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Ambient Realms -- review by Andy Garibaldi (CD Services).

Over 48 minutes, you'll hear four similar length instrumental tracks of largely deep, multi-layered, multi-textured, dark, slowly flowing and drifting electronic space music. The twelve minute 'Ambient Realms' gets things off to a mesmerizing start with all manner of cosmic soundscapes that are really deep and exude just the right atmospheres. From there, the twelve minute 'Spatial Awareness' starts with a four minute slice of rhythmic cosmic electronic rock before the rhythms drop abruptly and the track heads out into the cosmos with acres of interweaving space music landscapes stretching out before you. This leads directly into the twelve minutes (almost) of 'Coded Transmissions' where more wondrous soundscapes open the proceedings before a tinkling electro-percussive rhythm starts to twinkle in almost sequencer-like fashion, joined by a sampled tabla-like beat for just a few seconds, as the rhythm, that has lasted less than a minute, dies away and the musician heads out once more on an uncharted voyage into the realms of deep, dark space that combines huge sounding electronic drifts with soaring sonic sculpting, deep rivers of bass undercurrents, NASA samples and more, to create this superb sounding epic slice of amazing space music. Finally, the twelve minute 'Surface Tension' where mostly languid, drifting soundscapes combine with the briefest of rhythms to close the album on as epic a slice of cosmic, atmospheric space music as it began. As space music albums go, this is the real deal, performed entirely on samplers and sound manipulation, it's one of the finest, most cohesive, warm feeling and richly textured but also dark, deep and solid examples of the style that you'll find.