- ambient, electronic, new age, progressive electronic
- 53 min
- 10 tracks
- Private Music
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.
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Grave, character-led, spare and cool.
- gravecomic
- character-ledplot-driven
- sparerichly built
- cooloverwhelming
- classical in formformally daring
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Tracks
- 1Marakesh8:20
- 2Atlas Eyes4:05
- 3Mothers of Rain5:15
- 4Twin Soul Tribe4:40
- 5Optical Race3:14
- 6Cat Scan5:39
- 7Sun Gate4:47
- 8Turning Off the Wheel6:14
- 9The Midnight Trail5:54
- 10Ghazal (Love Song)5:09
10 tracks, 53 minutes.
About the album
- Artist
- Tangerine Dream
- Label
- Private Music
- Released
- 1988
- Type
- Album
- Format
- CD
- Country
- CA
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