- Audio CD (27 Sep 1999)
- Number of Discs: 1
- Label: Hearts of Space
- ASIN: B00000K2BM
- Other Editions: Audio CD | MP3 Download
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 338,879 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
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The high priest and wizard king of the ostensibly New Age corner of the ambient movement, Steve Roach is an American Brian Eno, except where Eno's ambient classics track a very British interior terrain, Roach musically maps the mysteries of the American Southwest. But like Eno, he's always been as much about rhythm and percussion as space and texture, and as much a music futurist as a sound designer. Like this year's Body Electric, Light Fantastic couples techno-inspired, tribalesque breakbeats and jungle grooves with thick washes of "Roach-tone"--a glistening, rapturous synthesizer sound that is to electronic-hero Roach what "woman-tone" is to guitar-hero Eric Clapton. Peppered with tribal percussion, the drum & bass kickoff "Trip the Light" suggests a panethnic Photek, while the haunting "Breathing the Pulse" evokes Roach's eerie Magnificent Void, albeit undercut with a thickly layered, gurgling rhythm--what programmer Vir Unis calls a "fractal groove." Touches of tamboura, filter sweeps, and searing glasslike washes deliver on Roach's desire to "create sounds that gave off a laserlike illumination." Enlightening. --James Rotondi
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Steve Roach has influenced a generation of synthesists with his individual brand of electronica. Light Fantastic combines the signature textures of his ambient work with propulsive new 'fractal groove' rhythms. After twenty years of solo and collaborative work, Steve Roach continues to beam outward to new realms with Light Fantastic.
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13 of 13 people found the following review helpful
The best space music CD that I have in my collection!
24 Mar 2000
Format:Audio CD
And I have quite a few space music CDs in my collection. How could somebody not give this CD five stars? I've got a few of Steve Roach's CDs and I've heard his others on his web page, and this has got to be by far his best work! I've even purchased this as a gift for others and they were impressed! Normally I don't ever review CDs that I've purchased from Amazon, but I thought so highly of this one that I had to write about it. "Touch the Pearl" is my favorite on this one, as it's got a very ethereal and mesmerizing sound to it. I also like the tribal rhythms that are included in "Trip the Light." But all of the songs are very relaxing and will leave one in a state of peacefulness and serenity after listening to them. I could listen to this CD thousands of times and would never tire of hearing it. I highly recommend this CD to anyone!
9 of 9 people found the following review helpful
Steve Roach/ Light Fantastic
28 Sep 1999
Format:Audio CD
The latest and next chapter due out this fall. Tribal trance and ambient excursions leave the mind and body in awe. The artist that brought you "On This Planet and The Magnificent Void" resumes his musical excursion with Light Fantastic. Very highly recommended.
7 of 7 people found the following review helpful
Another strong suite from Steve Roach
20 Dec 1999
Format:Audio CD
Like many of Steve's releases of recent years, "Light Fantastic" is mostly devoid of melody, however it is a pure, otherworldly sonic environment to immerse yourself in. This album is full flittering and frenzied "fractal groove" percussion (alliteration unintended!). The occasional trance-drone of the tamboura is another welcome addition. This album may not break a lot of new ground for Steve, but it is definitely one of his strongest releases of the past 5 years and one of his most percussive.
The sonic analogies to the mechanics (reflection, refraction, etc.) of light is very accurate. One can almost visualize shimmering mirrors, prismatic rainbows, lasers and ghostly photons dancing to this music. Try "Tripping the Light", "Touch the Pearl" or "Realm of Refraction" for some serious persussive grooves. All in all, very mesmerizing.
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