X1 Project = Wayne Huf x1 project is an Australian based outfit which creates eclectic electronic music - from IDM to ambient soundscapes. Truly music for the mind's eye. In between the demands of running a commercial production studio in Melbourne, Australian composer Wayne Huf has found time to create some beautifully crafted and cliche downtempo machine grooves. The Asymmetrical Collection cherry-picks highlights from various releases under his pseudonym X1 Project. Likewise The Essential Collection, even though there is some crossover and repeating of material between the two albums. Huf's intelligent, euphoric, multi-coloured instrumentals straddle techno, classical minimalism, gentle cosmic psychedelia and the bubbling arpeggios of old-school Berlin ambient trance.
In a digitally sampled world where live instrument samples are indistinguishable from the originals, sometimes you just want machines to make their own sounds and sound like machines, albeit very advanced ones. From the strange industrial drums, drones and bleeps of "Neutron As A Child" to the warm throb and ricocheting melodies of "Ripples In A Cosmic Trail", Huf's music answers that call without sounding clunky or nostalgic. The lengthy "Lunar Beach" is another highlight, blessed with the same exquisite layering and sense of tension that defines Tangerine Dream's best film scores.
Like the Berlin-school inspired music of Alpha Wave Movement, the music of X1 Project shows an understanding of when and how to draw on the past so as to end up sounding like the future.
Bandcamp | CDBaby | WebSite Bitrate: 128 Kbps (my apologies...) x1 project - Omanian Silk (2003) Listen Tracklist:
1. Rainforest of Io - 12:50
2. Telaxian Recess - 10:19
3. Jungle Trap - 11:37
4. A War Requium - 06:08
5. Omanian Silk - 08:53
6. Neutron, as a Child - 18:45
Доступно только для пользователей x1 project - Red Sands of Mars (2003) Red Sands of Mars is an intriguing concept album based around the events of Mariner 9m, a secret classified NASA mission to Mars which was manned by an advanced robot. Its task was to map the surface of the planet. This mission returned to Earth.
Listen Tracklist;
1. Enlightened - 01:34
2. Journey to Mars - 07:33
3. Orbitting Duties - 00:54
4. The Craters of Western Arabia Terra - 06:52
5. Ares Vallis, the Beginnings of Life - 09:11
6. Lagoon - 06:21
7. Solo Mission - 06:39
8. Amongst the Stars - 04:34
9. Piano - 05:32
10. Test Flight Over Valles Marineris - 08:51
11. Squirmish - 06:14
12. The Ancient Grasslands of Tharsis - 08:59
13. Earths Return - 05:44
Доступно только для пользователей x1 project - Transgenic (2004) An album exploring the migration from genetic to robotic.
Listen Tracklist:
1. Doomed - 11:26
2. Duck Kraftwerk - 08:57
3. Natural Selection - 07:36
4. Lunar Beach - 11:39
5. Technical Mist - part 1 - 07:25
6. Technical Mist - part 2 - 04:45
7. Technical Mist - part 3 (transgenic) - 10:50
Доступно только для пользователей x1 project - Analogs in a Deep Void (2005) Tracklist:
1. Solaris Auroras - 09:14
2. L.K.A.M. - 08:53
3. Neuro Sentinal - 08:06
4. Karma - 04:31
5. Take a Hit (A Tribute to Gonzo) - 04:46
6. Analogs in a Deep Void - 08:29
7. Transit of Venus - 12:19
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