Where has Synthetik been for the past few years? Taking it easy? Listen to this album and you'll soon realise that Kevin Bate has been far from taking it easy. Instead he's been slaving over banks of synthesisers and computer consoles to produce this masterpiece. Change in direction? Not likely! Kevin Bate has played to his strengths, developing his style and utilising improved production capabilities to take the Synthetik sound to new heights. It would take a full page to do justice to the complexity of this album, and complexity is the key word! You'll need to listen to 'Abstract' a dozen times before you even scratch the surface, and by then you'll realise just what a pulsating hour of Electronic Music this is. If 'Technology' was 100% Synthetik, this is 150%. Where he goes from here I don't know, but I'm half expecting a Cray SuperComputer to be credited on the next album to handle all the midi data. The man in black has done it again. State-of-the-Art modern EM.
