Tangerine Dream – Love On A Real Train
“The dream is always the same. Instead of going home, I go to the neighbors’.
I ring, but nobody answers. The door is open, so I go inside. I look around, but no one seems to be there. Then I hear the shower running. So, I go upstairs to see what’s what. Then I see her.
This… girl! This incredible girl! I don’t know why she’s there
because she doesn’t live there…
…but it’s a dream, so I go with it. “Who’s there?” she says. “Joel,” I say. “What are you doing here?” “I don’t know. What are you doing here?”
“I’m taking a shower,” she says. Then I give her…”Do you want me to go?”
“No,” she says. “I want you to wash my back.” I’m getting enthusiastic about this dream. So, I go to her, but she’s hard to find through all the steam. I keep losing her. Finally, I get to the door…and I find myself in a room full of kids taking their College Boards. I’m over three hours late!
I’ve got two minutes to take the whole test. I’ve just made a terrible mistake.
My life is ruined.”
Classic lines from the opening scene of the movie risky business… And the last two lines could pretty much describe what I do to myself about twice a month
But what I remember most from this movie, more so than the opening monologue, or Cruise dancing in his tighty whities, or the epic crystal egg catch, is the melancholy banger of all ambient bangers Love On A Real Train (playing in the scene above) by new wave legends Tangerine Dream.
The track scores the scene where Cruise scores with Rebecca De Mornay on a dark and rickety Chicago transit train… And it makes the scene. When I was kid that song single-handedly made me want to be Tom Cruise and fall in love with a hooker. My other favourite Cruise movie was Legend….. Co-incidentally enough also soundtracked by Tangerine Dream
For those of you who don’t know Tangerine Dream are one the single most important innovators in electronic dance music. They began as a surreal rock band from Germany and quickly used the emerging technology of the time to create some of the sounds and techniques that are still used to this day. In the 1980s, the band became early adopters of the new digital technology which revolutionized the sound of the synthesizer, making music and sounds that were never heard before. Phaedra was one of the first commercial albums to feature sequencers and came to define much more than just the band’s own sound. Tangerine dream came to represent the pushing of the technology envelope and do it yourself ethos of the best in electronic music. Froese summed up this attitude with the phrase: “In the absurd often lies what is artistically possible”
You can find the track below but if your really into electronic music I really urge you to check out more of their stuff… its all epic. To give you a feel for the reach of their influence I’m also going to post Lifelike and Kris Menace’s 2005 hit Discopolis…. While it doesn’t directly sample Love On a Real train you can easily see the influence… It’s funny because these guys actually had a rift recently because Kris later sampled Love On A Real Train on his new song Metropolis
Listen to this:
Lifelike MySpace blog:
Ex-partner and german producer Kris Menace drops “Metropolis” for the summer. The track uses a sample i used already in one of my demos i have for my album (Tangerine Dream “Love On a Real Train”). Our german fave simply used the sample, replayed and cutted it.
I sent him this sample after Discopolis as an idea for a new track, but he wasn’t interested in doing it. Hopefully this “Metropolis” sounds like a bad german 90′s trance anthem for a commercial advert for a beer. That guy obviously seem to be stuck in 2005 trying to get another “Discopolis alike” hit with cheese. Assholepolis is calling.
Lifelike and Kris Menace – Discopolis (Original)
Lifelike & Kris Menace – Discopolis (Original).mp3
