Problem/Solving

Problem/Solving

Track Listings

1. Tank Park

2. Two Days Off

3. Scraped On The Way Out

4. Rocketeer

5. In The Mist

6. Algae

7. 4am Highway

8. Enter Lilly

9. B. Sprout's First Fight

10. Last Hoorah

11. E Suffix

12. Forget

Editorial Reviews
About the Artist
KiloWatts is a marriage of man and machine - a love story about cells and bits - an attempt at defining a hilariously absurd and imperfect reality through an electronic invention that promises to encode this vision eternally. The music is deep, the songs tell stories, and the sounds are intensely emotional. Nested within the musical structure is an element of quirky electronic experimentation - a roadmap of new and interesting ways of carressing and mangling waveforms. The result is a cinematic tale of knowledge, confusion, and pushing forward.

Product Description
Fans of IDM and related project such as Plaid, Bola, Boards Of Canada, et. al. will find KiloWatts' electronic manpulations and outstanding addition to their collections.

Problem/Solving is an introspective and inspiring aural conglomeration of a thousand different experiences, taking sharp turns through calm somber reflection and gutwrenching chaotic confusion - a blend of exquisite melodic structures, lush ambience, and engulfing rhythms.

Problem/Solving shows us in CD form exactly how the whole can be more than the sum of its parts. It eloquently captures the myriad dichotomies of the human condition - knowledge and confusion, destruction and creation, reflection and progress... Driving rhythms give way to abstract sonic imagery. Subtle soundscapes mesh seamlessly with playful experimentation. These disparate elements, each masterful in their own right, come together to form nothing less than an inspired sonic journey.

Problem/Solving,Kilowatts,artificial music machine,An introspective aural journey, from pensive to playful - captivating beats blended with lush ambience and exquisite melodic structure.

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Experimental Electronica

Igloo Magazine's REVIEW

Kilowatts needs to be discovered!

An excellent record...

Problem/Solving
Kilowatts
Manufacturer: artificial music machine
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

General | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music
Electronica | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music
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ASIN: B0007OCO8U
Release Date: 2005-01-26

Tracks:

Tank Park
Two Days Off
Scraped On The Way Out
Rocketeer
In The Mist
Algae
4am Highway
Enter Lilly
B. Sprout's First Fight
Last Hoorah
E Suffix
Forget

Album Description

Fans of IDM and related project such as Plaid, Bola, Boards Of Canada, et. al. will find KiloWatts' electronic manpulations and outstanding addition to their collections.

Customer Reviews:

Experimental Electronica.......2007-01-12

Exciting with experimental urban textures, the rich moods of KiloWatts music has high appeal, especially if you love electronica.

This album occasionally just takes the top of your head off and explodes into ecstatic highs while retaining a deep ocean reverberation. Echoing caves, haunting melodies and sultry beats mingle with tangible notes of refined delicacy.

Just when I thought this album might only be instrumental, a ghostly angel's whispers appeared. The heaviness of the first track melted away into ethereal bliss.

"Algae" is shockingly good and wildly creative. "Enter Lilly" is awash with oceanic textures, waves washing over nature sounds. "Last Horrah" is sensual and exotic with emotionally complex rhythms.

"E Suffix" has warm reverberations and interesting timing with ghostly vocals that mingle with the music in intriguing ways.

What I love most about each track is that is an entirely new world to enjoy and as KiloWatts paints electronic pictures, the art is collectible!

~The Rebecca Review

Igloo Magazine's REVIEW.......2005-12-02

(...)
(08.25.05) "Two Days Off" lands like a probe android from a distant galactic nebula where light and energy have fused into a pulse wave of pure funk, and this robot is just stomping through my house, pulse-waving my toaster into a dance machine, transmogrifying my refrigerator into a beatbox bubble device and snap-crackle-popping my dishwasher into a radio transmitter capable of sending signals all the way back THERE to let them know he has landed and has started converting this world into a free funk zone. Really. That's the opening for Kilowatts' Problem/Solving.

Kilowatts has tapped into a thick power source, maybe even a fat pipe all the way back to the nearest grid transformer. While light keyboards whistle past you in "Scraped on the Way Out," there's a growling turbine working through some rather heavy angst, banging and thrashing about in the studio in an effort to break free from the sound-proofed room. Kilowatts may be "machine" music but there's a heart full of passion and distemper pushing the buttons on the electronic equipment, playing out tiny instrumental stories of heartache and heartbreak. A wordless voice soars skyward in "Rocketeer," lifting an anthem towards heaven, and the only thing preventing this voice from disappearing into the sky is the digital slice and dice that has been done on its contrail. The voice has too many holes -- too many glitches and hiccups -- to get the lift it needs to escape.

"4am Highway" shuffles in the dust of empty roadways around a deft keyboard melody, a grumbling basso adds weight to the proceedings like the near constant passage of heavy freight trucks rattling on through the night to distant destinations. Dust stirs up in their wake but it doesn't do much more than leave glitter on the top of their sound. "Enter Lily" perambulates through a field of tall grasses with a hint of steel guitar in the wind and the bell-like melody of a old analog keyboard playing to a trio of string players while "E Suffix" returns us to the space music of "Tank Park" with whirls of space dust chiming and ringing off slowly evolving melodies.

Sure, machines can't get pissed off or cry, but they do what we tell them to do. Kilowatts has programmed a room of synthesizers to argue and shout and laugh and weep like a gymnasium of over-excited teenagers. It is cloudbursts of sturm und drang followed by patches of sunlit innocence. It's like being small again and only being able to express yourself with sounds. Big fat sounds with lots of kilowatts.

Kilowatts needs to be discovered!.......2005-11-09

Kilowatts is a classically trained pianist who produces great electronic music that is slightly dark, and unconventional for electronic music because he uses exotic time signatures: some tracks may have 5, 3, or 7 beats to each measure.
Some of the tracks are somewhat ambient, but Kilowatts bangs out some great beats, even making the unconventional beats sound totally natural.

A "Must-buy"

An excellent record..........2005-03-02

I've been on a huge downtempo kick lately and this purchase came after 3 long days of crate digging here on amazon. A beautiful work with elements of electro, hip hop, downtempo... slightly on the darker tip. I found a few sounbites online under the website... www.artificialmusicmachine.com Give them a listen.

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Uncle Albert's Magical Album
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ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

Adventure | Games | Children's Software | Categories | Software

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ASIN: B000035YAE

Amazon.com Review

"We hope that while browsing this adventure, you share with us this conviction: that multimedia can be the carrier of dreams, of humor, of memories, of peculiarity and of escape, in a world of emotions." --Eric Viennot, software creator

Well, we're happy to report that this imported French software from Lexis Numerique successfully lives up to its trippy ambitions. Ostensibly a "hunt" for treasure, this CD-ROM is a treasure unto itself, granting special rewards from the second you hear the first crinkly album page. Whether it takes you two days or two years to finally uncover the book's buried goods, you won't really care, because you'll simply be too immersed in the moody atmosphere, detailed textures, and compelling activities inside Uncle Albert's strange, yellowing tomb.

A sophisticated blend of video, audio, and visual elements, this great narrative quest begins with a flickering 16mm-style "film" of an elderly wild-eyed collector who--we learn in voiceover--spent all day "raising insects, counting stars, or building weird useless machines in his workshop." He was also a compulsive diarist who recorded all his stories and experiments in a large, ornate, 16-page album. Unfortunately, a small creature became trapped inside his album as well. It is your job to use a selection of the album's interesting tools (such as whistle, camera, fire, and watering can) to solve a series of thematic creative challenges and puzzles (such as space adventures and an ancient Egyptian archaeology dig), thus freeing the critter and earning the final treasure.

Full of scurrying insects, secret passages, and mysterious challenges, this CD-ROM will hook you and your kids for hours on end. The only misfortune in this product is the translation quality: certain words are completely incorrect ("sledgehammer" instead of "jackhammer") and others were very poorly chosen ("gun" where it should be "missile launcher"). Otherwise, this is a wise and wonderful product. It offers a perfect chance for children to learn that it's not where you're going that counts, it's how you get there. (Ages 9 and older) --Jean Lenihan

Amazon.com Product Description

Is Uncle Albert's wonderful treasure really lost? After finding his magical album up in the attic, you may think differently--that is if you can answer riddles, avoid traps, and open secret passages hidden in the fantastic album. The sneaky little creatures, fun tools, and strange machines you encounter from page to page may help you on your quest for the lost treasure. It is up to you to prove your intelligence, sense of observation, and skill. (Ages 9 and older)

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