Experimental & Funky
Cameron Allrich | Mass | 04/18/2000
(4 out of 5 stars)
"Christian Vogel and Jamie Liddell, two minimalist electronica artists have crossed paths and created a hybrid of jazz, acid house, pop & experimental music. This crazy & profound ablum will stir your mind with its innovative sequencing & sounds.I will warn all of you now. The diehard club scene will hate this album, claiming it to be Inaccessible, and undanceable. Once you can look past the fact that not all electronica music is made for the dance floor (i.e. Aphex Twin & Squarepusher), you will find this album to be a cool soundtrack to life, well at least I do.If you appreciate Aphex Twin, plastikman, Squarepusher and even Autechre you are sure to find this album intriguing. And the rest of the dance music culture will respect this, but will never really listen to it."
Amazingly catchy experimental soul-IDM
Steward Willons | Illinois | 06/23/2006
(5 out of 5 stars)
"Super Collider is a truly unique electronic project. The songs are soulful, but highly experimental. If you listen carefully to any of the tracks, they are really very very strange. There's really nothing like it out there. The song structures are more typical of the "IDM" style, but the whole thing sounds like the product of a collaboration between Autechre, a jazz musician, and a soul singer. The songs don't have the same sense of abstraction that one gets from the typical Autechre record. The tracks are definitely "songs", but they're built from such odd parts. I've never thought that a lot of experimental IDM was "catchy", but this is. True - a catchy tune isn't really a measure of quality and I love Autechre, Jega, Cylob, and those guys as much as anyone. This is simply unique. One could listen to these songs twenty times and hear something new with each listen. It's definitely not a straight-ahead dance album though. It grooves, but it's not techno by any stretch. If you're feeling adventurous, pick this album up. You will not regret it."
Track Listings (10) - Disc #1
