Thievery Corporation’s Eric Hilton and Rob Gaza lay down the mellow grooves with The Richest Man in Babylon. The latest tracks from this duo draws respectfully from a variety of influences, including jazz, world music, soul and electronica. The world music influences are especially strong. There’s afro-beat, Persian, and Indian influences throughout. By combining these… Read More Thievery Corporation – The Richest Man in Babylon
This 2003 release covers similar territory to the band’s 1998 Mezzanine. The sound is epic and lives up to the name Massive. This moody orchestral work finds Massive Attack working with some interesting collaborators. Sinead O’Connor adds her distinctive sound to “What Your sould Sings”. Her singing makes this a moving song. She also helps… Read More Massive Attack – 100th Window
The Orb’s first album had a new, distinctive sound when it came out. It mixed ambient music with downtempo grooves, to create a pop ambient style that has since moved to the mainstream. This music is perfect chill-out music. The slow grooves make it easier listening for mainstream electronica fans, but the bizarre mix of… Read More The Orb – The Orb’s Adventures Beyond The Ultraworld
Structures from Silence is classic of minimal space music. On it, Roach uses sequencers driving quite synthesized melodies within a deeply reverberent space, to create a sense of timeless spaciousness. Structures from Silence is one of the best of Roach’s early work. Structures from Silence contains three pieces, “Relection in Suspension”, “Quiet Friend”, and “Structures… Read More Steve Roach – Structures from Silence
Aphex Twin one of the working names for Richard James, an artist with a unique, quirky angle on electronica. His Selected Ambient Works, Volume II, is a set of abstract musical pieces that add to the ambient genre started by Brian Eno. On Volume II, each track is electronic tone painting, that explore a broader… Read More Aphex Twin – Selected Ambient Works, Volume 2
With Fever, Kylie heads to the dance floor without pretensions. Retro-disco and electronica collide to create music for a world that doesn’t care about categories or styles, but just wants to have fun and dance. If all you’re looking for is a collection of sexy dance cuts, with hardly a slow tune in sight, Kylie’s… Read More Kylie Minogue – Fever
The latest release from this former Mouseketeer tries to sex it up, and to move Spears into the world of global dance electronica. For this CD, Spears enlisted a who’s who of dance super producers, including Moby, R Kelly, and The Matrix. The question is, can a gang of superproducers turn Britney into a dance… Read More Britney Spears – In the Zone
Long-time Tangerine Dream fans have suffered as they watched the band churn out CD after CD that never seem to reach the creative peak that the band reached in the late 70’s. In 1974, TD released Phaedra, their first mature work, and a classic electronic rock album . The next few years brought Rubycon, Ricochet,… Read More Tangerine Dream – Bootlegs Volume 1
The latest music from dance divas Kylie Minogue and Britney Spears vear off into electronica territory, but they never rise to the level of work that Madonna has been putting out for years. Madonna is one of the few pop artists that regularly crank out albums – completely thought out listening experiences, instead of just… Read More Madonna – Ray of Light
Paul Oakenfold is one of the top DJs in the world, and he’s at the top of his form on Voyage into Trance. This CD is a 12-cut DJ mix of some top trance artists. The emphasis is on instrumental trance, and a lot of the cuts could be considered “goa” trance or psychedelic trance.… Read More Paul Oakenfold – A Vogage Into Trance
