Prima Materia

Product Description
Evan Bluetech is to Southern California as ambient is to dub. With a background in classical and improvisational piano, he has honed his wares with yearly performances at the infamous Burning Man festival and other outdoor gigs. He serves as Music Director and performer for the living ambient gallery Project Cathedral in San Diego and has contributed his work to the award winning Continuums Project as well as numerous television commercial soundtracks. He is also one of the founding members of the art collective Native:State, a group of quirky circus performers, DJ’s fire dancers and music makers.

Bluetech melds the electronic with the organic, utilizing custom-built Reaktor instruments and software-based synthesizers. His traditional classical training brings a warmth and musicality to the precision and detail of his extremely fresh electronic style and sound. Besides ambient dub influences, Bluetech also borrows from the worlds of IDM and experimental electronica. Inspired by artists like The Orb, Sounds From The Ground and Higher Intelligence Agency, Bluetech delivers a vivid distinct sound that is both modernistic and retrospective.

Prima Materia,Bluetech,Waveform,Ambient Dub,Dance Music,Downtempo,Electronic,IDM,Pop

Average customer rating: The Recorded Conversions of Hyper-Intelligent Computers on Various Psychedelics another level Good God its Horrible elevator music ambience and he can PLAY too! Wow

Prima Materia Bluetech Manufacturer: Waveform ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Ambient | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music General | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music Electronica | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music General | Dance Pop | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music IDM | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music General | Easy Listening | Pop | Styles | Music Similar Items: Sub Conscious Elementary Particles Psy-Fi Uplift Drift Luminal ASIN: B0000AGWEV Release Date: 2003-09-23

Tracks:

1. Leaving Babylon
2. Prophetic Sines
3. Triangle (Retriangulated)
4. Rubicon
5. Prayers For Rain (Dub Mix)
6. White Magnesia
7. 7th Phase Dub
8. Burning Waters
9. Mezzamorphic
10. Desperate Ends
11. Cliff Diving

Album Description

Evan Bluetech is to Southern California as ambient is to dub. With a background in classical and improvisational piano, he has honed his wares with yearly performances at the infamous Burning Man festival and other outdoor gigs. He serves as Music Director and performer for the living ambient gallery Project Cathedral in San Diego and has contributed his work to the award winning Continuums Project as well as numerous television commercial soundtracks. He is also one of the founding members of the art collective Native:State, a group of quirky circus performers, DJ's fire dancers and music makers.

Bluetech melds the electronic with the organic, utilizing custom-built Reaktor instruments and software-based synthesizers. His traditional classical training brings a warmth and musicality to the precision and detail of his extremely fresh electronic style and sound. Besides ambient dub influences, Bluetech also borrows from the worlds of IDM and experimental electronica. Inspired by artists like The Orb, Sounds From The Ground and Higher Intelligence Agency, Bluetech delivers a vivid distinct sound that is both modernistic and retrospective.

Customer Reviews:

The Recorded Conversions of Hyper-Intelligent Computers on Various Psychedelics.......2007-04-24

The best way I can describe this music is pleasant, smooth, incredibly complex and very futuristic. With a blend of real instruments being played beautiful and high-detail, non-electronic sounding synthetics; its quite an different listening experience. Its a cross between what computers would say to eachother if they could hallucinate on psychedelics and dance music for aliens to listen to while they cruised the cosmos. The reason why I call it "pleasant" is because of the huge variety of electronic tones and beeps that pleasantly massage the ears. Theres no hard-hitting "boom-boom-boom" kicks here, just pleasant drum patterns to send you floating thru the air. And get this, on the inspiration list, Bluetech put Shpongle as the thrid music artist that influenced him. Great electronic music grown from great experiential
psy-trance.

Bluetech is smooth in the sense that none of the songs contain harsh,
rough tones found in artists like Aphex Twin.

The bass is so smooth that if you close your eyes, you feel like your floating on top of smooth and gentle clouds of low frequency notes. Great examples of smooth tracks are some of my favorite tracks, the first three on Prima Materia. They sound like what a profound psychedelic experience would sound like in a digital, high-tech, ultra-future format.

By far the best way to describe this amazing type of techno is that its incredibly complex. The amount of
detail to the stereo effects simulates sounds flying in your mind, swaying from left to right between your ears.
There are so many different-sounding instruments, both synthenic and real, that have been cut-up, filtered, warped, slow-downed or somehow modified with very futuristic-sounding, high-quality special effects. However, I do admit the sounds do get a little werid, even for me. For example, listen to "White Magnesia" at time 2:43-3:00 and you'll know.

The beats and tones seem to randomly appear out-of-nowhere and yet it still has proper rhythm and consistent patterns. It is unpredictable music, hard to see whats going to appear next on the audio horizon. For me, the more complex a song is, the psychedelic it becomes. The song named "Burning Waters" is by far the most psychedelic song on Prima Materia. If you like using psychedelics, then listen to this song at your peak and it will launch you into another dimension. This song is also the only song I've heard which uses a wooden frog rasp as part of the song. When you rub the back of the woodenso frog, it has a und like when you click your tounge on the roof of your mouth. It sounds Very cool and its quite appropriate for the song.

This album is very special to me so I only listen
to it while on psychedelics, at night inside a dark room, or other special moments in time.

Its Mystical Techno for Magical Thoughts.

another level.......2006-08-20

+++++ 5 stars +++++

This is some of the most original, creative genuis ever to be captured. There are some people who just rehash a genre and add one or two new twists, which, of course, can be good and is to be expected. However, Bluetech's work is unique, and most artists would be lucky to capture even a tenth of the personal muse that is apparent on this album. If you like exploring the world of experience, and are not afraid of letting go of the familiar, get this album. To me, it is a trip inside raw breathing consciousness and through the colorful landscape of being. Beautiful.


Ps. I love reading reviews where envy makes someone put genuis down. ROFL

Good God its Horrible elevator music ambience.......2006-06-03

It looks like Evan Bluetech got an $80 yamaha keyboard for his birthday and unfortunately, decided to plug it into his computer and make an album. To put it mildly, the production value on this album is awful, its essentially a collection of cheesy ambient sound FX, strung together with the aimless meandering of maddening elevator music. Ya, there are some mild dub elements, but this whole album is just "laid back" to the point of being even worse than something like Enya. (actually, this stuff makes Enya sound like house or happy hardcore by comparison)

Don't get me wrong here, while I'm not a huge downtempo ambient fan, I still respect talent when I see it. I have "Subconsious" by phutureprimitive, and while it doesn't blow my hair back like Shpongle, Hallucinogen, Infected Mushroom, or anything by OTT, Simon and Raja Ram, it does have a really smooth sound that works really well, despite not being that well layered. My main criticism of prima materia though, is that it just never goes anywhere, its boring, bland computer game background music. It really sounds like it was just cut straight out of a space simulation game... a very tedious space simulation game. (Perhaps X2 by enlight software?)

The other thing, is it has very weak underlying ambient melodies. It just has cheesy, yamaha keyboard sound FX riding on this bland, mind-numbing computer game sound track.

I was considering giving this maybe 2 stars for the fact that he does change up the sound (although still bland)so that it doesn't get too repetitive, but I can't get the idea out of my head that he is very poorly trying to rip off some of Shpongle's effects. Even worse than that, I dug out an old VHS copy of "Beyond the Mind's Eye", and its horrifingly similar in how you could just interchange the sound track from that with this album. ("Beyond the Mind's Eye" was a showcase of computer animation put together in 1995)

Basically, if you have more than 5 CD's in your collection, and are looking for music that doesn't bring back memories of being on hold with your credit card company, check out anything on the UK twisted label.

and he can PLAY too!.......2006-02-28

This disc is ridiculously fresh. Abstract textures, burbling, muttering synth work, deep and dubby basslines, all woven together in a series of beautiful compositions. Then, smack dab in the middle of things, BAM, a brilliant, jaw-dropping Fender Rhodes solo, or acoustic guitar fill, or other display of physical musicianship.

Or, alternately, it's all laptop sequencing wizardry; if anything, that would be even MORE amazing, because I've never heard computer sequencing with such an organic, human feel. This is a true benchmark release for electronic music; the arrangements, sonic invention, and production quality are absolutely state of the art.

Wow.......2005-04-21

Whether drolling through the work day, sitting in the lounge with a cocktail and good friends, or riding across the playa at night following the neon fish, this should be the soundtrack.

Average customer rating: If you are looking for great afro-puertorrican music this is the one! Pure percussion

Viento de Agua Unplugged: Materia Prima Viento de Agua Manufacturer: Smithsonian Folkways ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | International | Styles | Music General | Latin Music | Styles | Music Latin Pop | Latin Music | Styles | Music General | Rock | Styles | Music Similar Items: Para Todos Ustedes ASIN: B0001CNQIK Release Date: 2004-03-23

Tracks:

1. Ahora Si
2. El Leon
3. Del Oye
4. Quinto Y Tumbador
5. Sire-Sire
6. Las Tarimas
7. Ola De La Mar
8. Mayela
9. Pa' Un Plenero
10. Cucu
11. Maringracia
12. Viento De Agua Llego

Album Description

The bomba and plena heard on this recording are the materia prima (raw material) of today's two most African Puerto Rican musical traditions. When its dynamic leader Tito Matos created the group Viento de Agua ("Wind of Water"), he vowed to keep alive the "streetcorner sound" of the plena, music rooted in the lives of ordinary people. Viento de Agua Unplugged plays the stripped-down, straight-ahead version of his music, foregrounding its essence — the sound of unbridled percussion, underscoring lyrics that proclaim local topics. In these performances by veterans of bomba and plena, Tito proves his claim that "There is no way to create if you don't have the roots."

La bomba y plena escuchadas en esta grabación son la materia prima de las principales tradiciones musicales afro-puertoriqueñas del presente. Cuando su dinámico líder Tito Matos creó el grupo Viento de Agua, él prometió mantener vivo el "sonido de la esquina de la calle" de la plena, música enraizada en la vida de la gente del pueblo. Viento de Agua Unplugged interpreta la versión básica y directa de su música, asentándose en su esencia -el sonido desenfrenado de la percusión, apoyando letras que proclaman temas locales. En estas presentaciones por veteranos de la bomba y la plena, Tito corrobora su idea de que "no se puede crear sin conocer las raíces". 12 cortes.

Customer Reviews:

If you are looking for great afro-puertorrican music this is the one!.......2006-11-21

dentro de tanta musica mediocre que solo busca vender a cualquier precio, es un jubilo encontrar musicos que trabajan por cultivar la verdadera escencia de la musica. Tito Matos, el director del grupo Viento De Agua, es hoy por hoy uno de los mejores musicos de plena con que cuenta Puerto Rico y el Mundo. Este disco es crudo y real, todo es percusion y vocales, la verdadera escencia de la plena. Si quieres conocer la tradicion real de la musica afro-puertorriqueña, este es el disco que debes tener.

Pure percussion.......2005-04-13

This album is all about authentic street Bomba y Plena. I went to the Miami calle ocho festival and this is the sound you will hear from the pleneros in the middle of the street. All the instrumentation you will hear is from drums, guiros, palitos, maracas, etc. In this CD they do away with the strings and brass so common in most puertorican music.
This is the only music still being played from Puerto Rico that was developed in the island by the african slaves and their descendants. And it is also purely from Puerto Rico, without any of the Cuban and Dominican sounds that were incorporated in the latter half of the 20th century.
If you enjoy Cuban Guaguanco, or African tribal drumming you may enjoy this CD. I also recommend it to all puertoricans interested in the african roots of their culture.

Average customer rating: Pioneers of Industrial

Materia Prima Test Dept. Manufacturer: Invisible Records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Rock | Styles | Music Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music Alt Industrial | Industrial | Goth & Industrial | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music Similar Items: Proven in Action Pax Britannica ASIN: B000004B5Z Release Date: 1997-04-01

Tracks:

1. Landrites
2. Firedance
3. Pipe and Didgeridoo
4. More of Everything
5. Apocalypse
6. Funeral

Customer Reviews:

Pioneers of Industrial.......2003-11-07

This is a LIVE album: If you will settle for nothing less than a crystal clear recording, don't bother buying it. These recordings have been taken from the "soundtracks" to the shows "Materia Prima," performed in Holland, Italy, Finland, and Denmark (1988-89), and "The Unacceptable Face of Freedom," performed in London in 1986. Along with the band's trademark use of metal-on-metal, there's a wide variety of instruments implemented, and the style of songs is equally heterogeneous -- but don't expect any jazz or swing. The genius of these revolutionaries lies in their ability to make tracks that are simultaneously haunting, energizing, emboldening, and beautiful; there should be at least one track on this CD that will leave you reeling with strong emotion.
The track "More of Everything" utilizes a brilliant array of samples (including chunks of monologues by British politicians), unleashing both the political and musical FURY of the authentic & original genre that was called Industrial. My favorite is "Apocalypse," which (despite the title of this song) on many nights has lulled me to sleep with its soothing rain forest audioscape; this track kind of makes one think that perhaps these musicians feel an apocalypse has indeed befallen some thousands of species in the Amazon of South America. The band's talent and creativity make up for the fact that the disc is only half full (only 40 mins. of muzik here).

Average customer rating:

Elementary Particles & Prima Materia Bluetech ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music Electronica | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music ASIN: B000FT5THU Release Date: 2004-09-21

Tracks:

1. Elementary Particles (Re-Edit)
2. Alchemie Dub
3. Cosmologic
4. Koinonea
5. Prayers for Rain [J. Viewz Remix]
6. Oleander
7. Worthy
8. Leaving Babylon
9. Prophetic Sines
10. Triangle (Retriangulated)
11. Rubicon
12. Prayers for Rain [Dub Mix]
13. White Magnesia
14. 7th Phase Dub
15. Burning Waters
16. Mezzamorphic
17. Desperate Ends
18. Cliffdiving

Average customer rating:

GRANDES EXITOS MATERIA PRIMA ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD ASIN: B000T3SS3Y

Product Description

1- VIVIR DE LO VIVIDO 2- LLEVAME CONTIGO 3- QUIEN LO DIRIA 4- NO SE ESTAR SIN TI 5- EMOCIONES 6- ME MORIRIA 7- EVA Y MARIA 8- Y NO TE OLVIDO 9- SIN TI 10- PIEL MORENA 11- TE ECHO DE MENOS 12- LAS PALABRAS 13- QUE VA A SER DE MI 14- PERMITEME DARTE 15- BEGONA LA DEL PERFUME 16- SI TU NO ESTAS 17- PENSANDO EN TI

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Meditations Prima Materia Manufacturer: Knitting Factory ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Avant Garde & Free Jazz | Jazz | Styles | Music General | Jazz | Styles | Music General | Live Albums | Jazz | Styles | Music General | Jazz | Indie Music | Stores | Music ASIN: B000002090 Release Date: 1996-03-19

Tracks:

1. The Father And The Son And The Holy Ghost
2. Compassion
3. Love
4. Consequences
5. Serenity
6. Bonus Track 1

Average customer rating: This is the best Coltrane tribute that was ever recorded

Peace on Earth: The Music Of John Coltrane Prima Materia Manufacturer: Knitting Factory ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Avant Garde & Free Jazz | Jazz | Styles | Music General | Jazz | Styles | Music General | Jazz | Indie Music | Stores | Music ASIN: B00000208G Release Date: 1995-04-16

Tracks:

1. Spiritual
2. Peace On Earth
3. Brazilia
4. India
5. Alabama

Customer Reviews:

This is the best Coltrane tribute that was ever recorded.......2000-08-20

The due between Louie Belogenis and John Zorn in Spiritaul and between Louie Belogenis and Rashied Ali at Peace on earth are pure jazz clasices. This is music at it best, I have over 200 jazz CD's and this CD I have since it first realse, and I still enjoys it today as match as I did when I got it, and consider it to be at the top of my CD's list.

Average customer rating: Pioneers of Industrial

Materia Prima Test Dept. Manufacturer: Ministry of Power ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Rock | Styles | Music Alt Industrial | Industrial | Goth & Industrial | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music Similar Items: Proven in Action Pax Britannica ASIN: B000024GCM Release Date: 2001-05-15

Tracks:

1. Landrites
2. Firedance
3. Pipe and Didgeridoo
4. More of Everything
5. Apocalypse
6. Funeral

Customer Reviews:

Pioneers of Industrial.......2003-11-07

This is a LIVE album: If you will settle for nothing less than a crystal clear recording, don't bother buying it. These recordings have been taken from the "soundtracks" to the shows "Materia Prima," performed in Holland, Italy, Finland, and Denmark (1988-89), and "The Unacceptable Face of Freedom," performed in London in 1986. Along with the band's trademark use of metal-on-metal, there's a wide variety of instruments implemented, and the style of songs is equally heterogeneous -- but don't expect any jazz or swing. The genius of these revolutionaries lies in their ability to make tracks that are simultaneously haunting, energizing, emboldening, and beautiful; there should be at least one track on this CD that will leave you reeling with strong emotion.
The track "More of Everything" utilizes a brilliant array of samples (including chunks of monologues by British politicians), unleashing both the political and musical FURY of the authentic & original genre that was called Industrial. My favorite is "Apocalypse," which (despite the title of this song) on many nights has lulled me to sleep with its soothing rain forest audioscape; this track kind of makes one think that perhaps these musicians feel an apocalypse has indeed befallen some thousands of species in the Amazon of South America. The band's talent and creativity make up for the fact that the disc is only half full (only 40 mins. of muzik here).

Average customer rating:

Bells Prima Materia With Rashied Ali Manufacturer: Knitting Factory ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Avant Garde & Free Jazz | Jazz | Styles | Music General | Jazz | Styles | Music General | Live Albums | Jazz | Styles | Music General | Jazz | Indie Music | Stores | Music ASIN: B000002098 Release Date: 1996-10-15

Tracks:

1. Bells Track 1
2. Bells Track 2
3. Bells Track 3
4. Bells Track 4
5. Bells Track 5

Average customer rating:

Punto y Aparte Materia Prima Manufacturer: Coliseum ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | International | Styles | Music General | Latin Music | Styles | Music International | Imports | Stores | Music ASIN: B000062WBD

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