Tangerine Dream's Edgar Froese dies at 70
Edgar Froese, founder of the German electronic rock group Tangerine Dream, has died
By AP
2:44PM GMT 24 Jan 2015



Edgar Froese, who founded the influential German electronic rock group Tangerine Dream in 1967, has died at 70.
The band said Froese died unexpectedly from the effects of a pulmonary embolism in Vienna on Tuesday.
Froese was born June 6, 1944, in the East Prussian town of Tilsit, now the Russian city of Sovetsk.

He was the only constant member of Tangerine Dream, which released more than 100 albums. They also recorded a number of soundtracks, including the music for Tom Cruise's film Risky Business and the video game Grand Theft Auto V.
The band's synth-driven sound, which has similarities to that of Pink Floyd, is credited with influencing the later emergence of trance, ambient and electronica. John Peel named their 1973 record Atem as his album of the year

According to his fellow band members, Froese believed that "there is no death, there is just a change of our cosmic address".