The long awaited reissue of this classic album originally released by AMPLEXUS in 2003. Sold out for years, finally you have the choice to hear these fabolous "suspended-sounds" from two masters of ambient music. Published in jewel box with totally restored artwork.
Radio Fore is, like Sonic Continuum, an album comprised of two thirty minute atmospheric tracks. However, we find these two artists pursuing a somewhat less nebulous path than their previous ambient work. This particular work appears to be inspired by the SETI project--but do not quite expect a work of deep, dark interstellar ambience like Lagowski's project, or the early work of David Reeves. The first track, titled "Arecibo (sleeping under the big dish)" begins in a suitably psychoactive style, with quietly druggy cyclical synth tones. After forty seconds or so, this melts into the background to provide space for an ominous bassy pulsation. I hesitate to call it a beat, though it does have that propulsive nature. This pulsation occupies the forefront of all the sound in this particular track. Behind the bass vibration, all manners of interesting sound collagings hiss and drone. However, it's all obscured by the "beat" track. Over the course of thirty minutes, I found myself wishing this quasi-beat would fade into the distance and let the trance take over. "Hey, guys, this isn't supposed to be a dark dance floor! I'm underneath a big transmission dish, and I want to see UFOs!" Sadly, it never does let up, it never sinks into the background of the track, and eventually it becomes so familiar that it is rather annoying. Not an auspicious start for this particular release.
