With "Optical Race" the foundation stone was finally laid, almost completely reproduce music through computer tools. (Here, for example, the album on an Atari with Steinberg / Jones produced software.) Since Tangerine Dream since the 80s with this kind of technology making music (albums like "Hyperborea" or "Exit"), them is with "Optical Race "appeared to her so far best work when it comes to music with the help of electronic computers. In this album you can hear, for example, the typical Drumm computer which you can best hear the title track "Optical Race". The title appeared incidentally as a single. Otherwise, the album has to offer real pearls: "Atlas Eyes", "Mothers of Rain", "Twin Soul Tribe", "Marakesh" or the song "Sun Gate", the Tangerine Dream then miraculously succeeded. Because with "Sun Gate" you can hear exactly how each electronic computer (again with the Drumm computer) harmonize with the keyboards and electric guitar and combine. "Sun Gate" is simply a piece of music history. With the album "Optical Race" showed Paul Haslinger and Edgar Froese of Konkurentz even know who is the king in the New Age section. This is one "Optical Race" probably the most important musical works of our time, because of the influence can be heard even today.
