Tangerine Dream são um dos grupos de música electrónica mais bem sucedidos de sempre. A banda foi escolhida por Michael Mann para escrever e produzir a banda sonora do seu filme de estreia, Thief de 1981. Os Tangerine Dream adicionaram a sua marca sonora de forma brilhante às cenas altamente estilizadas do filme. Até este momento nunca tinha sido usado um sequenciador num filme "neo-noir"...

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• Puro Vinil Virgem 180 Gramas
• Especialmente remasterizado para este LP
• Corte de Kevin Gray na Cohearent Audio

Tangerine Dream is among the most successful electronic groups of all time. The band was chosen by Michael Mann to write and produce the original score for Thief, his 1981 directorial debut.

Tangerine Dream added their patented pulses, blips and whooshes to the film's highly stylized visual scenes. Up to this time, no one had ever used a sequencer for a neo-noir film... this score is one of the most unusual of its kind for American cinema.

Rather than a full orchestral score, Tangerine Dream's techno-based score uses synthesizer, percussion and electric guitar making for a fascinating and exciting soundtrack. Tracks like "Dr. Destructo" have a fast-paced percussion tempo. An engaging melody on "Beach Theme" makes it one of the album's most familiar and popular tracks, while "Trap Feeling" has a delicacy that compares favorably to Brian Eno's Music for Films.

The soundtrack and the movie are inseparable. The music and movie have grown beyond cult classic status becoming an important part of the collection works of Tangerine Dream and Mann.


"While TD's electronic music is a natural fit for soundtracks, it doesn't bring out the best in the band; for the most part, this soundtrack contains swatches of a larger canvas, building up a small head of steam in the span of four or five minutes but not raising the musical discussion above the level of mere mechanical chitchat. Most of the songs follow a set pattern, with Chris Franke slurring his sequencers under a thin fog of synthesizers, topped by a piercing and pithy melody. An engaging melody on "Beach Theme" makes it one of the album's better tracks, while "Trap Feeling" has a delicacy that compares favorably to Brian Eno's Music for Films.

Fans of Force Majeure will find the second part of "Thru Metamorphic Rocks" reprised on "Igneous," while American audiences were treated to an actual rock song of guitars, bass and drums from the band on "Confrontation," written by Craig Safan (who would go on to score The Last Starfighter). Outside of the U.S., the track was replaced by "Beach Scene," which was issued as a promotional single in the U.K. and can be found on the Dream Sequence compilation." ~ Dave Connolly - All Music

Edgar Froese – keyboards, electronic equipment, guitar
Christopher Franke – synthesizers, electronic equipment, electronic percussion
Johannes Schmoelling – keyboards, electronic equipment
Craig Safan – composed and performed "Confrontation"
Mastered by Kevin Gray at Cohearent Audio

Lista de Faixas:

Lado A
1. Beach Theme
2. Dr. Destructo
3. Diamond Diary
4. Burning Bar

Lado B
1. Scrap Yard
2. Trap Feeling
3. Igneous
4. Confrontation

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