BT News: These Hopeful Machines

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Multi-talent and producer extraordinaire Brian Transeau, better known as BT, drops his brand new 2xCD album on Tiësto's Black Hole Recordings. These Hopeful Machines is the follow up of the still brilliant This Binary Universe (2006), and is again stunning evidence of BT's impressive, complex production techniques and songwriting skills.

BT's strength lies, among others, in using unorthodox methods to produce groundbreaking music. His productions are remarked by an impressive use of a technique he himself has dubbed nanosampling, i.e. cutting up sounds in snippets and glueing them back together. BT has far outgrown the label of trance artist, if ever...