Space Time Continuum: Emit Ecaps

Let's the the obvious out of the way... reverse the title and it spells "Space Time". This title and the name of the group are things you can really only get away with in the 90s or before (the album came out in 1996, btw), or if you are a bad Goa-Trance producer. With the cheesy titles aside, this is a really cool album that really takes the best of electronica (notice the 'A' after electronic (another cheesy 90s title for Electronic Music)) and ambient music. The first Track "Iform" brings up thoughts of artists such as "Orbital" and "Future sound of London" with their Very synthetic beats, and "Global Communication" and "B-12" with Clean sounding synths delivering catchy melodies. The Second track Kairo, starts off with a ethnic sounding Synth sound that would make "Kraftwerk" proud and then builds throughout from breakbeat to Jazz inspired Drum-n-Bass to straight-up ambient. Kairo, running at 11:49 minutes, is one to put on for a real introspective listen. The rest of the tracks range from 3 minutes to 7 minutes with the same sequencer structure found in a lot of artists during that time period. The structure is very much play a pattern, add another pattern, add another pattern, and so on, while filter modulating. The tracks "Funkyar" and "Swing Fantasy" have interesting chord structures and melodies that really remind me why "Space Time Continuum" and Mouse on Mars" would usually be in the same conversation when discussing music. All in all, this is a great album to really feel what the best of mid 90s to late 90s electronic music sounded like. On the flip side, at times it sounds slightly contrived since it is using a lot of the cliches that proceeded this release. It feels like it is mimicking what really worked at the time instead of exploring any new ground.

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