This album includes typical elements from a style of musical arrangement from 1996 to 1999 that was called future jazz back then or post modern jazz later on:
acid jazz, (scratched) male voices samples for rhythm, female voice samples building the "drift layers" up for a far-off out in space feeling.
Dub and reverb elements leading to a slightly spacy feeling, so typical for trip hop.
"2001: A Space Odyssey" sound samples in "Hal&Dave" and "The Moon" show us straight out where the trip goes ... on a >>> Space-Journey
"Hal_& Dave": OK, there do exist lots of tracks with HAL's sounds samples. Here, with HAL's voice softend and muffled to fit the chilling sound layers,
the chosen statements fit absolutly, strangly and are wrapped in such relaxing jazzy chilling brass strokes.
"Out of the Pod": Miles Davis feeling, like at the original soundtrack of "Ascenseur pour l'échaufaud" (Lift to the scaffold) nice piano, chilling rhythm, the female voices add a touch of startrek. (You have to pop up the volume to get the last 17 seconds)
"Mirage": shuffling beat, arabic touch. Didn't know that space can have an arabic touch ^^
"Summer Came Early" - laid-back, ideal downtempo again for a chill or an agravic drift through endless space
"The Moon" and its second wing "Tamas"***, acid jazz extending in nebula. Nice two-party combination.
i'm so glad this timeless genuine music style is still alive
got to have this in cd quality!
truly mesmerizing jazzy downtempo trip!
***In Hinduism, Buddhism and Sikhism, tamas (Sanskrit tamas "darkness") is the lowest of the three gunas (qualities) ... -> wikipedia for more
See also wikipedia for "HAL in 2001: A Space Odyssey" if eventually you don't know what HAL is ^^
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