Archive For The “electronic” Category
Not many albums are recorded in a single day, and on the evidence of this one, perhaps the practice should be embraced more enthusiastically. Based on a piece of music commissioned in 2008 by the Royal Ballet, inspired by T.S Eliot’s The Wasteland, the album presents variations on two themes, rendered with the aid of 
A sprawling behemoth of an album, taking chillout into wild and uncharted territories decorated by surf guitars, live drums, pulsing techno and cinematically immense production. Influence spotting, as ever is the game to play and the likes of Sergio Leone, Angelo Badalamenti, David Lynch, Bill Laswell, and Cheb i Sabbah jostle for attention in Track 
Angular and edgy, this music is inescapably urban. Dubstep is the unromanticised sound of the inner cities. Apparently drawing on the complete history of electronic music, Scuba produces a harder, cleaner sound than say, Burial. Fractured, kaleidoscopic and twitchy, this is the sound of the internet after everyone has gone to sleep
First let me say, you’ll have noticed a certain fondness for eighties music creeping into these pages in recent months? Well this is close to perfection. Take a great drum sound, add megabass and lots of synthesisers. Marvel at the Bowie imitations, gasp as the sound of Sparks bubbles up through the mix. Devo career 
