Klaus Schulze - EN=trance

Artist: Steve Roach 
P: 2025
LTD 500
Portals & Spirals focuses on sequencer based rhythms and melodic beds both new and familiar in the Roach universe. All of the usual analog, digital modular and percussive friends are here.
Created & Mixed in the moment in 2025, this release is propelled by its dramatic movement, urgent energy and melodic resonance. Time is elastic yet all is now. Enjoy the ride.

Artist: Biosphere
P: 2009
Live At The Arnolfini, Bristol.
Geir Jenssen's dark minimal pulsations were in recent efforts condensed into a frigid boil, a threnody of interstellar space. With this effort, originally designed for live performance, with space built in for rhythmic and melodic improvisation, the ambient techno dimension reappears, though significantly slanted toward the maverick, marginal and minor.
Jenssen appears to be interested in a kind of generative music on this occasion; a shape-shifting mobile whose linked series of sub-movements allow tension to slowly accumulate through measured release.

Artist: Biosphere
P: 1991 / 2007
"Microgravity" is the first Biosphere CD and it's awesome. The blend between atmospherics and beat is perfect in just about every single track. "Baby Satellite" is danceable and dreamy, and even tracks without much of a beat, like the opening title track, have a movement to them that few other artists can emulate.

Most outstanding is "The Fairy Tale." The opening sample--where does this come from? A radio-voice describing a square full of burning tourists: "Look at them out there, all those little figures dissolving in light. Rather like fairyland, isn't it--except for the smell of gasoline and burning flesh." Chilling! And the song is great, wonderful beat, minimalist melody, beautiful ending.