Hey everyone!
Thank you for the kind words, I am very happy you are enjoying the experience.
Any and all sonic references to Tangerine Dream are always accidental, as to this day I never listened to Tangerine Dream, although have skimmed through several tunes after being told that some of my tunes that feature arpeggiation seem to remind people of Tangerine Dream. Right now quickly clicked through Rubicon on YouTube. Arpeggiation part in the end is not bad, although a little outdated, I guess.
I think the reason why some of my arpeggiating tunes remind people of Tangerine Dream is that setting up an arpeggiating bassline as a backbone of a tune and then putting things on top is an extremely simple idea that many musicians come up with. As I do have a minialistic approach in my music, it is possible that it sounds similar to what they did back in the day. Either way, Tangerine Dream has never been part of my musical diet, but I don't mind people hearing these unintentional references, this is always very interesting.
As to the part at 26 minute, I think this is a pad loop that I played through Kluppe sent through a chain of CamelSpace ran though Festige and then through Rakarrack, powered by an almost 100% wet signal Long Reverb of the reverb module. The "watery" feeling is created by CamelSpace, which provides a filter and a sequencer which is capable of gating and changing the cutoff frequency value. An incredible VST plugin, although I actually rarely use it for ambient.