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Album Review

Ambient techno with emphasis on the techno. A nice, consistent album but lacking the humanness of later efforts.

Customer Reviews

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This is a great album. A mix of ambient techno, some hip hop beats, some trance melodies, and industrial percussion. The way HIA blends percussion with melodies is excellent. Some of the melodies add an outerworldly feeling to the song. HIA at their best.

Classic Ambient Acid Album

Ambient Acid may sound like a misnomer, but I can't think of a better description. This album came along just as the British ambient explosion was happening, and the sustained use of 303s brings to mind nothing else but pure acid. I don't think any other band of the time melded those two disparate ideas better, classic ambient chillness.

Biography

Formed: 1992 in Birmingham, England

Genre: Electronic

Years Active: '90s

The Birmingham-based Higher Intelligence Agency is composed of DJ/musician Bobby Bird and occasional collaborator Dave Wheels. Musically, they pitch their creative tent somewhere between the ambient and experimental techno camps, with breakbeat, electro-style rhythms and a song-oriented melodic and harmonic base informing the bulk of their most recent work. The group formed in 1992 as a live experiment performing at Bird's Oscillate parties (which played early host to such acts as Autechre, Orbital,...
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