Since the death of Edgar I have been listening to all my TD material, that's almost 200 CD's and 80 minidisc, yes I said minidisc, worth of live concerts. That's not to mention the DVD's and other video footage. Although the line up changed they were a prolific band but one of my favourite TD tunes is Straotsfear - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nVtMITkdxRo&list=RDnVtMITkdxRo

If I still had my gear and setup, I would have loved to do an electronic music colab (I've only done rock based colabs so far).  I have a LOT of electronica, over 23,000 tracks, but many of those tracks are joined-mixes over an hour long (some over three hours long!).  It comes out to about 150 days worth of music.  I also like combining styles like EDM with space rock guitar (maybe a trance-like Ozric Tentacles?).
 
I was going to make some vocal trance with Julianna (julibee) providing the singing.  I'm a bit sad that that didn't come about (at least yet).
 
In any event, I don't use a "site" for this.  I do have my own websites and space, and provide FTP ability to anyone else involved which makes it easy to share stems and tracks. 

I thought I was a BIG TD fan, but it seems my collection pales in comparison to some of you lot haha!
 
 

craigb
If I still had my gear and setup

What would it take to dust all your gear off Craig?
 
I've only just dragged out my JP-8000, OB-12 and Nova:-
 

 
Not exactly "classic" gear, but I'm enjoying rediscovering the hardware sounds 
 
 

synkrotron
Ah! Do you mean "Virgin" as in the record label?
 
In which case, that would be Phaedra, which is a decent starting point for that particular era , although my fave is Rubycon...

TD changed a lot ... listening to Atem and Alpha Centauri, is actually a nice trip, and already you will not find the knob turning as much ... a sign that they wanted it to be more music, than just experimentation.
 
They have, about 3 or 4 different "eras", and I like all of them ... but a starting point? Very early, is best so you can see how the sequencers woke up and started being used! AND, how electronic music really came to life!

Hi,
 
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I do not have a favorite, as there are too many nice things.
 
Phaedra ... and then check out the anniversary version if you think Analog is still not good, or used!
 
Stratosfear ... an excellent album, that stands out from all others. In some ways it was totally different, but it was totally far out.
 
Tangram ... very soft and melodic and totally pretty
 
Force Majeure ... progressive rock in some ways and very electronic. The visualization on this one is really strong!
 
Underwater Sunlight ... Very nice, though a few folks I met thought this was New Age stuff ... it was way better than any New Age music ever done other than Vangelis!
 
Melrose ... mentioned above. For my tastes, these are songs, not passages as before
 
Rockoon/220 Volt Live ... I like Rockoon, but it feels like far out rock songs. 220 Volt Live is a magnificent concert and I think this is the first of Linda Spa's albums with TD. She is a multi instrumentalist, specializing in composition and I think she helped define "song", into a more classically defined/designed piece of music. She spent more than 20 years with TD, and some folks did not like her saxophone playing though some solos (Jeanne D'Arc) are excellent.
 
2000+ ... there are too many things to consider!
 
LIVE stuff ... in the early days, synthesizers were very difficult and rarely would anyone be able to do again what they just did. Thus, any TD concert from the 70's and early 80's is a collectors item, and the number of bootlegs were insane. But they were all so different from each other and this is the appeal that the music has at that time. It really is a movie about the growing up of the synthesizer ... you can hear it fail, do the same thing differently and anything else in between that you can think of.
 
But remember that "experimenting" was also a large part of the time and place, and this band, and they had many moments in any piece where any of them could take off. In the past 10 years, I find less of these moments, but I can see that they colored what would be a jam part with even more effects and doodles on the music.
 
All in all, the different members did not change a whole lot of what Tangerine Dream did. There were some personality details here and there, but essentially, the main thrust and feelings remained constant, and it was a flow of music that went in many directions, via the effects and its evocative feelings. I think that the later works ended up featuring guitar, violin and saxophone, more as a different touch, than an improvement for the music, although I have a tendency to never think that any of these were not a part of the whole thing, and look at it as an "orchestra" playing classical music to my ears!

I've got Staatsgrenze West on pink vinyl... A limited edition of 1000, but my number has worn out. I think it was eight hundred and something.
 
I wasn't that keen on Cyclone... But I still bought the album and went to see the gig

Hi Adrian
I just now listened to your music. Very nice!  I'm thinking you might want to collaborate with a photographer or videographer which would benefit you both.

I love electronic music (TD and especially Klaus Schulze) but to me it lends itself much better as soundtrack music. Don't get me wrong tho because I can listen to it by itself for hours on end but you kind of have to settle in and get in the mood.
 
For a more general audience (if that's what you're aiming for) adding your music to a nature video (rolling clouds, crashing ocean waves, whatever) would make both media more interesting. Star photography would be good too if the music is more spacey sounding.  

Thanks for taking the time to listen bjornpdx, strangely it's not something that I thought of doing. Haven't got a clue why considering the videos that I have put on YouTube. Do you know how I would go about making such contacts?

On a TD note when I heard Ulrich Schnauss had joined up I was full of anticipation on what the combined talents of Edgar and Ulrich would produce. Alas this was not to be with the sad death of Edgar earlier this year. At least they got one album out of it. You should also put the music that TD composed for GTA V on your list.

Again I'm reminded about how I screwed up last month...  I sold off all my DVD's (except music ones), but found that my Canyon Dreams three-pack was put in the wrong pile so it's gone...  That was exactly what you guys are talking about: Nature backgrounds set to TD music!  Bah... 

biodiode
Thanks for taking the time to listen bjornpdx, strangely it's not something that I thought of doing. Haven't got a clue why considering the videos that I have put on YouTube. Do you know how I would go about making such contacts?

I suppose you could make some connections at a local camera club.   Or do it yourself. See the Vimeo link in my sig.