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OPTICAL RACE.

Posted on June 4, 2025 Leave a Comment

I started running. I don’t mean running for love, running for money or running in the heat of the night — but actual jogging. Though I’m not convinced at this point if it’s worth it, for the time being, I’ll keep running. It probably has something to do with it being Spring. The season of […]

SYNTHS ON ICE.

Posted on February 27, 2025 Leave a Comment

Depending on where you are in the world and what time you’re reading this, you might too be experiencing vicious cold temperatures like Uncle T. Right now I’m staring at a frozen sheet of ice through my whole backyard and even my treehouse looks like a scene from 1982’s The Thing. This was usually the […]

THE IRISH QUEEN.

Posted on January 21, 2025 2 Comments

Only in recent years did I wake from my slumber and come to terms with the shame of what I’d been neglecting…the incredible music by the mysterious woman who lives in a castle overlooking the Irish sea named ENYA. For those thinking TNUC’s headspace is confined to the limitations of heavy metal barbarians, Pizza Hut […]

CANYON DREAMS.

Posted on February 7, 2024 Leave a Comment

Just when you thought the mighty Grand Canyon couldn’t get any more naturally beautiful and awe-inspiring, enter electronic legends Tangerine Dream to push it to the limit. In 1991, a scenic film by the name of Canyon Dreams was released by nature doc director Jan Nickman. T-Dream recorded a full length album to accompany the scenes […]

THE DREAM IS ALWAYS THE SAME.

Posted on March 24, 2021 4 Comments

Tangerine Dream’s music for Risky Business is still my favorite film score of all time. Every few years it happens. A little time will go by from watching the movie and I end up forgetting how much I love everything about it. Then something jogs my memory and I’m thrust right back into being awestruck […]

WATERING FLOWERS.

Posted on April 23, 2013 2 Comments

On each repeated viewing of Risky Business, I find new scenes to appreciate. I don’t think a Tangerine Dream score has worked so flawlessly and complemented scenes so greatly in any film as much as this one. Pieces such as ‘Watering Flowers’ are short + sweet, but clearly portray deeper meaning, like some of the […]