Search - Heavenly Music Corporation, Hmc :: Consciousness III

One of the BEST CD's you've never heard of!

Richard Reznik | Detroit, MI | 07/02/2006

(5 out of 5 stars)

"TRACK LISTING:

1. FLOWERS & BEADS (VOCODED TRANSMISSION)

2. CONSCIOUSNESS III

3. INNERDIMENSIONAL

4. CRYSTALLINE ENTITY

5. CLOUD CHAMBER (SATORI TRANSMISSION)

6. DOLPHIN POD (SUBSPACE TRANSMISSION)

7. SUNFISH = STARFLOWER

8. RIDING WINDHORSE (BUDDHAFIELDS)



Consciousness III leans more heavily on the drum programming and motoric pulses of early techno, or at least an ambient version of it. Cascone at the time called it "a gentle kick against the aural ambi-niotic sack that encloses us all". For sheer mystical power the title track is unrivalled in Cascone's work, a series of exquisitely beautiful pulses and melodies built around a single minor chord and simple snare/kick pattern. Although this albums structures are clearer and sharper than Garden Of Eden or Lunar Phase, texturally and melodically it's just as rich and its also far prettier than anything the insular techno producers of Detroit at the time would have dared put their name to. In a way Heavenly Music Corporation's sound is not techno anyway; it marks the rebirth of ambient trance for the techno age, owing as much to the German psy-ambient of the 70's as it does to the early dance music of the Detroit or Chicago."