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Tangerine Dream will collect their early ’80s works into a box set next month – including two unreleased soundtracks.

Pilots of Purple Twilight: The Virgin Recordings 1980-1983, due in stores October 30, offers 10 CDs of work from the German electronic rock band as they began a new era of live performance and work in film and television. During this era, group founder Edgar Froesse and longtime member Christopher Franke were augmented with a third keyboardist, Johannes Schmoelling, to complete a new lineup that lasted through the first half of the decade. This arrangement boldly debuted in a concert behind the Iron Curtain in East Berlin, and introduced their work in the studio as 1980’s Tangram.

A year later, the group composed their first of several soundtracks across the ’80s, accompanying Thief, the 1981 neo-noir film that marked the feature debut of director Michael Mann (Heat, The Insider, Ali). The group’s film scores make up a good portion of the box’s most treasured content, with two soundtrack works released for the first time in this set: 1982’s The Soldier and 1983’s The Keep, another collaboration with Mann. Additionally, two short scores for episodes of the German TV series Tatort make their CD debuts herein, and tracks from the score to the Tom Cruise drama Risky Business (1983) are also included. (Single “Love on a Real Train” is one of their best-known songs.)

Studio albums (Exit (1981), White Eagle (1982), Hyperborea (1983)) continued through the decade, and the group also put on striking concerts of experimental work. One such sojourn at London’s Dominion Theatre in 1982 is featured on the edited 1983 release Logos Live and an unedited 2CD version. It’s all contained in a deluxe hardback package, newly remastered from the original tapes and remixed in stereo by Ben Wiseman. (A bundle at uDiscoverMusic includes an exclusive poster.)

Six of the album’s discs will also be available as individual remasters on the same day: Tangram, Thief (featuring a promo-only extension of track “Dr. Destructo”), Exit, White Eagle (featuring the two Tatort scores as bonuses), Logos Live and Hyperborea (featuring the Risky Business material as bonus tracks). All the product links and full track lists are below.

Pilots of Purple Twilight: The Virgin Recordings 1980-1983 (Virgin/UMC (U.K.), 2020)

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* previously unreleased ** previously unreleased on CD

Disc 1: Tangram (Virgin V-2147, 1980)

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1. Tangram Set 1
2. Tangram Set 2

Disc 2: Thief: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (Virgin V-2198, 1981)

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1. Beach Theme
2. Dr. Destructo
3. Diamond Diary
4. Burning Bar
5. Beach Scene
6. Scrap Yard
7. Trap Feeling
8. Igneous
9. Dr. Destructo (Extended Version) (Elektra U.S. 12″ promo AS-11499, 1981) **

Disc 3: Exit (Virgin V-2212, 1981)

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1. Kiew Mission
2. Pilots of Purple Twilight
3. Choronzon
4. Exit
5. Network 21
6. Remote Viewing

Disc 4: White Eagle (1-4, Virgin V-2226, 1982), Das Mädchen auf der Treppe (5-8, Virgin German 12″ 600 651, 1982**) and Daydream – Moorland (9-10, Virgin German single 600 651, 1983**)

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1. Mojave Plan
2. Midnight in Tula
3. Convention of the 24
4. White Eagle
5. Das Mädchen auf der Treppe
6. Flock
7. Katja
8. Speed
9. Daydream
10. Moorland

Disc 5: The Soldier: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (1982) *

1. Main Titles
2. Cue #1 – variation on Logos #1
3. Cue #2 – variation on Horizon #1
4. Cue #3 – The Soldier #1
5. Cue #4 – variation on Dolphin Dance
6. Cue #5 – variation on Tangent #1
7. Cue #6 – The Soldier #2
8. Cue #7 – The Soldier #3
9. Cue #8 – The Soldier #4
10. Cue #9 – The Soldier #5
11. Cue #10 – variation on Horizon #2
12. Cue #11 – The Soldier #6
13. Cue #12 – The Soldier #7
14. Cue #13 – variation on Logos #2
15. Cue #14 – The Soldier #8
16. Cue #15 – variation on Horizon #3
17. End Titles

Discs 6-7: The Dominion Theatre Concert – 11/6/1982 (* except Disc 7, Track 4 – see below)

1. The Dominion Concert (Part One)

1. The Dominion Concert (Part Two)
2. Midnight in Tula
3. White Eagle
4. Dominion

Disc 8: Logos Live (Virgin V-2257, 1982)

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1. Logos (Part One)
2. Logos (Part Two)
3. Dominion

Disc 9: Hyperborea (1-4, Virgin V-2292, 1983) and tracks from Risky Business (5-9, Virgin V-2302, 1984)

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1. No Man’s Land
2. Hyperborea
3. Cinnamon Road
4. Sphinx Lightning
5. The Dream is Always the Same
6. No Future (Get off the Babysitter)
7. Guido the Killer Pimp
8. Lana
9. Love on a Real Train (Risky Business)

Disc 10: The Keep: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (1983) *

1. Puer Natus Est Nobis (Gloria)
2. Arx Allemand
3. Truth and Fiction
4. The Silver Seal
5. Ancient Powerplant
6. Supernatural Accomplice
7. The Challenger’s Arrival
8. Heritage Survival
9. Parallel Words
10. Canzone
11. Voices from a Common Land
12. Wardays Sunrise
13. The Night in Romania