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Now this is what "Ambient Dub" is all about

Rykre | Carson City, Nevada | 10/30/2006

(5 out of 5 stars)

"Ambient Dub fanatics like myself should not give this CD a miss. This album and Colourform are probably the best two CD's of The Higher Intelligence Agency. However, many people who have given these CD's a less than favorable review are determining that their sound is too repetitious, and in many cases either all sounds too much alike, or the tracks themselves are just not varying enough with the track. I can see how some people can come to this conclusion. If you don't have a lot of music like this, than it just seems that you are playing this CD too much and letting yourself get bored with it too quickly. Even I don't care to sit through the entire playback of just the one CD. But, I have determined that this music from HIA should be played within a mix of other Ambient Dub and other various glitch and IDM related electronica. To just play these 9 songs end to end can get dull quickly. But if you listen to these songs mixed in with about another hundred IDM instrumentals than you will truly appreciate HIA's participation in the overall bigger picture of today's electronic instrumentals. Today's IDM.



I have these two HIA CD's shuffling in my 200 CD carrousel. These tracks by HIA are being mixed up with tracks by Autechre, Gescom, Aphex Twin, Squarepusher, Pete Namlook, Biosphere, The Orb, Phutureprimitive, Sounds From the Ground, Electric Skychurch, Plaid, Boards of Canada, and various other similar artists of which The Higher Intelligence Agency belongs with.



I also have these songs and other IDM and Ambient Dub tracks burned onto ATRAC CDR's that is made through the SonicStage program made available only by Sony. (Check out some of Sony's ATRAC CD players and find out why burning hours of your favorite tunes onto a single CDR is better than just loading an ipod with mp3s) Burning hard copies is definitely better than just floating your music in a temporary storage unit like an ipod. (You can make 32 hour CDR's, and as many as you want from all your CD's and mp3s. How many songs can your single ipod hold?)



Anyway, Kudos to you for discovering The Higher Intelligence Agency, but now, explore some of the other artists I've mentioned above. You will love this new world of sound that you've discovered. It is more vast than you could ever imagine.

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