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MH-233 Scientific American - Strong For The Future  After a string of successful production projects, Scientific American presents his Mush Records debut, Strong For The Future. Featuring ten tracks that capitalize on the fresh sounds and dynamic production of IDM without sacrificing the music's soul, the album mixes elements of electronic dance music, hip-hop, and rock into a single hybrid. With beautiful electronic compositions that could fit neatly on The Leaf Label ("Strong for the Future"), chop and paste hip-hop influenced productions reminiscent of music on Warp ("Between Urban Movements"), or classic vocal tracks that sound like the Flaming Lips produced by Boards Of Canada ("Drift in Place" which features vocals by John Atkins of 764-Hero), Scientific American has created an album that will surely be recognized as one the most expertly produced releases in the Mush catalog. |
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| A fresh ear and a deft programming finger - Earplug / so accomplished, it's hard to believe that Andrew Rohrmann isn't an old master - Textura / A skilled and instantly likeable producer - Delusions Of Adequacy / Beautiful and neatly layered cut-and-paste symphonies - San Francisco Examiner |
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| The American behind Scientific American's laptop is Andrew Rohrmann, and Strong for the Future is his Mush debut full-length. His work is of the instrumental electronic brand, mostly click-heavy and mathematical, jumping from channel to channel. Rohrmann does break off into wordless hip-hop. On "Between Urban Movements" he loops vocal pieces and synths, and it comes off a bit like a Four Tet outtake. As guest John Atkins (of 764-HERO) sings on "Drift in Place," "When you're drifting you just take up space." Rohrmann's work occasionally does just that, nearing production pinnacles in space-occupying jaunts that may sound great but are a little empty otherwise. "The Seas Are the Skies" picks up said spacious slack, though, and tightens it up with churning, ghostly whispers over minimalist psychedelia, one of Rohrmann's methods that easily usher him onto the shelf of notable hybrid-beat explorers. - Prefix |
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