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In recent times, the Aria award nominated artist known as Mr Timothy has been described by most media reports as a “quiet achiever”; mainly due to his having engineered or co-produced with such diverse artists as Madonna, INXS and Craig David. Thankfully, he has also taken his talents and lodged them firmly in his own studio in order to produce “This is Tha 1″, his debut album.
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Trans-Atlantik is a true tour de force for the masses. Spanning three cd’s, this plethora of tunes hits its target audience with precision and enthusiasm. Bringing together various genres under a single banner, Ahead Music presents the global icon of Slinky with a neat selection of tunes, taking the listener on a graceful voyage through a slice of the electronic music manifest.
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The latest dual cd addition to the Ministry bastion offers nothing but stability from two of Australia’s top notch NRG djs, John Ferris and Jason Midro. Whilst not breaking any real ground in the glutted market that is near-commercial dance music, both deliver solid performances with a track-listing that includes such stalwarts as Commander Tom, Ferry Corstein and Tiesto. The energy of this release is well sustained throughout and the tracks on both cd’s are varied enough to stop it becoming just an excuse for another numerical notch on the Ministry table.

As far as pre-party music goes, this compilation works quite well, but if you’re looking for something truly innovative and with a little less parmesan, then one needs to
wonder why you’re buying a pink sleeved Ministry cd in the first place.

With just enough glitch to make this stream of beats unlikely to bore, Brisbane based Ryan Gobbe, aka TwoTone, launches into a minimal progression of ambient laced digital harmonics with his first solo album. Despite the often at times wandering nature of the album, Gobbe manages to instil enough atmospherics into this unique ten track gem to allow the listener to settle in and enjoy the movement of the pieces as a whole.

From the tap-click inspired opening track “Soft-geometry” to the scratchy dynamics of the
camera-shutter influenced “Pentax Zoom”, Cinecity progresses through a land of sidereal beats and the sighs of stuttered down-stepped techno.

The somewhat repetitious frame that many minimal artists often fall into is nowhere in evidence here – and it is obvious that a great deal of thought has been put into giving the album a sense of variety induced space. Taken individually, the tracks on this album may not have enough charisma to be able to stand alone, but as a whole they shine. As definite hangover material for the Sunday afternoon glitch-dub aficionado, Bug Records gives us a solid release of fine Australian electronica with this outing.