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The legendary director shares his memoriesof joining Tangerine Dream in their Berlinstudio to craft the soundtrack to his rst
lm 'Thief.'
I was shocked to hear about the loss of Edgar Froese. It seems as if we wereworking together about fifteen years ago, not thirty-five.
It was on my first picture, Thief, and Berlin was still a divided city. I had culledmusic ideas from Tangerine Dream's Alpha Centauri and Phaedra, that I referredto constantly during shooting. In post, after shipping a dupe of the film, manyphone conversations and cues back and forth, we spent a week together on thefinal in their studio. Their studio was amazing. It was a gutted cinema near theBerlin Wall.
Earlier, I had been divided between choosing music regionally native to Thief,Chicago Blues, or going with a completely electronic score. The choice wasintimidating because two very different motion picture experiences would result.Right then, the work of Tangerine Dream, Kraftwerk and Faust was an explosion ofexperimental and rich material from a young generation coming of age out of the
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ruins and separating itself from WWII Germany. It was the cutting edge ofelectronic music. And, it had content. It wasn't sonic atmospheres. There wasnothing in the UK or the States like it.
Tangerine Dream's Edgar Froese Dead at 70
Further, there was a relationship between the blues and Froese because he hadstarted out as a blues guitarist. Even though their music was electronic, it had atwelve bar blues structure to most of it. More importantly he, as an artist and aman, was connected to the material reality of life on the street and he foundmusical inspiration there, as does the Blues. Culturally, he was attuned to thepolitics of the '60s and '70s. Berlin was still steeped in its recent history and itshistory… the Wall, shrapnel damage to building facades…was still evident.
The score was adventurous with some real voyages of discovery. Working withanalog sequencers and synthesizers we were also processing sound effects,which I had brought in a suitcase on mag, so that ocean waves might crash in GMajor, the same key as the cue. It was a wonderful artistic collaboration. Thinkingback to what was at the time cutting edge technology but so primitive now, it wasmore fun. They were innovating processes and re-combining components to dostuff on frontiers that Moog never envisioned, as new ideas showed up.
It was Edgar's open spirit and embrace of possibilities that made it all occur. Asomewhat unique soundtrack for its time was the result. Working together withband-mates Johannes Schmoelling and Christopher Franke with Froese in thelead in a gutted movie theater, hard by the Berlin Wall, it seems like not so longago and it was the best of times.
Heartfelt condolences to his family and to all the talented people who knew himand worked with him over the years....
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Mac II • 19 hours ago
TD's"Thief" soundtrack was revolutionary as were many of the filmingtechniques created and implemented by Mann. (i.e. wet streets and filters to film nightscenes during daylight) Still think "Diamond Diary” is one of thebest opening tracks to a movie score ever. “Scrapyard” and “BeachTheme” are killer tracks too. It wasgreat to see that Froese still included all 3 of these from time to time in various
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live sets over the last couple decades! Thank you Edgar Froese! – All the younger fansof today’s music probably don’t realize that they have you to thank for many ofthe sequencing, sampling, and recording, techniques used in today’s world ofmusic and recording. You were a true pioneer! RIP!
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Mahmood Safari • a day ago
I first heard TD music on a classic movie special program on TV called Cinema 1, showing Thief in late 2005 or early2006 & was instantly mesmerized by those trademark rush moody synthesizer beats & soaring guitar riffs.In fact I approached Tangerine Dream music for collecting & listening to a top 10 album set but it ended for me to bea fan, researching, listening & collecting for hours, days, months & to this day 5 years. After a while I started to sharehis music to every friend could find interested & the reflections were always positive towards TD music; everyonetold me this is special & never has listened to such impressive & thoughtful music like this.
RIP Dear Edgar,My deepest condolence goes to son Jerome & wife Bianca.
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Jerry Tapp • 2 days ago
I am such a big fan of Michael Mann and Tangerine Dream; my introduction to the group was through this movie. Anabsolutely stunning movie with an equally hypnotic soundtrack. Movie-making and music at its best. Two of the mostunderrated features (movie and music) of all-time.
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Susan Baldwin • a day ago> Jerry Tapp
I totally agree, with the movie Thief, loved loved loved the movie and music....Michael Mann and TangerineDream are fabulous together, and it just so happened, I watched the movie, last week.I felt it was totallyunderrated, and to this day, it remains one of my favorites.....
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