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 /

Having cut his teeth with sound design for the Seattle Art Museum as well as commercial compositions for Volkswagen, Hewlett-Packard, and Discover, Andrew Rohrmann now creates ten elegiac etudes as Scientific American. His Mush debut, Strong for the Future, presents moody electronic pieces that meander in the digital space between Warp and the Leaf Label. "Victory Hold Still" is a pastoral dance track, a skipping, thumping piece that pirouettes across pollen-dusted fields. Bootsy Holler's siren voice is submerged in an aquatic reverb of piano and drum in "The Seas Are the Skies" while tiny cut-up voices and digital detritus collide with a warm melody in "Million Lines (Slow Fade)" as if Stefan Betke were remixing Amon Tobin. Rohrmann dodges a number of the clichés of IDM with his work as Scientific American, demonstrating a fresh ear and a deft programming finger. - Earplug