“Founder of German electronic pop group Tangerine Dream which provided soundtracks for Hollywood films and Grand Theft Auto computer games dies aged 70,” the London Daily Mail reports:
Edgar Froese, who founded the pioneering 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.
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The band went on to release more than 100 albums and soundtracks over the years.
It also produced music for Hollywood hits including Tom Cruise’s ‘Risky Business’ as well as the video game ‘Grand Theft Auto V’.
The soundtrack to the 1980 film Thief, which put Michael Mann on the map as a director and served as the prototype for the iconic look and sound of Mann’s Miami Vice TV series a few years later was pretty awesome. In some ways, it was years ahead of its time, as synth rock would go on to became one of the genres of ’80s pop music, as the technology became more advanced, more user-friendly, and more affordable.
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