Atmosphere is a great new album of synth music album from Dutch synthesist Michel van Osenbruggen, aka Synth.nl. Atmosphere is a concept album, based on the layers of atmosphere that surround the Earth, the various types of clouds that are encountered within each layer and the sounds of weather that might occur at each layer. The tracks are arranged… Read More Synth.nl – Atmosphere
Sometimes it’s a good thing to run an electronic music website. When I opened the mail to find a review copy of the Chemical Brother‘s latest, Brotherhood, it was one of those times. Brotherhood is an unusual release. The box set comes with two CDs. The first CD is a greatest hits collection, spanning the… Read More Chemical Brothers – Brotherhood
Involver 2 is, as you might guess, a sequel to Sasha‘s mega hit Involver album. The last Sasha album we reviewed, Airdrawndagger, was an artist album, rather than a DJ mix. It got a lukewarm reception with some, despite being an interesting artist album. Involver 2, though, is a return trip to a world of… Read More Sasha’s Involver 2
Multiverse is a collection of psytrance tracks from Israel’s Atomic Pulse, aka Tamir Ozana. It’s a dual CD collection that’s made to order for fans of psychedelic trance. The first CD is Atomic Pulse’s take on tracks by Infected Mushroom, Skazi, Astrix, Protoculture, Fatali, Shanti, G.B.U and Pop Stream. Atomic Pulse’s production is first rate, and… Read More Atomic Pulse – Multiverse
Rifflet is a new site you can have some fun with those songs that you’ve never gotten around to finishing. The concept involves the uploading of something called a “rifflet,” which is a piece of a song – like a bass line, a guitar riff, a drum beat, or something else altogether. Each rifflet must… Read More New Site Wants The Songs You Never Finished
Nine Inch Nails is riding high on the publicity of its heavily hyped Ghosts I-IV release and is capitalizing on that buzz with a new free album release, The Slip. It’s available exclusively as a free download, but physical releases are in the works. There’s a 2008 Nine Inch Nails Tour coming up this fall,… Read More First Review Of Nine Inch Nails’ The Slip
The Spotted Peccary label has been consistently putting out great ambient, space and synth music albums. Their latest release, Below The Mountain, by Craig Padilla, is no exception. We’ve reviewed a couple of other albums by Padilla, The Light In The Shadow & Genesis. While his last two releases had more of an ambient or… Read More Craig Padilla – Below The Mountain
Made Records sent over iiO’s Rapture Reconstructed and it wasn’t one of those disks that we had to immediately dig into and check out. The release is a double-CD set of remixes of iiO’s 2002 club hit Rapture. Does anybody really need 18 remixes of any track? After giving the release a few listens, though,… Read More iiO Rapture Reconstructed
If you want to hear some music that’s really original, you could do a lot worse than checking out Ojos De Brujo’s wonderfully syncopated, flamenco-influenced Techarí. Ojos De Brujo (Eyes of the Wizard) is a Barcelona-based world fusion group, with eight members that play everything from flamenco guitar to tablas to turntables. Guest on the… Read More Ojos De Brujo – Techarí
Gods & Monsters, the seventh release from Juno Reactor, sees Ben Watkins stretching a bit, but not straying too far from the Reactor formula of mixing techno and world music influences. While it’s great to see techno getting bent and adapted, not all off Juno Reactor’s attempts to push its range are successful. The first… Read More Juno Reactor: Gods & Monsters
