Customer Reviews

Prima Materia

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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.

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.

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.

gawd this CD is fresh ... it's like a whole new west coast sound that's catching on even back in the rust belt. it's chilly contempo electro but man, this will warm up even the deep freeze folks. i love the sounds from the ground remix, er retriangulation. LOL. this is mono cooliosis ladies and gents.

The best way I can describe this music is pleasant, smooth, incredibly complex and very futuristic. With a blend of real instruments being played beautiful and high-detail, non-electronic sounding synthetics; its quite an different listening experience. Its a cross between what computers would say to eachother if they could hallucinate on psychedelics and dance music for aliens to listen to while they cruised the cosmos. The reason why I call it "pleasant" is because of the huge variety of electronic tones and beeps that pleasantly massage the ears. Theres no hard-hitting "boom-boom-boom" kicks here, just pleasant drum patterns to send you floating thru the air. And get this, on the inspiration list, Bluetech put Shpongle as the thrid music artist that influenced him. Great electronic music grown from great experiential
psy-trance.

Bluetech is smooth in the sense that none of the songs contain harsh,
rough tones found in artists like Aphex Twin.

The bass is so smooth that if you close your eyes, you feel like your floating on top of smooth and gentle clouds of low frequency notes. Great examples of smooth tracks are some of my favorite tracks, the first three on Prima Materia. They sound like what a profound psychedelic experience would sound like in a digital, high-tech, ultra-future format.

By far the best way to describe this amazing type of techno is that its incredibly complex. The amount of
detail to the stereo effects simulates sounds flying in your mind, swaying from left to right between your ears.
There are so many different-sounding instruments, both synthenic and real, that have been cut-up, filtered, warped, slow-downed or somehow modified with very futuristic-sounding, high-quality special effects. However, I do admit the sounds do get a little werid, even for me. For example, listen to "White Magnesia" at time 2:43-3:00 and you'll know.

The beats and tones seem to randomly appear out-of-nowhere and yet it still has proper rhythm and consistent patterns. It is unpredictable music, hard to see whats going to appear next on the audio horizon. For me, the more complex a song is, the psychedelic it becomes. The song named "Burning Waters" is by far the most psychedelic song on Prima Materia. If you like using psychedelics, then listen to this song at your peak and it will launch you into another dimension. This song is also the only song I've heard which uses a wooden frog rasp as part of the song. When you rub the back of the woodenso frog, it has a und like when you click your tounge on the roof of your mouth. It sounds Very cool and its quite appropriate for the song.

This album is very special to me so I only listen
to it while on psychedelics, at night inside a dark room, or other special moments in time.

Its Mystical Techno for Magical Thoughts.

I owned Prima Materia for a few weeks before I listened to it. When I got it, I knew it was right, but I didn't know why. When I listened to it, I understood. The first half of disk held my hand and led me to a warm comfortable place where the auditory imagery flashed through my mind like stars on the shortest day. By "7th phase dub", I was in awe at the idea that music could be so dynamic... spanning the landscape of light and dark spaces, making me aware of movement in and outside of myself...so many colors...no I wasn't high....Track 11, "Cliff Diving" brings you back to zero, completing the circle with all the soul of a thousand bright lights and the temperate vociferation of piano. Prima Materia is a true phenomenon. I highly recommend that you get this album, a pair of good headphones and experience it for yourself.

For a debut CD, Bluetech has managed to craft an album that sounds sculpted from the finest wood, with details so subtle and maticulous, they carry the signature af a veteran artist. Sound design is one of the key ingredients in Prima Materia. Bluetech, obviously quite adept at modern production techniques, can take the most simple and pleasing melodies and manipulate them into twisting tapestries that are, thankfully, quite pleasing to the ear. This takes the album beyond the usual "bag of tricks" overwhelming so many electronic releases, making it a wonderful collection of *music*. Fans of The Orb, Ott, and Tipper will be in heaven!

this supple design science crossed our speaker paths and stayed there. luminous dynamiks re-engineering sound that is shifting the surface of a new music culture. essential listening for audiophile and dancer alike. evolving the possibilities.

Great CD's from this artist. But super lame live as a DJ. I don't know if fame and fortune has softened this artist, but the performance in Santa Cruz was lame, sad and tired. If you are going to assemble a village to party, at LEAST bring some spontaneity and creativity to a DJ set. It is no longer acceptable to pose as an artist, pierce your earlobes and just press play on yer little mac book. I want my money and time back. What a YAWNER. I'm older and have seen thousands of live music shows and many DJ's, at BM etc., but I'm beginning to see DJ's as con men, charging for shows where their only job is too look hip and act the part. You gotta bring something to the table, in my book, like spontaneity and creativity but the current generation seems to content to consume lameness.

Prima Materia was the first Bluetech album I acquired while exploring the electronic music front beyond icons of the likes of CAN and Vangelis (1970s and onwards) :) Bluetech creates an astonishing and ingenious mix of interleaving sounds & background landscapes which catch the mind and imagination :) Prima Materia lives up to this with several outstanding tracks (like "Prophetic Sines," "Retriangulated," "White Magnesia," and "7th Phase Dub") and several really fine pieces of music with only a couple that are otherwise :) Naturally one's mood when listening plays a central role too :)