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    May 16, 2019 4 minutes
    By Tom Pinnock

    Germany’s electronic sensations revisited.

    TANGERINE DREAM

    In Search Of Hades: The Virgin Recordings 1973–1979 UMC-VIRGIN

    REISSUE OF THE MONTH 8/10

    IN recent years, Tangerine Dream have enjoyed something of a raised profile: Survive’s music for the hugely popular Stranger Things, for example, leans heavily on the ever-shifting German group’s early ’80s scores, and last December’s interactive Black Mirror episode “Bandersnatch” at one point allowed the viewer to decide whether the main character purchased Tangerine Dream’s Phaedra or Isao Tomita’s The Bermuda Triangle; your choice determined the soundtrack for the protagonist’s nightmarish mental unravelling later on.

    Yet this isn’t the usual story of cult legends finally getting their dues. Tangerine Dream have been firmly in

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