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BT, on his real name Brain Transeau, a very popular DJ and producer, will release this month his fourth album called “Emotional Technology”. The album, released at Black Hole Recordings, originally appeared in 2003 and we are now talking about a revised version with two CDs. The first CD has 9 tracks from the original album and also 4 new and unreleased tracks. The second CD contains remixes for some of the tracks. Some of the journalists categorized this album as having “music for the masses”, but actually BT managed to create a mainstream album which is surely representative for the dance music scene and also very well produced. BT himself says about the album: “It’s a huge leap forward for me”.
The tracks are mainly electronic, but with many influences from drum and base, break bit and even rock. BT didn’t chose to go for a specific musical gender with this album, he tried to get together tech-house, techno, electro and even down tempo. For some of the tracks, BT is also the vocalist, together with Rose McGowan, Scott McCloud, Caroline Lavelle, Karina Ware or Jan Johnson.
As I was saying at the beginning, the album has some unreleased tracks in number of four. The Meeting of A Hundred Yang, Kimosabe, The Revolution and Love In The Time Of Thieves. The first three have a visible drum and base influence, while the last one is more of a techno track. It has to be mentioned that the album is very well produced, the technique is excellent and the sounds just mix together perfectly. And that is actually something that doesn’t surprise us very much when we are talking about BT. Tracklist:
CD 1:
1. The Meeting Of A Hundred Yang (New Unreleased Track)
2. Knowledge Of Self
3. Simply Being Loved
4. Force Of Gravity
5. Dark Heart Dawning
6. The Great Escape
7. Paris
8. Kimosabe (New Unreleased Track)
9. The Revolution (New Unreleased Track)
10. Last Moment Of Clarity
11. Communicate
12. The Only Constant Is Change
CD 2:
1. Somnambulist (Mark Norman Remix)
2. Love In The Time Of Thieves (New Unreleased Track)
3. Force Of Gravity (Tiësto Remix)
4. Somnambulist (Junky XL Vocal Mix)
5. Superfabulous (Toksin's Rawshaker Mix)
6. The Force Of Gravity (Dylan Rhymes Push Up Mix)
7. Kimosabe (Hyper Remix)
8. Communicate (Toksin's Narcan Remix)
9. Somnambulist (Sander Kleinenberg's Convertible Mix) |
The artist has chosen very well the title of the album, because each and every track expresses a feeling. It may be love, loneliness, happiness, even sadness. The words are also full of meanings and of deepness. The sound in general is warm and very consistent. This album can be listened at home or while driving, but is also good for the club.
From the old tracks, which were present on the first version of the album as well, we should mention Somnabulist, a hit at that time, but which continues to have success today also.
On the second CD there are mainly remixes made by artists like Tiesto, Junky XL, Toksin, Dylan Rhymes, Hyper and Sander Kleinenberg.
All in all, the album will surely be a success, and it will have fans that listen different music genres. This album is very different from the last one, This Binary Universe, where BT chose to produce down tempo music. But even if he chose to go with such mixture of musical styles for Emotional Technology, the result was as good, or even better that the last one.
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