Tangerine Dream Live Rig Bristol 2022 - Sonic State
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- Опубликовано: 9 фев 2025
- Tangerine Dream were recently in Bristol as part of their Virgin To Quantum Years Tour.
Gaz Williams caught up with band leader Thorsten Quaeschning for an interview (see other video) and a look at his live setup.
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The deadpan delivery on "Hopefully I know what I'm doing" just slayed me 😆
I've seen Thorsten in lots of issues of Musotalk, a german youtube channel for (mostly) electronic musicians and found him always being a very nice guy, very sympathetic, never snobby and very musical. Nice to see him in sonicstate showing his rig!
Yes, he is.
My Män!!!! Also wach the Musotalk Podcasts and I regularly see him there. I dig his humor and insights he gives. Seems to be a nice dude!!!
He could be a nice Sonicstate guest on a regular basis indeed. Could also imagine Jörg Schaaf as someone who understands even building and selling Synthesizers.
I met him in Reykjavik. Nice down to earth guy.
I really like Thorsten he such a very talented composer I love how great he is with his music raw talent I never met him but he definitely down to earth pretty cool guy I like him already.😊
Thorsten must have an amazing memory for such a complex setup to be replicated night after night. I’ve been listening to TD for about 40 years. Always find their music interesting.
"Thorsten must have an amazing memory for such a complex setup to be replicated night after night."
....and good Roadies of course
Old TD fans who gave up on the band in the 1990s and early 2000s need to come back. The current lineup and work of TD is to me the best they have been in many, many years. Like, going back to Chris Franke, or even Peter Baumann. Yes, I realize that's saying a lot. But give them a listen, especially the Sessions works, which harkens back to when Froese, Franke and Baumann would virtually improvise entire shows in the 1970s and the "Tangerine Trees" bootlegs.
Thx for the tip. I'd indeed switched off on the modern TD work, myself coming from the Virgin years, and not really liking most of that they've done afterwards. I'll give the more recent work a listen.
@phil Anderson I agree the middle "girly* years went very limp, but in the mid 2000s TD came back to life. I sometimes wonder if Jerome left because things had changed (plus he and his dad found it difficult to work together, in the shadow of his father). Jerome's album Neptunes is a wonderful example of what he is capable of in his own right. For me I feel there was a marked turn when Ulrich joined and brought new fire and subtlety, his own style is very organic. Ulrich had been a huge fan of TD for many years before joining. I feel Thorsten is the right captain now,after all he's been with TD for a very long time. And Paul Frick has also added a new element that I like, listen to Raum which although definitely very modern, has wonderful depth. I love Hoshimo's violin work, but she looks so uncomfortable live on stage.
Agree 100%. Back to the future.
8:08 yeah love the fact theres live improvisation back on stage
@@jimprior180762 not sure what you mean by the girly years. Does that include the 1992 live album 220 Volt Live?
Thorsten is a great keyboardist and he is very knowledgeable on how the music works.
Like Edgar before him, Thorsten is both a music and technological genius. The perfect individual to bring Tangerine Dream into a new visionary future.
@@KainedbutAble123 I agree.
I like that T.D. uses a mix of everything that works and is not dismissive about only using this or that (AKA only using real hardware, no software synths, etc.) I often find myself just wanting to use hardware only, and I need to get over the fact that other means such as computers and soft synths can be very helpful in plenty of situations. After all, aren't most synths just mini standalone chips on PCBs anyway?
Good to see Thorsten carrying this torch into the future!
Band leader Thorsten Quaeschning wasn't even born until TD's 8th album was released... kinda funny. But cool that they keep the band going and very cool live-rig! Phaedra and Rubycon are some of my favourite TD albums! Cheers
By 1969 all of the founding members of TD had left bar Edgar. So technically nobody has ever heard the original line up or at least only a handful
@Martin Demsky doing music for dreary TV series like The Amazing Race
they are not keeping the band going. They are exploiting the name and legacy of TD by playing similar music and some covers. I've seen the classic lineup, when all of the originals leave it is no longer "the band", even if they were playing in the many line-ups. If you are confident in your music, pick an original name and put your music out to be judged on its own terms. Billy Preston couldn't tour as The Beatles.
This made my day - the display of easy confidence about the whats and the whys was inspiring, as well as the "no snobbery" observation. Thanks for this.
Just amazing! I am a huge fans since 40 years!
Love love lovely Tangerine Dream!!!
Have been a great fan, since the first album :-)
So cool to get a tour of the synth system.
Thanks very much for sharing this!
That modular system has expanded rapidly, since he showed me it’s initial configuration in Berlin 2012.🙂
and only one of the modulars that he owns :) including the more recent Marienberg which was used on 'Continuum'
I was attending the show in Maastricht yesterday night, and this video really helps to understand the way TD music is built. Thanks for that ! 👍
Saw this tour live in Cambridge.. Honoured!!! was absolutely amazing
Since he was born, Tangerine Dream has been a sure fire way to relax my baby and help him off to sleep. Really interesting to see the rig up close and hear the process.
Helps me sleep every day , I’m 52
This guy is absolutely capable and amazing. I could never remember all that stuff. A great legacy from TD.
Thank you all. That was brilliant 💗
Thanks for uploading! Saw Tangerine Dream at Assembly Rooms, Edinburgh recently. Fantastic show, superb sound quality.
ruclips.net/video/3UAs8YJH-AE/видео.html OMGG
Thank you Gaz, pure gold ❤🔥Love On A Real Train is my all time favourite and is probably why I've watched Risky Business way too many times.
We were there to watch them
How timely, I just saw them in Camden last week and was wondering about some of the gear behind the row of keyboards. Nice one Gaz!
I would not be able to play it cool. Well done sir. Thank you for the window into a master. Through Metamorphic Rock changed my life.
Bloody hell. You have to be so in tune with all your doing. I've been a massive fan for years. All those dials and buttons FFS I can't get my head around it.
The sorcerer soundtrack is my favourite ever, really out thete
I was half expecting Gaz to reach into that bundle of patch cables, grab, pull and RUN!! 🤣🤣
Love the new album Raum, really loved the Sessions I to VII albums! Thanks for carrying on the TD sound and vision.
Thorsten saved Tangerine Dream. From 2005 onwards, whenever a new album was announced, my first thought would be "how much compositional input did Thorsten have?" And the more TQ compositions, the more excited I'd be. I feel Edgar's compositions lacked cojones towards the end.
Great hot tip. I wondered what it was with all that white paper/card on the back of Thorsten's synths.
Amazing! Thanks so much for this
Huge T D Fan!❤❤❤
Super impressive set up!
That setup is amazing. Guy is a synth wizard
Thanks to all for this.... Lovely to learn how Thorsten puts all this together. 👍... Thoroughly enjoyed both Coventry (with Steve Rothery) and Cambridge on the current tour.
Bonkers video, even if I am 53, I discovered TD a few years ago, and been a great catching up!
Danm, when Battles come back to he UK Gaz should interview Ian Williams about his gear.
Sonic state is almost the only place to find electronic rig rundowns
Nice. I'd love to see them live. Nice interview, Gaz
Excellent tip with the tape over unneeded jacks
They’ve been superb on this tour - their best in 40 years imho
Thanks for doing this! Saw them in Southampton on this tour was amazing!
Did they play older classics as well? Esp their movie scores? Anything?
@@buzzfunk Yea they did, Dolphin Dance & Kiew Mission! Also the Sorcerer theme..
@@buzzfunk each gig was slightly different, (some venues got unique tracks, Bristol got Rubycon for example). The end of each concert was a 30-minute semi-improvised track
Mr. Quaeschning, what are the synth requirements for this tour? Quaeschning - "Yes please".
Great video! Very inspiring to see the mix of different tech he uses.
His setup has more items than the average music store. Impressive
The true mad creator and his traveling lab great video and one complex stage rig loved the look behind the curtain.
Thorsten is a great keyboardist of Tangerine Dream. And is very knowledgeable on how the music works.
Thank you. So nice.
Thorsten is always a force!
What a treat that was 🙂
awesome work Gaz great bit of behind the scenes work
muy bueno saludos desde TIJUANA
I saw them playing in Amsterdam tonight. Very nice! I keep wondering if they pull out all of the cables of the modular synth when they move the gear.
No, Thorsten has a flight case that covers all of the leads
@@AndyKing1963 very clever👍
Phaedra is one of my all time fave albums
Absolutely terrific album.
@@patsyparisi2620 Indeed. I recently updated a lovely reissue double Tangerine coloured vinyl remastered from original tapes, the second record includes different out-takes etc. Beautiful.
Yes, totally with you on Phaedra, but also Ruby Con is a wonderful and beautiful masterpiece.
Delightful. Thank you both.
Great video and explanation from Thorsten, what a great artist.
Is the melody at around 1:40 from a specific song? I'd like to here more of it, it sounds awesome.
Very interesting. I Saw them back in around 2007, still with mr. Froese, at the age of 17. It was really a trip. Altough a fan of mostly their earlier work, i find very interesting how the analog was complementaried by modern sounds, never losing the psychedelic Sonic exploration, That is Tangerine Dream.
Nice 1 Gaz. What a treat!
Great thanx!
Wonderful!
So nice to see old school hands on ,seat of your pants, live sequencing /playing, rather than a Apple logo on the back of an macbook! 👍
hy plug-ins sequencers. Pretty sweet
This was so great!
Good to see ol' Rings into Clouds making an appearance!
Thorsten uses Rings, Clouds, Plaits, Elements & Tides
He's such a nice guy! Great shows on this tour
Monster post! Thank you.
Please send someone over to my studio to sweep up my brains which have been blown all over the walls!!!🤩😎
Excellent video
Thanks for sharing. Wish I was there for the show.
I've been a TD fan since my early teens, and I'm in my early sixties now, and I just have to say that Thorsten Quaeschning's handling of TD since the death of Edgar has been most admirable.
Raum is the best TD album in decades
100%
Synthgasm !! 🤪
Was für eine tolle Präsentation, Bravo👍
Even gaz has poshed up his hair for this interview
With LOVE from GERMANY ! ♥♥♥ AMAZING SETUP... just WOW... 😨👍😂😂😂
TANGERINE USE THE APP AUM....ITS FANTASTIC HOW THIS SIMPLE BUT A LOT OF USE WAYS APP TRAVEL SO FAR IN THE INDUSTRY XD
wow, so interesting to see this... fab tour this year, best ever
Sweet setup and nice rundown! 👌😎 Only recommendation I might suggest is for him to replace most of the straight patch cables with Tendrils right angle patch cables? 😁👍
Yes
Nice blend of different electronic technologies eras.
Tangerine Dream tour update:
1.6.24: Tangerine Dream, Serralves Foundation Festival, Porto, Portugal. FREE
ITALIAN tour dates:
26.6.24: Tangerine Dream, BOtanique Festival, Bologna, Italy.
27.6.24: Tangerine Dream, Duel:Beat, Naples, Italy.
4.7.24: Tangerine Dream, ‘Worm Up’, Teatro Dal Verme, Milan, Italy.
19.7.24 Tangerine Dream, Ostrava, Czech Republic
4.8.24 Tangerine Dream, M-Idzomer Festival, Leuven, Belgium
16.8.24 Tangerine Dream, A New Day Festival, Faversham, England
7.10.24: Tangerine Dream, 50 years of Phaedra’, Barbican Centre, London, England
POLISH tour dates:
4.12.24: Tangerine Dream, Poznań, Poland
5.12.24 Tangerine Dream, Warsaw, Poland
6.12.24 Tangerine Dream, Kraków, Poland
7.12.24 Tangerine Dream, Szczecin, Poland.
29.6.25 Tangerine Dream, Grafenegg, Austria
nice again Gaz, Thorsten seems like a decent guy to hang with
cool that they still do a lot if hands-on compared to Kraftwerk that basically phones in live performance these days (that one iPad concert overhead clip of Kraftwerk was classic)
TD forever :-)
Brilliant
Question: every thing seems to be so interconnected, so what happens if an electronic component goes down or reboots during a live performance? Say one of the IPads glitches or spuriously reboots? Are there firewalls between some components before their signals get routed to the mixer(s)?
the hot tip is scuffing lines you are not using .. mad brilliant
Thats awesome, and Thorsten looks young considering they were around when I was a kid, and I am an old git these days.
Mr. Thorsten. You're the best.
Tangerine Dream uses Rings into Clouds, confirmed :-D
I didn't think it was surprising to see him mix analog equipment with virtual, digital, and computers. It would be incredibly difficult to manage it all with just analog. He would have to carry a chicken on tour for a start :-)
Mind blown
I can undestand why some people are upset about the continuation/legacy of Tangerine Dream without its core founder.
But no one can deny the talent of Mr Quaeschning. He always has been a driving force behind the last TD iterations.
What a boss. FOUR Rings into Clouds.
talking about the stupidity of chickens! Almost pee'd myself when he said that! Great video! Thank you fir this one! This rig is waaaaaay beyond me and I'm a keyboard player.
Awesome
I think Stratosfear was probably the first album that really introduced the note "ratcheting" effect that is mentioned in this video. I love Stratosfear. Here is a video tutorial explaining how it's done:- ruclips.net/video/ntjE9EguxO0/видео.html
Something I’m guessing at, because he sort of dropped a few hints, but with all the modular gear, he must be using a device that can backup control voltage performances, so a recorder that has the ability to record DC signals. I haven’t really looked into this because I don’t have lasers or vusual performance gear, but I understand that the Eurorack gear can really lend itself well to orchestrating laser light shows. With those DC control voltages, It’s very compatible.
All 64 audio tracks are fed into TD's two Behringer X32 Rack recorders (Left and Right of Thorsten's modular), so any sound produced always gets recorded (pre-fade - which allows for remixing later), the live mix can be controlled directly from Thorsten's iPad mixer or from whatever equipment he is using: eg for the Euro-rack the Vermona outputs which control each line. TD doesn't use lasers (at least within the last few years) they used BriTeq movable spots (and other lights such as SolarWash 37 LED). On stage for this tour, they used 14-16 RGB wireless, LED light columns plus whatever the house has. TD have two guys to do the visuals (video and lighting) - with the lights sequenced/improvised and controlled by a touch screen as well as Hog MiniWing 4 and Nano Hog 4 controllers).
What is that main seqeuncer he is using there in the rack? It almost looks like the box they did before the cirklon
*Answer is Schritmacher
Manikin Electronic Schrittmacher with custom blue LEDs as Thorsten is colour blind
I saw them at Coventry Cathedral in 1975 and again last month. What a difference!!
masters at work!
That’s a serious live rig.
I wonder if Kandinsky had been alive he would have found a way of linking Tangerine Dream's tour equipment to digital art as he was very into art and sound.
wirklich interessant zu sehen wie die arbeiten
Coooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooool. Nothing more.
Ok, he's utterly amazing. But I do have to ask: is that giant euro rack really necessary or just for show? I can easily get all those sounds with a couple of analog synths and some VSTs. Could easily do all the sequencing in Abelton, etc. So, why? Asked with respect, I could never keep track of everything like Thorsten does, he's a genius. But to move that around? Yikes
Well...it looks impressive.
Of course you can do everything with a DAW but what is the fun with that :-).
needed for the 30-minute improvised concert closer where only the tempo and key are set
I would say yes - necessary. Quick, easy turning of many knobs to adjust sounds (easier than soft knobs on controller keyboard for vst) plus better mixing and outboard effects for sound quality and nuance.
that i could listen for hours
It's good to know in these turbulent times that cats still like plain crisps and Tangs still rule!
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September 8 - Miami Beach Bandshell, Miami/USA
September 11 - Orange Peel, Asheville/USA
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