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E-News July 29 2006
Analog or digital? That is the question. The compilation-album Analogy Volume 1 is a product by members of the internet discussion board dedicated to electronic music. There is always much to do amongst musicians and/or fans of em about analog or digital? Will we use the warmth of analog or the more reliability but less character of digital? This album has become a sort of contest where each artist could use only three genuine analog synthesizers to create a piece of music (although modern recording techniques were permitted).Analogy Volume 1 contains music by some of the finest em-musicians of today:create, Remotion, Loren Nerell, Steve Roach and Chuck Oken, Paul Ellis and Steve Roach, 4m33s, Gert Emmens, Syn, Russell Storey, Kees Aerts, altres, modulator esp and ian tescee. The music ranges from traditional sequencer-based berlin school (create, syn, altres, modulator esp), via melodical (remotion, emmens, aerts, tescee), ambient (ellis and roach, 4m33s) to experimental (nerell, roach and oken, storey). All music was played and recorded with care and love for the music and the instruments that it,s played on. Analogy Volume 1 is a great and eagerly awaited project. Hopefully, volume 2 will follow soon. Paul Rijkens
E-News May 28 2006
And so to the aforementioned Analogy Volume 1 compilation (GR-124), the idea of which was spawned on the EM Forum (www.emforum.nl) under the ruling that each artist could use no more than 3 synths (not counting drum machines, effects units, etc.). The major selling point is probably the inclusion of Zone Patrol, a collaboration Between Steve Roach, Loren Nerell & Djam Karet's Chuck Oken in typically abstract style while Roach again turns up alongside Paul Ellis on the nicely
ethnic Where Are You?. One major surprise is the return of Altres with Kevin Guthrie again at the helm & while their Brain Flame boasts some very TD-like sequences there's surprisingly few straight Berlin School tracks here. Create come close but even here the strong rhythms provide some backbone while the more melodic offerings from Kees Aerts (with a strong Jarre influence), Gert Emmens & Ian Tescee all provide highlights, in contrast to Remotion's instantly forgettable track & Russell Storey's abstract Kiwi. Modulator ESP do themselves no harm with Tsunami which ably evokes images of the terrible event. Carl Jenkinson
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