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Yeah i'll check it out and I think i'll buy a few of his albums after I get Enigma's new one and a few from Amethystium (another really good ambient project from a guy whose only 20 years old from Norway, released his first album at 16).
With the BT thing, I was thinking more in the use of a theme or story like what Steve Roach does. There is definitely a story that seems to go along with "This Binary Universe" something that deals with our place in the Universe and Dreams in this science fiction style. Steve Roach's stuff seems like it's both spacey and organic or natural sounding at the same time, kind of this idea about the world being a part of a bigger whole...and just this experience of awe in the world and in the universe, similar to "This Binary Universe". And of course, they are both ambient albums but it does seem like TBU has more of a beat, while Steve Roach's music is more textural-soundscapish.
I'll check out Vir Unis but to tell you the truth, I prefer not totally electronic sounding electronic music. I guess I look for a warmer or more organic sound (doesn't mean it has to be uplifting all the time but just this sense of warmth or naturalism...putting a "human" element inside of the machine). He kind of looks Native American to me, from some of his pictures, possibly he has some Native American or Mexican-Hispanic blood in him? |
I like the organic/natural thing, it's something that always amazes me. Artists like Roach create music that sounds natural and organic while being completely electronic. Sometimes i listen to something and feel like, this is really the sound of the desert or, i feel like i'm in the middle of a foggy forest or i'm on the edge of space, but of course there are no such sounds in nature. That's really fascinating, the creaton of the "hypernatural" with sound.
You should definitely check out Vir Unis, he is not more electronic-sounding than Roach, that "Blood Machine" album i mentioned was an experimental project for both of them. Vir Unis' music is very much like that of Steve Roach, in fact many of his albums have been worked on and finalized in Steve's studio The Timeroom.
About the ethnicity, listen to that podcast, you will ask yourself if he is from this planet. 
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