| Green Desert | |
| Type: | Studio album |
| Artist: | Tangerine Dream |
| Cover: | Green Desert.png |
| Caption: | 1986 LP album cover |
| Released: | January 1986 |
| Recorded: | Skyline Studios, Berlin August 1973, with additional remixing in 1984 |
| Genre: | Electronic, krautrock |
| Length: | 38:22 |
| Label: | Jive Electro |
| Producer: | Edgar Froese, Christoph Franke |
| Prev Title: | Le Parc |
| Prev Year: | 1985 |
| Next Title: | Legend |
| Next Year: | 1986 |
Green Desert is the twenty-seventh major release and the fifteenth studio album by electronic artists Tangerine Dream. The music was recorded in Berlin in 1973, during a period when Peter Baumann had temporarily left Germany to tour Nepal and India.[1] Though unreleased at the time, it landed Tangerine Dream a record deal when Virgin heard the tapes.[2] A remixed version of the music was released in 1986.
The group had recently acquired new equipment including a Minimoog, a phaser, and an EKO ComputeRhythm which could be pre-programmed and/or changed on-the-fly while it was playing. Chris Franke considered the six[3] internal sounds to be "pretty lousy" but, due to its flexibility as a sequencer, later modified it as a controller to trigger external sounds. This rhythmic effect was featured in several of Tangerine Dream's later albums.
All songs written by Edgar Froese and Christopher Franke.
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