emotional technology

once again bt brings out another awe inspiring album. once again i am unable to listen to anything else because nothing compares. musically it’s brilliant, from an engineering perspective there is even more to learn than there was in movement in still life.
he certainly is an amazing person.

i also purchased the dzihan and kamien orchestra live in viena, but have only listened to it twice. it’s really very good, but it will have to wait until i’m finally over how great emotional technology is.

once again i feel like i don’t need anything else, food included, other than this cd.

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Commentary
March 16, 2010

At the end of the day, Emotional Technology is a bit too camp, but still a better production than These Hopeful Machines. Of-course when Emotional Technology was released, Kaia hadn’t been born and no-one was to know what awe awaited us with This Binary Universe, and then when Hopeful Machines was released, we’d already had it. I still think that while some of the production on Hopeful Machines is head-breakingly awesome, overall it is the worst thing an album can be – ordinary. It really is an average effort given BT’s skill and talent. Out of Movement in Still Life, Emotional Technology and These Hopeful Machines, Movement in Still Life still stands as the most innovative and fun record of the three. Emotional Technology still has some of that fun, but it was the beginning of Brian reaching for the guitar a little more often. He contained it, and the loud, rocky and brash tunes on the album are great. Hopeful Machines carries it too far and at the end of the day, BT is neither a rock-star nor a DJ and he’s not really good at either; the trancey stuff on Hopeful Machines is nice enough, but not good enough to still be BT’s own thing, nor to compare to what’s happening these days with Above & Beyond, a sound which he was a big part of pioneering so many years ago.