Emotional Technology

BT

Product Details

• Audio CD (December 30, 2003)
• Original Release Date: August 5, 2003
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Nettwerk Records
• ASIN: B0000A5A0K
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Vinyl  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars See all reviews (359 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #10,899 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

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Editorial Reviews

From URB Magazine
Structurally, BT’s fourth album plays like a classic rock mishmash of yesteryear. The sounds are all over the map, from the breakbeats on "Knowledge of Self" to the dance invite, "Force of Gravity," featuring a gleefully distorted vocal by ‘N Sync’s JC Chasez. Emotional Technology’s centerpiece and soul come in the form of "Dark Heart Dawning" and "The Great Escape," two of his more abstract pieces. The former quivers with a droning, Radioheadish sense of adventure (with instrumental backing provided by Guns N’ Roses’ rhythm section) slowly yielding to an unexpected gospel coda. The latter goes almost gothic with layers of cello (provided by Fortus) cushioning a reverberating piano line and Caroline Lavelle’s lush vocal. Ninety seconds in, the song takes a left-hand turn into uptempo territory with sparkling computerized embellishment. Lest the proceedings get too arcane, BT returns to earth with the playful "Paris," which features a raspier, untethered vocal. Actually, it’s the singing on Emotional Technology that lingers longest. BT lets loose on several tracks, gleefully strutting his stuff as a frontman singing with hard rock abandon on "Circles." Despite the Stones jones, BT doesn’t exile his classical breeding, which is too embedded to be completely buried beneath his rawk inklings. At seventy-eight minutes, Emotional Technology gets a bit long in the tooth, but you get the feeling that the myriad streams of sound -- high and low, organic and digital -- that pass between (and through) his ears, have finally nestled together in a grandiose manner he envisioned.

Andrew Dansby

Product Description
Aussie edition of the electronica/dance star's 2003 album features exclusive artwork. 13 tracks including 'Simply Being Loved (Somnambulist)'. Festival/Mushroom Records.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

15 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Tracklisting totally wrong, May 2, 2007

By	BioTracer (Finland) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Emotional Technology (Audio CD)

It was not possible to update the tracklist, so I'll use this review space for that purpose:

Revised version of Brian Transeau's 'Emotional Technology', originally released back in 2003. Features nine tracks from the original album on CD1, plus four previously unreleased tracks. The second CD comes with extended dance mixes of some of the tracks.


Disc 1
01. The Meeting Of A Hundred Yang
02. Knowledge Of Self
03. Simply Being Loved
04. Force Of Gravity
05. Dark Heart Dawning
06. The Great Escape
07. Paris
08. Kimosabe
09. The Revolution
10. Last Moment Of Clarity
11. Communicate
12. The Only Constant Is Change

Disc 2
01. Somnabulist (Mark Norman remix)
02. Love In The Time Of Thieves
03. Force Of Gravity (Tiesto remix)
04. Somnabulist (Junkie XL vocal mix)
05. Superfabulous (Toksin's Rawshaker mix)
06. The Force Of Gravity (Dylan Rhymes Push Up mix)
07. Kimosabe (Hyper remix)
08. Communicate (Toksin's Narcan remix)
09. Somnabulist (Sander Kleinenberg's Convertible mix)

25 of 30 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The reviewers on this page so far are deaf..., October 1, 2003

By A Customer

This CD may very well simply be the best recorded musical work so far this century! Music is not a competition, or an exclusive club that you must join or stay loyal to. Who give a rats a** if BT has stayed "loyal" to the trance or house genre, or to dance music in general. The production quality of this CD, and the scope and musicality of this work of art, is the cutting edge and the state of the studio art today. It is pure ear candy, and worthy of the highest praise. This CD may NOT be for the die hard Trance fans and Ravers. But for the rest of the music loving public, this album simply shines!!!! It is groundbreaking. It does not fit into a single known genre. I hear elements of Enigma, Rush, Delerium, Steve Roach, Synthaesia, William Orbit and more, all working around the base style and sounds that BT has made his signature sound out of in all of his albums. It is an album that will have you listening over and over, picking out the tricks, effects, edits, changes, elements and washes of ambient sounds that evolve constantly throughout the music. The album takes you on a journey that is cinematic, atmospheric, full of of beat and groove, and all the while is remains SMOOTH, crisp, deep, surrounding you in BT's world. There are so many songs that will just STAY IN YOUR HEAD because they are so catchy. At first you might not realize it, but you will see very quickly, you just start singing these songs in your head. If you are closed minded, and closed off to experiencing this beautiful and amazingly intricate presentation of sonic technonlogy because it is not "true to the genre", then you are entitled to feel that way....but you are simply not "listening" to the production for what it is. This is a first rate, state of the art production that few people could possibly not be impressed and amazed with. If you love electronic music technology, and you want to hear sounds and effects that you have never heard before, and you like music that keeps you interested with exotic timbres, cutting edge edits and effects, atmospheric elements that put you in another place, but then groove you with smooth hand built custom beats that grow and evolve through a journey filled with beautiful vocals and vocal effects that turn the human voice into an electronic instrument (amazing at times), and ultra catchy rhythms...then RUN...don't walk...to buy this CD. You will NOT be disappointed. Die hard ravers and trancers beware. This is probably not for you. It's for the rest of the world who can appreciate something more than 4x4 bass drum on the floor. Not that there is anything wrong with that....but that is NOT what BT was trying to do here. BT has risen to the level of a true star these past few years. He is far beyond the scope of many of the Trance Artists and DJ's will ever hope to be in their careers. He is a producer extraordinare and composer that is now reaching into Hollywood movie scores, major music productions (such as the new Sting release), Sample CD's, Music technology, and of course his own music releases. To expect to hold him back to this one genre due to "loyalty", when he is a groundbreaking artist in such high demand accross so many genres and media forms for his one of a kind cutting edge sound sculpting abilities, would be a rediculous expectation. BT is the King right now, and Emotional Technology is the product of what is only befitting the King. It ROCKS! You should get it.....

Peace.

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Another Multi-Genre Masterpiece!, August 29, 2003

By	"zackwilson" (Wexford, PA United States) - See all my reviews

BT once again has brought us something that chooses to expand our horizon and expectations with current electronic music. In this album, as with MISL, BT writes many songs that just can't be pinned down into a single subgenre - some containing either an eclectic sound or others just inventing new genres in themselves. However, if that doesn't do it for you, I guess the best way to describe the stuff you'll encounter would be a mix of trance (since, after all, BT was one of the pioneers of that particular subgenre), breakbeat, 80's rock, progressive, and acoustic rock songs. Yeah - it is quite the variety and you wonder how in the hell it will come together, oh, but it does come together EXTREMELY well due to BT's long history of classical music training (since the age of 4) and his expertise in programming and digital audio. My song recommendations would be Knowledge of Self (very similiar to MISL's Mad Skillz Mic-Chekka), Paris (a semi-trippy progressive style track), Last Moment of Clarity (Has a lot of roots in BT's ESCM days), and Dark Heart is Dawning (Similiar to MISL's satellite, but more emotional). This is a great CD and I would recommend it to anyone!