ambitious, indefinable electronic music.

MiLkBabY is creating some of the moodiest tribal music I have heard. It's actually like a blend of tribal, trip hop, and electronica. The first track starts out so soft and so bare that i had to check my player to make sure it was actually playing. I turned the volume up and I was treated to rhythms and beats that made me pulse. The music has a very romantic sound. It's great to sit and relax to by yourself, or with that special someone. The beats are often overlaid with the vocal workings of Tracee Westmoreland and Barry Bennett. The vocals are usually disguised in tons of echo and effects and are very tripy (sometimes to the point of being scary). MiLkBabY is definitely worth a listen if you're willing to experiment with your music collection. If you're one of those people who really like tribal music and/or mellow electronica in the vein of Sky Church or The Orb, you should RUN out and give MiLkBabY a listen immediately!

SCENE REPORT MiLkBabY 7/29/00 -- Gunther Murphy's Unique, ominous, affirming, joyous, and involving. Those are the types of words a writer has to work with. Rarely will you see them in the same sentence (or fragment in this case). Never will you see them personified in a band. Unless you see MiLkBabY, like i did at Gunther Murphy's on Saturday July 29th. They have a sort of anti-song presence. There are no choruses, no verses, and no funny stage patter. They just create a symphonic, tribal community between them and the crowd. The three collaborators use electronic drums, keyboards, voice processors, congas, cymbals and a bunch of other gizmos that seem to have come from Brain Eno's basement. Tracee Westmoreland, Barry Bennett, and David Lee Smith are not going to stare at their shoes and wait for the crowd to tear themselves away from their conversations. They have written an entire sountrack for a world that doesn't exist except in each of our third eyes. So if you like things dark, transcendent, and full of love, check out their dates and leave your preconceived notions of trip-hop, jazz, and tribal music at the door. They'll make you own your own world.