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"Retro" and "electronica" seem rather oxymoronic in combination -- if any musical genre could be considered forward-looking and futuristic, it would be electronica, whose artists are driven by the latest technological innovations and seem generally unconcerned about "maintaining the tradition." And yet at the end of the new millennium’s first decade, Radio Massacre International have been luxuriating in the kind of spacy sounds that first hit the airwaves back in the mid-'70s -- think Phaedra, Tangerine Dream's groundbreaking Virgin Records debut released in 1974. This trio of Brits -- Steve Dinsdale (electronics, drums), Duncan Goddard (electronics, bass), and Gary Houghton (guitar, electronics) -- has released a gazillion albums since 1995’s Frozen North on the Centaur imprint; Cuneiform nabbed them in 2005, issuing the two-CD set Emissaries that year, followed by the Syd Barrett homage Rain Falls in Grey in 2007. Time Motion, another Cuneiform two-disc opus, arrived in January 2010, so set the controls for deep space and, harking back to the old sequencer-driven synth music of the Berlin school, prepare for both forward rush and floating ambience over the more than two-and-a-half-hour journey...http://www.radiomassacreinternational.com/review_038_01.php
