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Album Details

• Artist: Retina
• Album: Volcano Waves 1-8
• Label: Hefty
• Year of Release: 2001
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• Reviewed by: dscanland on 2003-03-26

As Volcano Waves opening track seeps in with it’s high pitch rhythmic ting, you start to realize what your in for with this Italian IDM duo. Retina consists of Lino Monaco and Nicola Buono and they state that Volcano Waves was actually written with the Pompeii volcano in sight. You will sense the feeling of the surging and the lava flow with a few listens to this Retina album. Retina’s actual studio is located beside the ancient city of Pompeii that was historically buried under it’s warm lava flow. As the opening track “Agni� gets rolling you will feel your head bobbing but you won’t really know why. Not sure if it is the high pitch ting or the driving techno samples, but you know it’s good. “Plinius Observer� gets rolling with an almost oriental feeling but you will soon realize that the sounds are all fabricated using Retina’s high tech equipment. On “Camera Magmatica� the sample keeping the rhythm is a deep sonic sound that sounds like it’s actually bubbling through a layer of lava. Then another high pitch sound enters their desired mix. Retina succeeds through and through with giving the listener sonic landscapes to view volcano’s to.

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