Editing Tangerine Dream (section)

===Origins: psychedelia and krautrock===
Edgar Froese arrived in [[West Berlin]] in the mid-1960s to study art. His first band, the [[psychedelic rock]]-styled ''The Ones'', disbanded after releasing only one single. After The Ones, Froese experimented with musical ideas, playing smaller gigs with a variety of musicians. Most of these performances were in the famous [[Zodiak Free Arts Lab]], although one grouping also had the distinction of being invited to play for the surrealist painter [[Salvador Dalí]]. The music was partnered with literature, painting, early forms of [[multimedia]], and more. It seemed as though only the most outlandish ideas attracted any attention, leading Froese to comment: "In the absurd often lies what is artistically possible." As members of the group came and went, the direction of the music continued to be inspired by the [[Surrealism|Surrealists]], and the group came to be called by the surreal-sounding name of Tangerine Dream, inspired by mishearing the line "tangerine trees and marmalade skies" from [[the Beatles]]' track "[[Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds]]".<ref name="derogatis">{{cite book |first=Jim |last=DeRogatis |author-link=Jim DeRogatis |title=Turn on Your Mind: Four Decades of Great Psychedelic Rock |date=2003 |location=Milwaukee |publisher=Hal Leonard Corporation |page=263 |isbn=0-634-05548-8}}</ref>

Froese was fascinated by technology and skilled in using it to create music. He built [[custom-made instrument]]s and, wherever he went, collected sounds with tape recorders for use in constructing musical works later. His early work with tape loops and other repeating sounds was the obvious precursor to the emerging technology of the [[music sequencer|sequencer]], which Tangerine Dream quickly adopted upon its arrival.

Released in 1970 by record label [[Ohr (record label)|Ohr]], the first Tangerine Dream album, ''[[Electronic Meditation]]'', was a tape-collage [[Krautrock]] piece, using the technology of the time rather than the synthesized music they later became famous for. The line-up for the album was Froese, Klaus Schulze, and [[Conrad Schnitzler]]. ''Electronic Meditation'' began the period known as the ''Pink Years'' (the Ohr logo was a pink ear). Subsequent albums, beginning with ''[[Alpha Centauri (album)|Alpha Centauri]]'', relied heavily on electronic instruments. The band's music during the early 1970s prominently featured organ from Steve Schroyder (on ''Alpha Centauri'') or [[Peter Baumann]] (on subsequent releases), commonly augmented by guitar from Froese and drums from [[Christopher Franke]]. They also started their heavy usage of the [[Mellotron]] during this period.<ref name="phase1">{{cite book |last=Stump |first=Paul |title=Digital Gothic: A Critical Discography of Tangerine Dream |date=1999 |publisher=Firefly Publishing |isbn= 0-946719-18-7 |pages=29–48}}</ref>