Optical Race — Tangerine Dream

CD · 1988 · ambient

Cover artwork for Optical Race by Tangerine Dream.

Optical Race by Tangerine Dream, released in 1988, on CD. Includes Marakesh and Atlas Eyes. Available from BlueNote Vintage.

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 1970's Electronic Meditation 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.

Track listing

  1. 1. Marakesh (8:20)
  2. 2. Atlas Eyes (4:04)
  3. 3. Mothers of Rain (5:14)
  4. 4. Twin Soul Tribe (4:40)
  5. 5. Optical Race (3:14)
  6. 6. Cat Scan (5:38)
  7. 7. Sun Gate (4:46)
  8. 8. Turning Off the Wheel (6:14)
  9. 9. The Midnight Trail (5:53)
  10. 10. Ghazal (Love Song) (5:08)

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