Transceive

Artist: Mark Jenkins & Others
P: 2023
LTD 100
MODULAR SESSIONS 13: "Artemis" is one of the most powerful collaborations to date in the monthly series of numbered limited run CD's. Six of the most exciting synth music acts from around the world have joined with Mark Jenkins to create an electronic music tribute to NASA's latest moon mission.

We start at dawn in Florida's "Launch Complex 39B", with sounds of nature underlying massive dramatic synth chords from Scotland's TRANSCEIVE (Steven Nelson). Liftoff with the slogan "We Rise Together" is underscored by TamiX (Nan Tang) from China, her Buchla modular system creating a thumping bass pattern and abstract sounds. "Artemis" running for almost 12 minutes is in the powerful sequencer style of Redshift and dedicated to the memory of the late Mark Shreeve. "Orion" builds from an intricate sequencer pattern by Germany's DER SPYRA (Wolfram Spyra) while "Mach 32", the terrifying re-entry velocity for the mission, is based on sequences MYSTIC FREQUENCIES (Ronald Mark Peters) from the USA. The mood becomes more mysterious as fellow American Joe Paradiso uses a massive interconnected modular synthesizer system to image the sounds of the little V.I.P.E.R. rover scouring the moon for signs of water. Meanwhile the mission places in permanent lunar orbit the "Gateway to Mars", pictured in evolving sequences by midibitch (Fredy Engel) from Germany.

Artist: Transceive
P: 2016
SHREEVE influenced synth musician returns with more excellent instrumental electro-rock 10 years after his ‘Transformation’ CD blew us all away in 2006! Thankfully, ‘Exit To Nowhere’ brings about no real change in style and influences, with the strongest of these still being the classic Mark Shreeve solo years! There’s also more than enough in the way of exciting melody, rhythmic power and strong dynamics right across this 7-Track album to keep everyone happy, right from the “Berlin School” through to those who enjoy a stylish tune or two! This music is bombastic as well as melodic, delivering a powerhouse of soaring, high-flying synth melodies, huge massed choral passages, penetrating, pulsating sequencers and driving drum patterns …and that’s all just in the near 15-minute opening track alone … then after that there’s another 48 minutes of pure synthesizer drama and audio pyrotechnics to take in! You certainly won’t be snoozing off when ‘Exit To Nowhere’ is blasting from your speakers, that for sure! The man behind TRANSCEIVE is Steve Nelson, and he lists his musical influences as: Mark Shreeve, Jean Michel Jarre, Klaus Schulze and TANGERINE DREAM and you will indeed hear elements of then all melded together in the genuinely exciting music on ‘Exit To Nowhere’, an album which you should wholeheartedly enjoy if you are into the music of any of the above artists! ‘Exit To Nowhere’ was produced by: Steve Nelson & Dave Livingston.

Artist: Transceive
P: 2020
Fast, rhythmic and melodic tracks on the new Release by Steven Nelson, with a huge variety of instruments of old vintage and new synthesizers. But all Hardware!!

Artist: Transceive
P: 2006
Transformation 88:98 is a kind of best of. Steve Nelson had so many emails asking if he had more music available after Intrigue. He finally got around to compiling this CD. These tracks span from 1988-98 (hence the title) with one new recording. He worked in some big studios in the early 90's and a lot of this music was created during the downtime on high end equipment. Probably the most ambitious of these is track 1 - Landscape of Tomorrow which had 3 months of pre-production & 3 months recording/re-arranging/mixing. At times he thought he'd never finish it. Tracks like this didn't appear on Intrigue as they didn't suit the theme of that album but are all now finally available on this collection.