OFF: Tangerine Dream and Stranglers

[William Duffy]

>But there are a number of bands that have taken up the banner that TD
>dropped and are doing quite well. If you like the Moog and
>Mellotron-drenched sounds of TD from the mid-70's, I suggest you check out
>Radio Massacre International, Node, Air Sculpture or Redshift (Mark Shreeve
>in a room full of classic analogue synths, paying homage to PHAEDRA!) Ian
>Boddy, T-Bass, Ron Boots, Rob Essers, Waveshape and Paul Nagle are all
>current performers that have a heavy TD influence to their works and are
all
>well worth checking out (thankfully, they are all influenced by the
>Franke-era TD, not the post-Franke wasteland).
>
Christopher Franke's solo material is a lot more like what you would expect,
and is worth checking out. Nowadays, if I see a recent TD album, I only
bother about it if Christopher Franke's name is on it as well (although the
soundtrack to Miracle Mile was good).

William