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Tangerine Dream - Firestarter - 20-Oct-09 12:05 PM
The best TD soundtrack? Extremely smooth. Haunting samples, emotive melodies. Here we have some of TDs best use of layers, with shimmering synths dancing at all levels in the mix. Brief Froese guitars melt in and out here and there to add a finishing touch.

Charly The Kid is the tour de force track. Glowing synth layers bounce off each other, with three at one time coalescing to complete the single melody in an impossibly brilliant mathematical formula that sends neurons into a blissful frenzy. For an encore, Shop Territory reprises much of Charly, with a different flavor.

Interspersed with the warm, smooth tracks are Hyperborea-esque percussive pieces. Darker, yet just as interesting. Escaping Point reminds me of the theme from Lexx (sci-fi tv show) which was made nearly a decade later. Looks like the Lexx composer was a TD fan!

If you like Hyperborea and Poland, youll like this one. If you havent bought any TD yet, this is a good place to start. Pick it up!

Little Computer People - Electro Pop - 14-Aug-09 07:17 PM
Wow! Simply stunning. I hear a lot of electronic music, with a lot of albums coming in my door, and this one instantly jumped out and grabbed me. I had Rothers DVD release before this so I knew to expect good things, but this polished album surpassed all expectations. As of now I am a die-hard Rother fan.

Track 4 is simply one of the best electronic songs ever written. Meld Kraftwerk with an electro anthem and modernize it and you get this. The melody is absolutely mind-blowing as the underlying waves wash over you and perfectly meshed layers creep in. Speechless.

The other biggie for me is track 2, which gives a brief biography of Rother in the lyrics. Like the emotional bits on the DVD, this further highlights how much heart he puts into all his music.

Also great are track 1, 3 and the epic journey 11.

My only complaint is some of the unmentioned tracks are a tad weak, but really only in comparison to the unbeatable tracks. Hunt down this CD now!

Yellow Magic Orchestra - BGM - 03-Jun-09 12:55 AM
Out of all YMO albums, this is the one I listen to the most. Im not a big synthpop fan, but YMO really hits the nail with this one.

Ballet may be the best YMO song ever! I just cant get enough of it. The dissonant lead synth and flat voices are unique and quite mesmerizing. The simple, boppable beat keeps your head nodding. Simply timeless.

In fact, dissonance seems to be a recurring theme, with extremely dissonant bell sounds in Happy End. 1000 Knives is cheerily uplifting and smacks of their first album. Cue is one of their most poppy songs ever. Quite pleasant and catchy.

More dark foreboding in Camouflage. Intricate synth work and percussion details abound. Mass gives us an epic, cinematic theme that could cover a Rocky montage.

Loom caps the album with some beautiful ambience at least 10 years ahead of its time. You could put this out on any ambient label in the last 10 years and it would sound completely modern.

The only clinker is Rap: it just doesnt work for me and Im not quite sure what they were trying to achieve with that one!

Bottom line: buy this album before the others! The lack of interest for it on discogs is misleading!

Anthony Rother - This Is Electro (Works 1997 - 2005) - 24-Apr-09 02:14 PM
Wow. This set is worth it just for the DVD. I wasnt a big fan of Rother before (heard very little), but I am now! This guys live act is awesome. Not just a knob twiddler, he is extremely active in the creation of the live music. Perhaps most fun is watching him "play" the vocoder. The music is very moving, for both the listener and Rother, as youll see at the end of the set.

I frequently find myself compulsively popping this DVD in to listen to Maschinenwelt, Hacker, Live Is Life & LCP. The set progression is simply amazing: awesome build!

The production quality is flawless. The Dolby Digital sound is superb (though DTS would have been more fun).

Note to North Americans: this is PAL so you must watch on a computer (use Linux) as it probably wont play on your home theatre setups stock DVD player.

Jondi & Spesh - The Answer - 24-Apr-09 11:36 AM
Surprisingly good hidden gem. If you like lighter house/trance and mixing of styles, pick this one up. I happened upon J and S while filling my Silent collection and Ive liked everything of theirs Ive picked up since then.

What we have here is electroclash, psuedo-pop, downtempo, trance, house, deep house... really a wild mix. Half the tracks have moderate vocals, which dont detract at all. Also some electric guitars low down in the mix here and there.

Hard to pigeonhole but worthy enough to get a spurious review out of me, and thats saying something.

J and S: Id like to see more album releases!

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