This is a very different view of things, and in no way is it a reflection of what you are saying or what you believe your music to be.

It's weird to me, that someone says they are influenced by one or another ... in my 40 years of writing poems, short stories and a lot of other things, I could never tell you a single person or work that was an influence, in a direct sort of way ... I suppose, and some have suggested it, that subconsciously something or other may show up, but NOT A SINGLE PERSON out there, has EVER, shown anything of the like and explained their ideas or thoughts. 

To me, being such a visionary person, it is all about keeping up with the "movie" in my head, and I have no idea where the movie is going and how it's going to turn out, since I TRUST the process and where it seems to be going, which I have never tried to change or intercept ... it doesn't work ... you have to let it flow through on its own!

Now, Tangerine Dream for me, since the very early days, has been about THE VISION. There is no more "movie like" music out there (Vangelis is the exception! Maybe even Sakamoto) than what Tangerine Dream created, and if I was going to say something like they influenced me, I would make sure that my composition would follow their visualization ... not necessarily add the rock portion when you feel your keyboards are running dry (how commercial rock music that is!!!!!) Your chops have dried up!))

The wierd, strange and odd side of things is ... I have never felt out of sorts with anything I wrote when done (I only fix the language not anything else), and not liked it in some way or another. And this is the side of our selves that is more comfortable with "knowing" what we are doing (we like to think so anyway!), than it is comfortable to admit that ... I don't know! It's what I felt that second and there it is. This is the major clue from all the "creators" in the history of the arts ... a lot of what they do has almost no connection to anything that you know or have seen, and that is the value of the "experience" for me.

Compare this to my younger sister, a painter that has had an insane number of shows across Europe and kinda has retired from the gring, to paint for herself, and screw the arts community. her style is something I can not do ... she starts on something, and stays on some parts of it for days ... and a DAW afford you this ability to change and update and add/subtract, but for me, which I do not dislike her work, it has magnificent sides and moments, it's like ... not nature ... not natural, and not "alive" ... because you and I know that things change every second ... 

and a mere repetition is not the clue as to how you "create" something, although some folks think that having the ability to "replay it" from the "dream" is important ... IT IS NOT. THE IMPORTANT PART is you having the ability to see it, enough times, that you automatically learn how to express it. And not have to worry about "replaying it" since you now know it will be different each time and place, but it will be "there".

Your piece of music is lovely, and very enjoyable, although this is not the kind of things that I live for in music, I much prefer the "krautrock" style, of never knowing where things are going, and you (find out later!!!), it doesn't matter where you take it! Thus, NEVER having a "hint" of what is to come in the music is always important for me, so there is always a "surprise" to take you in. But commercial music doesn't want this ... it wants things they recognize and have heard before and are familiar with ... and this is not what Tangerine Dream was EVER about, until the day that Edgar Froese left us, when the stooges in place did not really know the difference. They had the metalic and mechanical ability, but no vision for the music, except the changing of a knob to make the music go here and there. There is no movie in any of it ... and the later album (Traum) is better in this aspect, but you can see that the "vision" is long gone, some 6 or 7 years later ... and will never come back of be found ... the folks involved are not into the vision, they are into the sound!

MASSIVE DIFFERENCE.

If you can see that, you will probably create something more interesting, to me, and hopefully others. Your piece is very nice, heck, I'm on the 3rd listen right now as i write this, however, the "movie" is missing ... the visual that you added tries to add to it, but it is nebulous and empty ... in space ... (how I propos!), and music, for almost everyone, can not be nebulous and "empty".

Thanks for the nice piece. Hopefully some other folks can also appreciate it, although for my tastes, it has too much of everybody else ... where is "you"? 

Good luck ... lovely stuff.