| Balvinder Singh - Reaching for Home | Review, tracklist, & music samples

Balvinder Singh is a Sikh artist producing contemporary style devotional music, that the general listener to more meditative and trance-like styles will also enjoy. Listeners may well detect influences from Talvin Singh or Nitin Sawhney - this is modern music with a spiritual centre. This is an EP length CD with two bonus remix tracks, and is in a slimline case.

| WGO - A Magnificent Beautiful Day | Review, tracklist, & music samples

This is an album of happy music - dance beats with catchy folksy and electric guitar riffs, sitar, fat synthesisers, brass solos, strings, atmoses and vocals with well-intentioned positive messages. It's a 'life is beautiful' kind of an album. In the tradition of orchestras like the Penguin Cafe or a group like Lemon Jelly, Winston Giles delivers an uplifting experience. In moments it offers affirmations in the new age style, but its a darn good reminder to get up and start dancing - yes it is a magnificent beautiful day. The predominantly major tonality and dance-like rhythms of Giles music is often punctuated by spoken samples, with singing on only one track. Giles was born in Australia but has spent many years living in America, where he most recently had a house dance project called Atari Baby.

| Warren Burt - Harmonic Color Fields | Review, tracklist, & music samples

Harmonic Colour Fields is a series of harmonic clusters, synthesised tones stacked on top of each other in order to represent Warren Burt?s different colours of the electronic spectrum. Its like letting your ears fly through a single colour of rainbow at three miles an hour. ... Its hard not to come to this work without some prior knowledge of the basic elements of minimalist explorations of tonal frequency but it is a fine mid-90?s synthesised discovery, adding a little more depth to that already cavernous well of technique. You don?t have to get your head around the technical aspects, you just have to let it envelope your ears in its layers of soft, computerised shapes and shades. - JH

| Apell - Beaver Street and Beyond | Review, tracklist, & music samples

Apell is Anthony Pell - a Melbourne based musician with 2 critically acclaimed albums, a film soundtrack & more under his belt. Apell creates downtempo electronic music that occasionally moves into faster breaks using a combination of loops, samples in a sort of "IDM (Intelligent Dance Music)" fashion, with his multi-instrumental talents. Apell is influenced by musical styles as diverse as rock, jazz, funk, classical, dub & more. See more details and hear samples by clicking on the review link above.

| Khaled Sabsabi - Peacefender | Review, tracklist, & music samples

This CD from Sydney based electronica artist Khaled Sabsabi is in stock now.