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Tangerine Dream The Dream Mixes- Studio, released October 1995 - | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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Notes | This is the first album of the 'Dream Mixes' series that includes the following releases:
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It was not only the front cover of the first release of The Dream Mixes which signalled another change in TD's style in autumn 1995: For this album, the functional artwork which was typical for the CD covers of the past years had been replaced by more "techno"-like pop-art design and colours. It showed a dancing girl and text in modern types. No doubt: This cover had obviously been designed for a different target group. Also was the music. Jerome Froese had remixed six tracks from the three recent studio albums Rockoon (1992), Turn Of The Tides (1994) and Tyranny Of Beauty (1995) and added four previously unreleased tracks. The mixes of the old material are named by additional titles which refer to the techno and DJ scene. All tracks are characterised by strong pre-eminent rythms, or, like the cover back side tells: "This album energizes the famous TD sound with an infectious beat." Even if the six well-known tracks from the former albums could be easily recognised by their sound structures, long-year connoisseurs were surely surprised by the "new" sound of the band typified by the strong beats. The Dream Mixes broke with traditions TD fans were familiar with. | |||||||||||||||||||||||
In 2018, Jerome Froese stated: "The Dream Mixes project was created back in 1995 on a whim. Today, it can be said that the DM series was and still is one of the most lucrative products in the history of TD releases. Up until now Dream Mixes I alone sold over 200.000 copies worldwide, which surprisingly made it more successful than some of Tangerine Dream classic records from the 70's and 80's." | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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In 1996 the CD was re-released in Saudi Arabia with cover artwork that had been slightly edited, so that the girl wears long trousers instead of a short skirt; furthermore the track Change Of The Gods is listed under the abbreviated title Change Of The... on the inserts and the disc itself. | |||||||||||||||||||||||
In spring 1996 TD's then new founded own label TDI released a 2-CD set including the material from the Virgin/Miramar release and a second CD with six previously unreleased tracks. Five of them -- the reworked mixes of material from Rockoon and Tyranny Of Beauty and the new composition Sojus -- had been originally produced for a CD-5 and a 12" vinyl single to be released in late 1995, but the record companies did not want to release them in that form; instead they asked for more commercial remixes. As TD did not want to rework the material this way again, they decided to make it available by the new CD set, adding another new composition: Iowa. This may have sounded familiar to some TD listeners: TD had used a similar theme for the intro of the open air video presentation for Tyranny Of Beauty in 1995. The artwork of the new set was completely different from the first release, showing a photograph by Jim Rakete who also did the photos for Melrose five years ago -- and last not least the text line on the front cover featured something what became more and more typical also for TD's style in the late '90s: Jerome Froese's handwriting... | |||||||||||||||||||||||
In June 1998 TDI re-released the 2-CD set under the new title Dream Mixes One, again with a new cover artwork -- this time done by Edgar Froese himself. | |||||||||||||||||||||||
In March 2009 the album was re-released with different cover design as part of an extensive digipack series (consisting of a total of more than 60 CD and DVD releases) by the Germany based Membran record label. | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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In December 2018, Jerome Froese released a new version of this album, now titled DM I - 1995 / Ultimate Edition as download only, thus no physical media of this release do exist so far. The digital cover artwork has been derived from that of The Past Hundred Moons but does not show any artist name, though the download was released under the moniker 'Jerome Froese & Tangerine Dream'. | |||||||||||||||||||||||
This release includes all tracks of the original 2-CD version, with the exception of Iowa (which was the only track composed by Edgar Froese). To make the re-release an "Ultimate Edition", Jerome Froese decided to add six bonus tracks which are loosely connected to the Dream Mixes project. Two of them have already been released on regular Tangerine Dream albums: Missing Link on Zoning and Thief Yang And The Tangram Seal on Shepherds Bush (both 1996). Three more are previously unreleased alternate or demo versions of known tracks, while the very last track, Parsec Flying is a completely new composition from 2018. All tracks have been remastered in 2018 from the original DAT tapes. | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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