Scientific American - Strong For The Future
Having cut his teeth with sound design for the Seattle Art Museum as well as commercial compositions for Volkswagen, Hewlett-Packard, and Discover, Andrew Rohrmann now creates ten elegiac etudes as Scientific American. His Mush debut, Strong for the Future, presents moody electronic pieces that meander in the digital space between Warp and the Leaf Label. "Victory Hold Still" is a pastoral dance track, a skipping, thumping piece that pirouettes across pollen-dusted fields. Bootsy Holler's siren voice is submerged in an aquatic reverb of piano and drum in "The Seas Are the Sky," while tiny cut-up voices and digital detritus collide with a warm melody in "Million Lines (Slow Fade)," as if Stefan Betke were remixing Amon Tobin. Rohrmann dodges a number of the cliches of IDM with his work as Scientific American, demonstrating a fresh ear and a deft programming finger.
Scientific American
Mush [2004]
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