Well true to their word, Positron Records dropped Callisto yesterday. And it is in fact a tasty dose of electronica goodness. One of my favorite things about Micronaut stuff is that unlike most electronic instrumental (trance, house, acid blah blah whatever the kids are calling it now) it is melodically structured like a musician wrote it (cos he did) verses a DJ. This is definitely a step up, and truth be told, Europa and Ganymede were quite good. So it certainly wasn't a simple task. As I understand it, Chris didn't use any soft-synths for this entire album. I don't know if this is the result, but things sound, I dunno fatter? The mix is incredible...even on my POS laptop speakers these tunes fill space. He got some hip hop guy to rap over a couple tracks. I haven't listened through 'em enough to decide if I like that or not...but I'm not thinking it is taking away. It certainly would be annoying as hell if that guy were on EVERY track, but as it is, he shows up on two. You can download the whole album (mp3 or FLAC, good work Positron!) for $10.00 and it is entirely worth that from what I've heard insofar. Let's face it, you need some solid ambient tracks in your life anyway. Go getcha some.
In other news, I got Paddy's bass over here on extended loan while he's off to Brazil, Ireland and France on business. So I'm beginning the process of replacing all my fake bass parts (courtesy of my trusty Digitech Whammy) with real bass parts. This will be cool and sorta strenuous since I haven't actually played bass in a recording capacity in about 4 years. Them there strings are big y'all! My fingers ain't hip to it.