Tangerine Dream founder Edgar Froese has passed away at the age of 70 due to the effects of pulmonary embolism.
One of the pioneering figures of the electro music realm and the band's only constant member throughout its 48-year history, Froese has released over 100 records with Tangerine Dream alone, making him one of the most prolific artists of all time.
The official announcement reads: "This is a message to you we are very sorry for… On January 20th, Tuesday afternoon, Edgar Froese suddenly and unexpectedly passed away from the effects of a pulmonary embolism in Vienna.
"The sadness in our hearts is immensely. Edgar once said: 'There is no death, there is just a change of our cosmic address.' Edgar, this is a little comfort to us."
Born in East Prussia on D-Day (June 6, 1944), Froese began his musical journey at the age of 12. He founded Tangerine Dream in 1967 and rose to international fame during the '70s. Some of his other ventures include solo albums, film scores ad video game music, most notably for 2013's "Grand Theft Auto V."
HELL ON EARTH
MAN CREATED THE DEVIL AND THE DEVIL CREATED THE EXCUSE
TO JUSTIFY THE KILLINGS
THAT WE DON’T SEE ON THE NEWS
AND I WONDER:
WILL HISTORY REPEAT ITSELF?
WHEN THEY’RE NUMBERING YOU!!!
THEY’LL TRY TO HURT YOU
THROUGH THE GOOD THEY SEE IN YOU
DON’T LET IT BREAK YOU!!!!
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THEY’LL TRY TO PUNISH YOU
FOR THE GOOD THEY SEE IN YOU
THEY KNOW THEY NEED IT
DON’T LET IT BREAK YOU!!!
KNOCK KNOCK MOCKING BIRD STOP BANG! AND ANOTHER ONE’S DOWN FUCK YOUR 2 SECONDS AND WE LAY DOWN FLAT FACE TO THE GROUND; FACE TO THE GROUND, IF THEY HAD THEIR WAY WE’D BE FACE TO THE GROUND SO WE CAN’T BACK DOWN!
THE WORLD IS FAR FROM BEING SAFER
CYPHER SPEND YOU LIFE IN DANGER !
PROSECUTE ME
HOW CAN A MAN EXIST IN THIS AND STILL BE FREE
3RD EYE IS ETERNALLY ON STAND BY
THEY’RE NUMBERING YOU
THEY’RE NUMBERING YOU
THEY’LL TRY TO HURT YOU
THROUGH THE GOOD THEY SEE IN YOU
DON’T LET IT BREAK YOU!!!!
DON’T LET IT BREAK YOU!!!!!
THEY’LL TRY TO PUNISH YOU
FOR THE GOOD THEY SEE IN YOU
THEY KNOW THEY NEED IT
DON’T LET IT BREAK YOU!!!
DON’T LET IT BREAK YOU!!!
DON’T LET IT BREAK YOU!!!
DON’T LET IT BREAK YOU!!!
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The Washington DC-based band Retrogramme possess the rare ability to surprise us. Always. Whenever they unleash their creativity we have to wait for a result far above our expectations. The antecedent album "For Our Dearly Departed" of 2012 is still considerated as an object of cult, but the new double full-length "Feed" promises to go further. The band's style is a unique, multiform and sophisticated blend of synthpop, IDM, and darkwave, created through asymmetrical or linear rhythms, alienating consonances and sound abstractions that make Retrogramme one of the most important institutions of their music genre.
The new title track enumerates twenty-four songs divided into two separate volumes: each of them is hyper saturated with original sonorities that will drag you into a vortex of dance. The elements to solicit your interest are all there: pulsing bass-lines of drum-programming, robotic or lithe musicality, fascinating and amazing vocalizations. Moreover, the second disk includes exclusively a fantastic series of remixes elaborated by Halo Effect, Framework, DrMOllE, Citizen 16, Bites, Echoknocks, PDR, Poject K-11, Deadliner, Atropine, TourdeForce and Red This Ever. We welcome with true excitement the new Retrogramme and their "Feed", an album that we can define by only one, specific adjective: great.
"The ambitious video for Wildhart’s "Stuck In A Second" is here and I have to say it represents quite a lot to me: Gothenburg (or at least the Swedish west coast), summer, Gothenburg in the summer... Well, you get it. This beautiful piece of video starring a bunch of cool kids dressed as clowns having loads of fun, makes me want to, I don't know, travel to Gothenburg in the summer dressed as a clown?"
From 8th April in the theatres: SHAUN THE SHEEP, THE MOVIE
Directors:Mark Burton, Richard Starzack
When Shaun decides to take the day off and have some fun, he gets a little more action than he bargained for. A mix up with the Farmer, a caravan and a very steep hill lead them all to the Big City and it's up to Shaun and the flock to return everyone safely to the green grass of home.
Release in België op 8 april 2015
Na onder andere 'Wallace & Gromit' en 'Chicken Run' laten de genieën van Aardman eindelijk Shaun het Schaap, hun meest populaire personage, schitteren in een speelfilm. Het intelligente en rebelse schaapje vergaarde wereldwijd al miljoenen fans dankzij de gelijknamige TV-serie, uitgezonden in meer dan 180 landen.
De film plaatst Shaun en zijn kudde in een nieuwe omgeving. Deze keer brengen ze hun hilarische fratsen van de boerderij naar de grote stad, met alle gevolgen van dien.
SHAUN HET SCHAAP zit stevig verankerd in de succesvolle Aardman claymation traditie: fun en avontuur met hilarische grappen in een verschroeiend snel tempo, met originele verhaallijnen, en het soort komedie dat zowel jong als oud aanspreekt.
Dapper schaap. Grote stad. Knotsgek avontuur!
Co-regisseurs en co-schrijvers Mark Burton en Richard Starzak:
Mark Burton werkt al jaren voor Aardman als creatief consulent en als schrijver voor o.a. 'Chicken Run' en 'Wallace & Gromit'. Ook buiten Aardman is Burton actief als schrijver van o.a. de Dreamworks animatie-hit 'Madagascar' en Britse comedy programma's als 'Have I Got News For You' en 'Spitting Image'.
Richard 'Golly' Starzak werkt al sinds 1983 voor Aardman. Het was zijn idee om een eigen TV-serie uit te werken rond het personage Shaun the Sheep, voor het eerst verschenen in de Oscarwinnende kortfilm 'Wallace & Gromit: A Close Shave' in 1995. Starzak ontwikkelde en regisseerde de serie en kent Shaun dus beter dan wie dan ook.
