EXIT

After the rather lacklustre Tangram, Tangerine Dream updated their sound for the 1980s with Exit, taking careful notes of the advances of other artists in the electronic field and reacting accordingly. With hypnotic, pulsing electronic rhythms running through the album it's an extremely listenable piece, and whilst it does resemble a lot of their 80s soundtrack work it is at least on a par with their best soundtrack pieces. With a sleek, cyberpunk sound to the album, all of a sudden Tangerine Dream were cool - who'd have ever thought it possible? - and so as a whole this strikes me as a pretty important album to the course of their career.