Exhibition: Tangerine Dream: Zeitraffer

Tangerine Dream, the German band widely credited as laying the foundations for the Ambient and Trance music styles, will be celebrated by this exhibition.

Tangerine Dream: Zeitraffer uses photographs, previously unpublished articles, video clips, and original synthesizers, to take visitors on an immersive journey that tells the band’s extraordinary story.

The first album to be sold at the first Virgin Record shop on Oxford Street was a Tangerine Dream album in 1971. Serving behind the till was Richard Branson, who signed the band to Virgin Records two years later.

BBC Radio 1 DJ, John Peel, introduced the band’s music to a UK audience, frequently playing their 1972 and 1973 tracks, Zeit and Atem, and following global success with the Phaedra album in 1974, the band embarked on a European tour.

Over the course of its 53-year history, the band, which was founded in 1967 by Edgar Froese in West Berlin, has released over 160 albums, starting with Electronic Meditation in 1970 to In Search Of Hades (box set) and Recurring Dreams in 2019.

Tangerine Dream has also composed the scores for over 60 Hollywood films, including William Friedkin’s Sorcerer, Michael Mann’s The Thief, and Risky Business; and Legend by Ridley Scott, both of which starred Tom Cruise; and Firestarter, based on Stephen King’s novel of the same name.

In 2013, they wrote the score for the record-breaking video game, Grand Theft Auto V. Netflix licensed their classics Phaedra and Love on a Real Train for the hugely popular series, Stranger Things, Black Mirror, and Mr. Robot.