Ambient Temple of Imagination:
Wrapping up the millennium with their 2-disc retrospective, Y2KAOS, we speak with Seofon, Thermal and Richard Sun.
Ambient Temple of Imagination: Y2KAOS (8.5)
(ATOI:MS - 1999) - Ephemeral electronics both dark and delicate.
Michael Bross: Soul Fragments (8.4)
(SoundPlanet - 1999) - Sonic experimentations with jazzy flavorings.
Coyote Oldman: House Made of Dawn (7.7)
(Hearts of Space - 1999) - Ephemeral electronics both dark and delicate.
the foundry: mote (8.5)
(The Foundry - 1999) - An excellent overview of abstract musical sounds from an eclectic label.
Jeff Greinke/Anisa Romero: Hana (8.8)
(First World - 1999) - Ephemeral electronics both dark and delicate.
David Helpling: Sleeping on the Edge of the World (8.2)
(Spotted Peccary - 1999) - Nocturnal explorations by way of multi-instrumentalist Helpling with emphasis on his lush piano notes.
THU20: DERDE SCHIJF (8.0)
(Staalplaat - 1998) - Unpredictable, experimental noise occurs in varying degrees of intensity.
September Overviews include:
boards of canada, "music has a right to children"; Bombay the Hard Way, "Guns, Cars and Sitars"; eM, "motor sessions e.p."; David Helpling, "Between Green And Blue"; Kraftwerk, "The Mix"; Liquid Zen, "Liquid Zen"; Ma Ja Le, "Dreams in the Orchards of Saturn"; Seofon, "Causal Collapse";
Thermal/Freezer/CUE, "Time out of Mind"
This Month: "Remembrance" One Dozen artists tell how they want to be remembered.
New Links to: Mark W's CD Reviews
Contributed Reviews from the attentive ears of Stephen Fruitman include:
Alog, "Red Shift Swing" & Various Artists, "Love Comes Over the Mountains"; Hiroshi Fujiwara, "In Dub Conference"; Michael Gordon, "Weather"; Pre Fade Listening, "Way Back Home"; Various Artists, "Abstract Depressionism"
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