Trance/techno No-Man remixes with King Crimson/electronica.
Dann Chinn | London, UK | 04/21/2000
(4 out of 5 stars)
"It's a long way from Oakenfold, Goa or the Ministry of Sound, but there's much to enjoy on this 1996 set of trance/techno reworkings of tracks from No-Man's "Flowermouth" album. Names both familiar and obscure appear behind the controls: on the "unknown" side there's Prophets Of Bliss and Os (him of Darkroom closet infamy), on the more famous side there's David Kosten (who was recently wowing British critics in his acoustic-electronica guise as Faultline) and No-Man's own Steven Wilson and Tim Bowness. Moods change from Gallic nosebleeder to Orb oceanic to Arvo Part on stellar acid, but quality control is very high: and if "Flowermix" is all some way off dance music's best-beaten trails it's all the fresher for it. Former King Crimson alumni - Robert Fripp, Mel Collins - coast through several tracks on sax, guitar and Soundscapes - to tie past and phuture strands of music-vision together. One for chilling out to with cinematic eyes. "