Review:
Earlier this year, New York-based synthesizer fetishist John Elliot delivered this first instalment of the Outer Space trilogy, a set of decidedly spacey tracks created almost entirely with modular synths. The second instalment, created alongside friends (and fellow synth-cadets) Andrew Veres, Philip Whiteside, Drew McDowall and Adam Miller, offers a far less intense listening experience. "3332", for example, sounds like classic experimental synthesizer ambience - Tangerine Dream with a touch of the Orb, perhaps - given a modern twist. The same could be said about the gorgeous "Vanishing Act", which bubbles away impressively for 12 minutes. Perhaps most impressive of all, though, is the far-out, intergalactic voyage of "Liquid Systems Functions", 25 minutes of starry, soundscape ambience.