Hero of the Grey Area by SGX SGX : Hero of the Grey Area.
 Let loose the beast in your mind.

SGX intersperses electro, breakbeat, and industrial beats between lush orchestrations, growling synth basses, and transporting soundscapes. "Hero" is at the same time electronic and synthetic plus natural and human. This is the most focused, cohesive album by SGX focusing on instrumental pieces.

Unlike his previous albums such as Chroma and Synesthetic which feature a mixture of not only genres, but tones, Hero of the Grey Area exudes a more homogeneous tone and feeling while still exploring fusing ideas from many genres. This is music for listening and sometimes takes its time exploring an idea in the vein of BT's "This Binary Universe."

Hero of the Grey Area features "A Meal for a Whale" - a track made with only a software sequencer/sampler, a piano, and the audio toy/game Electroplankton for the Nintendo DS as sound sources. SGX effects, samples, records, and manipulates his way through this at once lo-fi and lush recording creating tides of relaxed beauty and exuberance.

Also featured is the four-movement "i.transmit.this" - an exercise in re-use and modulation of interchangeable musical ideas. SGX begins with simple overlapping piano melodies that appear and re-appear in later parts of the piece as different instruments and ideas, inspiring new ideas. "I Transmit This" branches, grows new limbs, and finally returns to the main concepts which in the end bear the influences of the new ideas that were themselves inspired by the original concepts.

Songs:

1. Hero of the Grey Area
2. Coactive (Over My Shoulder mix)
3. A Meal for a Whale
4. Peripatetic
5. Amity
6. Have No Tyrant
7. This All Is Fiction
8. itransmitthisdawn
9. itransmitthistransfiguration
10. itransmitthiscomposite
11. itransmitthisreturn

Listen to: the entire album.

License Let loose the beast in your mind by SGX for your project.
Play the music of SGX in your restaurant or store.

Release date: 9/7/2011
SGX lives in Maryland USA

Tagged as: Electronica, Other

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