This post was originally made for the r/Krautrock subreddit alongside the weekly album feature on Electronic Meditation, but to help inaugurate this community's return and share this info with more people, I thought I'd post here too! Welcome back everyone.

Photo courtesy of Klaus D. Müller from the official Klaus Schulze website. The site lists it as being taken in 1970, but I'm not sure if this is correct, as Dieter’s involvement predates Conrad Schnitzler joining the band in 1969. 

The man in glasses pictured in the centre is only identified as “the landlord”, but otherwise everyone in the picture is from left to right as titled (i.e. Edgar on the left and Dieter furthest to the right).

“Happy” Dieter briefly played with Tangerine Dream as a bass guitarist, shortly after woodwind player Steve Jolliffe (who would later rejoin TD in 1978) had departed. Tangerine Dream's lineups during this period were very volatile, and there were multiple musicians who had short stints in the band before moving on to other things.

I’m unable to find much information about Dieter from web sources (such as what his full name was), but some background about him is detailed in the liner notes of the 2012 Esoteric Recordings CD reissue of Electronic Meditation:

The remaining members started to look for a suitable replacement, eventually finding one in the unlikely form of bass player "Happy" Dieter. Dieter was a well-known figure in the Berlin underground, a would-be hippie on the fringes of the left-wing urban guerrilla group the Umherschweifende Haschrebellen (Rambling Hashish Rebels). Soon he was regularly playing with the band including a concert in the courtyard of the bombed-out Bayernhof restaurant in Potsdamer Platz, which was one of Tangerine Dream's earliest TV appearances.

A 7-minute film of the concert, frequently called the “Bath Tube" or "Bathtub" session, was recorded for Westdeutscher Rundfunk (WDR) and is readily available online. Present in the audience of this performance was Conrad Schnitzler (and Michael Hoenig, who himself would briefly tour with TD in 1975), and he joined the band shortly after Dieter had departed. 

The Tangerine Dream Wikipedia page lists Dieter as having passed away in 1974, but I am not entirely sure what source that is referenced from. I’d love to know if anyone here has more information about him.

I think I'm a weird type of fan. I found TD through the Risky Business soundtrack and then Force Majeure. Nothing beyond those really grabbed me except the Sessions. They are amazing.

My favorites are:

• Botanique Orangerie
• Hanseatic Harbour Lights

Anyone else have favorites?

Hey everyone! I have some unofficial releases (some more rare than others) that I'm selling off.

Titles I have are:

Live! Improvised!

Patrolling Space Borders

Sonambulistic Imagery

Antarktis

Ratikon

Dreaming on Danforth Avenue

20th Century Serenades

Mystery Tracks

Mala Kunia

These are all mint condition. Comment if interested and I can let you know a price.

I've been getting into Tangerine Dream lately, but trying to use Spotify to listen to it is a struggle because there's so many different deluxe editions and releases and stuff like that, and the albums aren't even listed in chronological order because some albums have a completely different year of release on Spotify than what they actually have.

Does anybody know if something like this exists? I've tried looking but haven't found anything.

Anyone else agree that this song , from the white eagle album, is one of their best ? Perfect from start to finish in my opinion. Love it

Normally I don’t ask this question, but I’m trying to reign in my CD-buying (a little, haha). Are these two albums worth getting? They aren’t on iTunes but can be found not expensively on Amazon.

The only TD stuff I have so far from that era is 220 Volt Live, which I like quite a lot.

EDIT: I lied. I forgot I had Rockoon—which I don’t like that much aside from a couple songs. Seems like a lot of filler. Looks like I do have most of their 70s and 80s work, though…except for Tyger and Quinoa.

The album Logos is supposed to have been recorded at the Dominion London on 6 November 1982, but the other set of recordings at the Dominion that were released on the Pilots of Purple Twilight set of albums was also supposedly recorded on 6 November 1982, yet the two sets of recordings were clearly not of the same concert. So which of those sets of recordings was actually recorded on 6/11/1982, and when was the other one recorded? Was it 5/11/1982 or 7/11/1982?

The reason I ask is because I attended one of those concerts. I was sure up to the time I discovered the Pilots of Purple Twilight album today that it was the one on 6/11/1982, but now I'm questioning this, which is why I want to know whether the other concert happened the day before or the day after. I was 15 at the time and it was the first non-classical concert I had attended. It also coincided with a great personal loss. So the concert is linked to important memories.

Going to have a really long car journey this weekend, what albums stand out for driving? (I know you can say ALL of them but would really like a choice few as I won't be driving that long haha!) I'm taking the Firestarter soundtrack album with me for sure because Crystal Voice is one of my favourites.

Hey All,

I recently got into Tangerine Dream and am in love with the band. They are exactly what I needed.

My two favorite albums are Poland and Logos. I love all the songs on these albums.

I also adore Rubycon, Ricochet, White Eagle, Tangram, Zeit and Alpha Centauri. I do like the song Phaedra but the whole album not as much... not sure why.

Where do you think i should go next in my TD journey?