A "just good" CD. I was expecting a fuzzy drone masterpiece, a la label mate "Stars of the Lid", and wasn't disappointed to begin with, but then came Windy's vocals. Sigh. Post-rock fans probably will eat this up, but this reviewer just wasn't too into it. I think it really broke the granular sonic continuity the first three lo-fi instrumental tracks had going. However, I did REALLY enjoy these first three tracks and will definitely seek out more of their work in the hopes of finding epic feedback drones, instead of nominal shoegazer vocals...

Very dark, sometimes abstract. Biosphere and Deathprod took turns "transforming" and manipulating fellow Norwegian (and electronic music pioneer) Arne Nordheim's original recordings.

The result is satisfying. I think Biosphere's influence restrained Deathprod, as there isn't as much of the noise and dissonance associated with their other releases. It's also a landmark Biosphere release because it was the first release after the masterpiece "Substrata" and saw Jenssen turning even further away from his origins in pop electronica and more towards experimental and classically-influenced music.

There is a spare and melancholy northern European aestheticism here, with drones and tones winning out over traditional musical structure. I don't think the artists set out to intentionally make "dark ambient" music, it just kind of turned out that way.

This is music for lonely winter nights, for abandoned warehouses, and rocky arctic coastlines...

Great CD for sleeping, and probably meditating. VERY relaxing. Kind of a modernized, less dated version of Namlook's "Air" series in that it uses a female voice in much the same way. Next to Eno's "Neroli", the best sleep CD out there.

Took me nine months to hunt down a copy. This release comes in a strange CD cover... I think its a proprietary Austrailian slimline case. Anyway: good luck finding a replacement if yours is scratched up or broken...

Great effort. Field recordings from Kenya, Scotland, and Iceland very gently manipulated. Everything from lions howling to glaciers groaning. An instant classic in field recording circles upon release, and definitely one of the best titles in this genre. Bravo Touch!

The only disappointment here is the cheap packaging (thin composite plastic page, CD is held in place by a punch fastener). Very flimsy.

Music: Awesome. I could only make out one composition that I had heard before on the three CDs of his I own. Sounds similar to "Mirages", while looking back to "Haunt Me" and "Radio Amor." If you are a Hecker fan, this release is definitely worth hunting down.

(Supposedly limited to 1000 copies, but my copy is unnumbered so there may be a few more out there.)