Today is a special day. My favorite artist BT drops his latest CD These Hopeful Machines. The reason I’m such a huge fan of his is the way in which he pushes technology to recreate his vision. He is classically trained, but loves electronic music and combines the two to create some of the most well produced music I’ve ever heard.
Over the years you have probably have seen him pop up in Apple promotional videos…or heard his music in Monster, Stealth or even The Fast And The Furious.
Today he releases his new piece of art spanning 2 CDs and nearly 2 hours of music its quite the opus. Over the last six months he’s released 3 singles from the album including Rose of Jericho (which I’ve linked to on the Apture team page), Every Other Way and the first true single for the album Suddenly.
Suddenly kicks off the album with 8 minutes of blistering speed and power chorus. Its reminiscent of Somnabulist (which sits in the Guinness Book of World Records for most vocal edits in song ever at 6,178) in its structure, but adds a new dimension with Christian Burns singing on the track.
The 11 remaining tracks feature everything from his daughter singing, break beats and some insane production. He pushes technology to its utter limits and I’m sure is very excited about the future of music leveraging 64bit computing.
The album is awesome, I hope you go check it out on iTunes or Amazon. If you are a fan leave a comment we’ll be happy to recommend other albums you should check out.
