Forma Tadre is a German

Germany

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 musical project that can best be described as electro

Electro (music)

Electro is a genre of electronic dance music directly influenced by the use of TR-808 drum machines, Moog keytar synthesizers and funk sampling...

 with a feel of soundtracks and ambient

Ambient music

Ambient music is a musical genre that focuses largely on the timbral characteristics of sounds, often organized or performed to evoke an "atmospheric", "visual" or "unobtrusive" quality.- History :...

 but has also been categorized as industrial

Industrial music

Industrial music is a style of experimental music that draws on transgressive and provocative themes. The term was coined in the mid-1970s with the founding of Industrial Records by the band Throbbing Gristle, and the creation of the slogan "industrial music for industrial people". In general, the...

 or electronic body music

Electronic body music

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. The only member of Forma Tadre is Andreas Meyer, also known as Andy Meya.

History

Originally from the Lower-Saxon region of Germany, Andreas Meyer was heavily influenced by the electronic band Tangerine Dream

Tangerine Dream

Tangerine Dream is a German electronic music group founded in 1967 by Edgar Froese. The band has undergone many personnel changes over the years, with Froese being the only continuous member...

. In fact, the name Forma Tadre is a sort of portmanteau from Tangerine Dream's album Force Majeure.

Forma Tadre has done quite a bit of remix work for Haujobb

Haujobb

Haujobb is a German musical project whose output has ranged drastically within the electronic music spectrum, from electro-industrial to IDM and techno...

, New Mind

New Mind (band)

New Mind is an electro-industrial band from Cumbria, Great Britain. Jonathan Sharp is behind this project, in addition to Bio-Tek.-Discography:* Fractured * Zero to the Bone...

, :Wumpscut: and others. Andreas collaborated with Haujobb member Daniel Myer to form the band Newt.

In 2008, after 8 years of silence Forma Tadre returns with the new 13-track album "The Music of Erich Zann". "The Music of Erich Zann" is available for download on 19 January from iTunes only.

Discography

• Navigator
  Navigator (Forma Tadre album)
  Navigator is the debut album of Forma Tadre, a German musical project that can best be described as electronic body music but has also been categorized as Industrial or Ambient. The main theme of the album is connected to writer HP Lovecrafts books on the Cthulhu Mythos-Sampling:* The song name FX...
  
  (Metropolis Records
  Metropolis Records
  Metropolis Records is a Philadelphia, Pennsylvania based record label, distributor, and mail-order store specializing in the post-industrial field such as electro-industrial, synthpop, futurepop, darkwave, and gothic musical genres....
  
  , 1997)
• Automate
  Automate (album)
  Automate is the second album of Forma Tadre, a German musical project. This album is quite different from Forma Tadre's previous album, Navigator as it has a much more ambient feel.-Track listing:# "La Cité" – 3:24# "Passage North" – 1:13...
  
  (Metropolis, 1998)
• The music of Erich Zann (2008)

See also

• Newt
• Haujobb
  Haujobb
  Haujobb is a German musical project whose output has ranged drastically within the electronic music spectrum, from electro-industrial to IDM and techno...
  
  
• New Mind
  New Mind (band)
  New Mind is an electro-industrial band from Cumbria, Great Britain. Jonathan Sharp is behind this project, in addition to Bio-Tek.-Discography:* Fractured * Zero to the Bone...
  
  
• :Wumpscut:

External links

• Forma Tadre home page
• Allmusic – [ link]