BT - This Binary Universe

[GoatSucker]

After the shitfest of Emotional Technology, I wasn't expecting much from a new BT album, but this is a really nice surprise. Very ambient with lots of stuff going on and a glitchy IDM feel to some of the tracks. Comes with a DVD mixed in 5.1 with lots of cool animation.

Official site & trailer at http://www.thisbinaryuniverse.org/

Reviews and track info at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/This_Binary_Universe

[jOHN rODRIGUEZ]

Fuckin' yummy, no?

Hoping to make the Seattle exhibit.

[//\/\/]

Track 6 presumably refers to the Antikythera Mechanism and is transliterated incorrectly

...writes the president...

[Cadevil]

Wow... I only saw the trailer and already have goosebumps...need to get a copy of this soon...

[Ally]

Yeah this one's got me wet too - I'm not all that convinced about the whole sitting and listening to an album in surround thing, it's never worked for me. At the moment putting yourself in a listening situation like that is still too fiddly, whereas the best listening moments still occur spontaneously for me. Will sit with friends and watch it at least once though.

[crank]

wow...i think if anything that trailer struck me as pretentious. If Tomato had done those graphics i think i would have gotten 'wet' as Ally put it. no hairs or wetness occured here...it seems as if anytime anyone implies a life changing experience, it doesn't happen...

i'm just getting old i suppose.

[//\/\/]

(this goes for uw too)

give me beats; spare me the up-the-own-arse stuff

''music is music''

make me dance, eh?

[suicidalpenguin]

Looks good to me
Worth takin a look at although i too am not convinced bout the surround thing
Hybrids new album also prob worth takin a look at - not heard it yet though.
Anyone heard it?

[suicidalpenguin]

One track downloadable from new album at:

http://www.hybridsoundsystem.com/

Sounds like they have gone back to sounding more like Wide angle again
(which is good)

[EuroZeroZero]

Originally Posted by suicidalpenguin

Looks good to me
Worth takin a look at although i too am not convinced bout the surround thing
Hybrids new album also prob worth takin a look at - not heard it yet though.
Anyone heard it?

The 'surround thing' ? You know, you don't HAVE to listen to it that way. 5 Channel sound neatly converts to 2 channel stereo... nobody is saying you have to listen to it in a theatre...it's just a the medium that the artist thought best would suit this work (I haven't listened to this album though, yet)...which seems like some sort of EMO-Hippy-NewAge-EverythingisBeautiful-ILoveMyDaughter trip that he's trying to pull off.

Dont hate on the 5 channel records, I think it's a great system to having originally recorded something in DTS, rather than recording it originally in Stereo and then "converting" it to 5 channel later in the studio.