Exit is the sixteenth major release and eleventh studio album by the German group
Tangerine Dream
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. The first track features an uncredited Berlin actress chanting, in Russian, the names of the continents of the world and pleading to end the threat of "limited" nuclear war, which was a potential danger facing the world during the late
Cold War
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era in which the album was released. ''Exit'' reached № 43 in the UK, spending five weeks on the chart.
Use in other media
The track "Choronzon" is used as the title theme for the
Hungarian political TV show, ''Panoráma''. "Network 23" was used in the early 1980s by the TVA network in Montreal (Canada) to promote their news service. "Remote Viewing" appears in the 2008 video game, ''
Grand Theft Auto IV
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'', featured on the
ambient radio station
The Journey The Journey may refer to:
Film and television
* ''The Journey'' (1942 film), or ''El viaje'', an Argentine film
* ''The Journey'' (1959 film), an American drama starring Deborah Kerr, Yul Brynner, and Jason Robards about the Hungarian Revoluti ...
. The title track is featured in the sixth episode "
The Monster" of the
Netflix
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series ''
Stranger Things'',
and a remixed excerpt, entitled "No Future (Get Off the Babysitter)" was featured on the 1984 soundtrack album for the film ''
Risky Business''.
Track listing
Personnel
*
Edgar Froese – composer, musician, producer
*
Christopher Franke
Christopher Franke (born 6 April 1953) is a German musician and composer. From 1971 to 1987, he was a member of the electronic group Tangerine Dream. Initially a drummer with The Agitation, later renamed Agitation Free, his primary focus eventu ...
– composer, musician, producer
*
Johannes Schmoelling
Johannes Schmoelling (born 9 November 1950 in Lohne, Germany) is a German musician and keyboard artist. He was a member of the prolific electronic music group Tangerine Dream from 1979 to 1985.
A classically trained musician, he began playing pi ...
– composer, musician
* Monica Froese – album cover
Singles
* "Choronzon / Network 23"
References
External links
Tangerine Dream - ''Exit'' (1981) album releases & creditsat
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1981 albums
Tangerine Dream albums
Virgin Records albums