Steve Hillage and the Glorious Ohm Riff pretty much changed my life back when it used to change pretty frequently, and the latest studio recording from The Orb promised to bring all those spacescapes flooding back. From minimal beginnings the opener and title track, The Dream, effortlessly builds to world domination levels only to inextricably fade away. Vuja De picks up the thread, ultimately setting the scene for the rest of album which throws almost everything you can imagine into a huge vat of dub. High Noon, Sleeping Tiger and Codes are the high spots for this reviewer, pulling some...

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Grammy Award-winning writer/producer and contemporary music visionary, William Orbit, returns with an eagerly anticipated new album ‘Hello Waveforms’ on Sanctuary Records out on February 7th. His first solo release since 2000’s critically acclaimed ‘Pieces in a Modern Style’, the new album was performed and produced by William. ‘Hello Waveforms’ is ethereal, ambient, subtle and distinctive in style, fusing strong melodies with electronic synths to produce his definitive signature sound. Recorded in London and America, the new album features a collection of collaborations and influence...

You may feel like you're cruising around the big city during the seventies while playing this super cool release from Aram Danesh And The Super Human Crew. It's all there, the wah wah guitar, the Fender Rhodes electric piano, the speed guitar and even a brass section. But what's this? Someone talking really fast about stuff. That's called Rap huh. And the bass sounds are impossibly low. Subsonics, wow. Most of the traditional, and not so tradtitional sounds on The Spot are supplied by a wide assortment of musicians based in and around California's Bay Area, brought together and melde...

Having seen most of the 80's from the stage, recording studio or nightclub as keyboard player with The Bolshoi, I've heard almost all there is to hear from the best that the decade had to offer, and also the worst. The good times include tours with Spear Of Destiny, Love & Rockets, Peter Murphy and countless one off shows with other great bands, and the bad times, well I don't think there were any. So within a few snare beats and synth sounds of listening to New York based Elkland's debut album, Golden, it all came flooding back, in a good way. Frontman and principal songwriter Jon Pierc...

Any album that starts off with wind noise usually indicates the beginning of a New Age or Progressive Rock odyssey into the unknown, so maybe this is why DJ Harry prefaces his first forage into the world of original music with this most hallowed of sound effects. Often lacking central cohesive themes to wrap the music around, Collision is nonetheless original insofar as the music is built from the ground up, with the aid of 15 guest musicians, without the use of pre-recorded works by others, although I'm sure there are a healthy helping of samples in there that weren't necessarily of DJ Har...

A hell of a lot has gone down since The Prodigy's massive breakthrough release, The Fat Of The Land, stuck a big fat safety pin into electronic music in 1997, but don't expect any comeback kid stuff from Liam Howlett. There are no signature sounds that require reanimating, no trademark riffs trotted out to please the fans, instead enjoy pounding rock solid beats embedded with a multitude of samples, sound effects and guest appearances from Kool Keith, Juliette Lewis and Liam Gallagher, to name but a few. It's all spliced together with the same surgical precision that made millions of peo...

Since the introduction of MIDI in the early 80's people have been plugging keyboard controllers into the backs and fronts of sound modules and making music. It was always such a simple process, you'd just plug it in and start playing. But try doing that with a computer and you'd often find yourself working on MIDI channel settings long after your inspiration had left the building. This excessive amount of fiddling about getting everything to work is often the main reason why many musicians have been reluctant to take advantage of the infinitely more powerful computer based audio produ...