an electronic soundscape that exudes all that is sci-fi
author: Mistress McCutchan
This Torontonian musician paints an electronic soundscape that exudes all that is sci-fi. Very Bladerunner ambient; this isn't music you casually listen to, it's something you absorb.
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Mt first thought when I listened to it was :" mystical."
author: NachtwaertZ
Music Tip : " Cruel Utopia" by Glenn Love ( translation)
With his fourth album " Cruel Utopia", the Canadian Underground artist Glenn Love from Toronto has put on the market a disc that truly blew me away. "Cruel Utopia" is as great for dancing as it is suitable background for a session.
A contradiction ?
No, it really works.
Especially lovers of electronic Ambientsounds will enjoy this CD, because the seven tracks are simply superb, and stand out from the usual dark sound collages.
The music is situated somewhere between Trance, Darkambient and Electro. It conjures up a magical atmosphere, and I use it often to launch a party - or rather a session. The CD prevents the mood from becoming too dark or getting too deep. Nevertheless it allows for "playing" without the mood being disturbed by it. Used together with strobe lights the disc provides fabulous dance music. My first thought when I listened to it was," mystical."
Glenn Love does everything himself, and used almost exclusively his own sound creations and loops during the seven months that he worked on the project.
Unfortunately his first three discs are not for sale in Germany.
To those who would like to find out more about Glenn Love I recommend his terrifically well put together Homepage.
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Magnificent !
author: ragazzi magazine
Here's the translated review from Ragazzi Magazine; With his fourth work "Cruel Utopia",the Canadian Underground artist Glenn Love has finally also arrived on the German market. And enthusiasts of ambient sounds now have cause to rejoice, for the seven tracks are all sound constructs worth listening to, and considerably better than the often monotonous offerings of this genre. Even though he is not necessarily comparable in musical terms, Glenn Love can justifiably be cited in the same breath as his Canadian colleagues Bill Leeb and Rhys Fulber (Frontline Assembly). These two had already conjured up similar soundscapes with early works of their side projects 'Delerium' and 'Will'. Dark and mysterious, atmospheric and grooving, the tracks of "Cruel Utopia" forge their trail, flowing between Trance, dark Electro and Ambient. Like opaque veils of fog, a mysterious rhythm drifts through the songs. Pleasantly supported by this rhythm, the listener slides into the music picture that Glenn Love devises for the eyes and ears of the traveller. This artist does not simply process existing loops and samples. He still programs each sound himself, like a painter grinding his own paint colors. Amazingly, a few parallels to the instrumental songs of Spylabs "This Utopia" album are to be found in Glenn Love's "Cruel Utopia". Magnificent! (can be ordered through sxdistribution.de)
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Cruel Utopia is a strong fourth album ...
author: Exclaim Magazine, August 2002
Cruel Utopia is a strong fourth album from this one-man dark ambient/electronic project.From the first track the clean polished programming stands out.With no vocals, the songs remain simple but not amateur.There's also a bit of a retro feel to Cruel Utopia, but it is updated with the current flavor of ambient and trip-hop, but much darker of course. Clocking in at about thirty minutes, this is the perfect length for ambient music of this variety. The intensity of Love's work shows through, but the edge is definitely mellow. Correen Wolanski
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