
Musician(s) Edgar Froese, Chris Franke, Steve Schroyder, Peter Baumann, Johannes Schmoelling, Paul Haslinger, Ralf Wadephul, Jerome Froese,
Udo Dennebourg,
Roland Paulyck,
Florian Fricke, Christian Vallbracht, Jochen von Grumbcow, Hans Joachim Brüne, Johannes Lücke, Robert Kastler, Katja Brauneis, Clare Torry,
Jocelyn Bernadette Smith
Notes
In October 2000, the forthcoming TD production, i-Box, was announced on TDI's web site with the following statement: "For the first time ever, material from all four of the band's major creative periods is compiled in one box set. Tracks from the Pink Years, the Virgin Years, the Blue Years and the Melrose Years are brought together on six CDs to form a definitive overview of two decades in the oeuvre of a band that shaped the history of popular music. As a further treat, the set contains unreleased studio and live material, disc six even encompassing a complete live set from Perth". The first three CDs of the set contain well-known material of the period from 1970 to 1987 that for the most part has been taken from the boxed sets
Tangents and
The Dream Roots Collection , thus most of the tracks are remixes or re-recordings of the compositions that originally appeared on the albums
Alpha Centauri (1971),
Zeit (1972),
Atem (1973),
Encore (1977),
Quichotte (1980),
Logos Live (1982),
Hyperborea (1983),
Poland (1984),
Le Parc (1985),
Green Desert (1986),
Underwater Sunlight (1986),
Tyger (1987) and
Livemiles (1988).
The forth and fifth CD contain six previously unreleased compositions, obviously originating from the late eighties, and several live version of tracks from the albums
Exit (1981),
Warsaw In The Sun (1984),
Legend (1986),
Optical Race (1988),
Lily On The Beach (1989) and
Melrose (1990). Most of these 'live' recordings are hardly distinguishable from the original studio versions, thus it is doubtful that all are really recorded live.
The sixth CD contains one continuous track, alleged to be recorded 1982 live in Perth. Besides some previously unreleased music this track features slightly remixed versions of tracks from
White Eagle (1982) and Edgar Froese's solo albums
Kamikaze 1989 (1982) and
Pinnacles (1983). These 'live' versions of these tracks are rather identical to the original studio recordings, and it is more than doubtful that the music of this CD has really been taken from the Perth concert. Summing up, it may be said that this 6 CD set features less than one hour new music; the rest is more or less identical to material released on previous albums.
Besides the six CDs, the box contains a booklet with a five page essay about TD titled 'The Art Of Change' and 216 photos of Tangerine Dream between 1967 and 1994, some of them previously unreleased.
Releases
Germany
- 2000: TDI/EFA
- 6CD: 63030-2; cardboard box with booklet and three slim double jewel cases