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Aural Planet - Lightflow - 22-Feb-07 02:04 PM
This CD is an beautiful and underrated album from this excellent polish act that might be compared autechre. Atmospheric tones, stabbing acid-basslines, woven together with subtle melodies make for awesome background music, perfect for almost any event. It's a music you could listen to kinda low to make for your own, personal life's soundtrack. It's relaxing and, most of all, beautiful music. This is an album anyone who likes techno should own. highly recommended.

Underwolves, The - Under Your Sky (Remixes) - 17-Jan-05 01:14 AM
Under Your Sky is beautiful crafted and polished album, with roots in Drum & Bass, but also adds some flavor from Soul, Nu-Jazz and HipHop. The awesome Singer/Songwriter Jeb Loy Nichols from the late Folk-Reggae masters Fellow Travellers adds some song structure to the Underwolves-Tracks. So now the lads follow up with the album Under Your Sky Remixes, which only partially deserves that title. Only four of the twelve tracks of Under Your Sky have been reworked, but some of those were remixed several times. Luckily the new mixes are far apart from the originals giving them a new trist. A favorite is "So Blue It's Black". Heavy Manners reduces the vocals to a few samples and let the released energy flow onto the beats, which gives it an almost minimal dancefloor track feel. Peshay and Photek let the original thin out to a pure Drum & Bass backbone. Totally different compared to that is Juryman Aberasch: Tribal-Beats mixed in with some jazzy soundcarpets. The constrast is added by Earthbounds nice feeling Slow Version of "Bird Song" with a slow moving rhythm that gives Nichols’ pleasant voice more room to go on. Just before you think this might be a Down-Beat record, the Drum & Bass wizards Andy C and Ant Miles alias Origin Unknown turn it up a notch. In other words, Under Your Sky Remixes has a lot more diversity and tempo changes than its’ original. -c- ToxicTwinz

Craig Armstrong - As If To Nothing - 13-Nov-04 05:51 AM
After several projects done work-for-hire in the film and pop world, Craig Armstrong returns to where he originally started with his own material with the release of his second long-play CD As if to Nothing, collaborating with acts such as Bono, Evan Dando (Lemonheads), Mogwai, Photek, Antye Grei-Fuchs (Laub). Dominated with orchestral soundscapes and well worked-out arrangements, the record has lots of character and very emotional to say the least. One of the greatest song here is the wonderful “Wake up in New York”, sung by Evan Dando, a track which could have also found its place on Massive Attack’s Mezzanine. Bono’s “Stay (Far Away, So Close)”, which is also featured on U2’s Zooropa album and has been included on several movie soundtracks, is very convincing and heart-felt. Only the spoken-word track from Antye Grei-Fuchs is a little to get use to. -c- ToxicTwinz

Fragile State - Voices From The Dust Bowl - 29-Oct-04 08:11 PM
Jumping right into it, the opener of this album Four Tet Voices from the Dustbowl is a nice pop dreamy downbeat track. The basic sound of this first song continues as the theme for the whole disc. Soundtrack-like soundscapes that remind you of a young John Barry. Fragile State is Neil Cowley, keyboarder with Zero 7, and Ben Mynott, a music journalist with the Blues and Soul Magazin. That also might explain why the debut-album from Fragile State was voted Downtempo album of the Year 2002 in the B Magazine. But rightously so; the music is of high quality and can compare to similar acts like Thievery Corporation easily. It shoud also be mentioned, that Ben Mynott has a CD-Compilation titled Just Got Home: Fragile State that he put together and has been released. Songs included are from The Egg, Thievery Corporation, and Cocteau Twins.
-c- ToxicTwinz

Neurotic Jock vs. Cam Farrar - Tribal Beats - 28-Oct-04 08:21 AM
Incessant Beats with a swirling synth that builds to a crescendo, that is often identified with this talented production team. A good variety of mixes supplied, with a bonus grinding deep impression left buy luke bowditch for the serious underground connoisseurs. -c- ToxicTwinz

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