by Thom JurekAndre Konchalovsky's 1986 film Shy People, would seem the perfect vehicle for a Tangerine Dream score. Alternately pensicve and paranoid, full of taut drama and dreamy expanses, as well as moments of true psychological horror, Edgar Froese, Christoph Franke, and Paul Haslinger not only scored the film, but produced engineered the recording as well. But all is not well. IN fact, this is one of those scores that feels so haphazardly assembled, and slapped together than one wonders if they actually watched the ruches at all. Overblown, overly reliant on sequenced synthesizers that would have been more at home on the group's middle-to-late '70s albums without the restraint, instead of in a place where subtlety and suggestion are called for, this is the Dream at their most bombastic. None of the charm of their Private Music recordings is here, none of the more sublime moments of space and texture either. And a on the two vocal tracks shuffled along by an 80s synth pop sound, questions-seriously-- if this is even Tangerine Dream. This feels like nothing more than a money gig.