Optical Race
1988 studio album by Tangerine Dream
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 1988 LP album cover | ||||
| Studio album by Tangerine Dream | ||||
| Released | August 1988 | |||
| Recorded | April–May, 1988, in Berlin and Vienna | |||
| Genre | Electronic music | |||
| Length | 52:39 | |||
| Label | Private Music | |||
| Producer | Paul Haslinger, Edgar Froese | |||
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Optical Race is the thirty-fifth major release and eighteenth studio album by Tangerine Dream. Optical Race is the inaugural album of the Melrose Years era, as it is the first appearance of the band on the Private Music label, founded by former Tangerine Dream member Peter Baumann.[2] It was their first album without Christopher Franke since 1971's Alpha Centauri and the band's first to be programmed largely with a computer, an Atari ST using Steinberg/Jones software. The sleeve of the 12" release and the first release on CD and Compact Cassette features a die-cut outer sleeve with a multicolored inner sleeve.
"Atlas Eyes" is in 5
4 time. "Mothers of Rain" first appeared two years before the album's release, during the band's 1986 European tour. "Turning Off The Wheel" was re-released on the Transsiberia album in 1998 under the title "The Golden Horn". "Optical Race" was played by the group on German TV show Wetten, dass..? (moderated by Thomas Gottschalk) in 1988.
Track listing
| No. | Title | Length |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | "Marakesh" | 8:17 |
| 2. | "Atlas Eyes" | 4:04 |
| 3. | "Mothers of Rain" | 5:13 |
| 4. | "Twin Soul Tribe" | 4:28 |
| 5. | "Optical Race" | 3:13 |
| 6. | "Cat Scan" | 5:35 |
| 7. | "Sun Gate" | 4:44 |
| 8. | "Turning Off the Wheel" | 6:11 |
| 9. | "The Midnight Trail" | 5:54 |
| 10. | "Ghazal (Love Song)" | 5:00 |
Personnel
- Paul Haslinger – composer, musician
- Edgar Froese – composer, musician
- Ralf Wadephul – composer
- Christian Gstettner – studio technician
- Monica Froese – cover concept
- Norman Moore – art direction and design
References
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- Electronic Meditation
- Alpha Centauri
- Zeit
- Atem
- Phaedra
- Rubycon
- Ricochet
- Stratosfear
- Encore
- Cyclone
- Force Majeure
- Tangram
- Quichotte
- Exit
- White Eagle
- Logos Live
- Hyperborea
- Poland
- Le Parc
- Green Desert
- Underwater Sunlight
- Tyger
- Livemiles
- Optical Race
- Lily on the Beach
- Melrose
- Quinoa
- Rockoon
- 220 Volt Live
- Turn of the Tides
- Tyranny of Beauty
- The Dream Mixes
- Goblins' Club
- Tournado
- TimeSquare – Dream Mixes II
- Ambient Monkeys
- Valentine Wheels
- Sohoman
- Mars Polaris
- Soundmill Navigator
- Antique Dreams
- Inferno
- Purgatorio
- Jeanne d'Arc
- Rocking Mars
- Phaedra 2005
- Views from a Red Train
- Blue Dawn
- Booster
- Flame
- Paradiso
- Madcap's Flaming Duty
- Plays Tangerine Dream
- Under Cover – Chapter One
- The Island of the Fay
- Mona da Vinci
- Finnegans Wake
- Knights of Asheville
- Josephine The Mouse Singer
- Mala Kunia
- Quantum Key
- Particles
- Quantum Gate
- Recurring Dreams
- Raum
- "Betrayal"
- "Das Mädchen auf der Treppe"
- "Warsaw in the Sun"
- "Love on a Real Train"
- "A Time for Heroes"
- Sorcerer
- Thief
- Das Mädchen auf der Treppe
- Daydream
- Wavelength
- Risky Business
- Firestarter
- Flashpoint
- Heartbreakers
- Legend
- Three O'Clock High
- Near Dark
- Shy People
- Miracle Mile
- Destination Berlin
- Canyon Dreams
- Dead Solid Perfect
- The Park Is Mine
- L'Affaire Wallraff (The Man Inside)
- Rumpelstiltskin
- Catch Me If You Can
- The Keep
- Zoning
- Oasis
- Der Meteor
- What a Blast
- Great Wall of China
- Mota Atma
- Music of Grand Theft Auto V
- Dream Music – The Movie Music of Tangerine Dream
- In Search of Hades: The Virgin Recordings 1973–1979
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