Music For Sports Cool Races

It's very difficult to recommend this release to any serious Tangerine Dream fan. Why? Simply because all of these tracks have been released before on other compilations of TD Eastgate/TDI releases, making this a compilation of other compilations. It's a tricky business, but that's what it is, business. There has been no further remastering of the sound - which was excellent in the first place - and the only thing that's really "new" here is the digipack and its design. It's also difficult to recommend this set to those new to TD, simply because there is so much other material that's more cohesive and more important than what's here, from Edgar Froese's various incarnations of the band.

Music For Sports - Power And Motion is the second of a two-part compilation (the first being Music For Sports - Cool Races). It compiles ten tracks from the following albums: Transsiberia (1998, two tracks); Ambient Highway Vol. 1 (2003, one track); Dalinetopia (2004, one track); One Times One (2007, three tracks); The Anthology Decades (2008, three tracks). This compilation contains no new material, but notably two of the tracks originally had been released on solo albums by Edgar Froese.

Another in the long line of soundtracks by Tangerine Dream is actually one of the strongest in concept for any film they have done. The movie has a high degree of tension and the score by T.D. does just the trick. They use mostly hard driving sequencer rhythms to maintain the tension of the film. Listeners will find that this is nearly how all of the music is composed. There is very little melody within the structures of the music. But even with this lacking, the score is very well suited and very listenable. A couple of nonsequencer tracks are also on the album and break up the hard rhythms pieces.