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Bluetech | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (September 23, 2003)
• Original Release Date: 2003
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Waveform
• ASIN: B0000AGWEV
• In-Print Editions: MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (17 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #162,353 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Editorial Reviews

Evan Bluetech is to Southern California as ambient is to dub. With a background in classical and improvisational piano, he has honed his wares with yearly performances at the infamous Burning Man festival and other outdoor gigs. He serves as Music Director and performer for the living ambient gallery Project Cathedral in San Diego and has contributed his work to the award winning Continuums Project as well as numerous television commercial soundtracks. He is also one of the founding members of the art collective Native:State, a group of quirky circus performers, DJ’s fire dancers and music makers.

Bluetech melds the electronic with the organic, utilizing custom-built Reaktor instruments and software-based synthesizers. His traditional classical training brings a warmth and musicality to the precision and detail of his extremely fresh electronic style and sound. Besides ambient dub influences, Bluetech also borrows from the worlds of IDM and experimental electronica. Inspired by artists like The Orb, Sounds From The Ground and Higher Intelligence Agency, Bluetech delivers a vivid distinct sound that is both modernistic and retrospective.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Totally Hypnotic, November 26, 2003

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Ambient Lass "Charleyq" (Cedar Hill, TX United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Prima Materia (Audio CD)

This CD will take you away from everything. I have never heard such awesome connected sounds and rhythms that make you feel as if you are in a dreamland. I agree with one reviewer that it is hard to believe that this is their first album. I am already looking forward to their second, third, etc. This is a CD that you can listen to over and over again without feeling that each song sounds exactly the same.

12 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Adventurous, worthwhile melodic dub, July 20, 2004

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M. A.J.Anderton (Barton-on-Humber, England) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Prima Materia (Audio CD)

Talk about breathing fresh air into a genre. Whilst mainstream dance still reels from post-Ibiza Trance meltdown, artists like Bluetech produce dance music that sounds genuinely fresh and inspired...indeed inspiring.

The album works best as a whole, though standout tracks include Leaving Babylon, Triangle, Prayers for Rain and 7th Phase Dub.

Many 'dub' artists have produced tracks with little direction or purpose, but this album has it. The tracks meander and evolve in the same way. The album cover which featured chameleons is quite fitting, as it is a chameleonic album. Much of the meandering electronica is supported with strong continuous melody such as 7th Phase dub which threatens to wander into 'Orb' territory with floating spanish guitar riffs.

The synth and the spiky nature of the album make it more akin to a sophisticated Orbital, but with Orbitals trademark rough-edges smoothed and veneered.

What the album lacks is a killer track, and I think you know what I mean by that. Too many of the tracks are 'good' but none are personal favourites of mine. I'd happily listen to the album, but unfortunately, none of the tracks warrant individual attention.

Such is the nature of dub, that standout tracks are rare. I'd suggest to Bluetech, that on further projects, he looks to artists like The Orb who used sustained ambientsections in their tracks to get that killer track.

In summary then, a unique and promising album with good chracter, good purpose that hints of more to come. I hope this is just the start of more to come.

8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars and he can PLAY too!, February 27, 2006

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Paul Lord (El Cerrito, CA United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Prima Materia (Audio CD)

This disc is ridiculously fresh. Abstract textures, burbling, muttering synth work, deep and dubby basslines, all woven together in a series of beautiful compositions. Then, smack dab in the middle of things, BAM, a brilliant, jaw-dropping Fender Rhodes solo, or acoustic guitar fill, or other display of physical musicianship.

Or, alternately, it's all laptop sequencing wizardry; if anything, that would be even MORE amazing, because I've never heard computer sequencing with such an organic, human feel. This is a true benchmark release for electronic music; the arrangements, sonic invention, and production quality are absolutely state of the art.