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.

Tracklist 01. When It Was Ever Everything 02. Strong For The Future 03. Drift In Place 04. Victory Hold Still 05. Between Urban Movements 06. Four Hour Window 07. Your Utopia 08. Million Lines (Slow Fade) 09. The Seas Are The Skies 10. We All Are Already Are

Release Details Release Date: 12/14/2004   Running Time: 41:46   Download/Available/$7.00 1XLP/Available/$10.00 CD/Available/$10.00 Territory: World

Reviews Summary

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

Reviews

3Hive / Boomkat / Delusions of Adequacy / Download / Earplug / Impact Press / Music Womb / Pitchfork / Prefix / Rockpile / San Francisco Examiner / Scissorkick / Signal to Noise / Textura / Treble Zine / Urb /

Scientific American thrives on the wrinkled ambience of songs that take a languid unfurling, scabbing things up with glitches, pummeling samples and bass lines that fall like hail. One can't help but wonder what some of these tracks might sound like without the filter of interruption that seems to drive the group's aesthetic. Though it will probably make the folks at Mush Records cringe to hear it, "Drift in Place" could easily morph into some Postal Service B-side or an early Rapture rockout, but instead it's a stuttering flicker of crackles and stunted flow. Strong for the Future has its most powerful moments in its switchblade reconfigurations of hip-hop like "Between Urban Movements" which chops up Reflection Eternal. - Rockpile