I can only say ( it shows if you read my topic about the melrose years ) that Optical race was is and will be my first love with TD music. With optical race i discoverd TD which influenced my own style as an arranger ( i play keyboards and am member of a dutch dance formation ) ...
I was 16 years of age and I played optical race over and over again .. After that I started collecting TD music in combination with other electronic sounds including technomusic and ambient ( also ravesounds ).
I even produced my own TD alike music in the early 90ties with some hardware equipment ( Roland w-30, roland jx-305, atari STF and so on ).
Nowadays we produce dancemusic with fruityloops studio and cubase next to cool edit with software synths.
OPTICAL RACE !! YOU GO !!
MD.