Some things sequenced, some things played live in real time. These are the ways of this kind of music (electro, kraut, ambient,,,,called what you like), it is pure nectar. Thanks Froese! soundtrack of so many beings! OM!
I saw them every time they toured - in fact I had the privilege of watching them from backstage on a number of occassions - and it was then I realised that much of it is mimed - more than 70% truth be told. I watched a number of concerts during the same tour and noticed different keyboards being used a couple of places - yet the sound was exactly the same each concert! I still enjoyed the shows - especially the Dominion concert tour.
Farewell Edgar Froese. The inspired creative, fantastic electronic artistic wizard, who's works of audio landscaping have provided a personal soundtrack for many around the world through solo performances, or with members of Tangerine Dream. His contributions to music have inspired many as well as enthralled countless others who sought out these recordings after being introduced to this stand alone, unchallenged hypnotic genre, and who as well, have also attended performances around the world with great enthusiastic anticipation that lead to a great undeniable satisfaction. I have, like thousands of other countless appreciative fans, purchased these greatly sculpted recordings, all with Edgar's touch over the years since the 1970's, and hope to continue to do so along with the many countless dedicated fans past and present worldwide. Let the Dream continue. The Tangerine Dream.
This is amazing. The Thing mixed with The Grudge. This is one of the best sounding synths from back in the day that I heard yet, and I heard alot of them.
You are so right! I thought the same, especially that spooky organic sound during the intro he's creating on that PPG Wave 2.2 reminded me so much of The Grudge. Man he was waaaay ahead of his time. So awesome!
Would have loved to have had a go with that custom sequencer Edgar has here, I believe that Johannes Schmoelling had one too. Love those burping type sounds Edgar is making with his PPG synth. The guys was a genius 🤗
About 99 comments most from tech "experts" telling us how much is or isn't live!! About 86,000 just interested in the music. Even if it's 100% mimed at least we get some insight into the process of creating the piece.
Is there a high quality recording of this anywhere? He and the rest of TD will on forever.....in 100 years people will still be loving them and their music.
Die haben uns damals alle verarscht...ich besitze 5 analoge Synthies aus dieser Zeit...schön, wie die da an den Knöpfen spielen, und die Teile spielen von alleine...irgendwie habe ich das nie hingekriegt....
@AouretVolkenVisage I kind of thought as you did but was very surprised with "Purple Diluvial", that's a beautifully diverse piece of music. I realized they'd done nearly 30 albums in the intervening years that I never even knew about.
Don't wanna sound like smart-ass, but the Oberheim polysynth is the OBX one, released in 1979. The OBXa was the next generation, in 1981. Thanks for the uploading - great track and video!
Hilarious. The "Predator" voice was someone tickling a tin-can party favor! Obligatory analogue prostletyzing (sp?): death of unpredictable instrumental performance. Yay, quantization! Wacked dream this AM about trying to get an Oddy VCA/VCF EG to 'boing' just right. Damn subconscious...
I begin to wonder just how many Wavecomputers this guy owned. I know he helped finance the development of the original PPG Wavecomputer and the PPG wave series of synthesizers.
Well, there's only so much one guy can actually play live, especially with this kind of music. I would prefer though that he played the lead sounds, more than controlling the sequences with the PPG. But sequencers were way more primitive and finicky in 1981 than today. Saw TD a few times in the 80's, FFS and FFH lineups - they played as much live as anyone possibly could with six hands and were impressive - maybe 20% sequenced, the rest live. Post 2000 TD, maybe 80-90% sequenced. :-(
it seems they like a highly polished digital sound nowdays more. they think it is more mature, more the sound of today. but to me, it's colder. and even for younger people who are into electronic music, it is colder...
I saw the Optical Race tour. Stewart Copeland, the opener, made a dissing remark about playing recorded music. Edgar picked up the guitar and outdid anything Stewart Copeland was capable of....
My god, Limey is a TD fan. I have about twenty of their old albums on vinyl. Edgar is getting a bit long in tooth like poor old Harry was, but as with H, his greatness will hopefully open some doors for those who come afterwards. We have had a year without winter here in San diego. You ought to try it sometime. I have a full garden already to harvest and I usually don't even set the seeds in until this time of year. It is actually fucking hot here, like summer gets. And the rest of the country and probably your way too, are using icepicks to get their car doors open! Hope you and T are happy and prosperous as always...good to hear from you.
@alexeykh thanks; in italy the word to say church is "chiesa" from latin "ecclèsia" from greek "ecclesìa": athenian people when decided something together! and communio in latin is the same of koinonia in greek, which was a cooperative; italian "compegno" used by communists comes from "we have the same bread", may be Holy Communion the words have their roots i read some russian theologian and i remember something about sobornost, you let me understand in a better way this word
I see the OB-X and PPG synthesizers are featured in this video. This piece sounds similar to a track on Tangerine Dream's Exit album (Pilot's Of A PurpleTwilight or Remote Viewing). Cool to see Edgar performing in personal appearance. Big fan of TD since the early eighties. I love their 70's & 80's material the best. Tangerine Dream is a huge inspiration in my music compositions as well. RIP Edgar Froese!
Does any one know the brand name of the blue synthesizer on the bottom side is called the one with the growling voices at the beginning of the video. Totally awesome stuff
@ the "prerecorded" wailers: perhaps you should try this at home before you moan? Froese only has one standard pair of hands. Obviously, a solo performance is going to rely on a certain amount of sequenced backing. And, as a previous poster has pointed out, complex digital synths can do strange things whose relationship to hand movements isn't always obvious. Froese is more about texture. If you're after melodies, you want Herbie Hancock...
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What a loss.
R.I.P Edgar and thanks for the great music.
Yes. Thank you for your wonderful music, Edgar.
Rest in Peace.
Some things sequenced, some things played live in real time. These are the ways of this kind of music (electro, kraut, ambient,,,,called what you like), it is pure nectar. Thanks Froese! soundtrack of so many beings! OM!
It is a very unique style of music, and it has evolved over the years.
We have lost a visionary, a pioneer and a great musician. R.I.P. Mr Froese
great music, He´s a pionner
Thanks Edgar, part of my life growing up with Tangering Dream.
Froese lives on through his great soundscapes!
One of my favorite musical artists .
I saw them every time they toured - in fact I had the privilege of watching them from backstage on a number of occassions - and it was then I realised that much of it is mimed - more than 70% truth be told. I watched a number of concerts during the same tour and noticed different keyboards being used a couple of places - yet the sound was exactly the same each concert! I still enjoyed the shows - especially the Dominion concert tour.
Farewell Edgar Froese. The inspired creative, fantastic electronic artistic wizard, who's works of audio landscaping have provided a personal soundtrack for many around the world through solo performances, or with members of Tangerine Dream. His contributions to music have inspired many as well as enthralled countless others who sought out these recordings after being introduced to this stand alone, unchallenged hypnotic genre, and who as well, have also attended performances around the world with great enthusiastic anticipation that lead to a great undeniable satisfaction. I have, like thousands of other countless appreciative fans, purchased these greatly sculpted recordings, all with Edgar's touch over the years since the 1970's, and hope to continue to do so along with the many countless dedicated fans past and present worldwide. Let the Dream continue. The Tangerine Dream.
Great Edgar............... Rip...... You are the best to wake up the electronic soul of the musical fantasy........ Thank you for your creativity.
This is amazing. The Thing mixed with The Grudge. This is one of the best sounding synths from back in the day that I heard yet, and I heard alot of them.
You are so right! I thought the same, especially that spooky organic sound during the intro he's creating on that PPG Wave 2.2 reminded me so much of The Grudge. Man he was waaaay ahead of his time. So awesome!
One of the most friendly persons I have ever talked do (Sender Freies Berlin, ca. 1987). R.I.P.
Such amazing performance. I love every detail on it. Why isn't been released in the boxset now in 2020 is a mistery.
Edgar Froese is a true musical genius, and probably a genius regarding other aspects of life as well. Edgar and TD RULE!
Great Performance, Thanks Edgar Froese, unbelievable musician in Capital Letters RIP
A major influence on my music growing up, now ingrained.
R.I.P. thank you for the music and inspiring others
RIP Edgar Froese... Danke für dein Lebenswerk!
A real gem of master Edgar Froese,R.i.p. my cosmic musical friend,and sure long life to ambient/ cosmic Berlin school
RIP Edgar Thanks for ever !!! (Y)
RiP Edgar (*) Poland Loves Your Electronics...
Great music from the master. Edgar is my favourite artist of all time. thanks for posting
Amazing! Thrilling! How wonderful to see and listen to this great genius of TD! ! RIP Thank you for sharing these musical gems!!!
A pioneer of electronic music👏
Hell, he was so cool!
Would have loved to have had a go with that custom sequencer Edgar has here, I believe that Johannes Schmoelling had one too. Love those burping type sounds Edgar is making with his PPG synth. The guys was a genius 🤗
twórca el-muzyki creator of el-music, mistrz zmarł, chwała mu na wieki
R.I.P He started an evolution :(
Genio extraordinario de la musica y el arte Universal
A genuine trailblazer.
No parallel. Fantastic and grateful. 🙏🏼
I love this segment: subjecting your neighbors to loud PPG synth playing.
Still awesome music.
RIP Edgar :(
I wanted to be as much like my hero as I could in current times so I put my Oberheim OB-X8 above my 3rd Wave on the keyboard stand.
Edgar Fröse is a great master
of instrumental music.
Very good video*****
RIP Edgar encore merci
About 99 comments most from tech "experts" telling us how much is or isn't live!!
About 86,000 just interested in the music. Even if it's 100% mimed at least we get some insight into the process of creating the piece.
comments valid just like yours
RIP. What a loss.
Like the PPG demo room. Fantastic. His neighbors must have either loved it or been terrified at the weird mouth sounds in the intro.
I would have loved to have been his neighbour when he was doing this & maybe had a few lessons from the master himself!
Absolute masterpiece
Genio Universal.......DANKE Gracias Maestro
Is there a high quality recording of this anywhere? He and the rest of TD will on forever.....in 100 years people will still be loving them and their music.
YT version of the recording : ua-cam.com/video/Ax5qNj4pvzI/v-deo.htmlsi=iYAZvMMMzlxO4KhH
Die haben uns damals alle verarscht...ich besitze 5 analoge Synthies aus dieser Zeit...schön, wie die da an den Knöpfen spielen, und die Teile spielen von alleine...irgendwie habe ich das nie hingekriegt....
Super !
Wow, a "one-man" version of Remote Viewing from Exit. Fantastic!
esto es maravilloso!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I like this so much better than TD current stuff!
Brilliant burping sounds from his PPG Wave.
Rest in peace, Edgar.
R.I.P. Edgar.
out of all the versions on youtube, this VHS version sounds the best with it's inherent quality defects and slightly tinny sound, they just add to it!
Very good Froese!
Hat jetzt eine neue Anschrift. (RIP)
REST IN PEACE edgar.
INCREDIBLE!!
RIP
Pioneer, RIP
@AouretVolkenVisage I kind of thought as you did but was very surprised with "Purple Diluvial", that's a beautifully diverse piece of music. I realized they'd done nearly 30 albums in the intervening years that I never even knew about.
Un mito. Un grande.
Grandioso!!!!!!!
THANK YOU
well put!!!
Don't wanna sound like smart-ass, but the Oberheim polysynth is the OBX one, released in 1979. The OBXa was the next generation, in 1981.
Thanks for the uploading - great track and video!
great playback...
still love it!!
ادگار بزرگ تو همیشه الهام بخش من بودی. یادت همیشه جاوید.
RIP :/
Schade das Du nicht mehr da bist. :-(
well put!
R.I.P
Thanks for uploading this!
He was 'here' to only give 'us'.
Hilarious. The "Predator" voice was someone tickling a tin-can party favor! Obligatory analogue prostletyzing (sp?): death of unpredictable instrumental performance. Yay, quantization! Wacked dream this AM about trying to get an Oddy VCA/VCF EG to 'boing' just right. Damn subconscious...
Genius
Legend in his own right. RAH 4-1-2010. Be there for another history in the making.
R.I.P Mr. Froese.
he was the godfather of electronic rock x
Rip Edgar froese you were td
+djlez76 Not Edgar alone
.....
the master gives a lesson in how it should be done.
Maestro
RIP EDGAR.
Synthesizers have bit my, i love synthesizers !
@wtc175 I saw TD at Olympia (Paris) and it seems that many parts were mimed... I don't know.
Concert was nice, and even great at some moments.
I begin to wonder just how many Wavecomputers this guy owned. I know he helped finance the development of the original PPG Wavecomputer and the PPG wave series of synthesizers.
Well, there's only so much one guy can actually play live, especially with this kind of music. I would prefer though that he played the lead sounds, more than controlling the sequences with the PPG. But sequencers were way more primitive and finicky in 1981 than today.
Saw TD a few times in the 80's, FFS and FFH lineups - they played as much live as anyone possibly could with six hands and were impressive - maybe 20% sequenced, the rest live.
Post 2000 TD, maybe 80-90% sequenced. :-(
MEANWHILE IN THE 80'S
it seems they like a highly polished digital sound nowdays more. they think it is more mature, more the sound of today. but to me, it's colder. and even for younger people who are into electronic music, it is colder...
I saw the Optical Race tour. Stewart Copeland, the opener, made a dissing remark about playing recorded music. Edgar picked up the guitar and outdid anything Stewart Copeland was capable of....
2016 minus 1981 is 457. Nothung will ever slay, nothing will Eve clay. thanks B, just the ticket. xx (hope you're happy mate, keep the flag flappin')
My god, Limey is a TD fan. I have about twenty of their old albums on vinyl. Edgar is getting a bit long in tooth like poor old Harry was, but as with H, his greatness will hopefully open some doors for those who
come afterwards. We have had a year without winter here in San diego. You ought to try it sometime. I have a full garden already to harvest and I usually don't even set the seeds in until this time of year. It is actually fucking hot here, like summer gets. And the rest of the country and probably your way too, are using icepicks to get their car doors open! Hope you and T are happy and prosperous as always...good to hear from you.
Not Copeland but Andy Summers right? Summer's albums were pretty good...
@alexeykh thanks; in italy the word to say church is "chiesa" from latin "ecclèsia" from greek "ecclesìa": athenian people when decided something together! and communio in latin is the same of koinonia in greek, which was a cooperative; italian "compegno" used by communists comes from "we have the same bread", may be Holy Communion
the words have their roots
i read some russian theologian and i remember something about sobornost, you let me understand in a better way this word
I see the OB-X and PPG synthesizers are featured in this video. This piece sounds similar to a track on Tangerine Dream's Exit album (Pilot's Of A PurpleTwilight or Remote Viewing). Cool to see Edgar performing in personal appearance. Big fan of TD since the early eighties. I love their 70's & 80's material the best. Tangerine Dream is a huge inspiration in my music compositions as well. RIP Edgar Froese!
Does any one know the brand name of the blue synthesizer on the bottom side is called the one with the growling voices at the beginning of the video. Totally awesome stuff
That's a PPG Wave. Behringer is working on a clone of it.
PPG Wave 2
@wtc175 -why don't you enlighten us with videos of you playing your kazoo?
there's rap as good as this, just, like anything, rare and hard to find...
Thanks for posting this. Edgar is a genius and pioneer, but it's a shame he's not playing more with his hands here.
Great music and video....even if a lot of it is pre-recorded (or all of it??) Thx for uploading!
Stereo output from the OBX!
@ the "prerecorded" wailers: perhaps you should try this at home before you moan? Froese only has one standard pair of hands. Obviously, a solo performance is going to rely on a certain amount of sequenced backing. And, as a previous poster has pointed out, complex digital synths can do strange things whose relationship to hand movements isn't always obvious.
Froese is more about texture. If you're after melodies, you want Herbie Hancock...
Much as I love TD and Edgar, the sound here is not from what we are seeing. It is a live gig. Maybe the right year though
Nice piece, but it appears to have minimal "live" playing over preprogrammed sequenced backing.
das ist gut :-) ii ja nai? even features some birds, and you don't see many of them at EM gigs :-P