Electro-Soma

B12 | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (June 25, 1993)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Tvt
• ASIN: B000003RG2
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Audio Cassette  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #141,640 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
  • #31 in Music > Indie Music > Dance & DJ > IDM

Track Listings

1. Soundtrack of Space

2. Hall of Mirrors

3. Mondrin

4. Obsessed

5. Bio Dimension

6. Basic Emotion

7. Metropolis

8. Obtuse

9. Debris

10. Telefone 529

11. Satori

12. Static Emotion

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars B12 = Beautiful to the 12th power, June 15, 2000

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John Spurling "psitrancer" (Amesbury, MA United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Electro-Soma (Audio CD)

Put on this CD and "be obsessed." This is electronic music for dimmed or darkened rooms. Equilibrious blend of dreamy atmospherics and quirkiness over old school Detroit techno-house beat patterns. This is a true techno classic, still killer after all these years. Add this one to your collection. Beautiful stuff.

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars mesmerizing journey, June 25, 2001

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"theformersnqueen" (Pittsburgh, PA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Electro-Soma (Audio CD)

i own several other discs from the artificial intelligence series and i find myself listening to this one the most. bleepy is perhaps too generic of a word to describe it. every sound on electro soma comes together to create a soothing musical maelstrom. don't try to pick this one apart. b12's use of synth is mind-boggling and their drum programming is masterful. the resulting composition is not random as i find some idm.techno releases; electro soma is machine music with more heart and soul than you could imagine. few albums deserve five stars. i would give this one six if i could.

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Absolute musical genius, January 17, 2004

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Jay M "jay_mc" (Dublin, Ireland) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Electro-Soma (Audio CD)

One of my all time favourite albums. I won't have a word said against this! Mike Golding and Steve Rutter produced this wonderful album for Warp back in the heyday of electronic music that was 1993.

Full of pristine synths, smooth basslines, spacey atmospherics, efficient beats and Detroit-esque strings and melodies, this album stands as one of the greatest ever electronic releases.

I'm surprised when I hear criticism of this album, some call it 'unimaginative', which I find baffling. To me, it's a very creative album. Golding and Rutter were often criticised, along with another genius Stasis (Steve Pickton), of ripping off the Detroit Techno scene and re-packaging it as their own sound. I think that criticism is highy unfair, there are differences between Detroit Techno and the music that B12 and Stasis are putting out. Sure, there may be an influence there, but that's it, it's just an influence. Stasis, by the way is a good friend of B12 and has worked with them.