Completely prolific and varied but the standard is just so high
Try his entire catalogue.
Here are just a couple of highlights:
Who Owns the Octopus? - https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=AX8lmn1tk4c
Water from a Vine Leaf - https://open.spotify.com/track/00z9Rax2KTHqKLKYnGHzNk
Brand New Bong - https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ELrdoimfed0
Montok Point - https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=XIPhxU0vZh0
It was a pre-release of Madonna's new album Ray of Light - produced by Orbit and very much his style. I think he's gone off the boil recently, but Strange Cargo 3 and Hinterland-era Orbit still holds up.
Everything up to The Ravel Album is great.
Tomita probably ranks as the only true Moog virtuoso sound designer. Literally nobody else used the instrument quite so creatively, or produced such an incredible range of distinctive sounds with it.
This sounds like a recipe for cheese, but it's anything but. Everyone who owns, uses, or is even slightly interested in modular synthesizers should hear his albums.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nova_(Dutch_band)
https://www.discogs.com/artist/98910-Peru
I particularly liked their album "Constellations".
Different in style but hot on the heels of Oxygene, there was the French group Droids, which scored a Star Wars-inspired hit in Europe with "The Force", built on it with the album "Star Peace" and then left the planet:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dro%C3%AFds
https://www.discogs.com/Droids-Star-Peace/master/36264
A modern contender is Stellardrone, from Lithuania:
I've heard the first two albums from them and they're magnificent - exactly what you'd expect if you ran 1970s TD through a wormhole to the present, and gave the music an extra infusion of creativity and passion.
There are a couple of other albums I haven't heard yet, but based on the other two I have very high hopes.
They have a 2-volume CD set with some of their movie soundtracks, see https://www.discogs.com/Tangerine-Dream-The-Hollywood-Years-....
They were quite active in that space. Quoting wikipedia:
> The group created over sixty soundtracks which include those for the films Sorcerer, Thief, Risky Business, The Keep, Firestarter, Legend, Near Dark, Shy People, and Miracle Mile. They also composed the score for the video game Grand Theft Auto V.
- axess: https://www.discogs.com/Axess-Chamaeleon/release/544829 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qkcvDi_J-Ks
- Danger in Dream: https://www.discogs.com/Danger-In-Dream-Entrance/release/555... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7qHqMh2pono
- Christopher Franke did some great solo stuff after his time at TD.
Tangerine Dream - Logos cover by Klauss https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HZb9Gb5lSpY
Vangelis
Kitaro
Klaus Doldinger (esp. Constellation)
If you can't find something let me know.
Enjoy!
On the more pop side, there's the whole genre of "minimal wave" of the early 80s. I am building a playlist: https://open.spotify.com/user/ivzhao/playlist/1ti0pgDyCrf1FT... Many of them reissued on vinyl by http://minimalwave.com/
Or trace who Brian Eno have worked with always help too.
Shpongle and Ott (indeed anything associated with Simon Posford) almost has some Jarre moments, while not really being like Jarre. Chris Nemmo - quite a range from electronic, though releases frustratingly infrequently.
M83 hasn't been mentioned yet. Curiously this is another group that JMJ worked with during his recent Electronica albums, with many of the artists being mentioned here having done collaborations in that set - Yello, Tangerine Dream, The Orb, Hans Zimmer, Air, Massive Attack etc.
Tangerine Dream (DE): My favorite recordings are Logos and Poland (both live recordings), but there’s many other great ones, e.g. Force Majeure, Phaedra, Quinoa, …
Redshift (UK): Love almost every single album they made. My all-time favorites are Redshift Wild 3, Redshift Wild 2, and Wild (all live recordings).
Peter Baumann (DE): I particularly like the first few tracks of Romance '76.
If anyone shares my taste, please please please post some more recommendations! :)