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Sines and Singularities

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Evan Bluetech's work is described as "electronic dub", and has been featured on WaveForm recordings as well as having CDs previous to this one. This is dance music, this is electronica at its finest. The tracks find a beat, and then layers soundscapes and electronic designs. The tracks flow one into the other but retain a freshness and originality from track to track.

This side trip off of the ambient highway presents us with some expertly designed and executed works that are totally electronic dub. The music can be "spacey" with a very definite jazz influence as in "Enter the Lovely", the opening track.

There are the electronic bubbles of sound, as in "Condensation", that tell you this is electronic music, but it is skillfully integrated into the compositions, allowing you to hear the elements, but accept them as part of the music. Sometimes it can be slightly brooding as in "Forgiveness", but it still maintains a very upbeat rhythm and feel.

There are remix's included in the eleven tracks. Yaniv Shulmans "First Came the Stars" and Paddy Free and Michael Hodgson of Pitch Black - "Ape to Angel". These are wonderful interpretations of the originals, with a very Bluetech spin. I liked the reggae beat addition in "Ape to Angel".

Outstanding tracks also include "Dreamtime Lullaby", with lots of beat and a very driving bass. Minimalist in its approach, it is very subtle yet intense.

"Shimmer" is a very different yet provocative composition, with a lovely light melody hidden in the folds of the rhythms and beats. "Wilderness" presents us with a very natural soundscape, complete with electronic "frogs" which delights the ear as we are drawn into a construct that Bluetech carries through very skillfully.

The closing track "A Garland of Stars" is very spacey. True space music has no fixed beat so this piece fits into the electronic "dub" but crosses over into the ambient genre with the addition of Rena Jones on cello. This is a very elegant presentation, combining elements of different genre and showing how they can blend very effectively.

I am impressed with this offering from Bluetech. This is music for contemplation as well as enjoying the expert hand that designed it. This is enjoyable to the ear, and exciting to the mind. We explore the different elements Bluetech presents us and find how they blend and work together to furnish us with soundscapes to fill our personal spaces. A very masterful work and one which shows Evan Bluetech to be an expert in the field. maf

this is a truly visionary album by bluetech. i listen to a lot of music and a lot of different obscure genres. very few can stand up to this quality. this album will testify that he is one of the best sound designers in the world. the composition, production and mix are on another level, one that most musicians today cannot yet even dream of. if you are ready to have what you think of as music to be redefined, pick up this album.

Esoteric mind music. Melting zen reflections of heart patterned beats and relax flowed currents of tone. Absolutely GREAT!

I've never been a bluetech fan. I am a big fan of ambient music and electronic music in general, and I love the psy-chill sound. I own a pretty nice CD collection in this genre. I've heard bluetech here and there and did previously had tracks in some comps. I know he is a big name in this scene, However, I never got any particular feelings for his music, which I did find boring.

Every once in a while, I do feel the urge to expand my musical collection and explore some new artists. I don't know how I let myself explore randomly bluetech's music on youtube. And what was my surprise... I started liking what i heard. I don't know, maybe it's the years of experience, training my ears to learn to listen to this kind of music, I don't know. What I previously thought was boring and plain suddenly became subtle and sophisticated.

I love the psychill-dub-ambient -call it whatever you like it- sound, but I hate when an artist in this scne just tries to fit in this type of sound instead of really creating his own music. I thought it was the case in some of the first Shulman material or the first Phuturprimitive. trying too hard to sound like Shpongle (THE main psy sound reference). Or at least the influences were too obvious. I also thought it was the case for bluetech 1st album, Prima Materia. With Elemtary particles, bluetech seems to find his own style, and it's really nice. It really reaches its more sophisticated elaboration in SINES AND SINGULARITIES. A trully refreshing, sophisticated, and subttle album.

Subtle is the key word: well balanced, not too many layers of psy sound, the right amount of melody throughout the whole album (some tracks more melodic than others) so it doesn't fall in the cheesiness of easy-listening new-age crap (of which this kind of ambient flirts a lot with, too dangerously sometimes). A really nice dub drive, that makes you want to pump up the volume to feel the bass all around you, yet a bass not designed to be the leading sound, just a support for the rythm.

FRESH, SUBTLE, CLEAN, TIGHT... GREAT ALBUM. Why do I think it is bluetech's best? Well first let me warn you, I'n no bluetech expert,, and haven't heard all the discography. I've already explained myself on the two first albums; I've also listened to The Divine Invasion (2009), haven't heard his two last albums (love songs to the source and rainforest reverberation), but the Divine invasion didn't make any strong effect on me.

Maybe discovering these two last albums will make me change my opinion, but so far, I pretty sure this one, sines and sings., will remain the best bluetech for me, sufficiently impressive in its subltety to make me want to write this looooong review.

Enjoy it!!