With the arrival of Schmoelling, the sound of Tangerine Dream was modernized. The old analog synthesizers and other instruments such as the mellotron gaining prominence the clean digital sounds of the new devices lost prominence. The music is not so improvised, at least in appearance. The melodies are more obvious and the arrangements are much more careful. There will be those who say that the band sounds more elegant and those who think that their sound is now more artificial and prefabricated will not be missing. We have always been strong defenders of the stage of Froese, Franke and Baumann as the best and most interesting of Tangerine Dream but that is why we do not hate that of Schmoelling that for many followers rivals that one and even surpasses it. "Tangram" is organized in two "sets" without any title in the style of works such as "Rubycon" or "Ricochet". Apart from the synthesizers, played by the three musicians, Christopher Franke plays guitars and Edgar Froese, percussions.
If the A-side of this album is wonderful, the B-side anticipates what electronic dance music would appear that would appear ten years later and that would reign in the 90's. It is often said that with Schmoelling they innovated less than with Baumann, surely it is so, but not for that reason they stopped innovating. I think the innovative essence began to lose her when Schmoelling left and she was finally lost when Franke left.
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