Tangerine Dream

Steve Schroeder's time with Tangerine Dream proved to be very short, as he soon was replaced with Peter Baumann. Baumann completed what would prove to be the classic and undoubtedly best line-up of Tangerine Dream, producing a string of eight albums that all are classics of 70's electronic progressive music. The first album from this line-up would also show itself to be one of the most ambitious and controversial ones of the band's entire career. It wouldn't be too far off the mark to describe Zeit as the Tales from Topographic Oceans of electronic progressive music.

Klaus Schulze and Conrad Schnitzler left the band after the debut. They were replaced by Christopher Franke and Steve Schroeder. ''Alpha Centauri'' became the only album from this line-up of the band, and was tremendously closer to what Tangerine Dream would be all about than what their debut had been. Sure, it still sounded rather primitive and low-budget, but the band had now clearly discovered that spacey, atmospheric and dreamy experimental electronic music was the way to go for them.