Dripping with hypnotic 'sounds' and beautifully laced with haunting but genuinely relaxing passages, 'My Tascam Dreams' is pure musical genius.
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Dripping with hypnotic 'sounds' and beautifully laced with haunting but genuinely relaxing passages, 'My Tascam Dreams' is pure musical genius.
Commander Keen is the heavenly brain-child of one Stuart Torrance and with a little help from some similarly oblique-minded and talented musical 'friends', Commander Keen will help you through your day by aurally washing you with sublime music for the mind. Commander Keen will take you to a far better place and then leave you feeling thoroughly cleansed and musically re-adjusted - Commander Keen can give you that buzz, that trip that doesn't require you to smoke, inject, snort or partake of any other mind-altering substance - this is a completely 'green', organic drug of the most powerful kind. But beware, 'My Tascam Dreams' is just as addictive as anything else you could partake of; it'll entice you back into its gentle grip before you know it. But, it's a cheap trip; buy it just the once and then let it transport you, time and again, to a magical place that's full of beautiful, dream-like visions and calming influences.
Cleverly, Commander Keen create their hypnotic soundscapes without relying on repetition; the music is fluid, almost tidal - constantly changing, re-forming, re-modelling itself. As I'm listening I'm trying to break it all down into its component parts - the 'instrumentation' perhaps shouldn't even work - but it bloody well does. Torrance and Co. manage to take any sharp edges off even the most spiky sounds by empathetic fusion and sensitive juxtaposition to manufacture an end-product that's well-oiled, honed to perfection and beautifully balanced. Fantastic stuff - fascinating and rewarding!
'My Tascam Dreams' by Commander Keen is a stunning piece of work that, for me, has only one problem - there's not enough of it; five mind-blowin' tracks and just under twenty-two minutes and it's over. I need more!! Well, I suppose it is a 'mini-album' so I shouldn't expect too much really. But, 'My Tascam Dreams' does have that effect on you - I know that I could listen to this stuff all night and never tire of it. Absolutely brilliant!!
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