BENOIT B レコード& CD

Review: The latest producer to contribute to Into The Light's "International" series is Benoit B, a Berlin-based artist renowned for his releases on Peur Bleue, Versatile and Wisdom Teeth. "Notes Of Love" is an altogether more opaque release than we've come to expect from him, with the label rightly describing it as "a soft journey for the ears". The six tracks are all superb - and stylistically eclectic - with highlights including the sunrise-ready new age synthesizer melodies, bustling synth-bass, Fairlight style stabs and shuffling breakbeats of "2090", the Vangelis Katsoulis-esque bliss of "Polar Nights", the Art of Noise style ambient collage "Czechoslovakia" and the intergalactic, post-electro pulse of "Cowboy Dan", whose rubbery synthesizer lines and electronic motifs somehow manage to be both funky and foreboding.