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The vid-disc opens with Free Range, featuring imagery by
Justin Eade and a "soundtrack" from
Fructose; crazy hand-held camerawork seems like a home-movie-gone-mad... with trains zooming down tracks, sidewalks flying past, jumping lights leaving spastically swirling tracers in their flight and more, the sights are hardly "ambient". The sounds inlcude dreamy synth work with jazzy brass accents powered by an appropriately active drum'n'bass accompaniment.
With a similarly jumpy (but often more floral) look (by Visual Cortex),
Transambient (Blossom Mix) transmits a hyper pastiche of flowers, treelimbs, extreme close-ups of spinning dandelion heads, etc. to the tune of Mark Summers' beaty danceambient, with choral streams and jittering arpeggiated keyboard work becoming overly perky at times!
A personal favorite is the dark, computer-animated fantasyscapes of
Coma; Nigel Maudsley and Christos Magganas deliver an unreal panorama of mostly grayscale imagery which adds extra impact to the few colorized elements, backed by sci-fi audiovisions from Geraint Hughes. Misty mountains and soft synths open Headspace (with V and A from James Graham and Pimpi Arroya respectively). Light d'n'b stylings are broken by beatless piano interludes as various natural scenes (and several unnatural sights, too) drift by.
Repetiously looped stock footage (amid a more-or-less random hodge-podge of generic vintage footage) gives Fuzzy Logic an annoyingly jerky sense of deja-vu, though the synchronized trigger-pulling sequences are cute... Brian McClave's (R)Evolve spins on everchanging stream-of-(disturbed)-consciousness scenery featuring geometric shapes, watery currents, skeletal x-rays, squirming larva, matches, monkeys, eyeballs and orifices.
Electronic arabesques meet pounding e-rhythms as kaleidoscopic images are created from nature scenes of backwards waterfalls, high-speed clouds, chain lightning and starstreams in Trance of a Lifetime.
808 State contributes e-music which alternately spatters and swaggers, occasionally lapsing into spooky gray areas of fuzzy ambiance while Visual Cortex provides desertscape zoom-overs, wriggling microcosms, cellular respiration, island fly-bys and computerized metallic goo in closing track*,
Macrobiotic.
* Of course, being on DVD, this doesn't have to be the closing track... a random-play mode will keep these already mixed-up A/V mixes even more mixed up! Other extras include some "about" info, but not much else in bells-and-whistles.
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