Emotional Technology [Import]

BT | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (April 9, 2007)
• Original Release Date: April 3, 2007
• Number of Discs: 2
• Format: Import
• Label: Black Hole
• ASIN: B000MTOQ9A
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Vinyl  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (358 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #345,703 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Meeting Of A Hundred Yang

2. Knowledge Of Self

3. Simply Being Loved

4. Force Of Gravity

5. Dark Heart Dawning

6. Great Escape

7. Paris

8. Kimosabe

9. Revolution

10. Last Moment Of Clarity

11. Communicate

12. Only Constant Is Change

13. Somnambulist (Mark Norman Remix)

14. Love In The Time Of Thieves

15. Force Of Gravity (TiËSto Remix)

16. Somnambulist (Junky Xl Vocal Mix)

17. Superfabulous (Toksin's Rawshaker Mix)

18. Force Of Gravity (Dylan Rhymes Push Up Mix)

19. Kimosabe (Hyper Remix)

20. Communicate (Toksin's Narcan Remix)

See all 21 tracks on this disc

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

BT'S EAGERLY AWAITED NEW ALBUM Bt's awesome production skills once again shine through with this a special collectors edition of his album emotional technology which is a stunning work. A sublime fusion encompassing breakbeat rhythms, progressive soundscapes, trance fuelled melody. And emotive male and female vocals cd 1 features all bt's original versions. And cd 2 features remixes from tiesto, mark norman, junkie xl, and dylan rhjymes to name a few

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

17 of 19 people found the following review helpful:

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

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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)

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Emotional Technology, July 12, 2004

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Jeff (Boulder, CO) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Emotional Technology (Audio CD)

Every electronic fan knows that BT is almost indisputably the finest producer in electronic music today. It is his love and his obsession and that comes across in every thing that he does. On the original UK version of Movement in Still Life, BT unleashed a truly incredible track in Satellite as an outro to the album. It featured tricked out guitar, electronics, organic percussion, and BT's very own singing. Now... after an amazing album exploding with deep trance, house, sick new school breakbeats, and some of the best production ever recorded, Satellite's eclecticism was like a breeze of fresh air.

Enter Emotional Technology, or as I like to call it Satellite 2. Sure he has the breakbeat/rap number and the dance tracks (a few of which are decent), but any listener can plainly tell BT's focus on this album is on these disgusting regurgitations of Satellite. He croons and he woos the ladies with his deep thoughtfulness and obscure rants. However, he is not Justin Timberlake or John Mayer and the result is... well frankly, embarassing. Throw all of these songs away and we are left with a handful of dance tracks and a breakz diddy.

Knowledge of Self is a pretty phat song to throw on in the car and drive fast to. I was ecstatic when I saw that Guru was being featured on the track, but was expecting him to spit a verse, which he never really does. I couldn't help but think this was a less exciting rehash of Smartbomb. As for the trance tracks, the music would be extremely impressive minus the vocals (which render nearly every track on here unlistenable.) The exception and the highlight of the album is The Great Escape. The vocals grate a bit on the nerves after repeated listens, but are used sparsely. BT really goes to town on this track and occasionally you will find yourself actually wondering if what you just heard actually happened and how anyone could produce such sounds. This is the BT I know and love, sappy love songs are not.

BT should follow this album with an "Ooops" and get back to a sound that he helped invent instead of trying to run with the 'poppers'.

29 of 36 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 review is from: Emotional Technology (Audio CD)

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.