Thomas Fehlmann News

Few in electronic music have achieved the type of legendary status members of The Orb enjoy, and even fewer manage to sustain a consistent momentum once they get there.

If Okie Dokie It's the Orb on Kompakt was entirely colored by Thomas Fehlmann's cool aura, The Dream is warm and prismatic under the direction of mad wizard Alex Paterson.

Every year, the German label Kompakt gathers a bunch of minimal techno tunes and lush, textural tracks for its terrific Pop Ambient compilations. via Scene Weekly

Jan Jelinek's best loops find humanity in the machine. He extracts the richest milliseconds from simple tones - 'a note from a jazz organ or a guitar's hum - 'and loops them without falling into numbing ... via XLR8R