Tangerine Dream

Founded by the late Edgar Froese, Tangerine Dream is perhaps the premier exponent of electronic rock music of the Berlin School. From their "free-rock" beginnings in the nascent "Krautrock" scene to the eventual synthesizer-based trio which signed to Virgin, this German group can take significant credit in introducing synthesizer- and sequencer-based electronic music to most of the Western rock world. At the height of their success - during the mid to late 1970s - TD's spacey, pulsing music earned them a tenacious cult following. By the late seventies, however, line-ups, and more importantly, the formula changed, tilting towards more conventional "rock" music.