Released August, 1988 Optical Race
(1988) Miracle Mile
(1989) Release date August 1988 Genre Electronic music | Length 52:39 Artist Tangerine Dream Label Private Music | |
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Recorded April–May, 1988, in Berlin and Vienna Producers Paul Haslinger, Edgar Froese Similar Tangerine Dream albums, Electronic music albums | ||
Tangerine dream marakesh 1988 private music cd
Optical Race is the thirty-fifth 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. 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.
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"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.
Tangerine dream optical race
Personnel
Songs
1Marakesh8:19
2Atlas Eyes4:05
3Mothers of Rain5:13