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(9 votes, average 4.78 out of 5)
Saturday, 31 January 2009 19:47

cblThe music on Hydroponic Garden by Carbon Based Lifeforms is too sophisticated to be popular; as with all music of this ilk, it does not need the validation of a large audience.

This duo represents the best of a generation who tells how it feels instead of where it's at. Through the use of the sonic equivalent of primary colors, Hydroponic Garden is a wonderful album of suave propelling rhythms contrasted by vast impassioned timbral planes. Maximum attention to this music is rewarded with a fulfilling comprehension. At the foundation of this album are the deep warm grooves and seductive rhythms that are the hallmarks of IDM.

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Upon these devices are layered original sonic details: luxuriously sweeping pads, full-throated melodic strokes and modulation laden effects - resulting in an album of fluent and unified music. With moments so realistically painted, the sense of atmosphere is palpable, yet technique never seems to keep the listener outside the narrative of the 11 dreamy and steamy tracks.

carbon-based-lifeforms-orust-modThe music of Carbon Based Lifeforms rises many cuts above much of the so-called Intelligent Dance Music and keeps the intellect searching through the subject matter... while the body nods and throbs to its freewheeling beats and infinite perspectives on pulse. The death of art is self-consciuosness. Hopefully, Carbon Based Lifeforms will carry on under the light of optimism as they have on Hydroponic Garden - and it's music to quench our modern yearning for enigma.

CBL signed with Ultimae in 2002 and has since then, apart from several releases on various compilations, released two full-length albums (Hydroponic Garden, 2003, and World of Sleepers, 2006). Both albums have been extraordinarily well received by the musical epicures of the ambient scene.

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