Tangerine Dream to Release ‘The Keep’ Score in Early Eighties Box Set

Tangerine Dream will finally officially release their score for the 1983 film The Keep as part of a 10-CD box set collecting the electronic music group’s early Eighties releases.

Pilots of Purple Twilight: The Virgin Recordings 1980 – 1983 collects five Tangerine Dream albums — Tangram, Exit, White Eagle, Logos Live and Hyperbore — plus a pair of beloved soundtracks the group made for Michael Mann’s films Thief and The Keep; the latter score, although oft-bootlegged, has never been officially been released, making it a “holy grail” among fans of Tangerine Dream.

Each of the albums has been remastered from the original tapes and enhanced by new stereo mixes. Pilots of Purple Twilight will also boast four discs of unreleased music and other rarities, including a full November 1982 concert from London’s Dominion Theatre, the band’s score for The Soldier and their Risky Business soundtrack contributions (including “Love on a Real Train“), and the extended version of Thief’s “Dr. Destructo,” previously only heard in promotional materials for that 1981 film.

The 10-CD box set version, out October 30th and available to preorder now, also comes with a hard-back book with a new essay along with rare photographs and memorabilia. The albums themselves will also be available individually as well as digitally.

Pilots of Purple Twilight follows the 2019 release of Tangerine Dream’s similarly massive retrospective In Search of Hades: The Virgin Recordings 1973 – 1979.

Pilots of Purple Twilight: The Virgin Recordings 1980 – 1983 Tracklist

CD 1: Tangram
1.      Tangram Set 1
2.      Tangram Set 2

CD 2: Thief
1.      Beach Theme
2.      Dr. Drestructo
3.      Diamond Diary
4.      Burning Bar
5.      Beach Scene
6.      Scrap Yard
7.      Trap Feeling
8.      Igneous
Bonus track:
9.      Dr. Destructo (extended version) (promo only).

CD 3: Exit
1.      Kiew Mission
2.      Pilots of Purple Twilight
3.      Choronzon
4.      Exit
5.      Network 23
6.      Remote Viewing

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

CD 5: The Soldier soundtrack
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

CD 6: The Dominion Theatre Concert – 6th November 1982
1.      The Dominion Concert Part One

CD 7: The Dominion Theatre Concert – 6th November 1982
1.      The Dominion Concert Part Two
2.      Midnight in Tula
3.      White Eagle
4.      Dominion

CD 8: Logos Live
1.      Logos (Part 1)
2.      Logos (Part 2)
3.      Dominion

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

CD 10: The Keep
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