Bluetech - Elementary Particles + Prima Materia
Bluetech's 2CD set for Aleph-Zero is trance meditation music for the globally wired. Armed with a rack of virtual synths and a ear for world rhythms, Evan Bluetech has put together an expansive ride around the globe on a very chilled jet stream. Mixing Oriental flutes with Middle Eastern hand drums, Jamaican dub with Polynesian ritual rhythms, and high desert trance with European choral flourishes, Bluetech is a new world alchemist working on a complex synthesis of world music into a singular vision of global universality.
Or you could call "World Beat Trance Lite" but that would dismiss the very solid possibility that Bluetech is engaging in the act of making something complex seem deceptively simple. The eighteen tracks spread across the two discs ebb and flow like ocean waves; you ride them with little effort, so little that you can disappear into them without much trouble at all, and you touch so many shores on this journey that it all becomes a blur of sound and motion in the end. That may be what chill music is all about anyway: blurring the hard edges. Bluetech blurs with distinction on Elementary Particles + Prima Materia, making a pair of records that combine the world into a whirling ambience that is filled with the blissful motion of the sky and sea. Elementary Particles + Prima Materia will leave you nicely boneless.
Bluetech
Aleph Zero [2004]
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