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thisoldtech:

I’m not going to do a full review of BT’s new album, “These Hopeful Machines,” but I am going to dedicate a little blog post to it. I’ve been a BT fan (like think “fanatic” kind of fan) for somewhere around 7 or 8 years. I was first attracted to his work by albums “Emotional Technology” and “Movement in Still Life” and like so many others that I’ve met in the community of his fans, I owe my own venture into music production to him. If you read, or better yet watch, interviews with BT, it’s impossible to not be inspired by the sheer joy that he has simply being an artist able of thought and creation. It seems that he’s perpetually excited about technology, science, mathematics, philosophy, and all that stimulates that overclocked brain of his.

So here’s my best effort at describing his music. It has a very unique BTness to it. It always contains a lot of “space,” in that every voice is very well defined and purposeful, so much so that in the right listening environment you feel like you’re immersed in sound, transported to a new place that he’s created to show you something special.

“These Hopeful Machines” is no different. BT has created something special yet again, and it will surely grow with me for years to come.

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***On a related note, the idea of technology being used to create something timeless is the reason I chose “this old technology” to be the title of this blog. The juxtaposition of “old” and “technology” are meant to represent a unification of things new and old, scientific and heartfelt. In my opinion BT’s music has always represented that concept perfectly.***