Among the key elements in Colfax's work is his use of the legendary Roland Jupiter 8 and the Sequential Circuits Prophet VS synthesizers which were played by hand on this album which give it a raw and human feel. His father used these instruments in the 80's on sessions and so there is a deep connection to their sounds and their origin.

In 2000, Berkman compiled from dozens of his childhood cassette tapes, a track of just the noisy spaces between the songs and occasionally words and random sounds which he called "The Sound of Beauty". Because these snippets weren't songs within themselves and even though they had no context, one could sense the imprint of the time and place they were recorded, as if subliminally. Berkman also found a wealth of material from a box of old reel to reel tapes that also belonged to his father. These tapes were the missing link and Colfax took it's oddly nostalgic shape. Not unlike Boards Of Canada or Freescha, Colfax transports us sonically to a time and place that exists deep within our psychological memory, hiding like a box of forgotten reel to reels, safe from the din of the world yet vulnerable to it's elements.

1. Stereo Separation
2. Welcome To Colfax
3. Terminus
4. Save It
5. Celica
6. Noondrifter
7. I Like That Sound
8. Blink
9. People Inside My Head
10. The Hottest Color
11. Syncophant
12. Electricity
13. What The Hell Happened
14. Sirius Frequency
15. Keep It Together
16. Chatterbox
17. Every Step Of The Way

Listen to: the entire album.

Release date: 1/14/2012
Colfax lives in California USA

Tagged as: Electronica, Ambient, Experimental Electronic

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