Some special stuff has been happening in the Sonic Lab lately, namely in the latest project 'Electro-Mechanical'. I've deliberately waited until it is nearly finished before announcing it simply because of my abominable track record for timing releases. However, when finialized, it will be a digital release. No more discs and things - frightfully inefficient, these hardcopy releases.

The surrounding theme behind 'Electro-Mechanical' is to explore a much more synthesized and processed landscape, where even the purely mechanical is used in different ways that support the electronic, and generally as a secondary voice to the composition of the whole, rather than the other way around.

But two things remain: the finalizing of the actual musical content (but of course), and the construction of a robot model of my own devising for cover art, logos and so on. He is sort of the underlying theme, for in my mind seldom is the purely electronic so inextricably fused to the mechanical, and with such absolute precision, than in the field of robotics. This applies in a somewhat different fashion to automatons, which provide us with an intrinsically artificial view of life and motion with an almost entirely mechanical make-up. Pretty interesting, huh? I like to think so.

Inspired by the likes of Vectors, Magnetism, Time Travel, Indisputable Mathematical Equations, as well as explorations of the human mind and applicable psychology, it's fun and energetic stuff, largely instrumental, and it's coming soon. No really, it is.

And for the time being you can get an idea of what's coming along by hopping over to my VS Planet page here and checking out the first four songs. Also, VS Planet only allows 128kbps mp3's, and at that rate you're hearing some artifacts, and not hearing a whole lot of missing headroom. But it gives you an idea, and I guess that was my point to begin with, wasn't it?