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Sonic Smith: My Digital Tao

This is an album made by someone who really loves their digital instruments. (So)Nic Smith discovered electronic music at an early age when he found a music program on a floppy disk in his Amiga 500. From there to here via the extensive coverage of Roland instruments in Future Music magazine, Nic has crafted his own vision of digital delights, and it’s all very dancefloor-worthy. Not really one specific genre, the most general description might be techno, but with big beat and new wave electro as well as other ideas. There’s great use of samples, which is a bit of a lost art these days. A self-confessed computer nerd, you can feel the love that’s gone into creating this music (the title is apt), and the tracks are long and clearly made for dancing to. It’s a quality little package that you should check out if big phat sound waves, distorted synths, binary rhythms and robot love are your type of sounds. (Almost) timeless, or at least reaching over the years, this album is commendably not trying to be something it’s not.

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