This album surely demonstrates a maturity in their sound and production. Have these guys been taking music theory lessons? I think so as this album is full of melodies which weren't present in past albums to the same degree as in Non Standards. Sounds like these guys picked up a Moog Voyager and a Jomox for drums+percussions and dumped the Microwave and sample cds as their production has a definite analog feel to it which is also fatter! Overall this album is solid. I just wish they experimented with more interesting use of fx and pattern programming as this album although well produced, sounds very standard. 8/10
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"Computer games don't affect kids; I mean if Pac-Man affected us as
kids,we'd all be running around in darkened rooms, munching
magic pills and listening to repetitive electronic music."
Midi Miliz-Non Standards
in 2005
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This album surely demonstrates a maturity in their sound and production. Have these guys been taking music theory lessons? I think so as this album is full of melodies which weren't present in past albums to the same degree as in Non Standards. Sounds like these guys picked up a Moog Voyager and a Jomox for drums+percussions and dumped the Microwave and sample cds as their production has a definite analog feel to it which is also fatter! Overall this album is solid. I just wish they experimented with more interesting use of fx and pattern programming as this album although well produced, sounds very standard. 8/10
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"Computer games don't affect kids; I mean if Pac-Man affected us as
kids,we'd all be running around in darkened rooms, munching
magic pills and listening to repetitive electronic music."
Kristian Wilson, Nintendo, Inc, 1989